To the Police, conduct a thorough investigations..

The following news was extracted from The Borneo Post Online on January 29, 2009 issue.

Son tells how dad was shot dead
By Gaing Kunding

DALAT: A son of a bomoh (shaman) who was shot dead here last Sunday evening described how his father fell down to a single bullet in front of the family.

“My father looked momentarily stunned when the intruder fired at him, then fell lifelessly down in a heap right in front of my mother and their grandchildren,” Limai Sakim, 60, said when met at his house at Kampung Sungai Ud, Dalat here yesterday.

Limai is the son of Sakim Edin, 79, the village’s medicine man who was shot at point black by an intruder around 12 midnight, Sunday.

Recalling the incident, Limai described how his father was awoken by a window that was apparently forced open.

He got up to check, he added.

Kita perlukan perubahan – Dalat/Oya/Mukah/Balingian

Adakah anda berpuas hati dengan keadaan dan pembangunan di kawasan anda? Apakah yang ada di bandar anda? Adakah cukup peluang pekerjaan seperti di bandar bandar lain? Dengan kata lain, apakah yang telah dilakukan oleh wakil rakyat di kawasan anda untuk menaikkan taraf kehidupan rakyat di kawasan anda? Saya rasa tidak banyak yang telah disumbangkan atau dilakukan oleh wakil rakyat anda. Sudah 2 kali pilihanraya, wakil rakyat anda menang tanpa bertanding. Mungkin disebabkan hal tersebut, wakil rakyat tersebut tidak ambil peduli untuk menjalankan tugas beliau dengan baik. Nampaknya, beliau sedang tidur nyenyak dibuai mimpi.

Kawasan Dalat/Oya/Mukah/Balingian adalah kawasan “comfort zone” bagi BN. Jika seekor anjing diletakkan di kawasan tersebut atas tiket BN untuk bertanding dalam mana mana pilihanraya pun boleh menang dengan majority besar.

School children paying unnecessary fees

I would like to highlight the plight of one of my neighbours. This is regarding his inability to pay the expenses of his 5 school going children. He is just a mechanic earning a monthly income of just slightly over one thousand. It is indeed a big headache for him. Needless for me to say more, if you have children going to school, you should know how does it feel. He did mentioned to me how hard it is for him, having to spend at least RM300-RM400 for 1 school going child. Just imagine multiply this amount by 5!!!

Nowadays, a student is obliged to pay an average fee of RM100++. This amount is inclusive of all the fees and cost of stuff such as T-shirt, track suit, excercise books and others. It would be amateur for me to list all the items one by one.

Talking about the fees, I found that most of them are not relevant and unnecessary. What has happened to the fund allocated by the ministry to each schools? Where does this fund goes to? Why should they impose extra fees, when there are allocations especially for each schools?

Stuff such as excercise books, track suit, t-shirt just to name a few, are mandatory to be bought from the school and the prices are much higher than those sold in the shops. In the olden days, during our school days, these stuff were for us to opt to buy direct from the shops at a lower prices. Why is it that mandatory to get it from the school? I suspect that, the departments concerned must have some interest on the dealings with the supplier for the supply of these stuff, if not why should they make it mandatory for the student to get from the school.

Even school magazines are sold at an exorbitantly high prices. If you turn the pages of school magazines, you would surely found out that there are lots of advertisements. And these advertisements are not FREE!!! Full page advertisements could cost the advertisers thousands of dollars. Don’t tell me that the income from these advertisements are not enough to cover the cost of printing of these school magazines.

Looks like the schools nowadays are more concerned about making profits than educating our future generations. There are no more values in our present education system, it is not surprising nowadays even form five student doesn’t know how to spell their own names. And no wonder there are less Sarawakian kids going to universities compared to semenanjung. In olden days, even primary six pupils are qualified to be teachers, and back then, there were less corruptions.

Changes In Malaysia

Nowadays, in Malaysia, especially among bloggers, everybody is talking about changes. They talk about political changes, leadership changes and eventually, governmental changes. Thus far there has been more talks and criticisms than actual actions, with the exceptions of Anwar Ibrahim. No doubt, other than DSAI, they are not in the position to or having the accessibility to effect that changes. DSAI have tried, but pitifully have failed.

Except for DSAI, in order to achieve these changes, what have they done? What are the contigency plans that they have worked out in order to bring about these changes? Changes cannot be effected by mere talks and criticizing. Changes needs all the proper planning, organisation and immediate implementation, in short summarized as”ACTIONS”.

Yes, we look forward to see these changes and eagerly waiting to celebrate their success. Question is. will that dream becomes reality for us and a nightmare for those currently in power? How soon will that happen? Who will spearhead these changes? Do we still trust DSAI to lead us towards these changes? If so, how committed is he? Does DSAI have any other hidden agendas? What actually are his motives? Revenge? Personal glory? Self political gains?

However, interesting to note that, leadership changes does not necessarily means changes in the ruling coalition. Leadership changes does not mean PR taking over Malaysian parliament from BN. Leadership changes may means that the old and season leaders giving way to the much younger talents and caliber to lead.

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