BANANA PEOPLE

Just a few days ago, I went to buy bread from a Chinese sundry shop in Tanjong Bungah. The towkei of the shop packed the bread for me and said, "Yi kuai Jiu!" and I had to turn to my friend, "What ah? How much ah?" Feeling very pai seh, my friend replied, "He said RM1.90 la.."

The towkei was slightly amused and wondered where I'm from since I can't understand Chinese (Mandarin). My friend then explained to him that I am from Ipoh and English educated (cheh wah, like very gaya like that) and can't read or write Chinese. The kindly old towkei nodded and smiled understandingly.

Not wanting to appear as un-chinese as I have already seemed to him, I said, "Ngo sek gong guongdong wah lah!" (I can speak Cantonese). "Ngo sek gong siu siu wah yi tan hai ng sek gong fu kin wah. Soh yu tau sin ngo ng meng pak lei gong mee yeah loh." (I know a little mandarin but do not know any Hokkien. That is why I did not understand what you said just now).

The towkei looked at me blankly. His 13 year old son replied for his father, "Ngo ah pa ng sek gong guongdong wah geh. Tan hai hui tau sin hai gong gan wah yi, ng hai fu kin wah," (My father doesn’t speak Cantonese. But he was speaking mandarin just now, not hokkien.).

The little boy then gave me a disgusted look, clearly wondering what kind of Chinese species I am if I don't even know mandarin. I was so peeved!!

I was looked down upon! Discriminated by my own race!
Maybe it's time to form another race of my own: Bananas.

For those who do not know, Banana is a term given to Chinese people who cannot speak Mandarin. Just like a banana, they are yellow on the outside but white on the inside. We originate from a bunch of Chinese people whose parents sent them to English schools set up by the British and most of the time, for the past three generations, not a single family member would know how to write Chinese. Most of the bananas' greatest command of Chinese would be the Hokkien and Cantonese vulgarities though.

Banana people (xiang jiao ren/kung chiu yan) have adopted Manglish as their traditional language (Just like Pua Chu Kang with his Singlish). Majority of the bananas can speak their own dialect but they can not read or write Chinese. Bananas celebrate Christmas (we like presents!) and Chinese new year (money is always good). Now, this has nothing to do with religion but we just like to celebrate for the slightest reasons.

Banana people shake their heads at other Chinese with extremely bad grammar. "May I friendster you?" makes banana girls want to drive a stake through the skulls of those lala chais. Perhaps banana people may be a little egoistical in the sense that they think just because they are westernized and are more proficient in English means they are better educated. I used to hold true to that belief but I have changed my views as I have come to realize the extreme difference between two types of Chinese educated Chinese.

Most of the top students in Malaysia are those from Chinese schools. They can get the highest grades and scare you with their studious attitude.(read: nerd.) Of course I respect them, I need to copy their notes. These top students are also one of the more creative people around and perhaps it's the chinese school upbringing, they are usually very talented.

UMNO TO BE BANNED? ~ Malaysiakini

It was unprecedented to read in Malaysiakini that a Malay Kampung has been demolished by the Umno led government in Johor. So much for Ketuanan Melayu. Maybe, they should just call it Ketuanan UMNO.

Moses gave mankind the 10 Commandments, now I have discovered 12 reasons why Umno must be BANNED! I found it Here:

FICTION WITH FREUDIAN SLIP ~ Malaysiakini

Above are photos of the irrespondsible mouthpieces of Umno that has been instigating the people to anarchy in TV3's Bahasa Malaysia Buletin Utama.

I wonder if MCA and Gerakan would slam Umno for all these seditious and malicious form of gutter journalism from Utusan Malaysia and not forgetting TV3 which are mouthpieces of Umno.

I fully agree with Chong when he said this in the Malaysiakini article called 'YB Josephine assassination story worse than ISA':

He reiterated that the story was an act of "literary terrorism" which is unacceptable and undemocratic.Moreover, Chong said the story was embedded with a "political message - a propaganda disguised as a fiction".He said the story cannot be taken simply as a work of fiction because Utusan Malaysia has a track record of antagonism against Kok. "All the narration that is produce here we can easily associate with our domestic political scenario and I don't think you need an expert in politics to identify the YB J referred here (in the story) as Teresa Kok (right)," he said.

Chong furthered said that the story was "an abuse of the writer's intellectual creativity, rights and a form of political terrorism." The opposition MP said that he was "sickened" by the tangential responses giving by government MPs in Parliament yesterday and stated that they were "unfit to be leaders".
"We also condemn all political parties that resort to such agenda and propaganda to try to consolidate their powers," he said. In addition, Chong said the story reflected "a form of criminal intimidation" and urged the authorities to act speedily on the matter.To exacerbate matters,

Utusan Malaysia printed yet another poem likening MP Kok to a dog.Go to this link here to have a better understanding of the issue.I am not going to harp on the issue but I want to bring to your attention the following excerpt extracted from the article mentioned earlier:
Speaking to Malaysiakini in Parliament today, Lim Lip Eng (DAP-Segambut) argued that anyone who read the poem would know that it was referring to Kok.

"The poem is not necessary as Kok has done nothing wrong. This is too much and unfair not only to her but to all Muslims and non-Muslims."I believe Utusan has an agenda behind this," he said, adding that DAP will consider lodging a police report on the matter.Ibrahim, however, told Malaysiakini that his poem was not directed at anyone in specific but was a general call to all that “when they do something, it must be done with wisdom and maturity.” Read more here:

YOU CAN'T SAVE UMNO

Abdullah Badawi had come out in public to defend Najib Abdullah Razak against insinuations that Najib was involved in the murder of Altantuya Shariibuu, a 28-year old Mongolian woman who was murdered here in 2006.

This was despite the fact that RPK (Raja Petra Kamarudin) had claimed that Rosmah Mansor, wife of Najib Tun Razak, was present when Colonel Aziz Buyang placed C4 explosives on the body of Altantuya. (source: Rosmah at murder sceneThis was also despite the fact that a series of SMS messages between Najib Tun Razak and lawyer representing Abdul Razak Baginda before Razak Baginda was charged with abetting two UTK police officer in the murder of Altantuya Shariibuu, a Mongolian model. Read more here

Malaysiakini:SHADES OF TIANANMEN SQUARE IN DATARAN MERDEKA WITH NAJIB AS PM?

The Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 culminating in the Tiananmen Square Massacre were a series of demonstrations in and near Tiananmen Square led by labour activists, students, and intellectuals in the People's Republic of China (PRC) between 15 April and 4 June 1989.

A day after the death of Hu Yaobang, supporters of liberalization started small scale protests. While the protests lacked a unified cause or leadership, participants were generally against the authoritarianism and voiced calls for economic liberalization and democratic reform within the structure of the government. The demonstrations centered on Tiananmen Square in Beijing, but large-scale protests also occurred in cities throughout China, including Shanghai, which stayed peaceful throughout the protests.

The movement lasted seven weeks from Yaobang's death on 15 April until tanks cleared Tiananmen Square on 4 June. In Beijing, the resulting military response to the protesters by the PRC government left many civilians dead or injured. The reported tolls ranged from 2,000–3,000 (Chinese student associations and Chinese Red Cross figures).

Following the violence, the government conducted widespread arrests to suppress protesters and their supporters, cracked down on other protests around China, banned the foreign press from the country and strictly controlled coverage of the events in the PRC press. Members of the Party who had publicly sympathized with the protesters were purged, with several high-ranking members placed under house arrest, such as General Secretary Zhao Ziyang. The violent suppression of the Tiananmen Square protest caused widespread international condemnation of the PRC government.

In the immediate aftermath of the protests, some within the Communist Party attempted to curtail free market reforms that had been undertaken as part of Chinese economic reform and reinstitute administrative economic controls. However, these efforts met with stiff resistance from provincial governors and broke down completely in the early 1990s as a result of the collapse of the Soviet Union and Deng Xiaoping's trip to the south. Deng Xiaoping knew the antidote to cure this problem was to introduce capitalism and accelerate economic reforms while at the same maintaining the Communist Party's iron fisted grip on power. Deng knew that the Chinese people would abandon their pursuit for democracy if they enjoyed economic prosperity.

Deng was right as the continuance of economic reform led to economic growth in the 1990s, which allowed the government to regain much of the support that it had lost in 1989. In addition, none of the current PRC leadership played any active role in the decision to move against the demonstrators, and one major leadership figure Premier Wen Jiabao was an aide to Zhao Ziyang and accompanied him to meet the demonstrators. Today there are economic "sectors" in which business can thrive and this has opened up economic freedom and access to goods.

The protest leaders at Tiananmen were unable to produce a coherent movement or ideology that would last past the mid-1990s. Many of the student leaders came from relatively well-off sectors of society and were seen as out of touch with common people. A number of them were socialists. Many of the organizations which were started in the aftermath of Tiananmen soon fell apart due to personal infighting. Several overseas democracy activists were supportive of limiting trade with mainland China which significantly decreased their popularity both within China and among the overseas Chinese community. A number of NGOs based in the U.S., which aim to bring democratic reform to China and relentlessly protest human rights violations that occur in China, remain. One of the oldest and most prominent of them, the China Support Network (CSN), was founded in 1989 by a group of concerned Americans and Chinese activists in response to Tiananmen Square.

Capitalism itself has reared it's ugly head with personal liberty and freedom of speech being traded off for profit. This happened when the Chinese Government pressured Yahoo! to turn over to its police the names of political dissidents who use the company’s e-mail service. China also convinced Microsoft to shut down Internet blogs in which Chinese users were criticizing their government, and persuaded Google to censor its search engine results.

The same scenario can play out in Malaysia should Najib Razak become Prime Minister. Even more scary is the possibility of the events of Tiananmen Square repeating itself on our streets considering the fact that Najib will be a 'remote controlled' PM of the authoritarian former PM Mahathir, a fact that has been admitted by former Minister Zaid Ibrahim. Malaysiakini has also reported that Mahathir will be Najib's advisor. This following Article contributed by ANONYMOUS is a must read for all Malaysians and freedom loving people everywhere. Read more about that Article here:

Wanna Take a Ride?

Remember that Merc-riddled Terengganu State government? Well, apparently this time around its plan to put on the road all of the eight buses it had purchased at RM430,000 each was stalled because of some ‘technical glitches’.

These custom-made buses were supposed to be ‘eye-catching’ enough particularly for the tourists.

According to The Star, the state government ‘has invested RM3.4mil to custom-fabricate eight imported buses with the intention of charging a 50-sen fare'. Read more here:

PAK LAH, SYED HAMID ALBAR, MAHATHIR TO BE CHARGED IN COURT? - MALAYSIAKINI

It looks like we can get a triple whammy by getting rid of Umno/BeeEnd, free all the ISA detainee's and get the ISA abolished all at the same time. This way, we don't have to worry about Mahathir's remote control PM Najib Razak coming to power in March 2009.

According to the International Court of Justice Rome Statute, the ISA is considered as a Crime Against Humanity. This means that Pak Lak, Mahathir, Syed Hamid Albar and gang can be prosecuted for crimes against humanity for using the ISA on Malaysian citizens like RPK and the HINDRAF 5.

All that is required here is for some concerned, patriotic citizen to lodge a report with the Prosecutors office of the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague. To do this, just click here: