Malaysiakini – ‘The fault is in not “informing” before hand’

I refer to the interview of Dr Lim Keng yaik published in Malaysiakini today. I will qoute part of the interview on Lee Kah Choon in Malaysiakini for the benefit of those not subscribing to it:

Lee sparked controversy last week when he was appointed by Penang Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng as a director for the state’s investment arm – Penang Development Corporation (PDC) and InvestPenang.

He subsequently withdrew from the party after being issued a show cause letter from Gerakan acting president Dr Koh Tsu Koon.

Keng Yaik said that party leders would have most probably agreed with Lee to take up the post if they were informed first about it.

“If he had the brevity to discuss with the party leadership, they would (have) most probably agreed with him to take up the post.

“If he had briefed us, we would have had a hard time seeing this so-called new paradigm shift as espoused by the ‘great’ Guan Eng,” he said.

 

So finally the truth has come out. Lee Kah Choon ‘s fault, if you can call that a fault, is not informing the party leadership first.  If Lee has informed the party first, it would be OK. That is from Dr Lim KY.

So why call Lee all sort of names and by doing that, spoilt the name of Gerakan and the goodwill that such a move would have generated and the gain of support from Penang people.?Pls refer to the press statement I have made to understand the circumstances at that time.

Lee was only an ordinary member at that time. He has resigned all his positions within the party and by doing so, is no longer involved in the decision making process of party Gerakan. there would not have been any policy clash.

Do you need every Gerakan member to inform the party Central about taking up a position or a job? To me, that is not logical.

If the party wishes to reform , it has to place the people interest above self or even party’s.

For those who have not read this pst ,pls read this post which has received a few thousands hits on the first day of its publication: The ball is now at Gerakan’s foot and the press statements from a group of us.

 

 

“Mou Gan Tai” – no eye see

Big foot and Big monkey?

Well, when someone called me and told me about what happened in the Parliament, my first thought was some one was attacking the bloggers again because bloggers were labeled monkeys just one year ago.

Oh No!! This time it is not for us bloggers. This time the name calling involves highly placed members of the society, the honourables , or in Malaysia we called them Yang Berhormat. If honourables can behave like monkeys and big foot, what about the ordinary citizens like you and me?I wonder.

My second thought was, they must have just came out of kintergartens, because only some small kids would behave like that.– majority of small kids behave better than this , of course.

It is like ” you friend him, I don’t friend you!” type of thing. It is like “you kick my butt and I will kick yours” type of things.

What to expect next?Don’t tell me they are going to fight like the Koreans inside the august house? Maybe the design of the lower house is a bit like that of a “wrestling ring”? Don’t be surprised that they would do that.

Nothing is going to surprise me from  the “honourables”. Some can asked custom to “close one eye”. Some can use 4 letter words. I wonder how they teach their kids, and how they set examples for their kids. Maybe it is a case of the crabs telling the baby crabs that they should walk straight rather then sideway.

They do not even have common courtesy , especially they know that the proceeding was telecast live and many young children are watching how they behave. If “honourables ” can do it, the children must be thinking, why can’t we, the not so honourables, do the same thing?

“Mou Gan Thai” – no eye see, literally translation of a Cantonese phrase meaning that I don’t want to see! I willmake sure that the TV is off the next time it is telecast live.

For details of what happened, please read Malaysiakini report on this : Fiery Start for post tsunami Parliament

 (There is nothing wrong for the live telecast, it is the actor monkeys that should be blamed . )