Pairin Kitingan - What Next?

Parti Bersatu Sabah (PBS) president Datuk Seri Joseph Pairin Kitingan had been asked by the party's divisional chief for Kiulu Sindin Ranggangon to step down from the post which he had held since the party's formation 23 years ago.

"Pairin's leadership is no longer effective because he practised favouritism and had failed to take into consideration the people's sensitivity," Sindin said, adding that this was the general consensus among the Kiulu division committee and party's members during a meeting recently.

I agree to all Mr. Ranggangon statements but one. This;

"He said the most appropriate leader to take over from Pairin has to be Deputy President Datuk Dr Maximus Ongkili."

Maximus Ongkili is no better. He is not capable lah! He is a Science, Technology and Innovation Minister. We know that Sabahans are mostly unhappy because of PBS indifference to the current political conflicts.

Go on and ask any level-headed "informed" Sabahans, majority are unhappy. All of them find relevance in Datuk Yong Teck Lee vote of no confidence against the Prime Minister. Yet PBS still play deaf.

Maximus will never cross the line! He will never be critical towards the government policy. Afraid of losing his job lah tu,. For that matter, he is NOT a right candidate for PBS president.

It appears that PBS is on shaky ground. Former PBS supreme council member, Dr. Chong Eng Leong had already quit the party. So what is next Pairin?

Syed Hamid: Government won’t ask cops to drop case

Could this be right? It couldn't be that police get orders from the government, acts only when there's order. Drop a criminal case on order from the government?

This is absurd, a bit perplexing. I wrote this many times; the government is run by Barisan Nasional, simply because they won in the general election. Barisan Nasional is led by UMNO. Prime Minister and Deputy Prime Minister are the president and Deputy president of UMNO.

Prime Minister command the house, when he said POM! Everybody in the cabinet sings with him in rhythmic cadence POM POM POM POm POm Pom Pom pom pom..................

Yet the police get order from the government? Do ministers have credential to order police?

I think police should not take orders from the government, especially in Malaysia. They should be free to act on their own intelligence!

Read more here Syed Hamid: Government won’t ask cops to drop case

My Rule of Law, My Internal Affair

Our country is governed by rule of law and Malaysia constitution, we the rakyat must adhere to the stated "Rukunegara". Two of the charters state about respects and upholding of the country Laws and Consitutions.

If you want to know more or never learn about Rukunegara, I suggest you go buy those elementary school exercise books. Not to do exercise nor fantasizing your spanking schooldays hot teacher. Turn the book around, read the five lines at the back page. That's Malaysia Rukunegara.

It has been taught to every Malaysian, young and old, rich and poor, bright and inept. All got a taste of Rukunegara, forced into our brain, indoctrinated.

This point is always being used by our ministers whenever another country like America issued a statement about our internal politics.

Rais Yatim and Syed Hamid Albar are loud in this respect. Do not meddle in our internal affair! We have our own constitution! We have the rule of Law! Let justice be served by our own rule of law! Other country cannot speak anything against our system! Other country cannot speak on our behalf! We have our rule of LAW.

Yes, we have our rule of LAW, we have our court and justice system. Right! So do North Korea, they have their own constitution. They have their rule of LAW. That is right, North Korea rule of LAW is sovereign. Nobody can meddle with them.

North Korea rule of LAW includes to treat Kim Hyung Ill as the GOD. If you badmouth Kim, you can be shot point blank. That includes looking at his portrait and scream supports to him. Master Kim, I will serve you till I die! Master Kim I will work harder for you! Lord Kim thank you for all your blessings in this land!

The truth is North Korea rule of LAW oppressed its people, in other words the people are equivalent to animals. Malnutrition, dying young, executions of a whole family if one of its member betrayed the North and cross over to the south. Think of every evil things that can be done to human being, go find them in North Korea.

Even saying thing like "Aiseh, this year we have bad crops lah, what is the government doing ah?". If you are North Korean and you say that, and somebody hear you. Your whole family will be sent to prison. Maybe death sentence for you too.

That is the rule of LAW. Rule of LAW! Constitution!

We also have our rule of LAW, nobody can touch us. We are not far different from North Korea in that respect.

Where is P. Balasubramaniam?

That is the question. No matter what the police are doing, it seems all the ongoing investigations are centred around the oppositions.

So far, only the IGP and AG were called to give statements. Pertaining to a different case committed in 1998. About falsification of evidences.

Please lah! Bala can shed light to a lot of questions. Who are really responsible in the murder of Altantuya Shaaribuu? Bala can answer that. He is an important witness to the tragedy.

The police knows his whereabout. But why defer his return to Malaysia? Why?

Also, remember that Justice Mohd Zaki said he would begin hearing submissions from all parties on July 23. Which is tomorrow!

After hearing the submissions, Justice Mohd Zaki will then decide whether or not to order C/Insp Azilah, 32, Kpl Sirul Azhar, 37, and Abdul Razak, 48, to enter their defence. Or he can release them there and then? If the prosecution team cannot prove beyond reasonable doubt that these three are involved.

I hope no more delays in the hearing. Perhaps Bala can book a flight back tonight. Far-fetched? maybe.

Read more here Altantuya trial: Prosecution wraps up its case

Justice remains elusive for this trial, a long way to go. Let's just wait and see.

In the meantime, we pray for justice to prevail, come hell or high water.

Forensic School Gone Awry

First the police arrested Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim, forced him to go through thorough medical check up. They failed to obtain a new DNA sample from him, due to some loophole in the Law, which prevents anyone to obtain DNA without consent.

As expected the ministers high and low preached about the need for fresh DNA sample in order to get accurate Matching result. The big question! Is it really necessary for fresh DNA sample to perform accurate matching?

Yesterday Raja Petra Kamarudin posted an article about this. He wrote that DNA profile of a person once gotten will never expires. The same is true for fingerprint profile.

That's how god made us, unique alleles bestowed to everybody, it is in you from the day you were copulated until the day you die, and beyond. Because DNA is in your bones, your DNA can still be extracted long after you were buried.

DNA academic has been around for decades, scientifically developed. Taught in universities for aspired forensic wannabe.

Are the ministers trying to form a novel scientific hypothesis on DNA? That DNA profile could expires. To be published in DNA journals. If that so, then our ministers deserve to be elected as the next Nobel prize winners.

Pending scientific proof, if it's true. It's great news for me. I can change my DNA codes, be an ugly toad tomorrow, resting in the garden of some medieval castle. So I can wait for a stunning princess to kiss me. Hehe.

That's my fable fantasy gone bad.

To preach that a fresh DNA is needed for accurate matching is by all means a new subject in school. DNA never expires.

But if it is not true. Then I say sorry to aspiring CSIs here in Malaysia. Our ministers could have tarnished your reputation around the world. Switch to fashion courses while you still can.

Nonetheless, a new forensic frontier is in the making.

Illegal Immigrants Operations, Are we there yet?

My post this morning was a gratitude extended to the federal government. To express our real situation, in being shoved the money down our throat, metaphorically! Even though we Sabahans are not going to have a glimpse of that money.

Well it's not meant for us anyway. They are for the illegal immigrants, for their temporary lodging, for their food and drinks while in detention, for the salary of the enforment officers, and maybe directors of any agency involved.

The catch is, the government is trying to convey their sincerity, to convince Sabahans that they now empathize us, to make Sabahans believe and of course throw votes at them in general election, to put their feet in our shoes. To help Sabahans in facing this never-ending problem.

The timing of the 50 million budget bring forth many questions. More so when there are elements of pressures againts the government. Why now? Why not 10 years ago? And what would happen 10 years from now?

I do not want to speculate what would happen in the next 10 or 20 years from now. But without political pressures, i think, it doesn't take a rocket scientist to be able to tell the outcome.

Surely we cannot maintain the current state of affairs, the political uncertainties. If it does, then our country economy will plunge into unknown abyss. That is not good for Sabah too.

Everyone envisions a stable political affair, prosperous economy and surely more money in our pocket. And I think this uncertainties will surely whittle away very soon. Making way for a more certain future.

There can only be two possibities for the situation to change for the better. First Pakatan Rakyat to lose its power and Barisan Nasional to recapture the government with an even bigger mandate. And the second is Pakatan Rakyat to overthrow Barisan Nasional out of Putrajaya, and forming the new government.

For Sabahans, the latter is like a not tested debutante and there are valid reasons to be jittery about it, although lots of carrots are on offer. The former, though promising at this point in time, still raised hesitations among the Sabahans.

You see, the current Illegal Immigrant operations is largely seen as a short term solution to the problems. Illegal immmigrants have been in Sabah for hundreds of years, if not thousands. Their ancestors could have landed here long before the first Chinese set foot in Sabah. Why the chinese are given nationality?

Before you jeer and throw stones at me. Let me tell you my late grandfather is also a chinese.

That argument itself, can make very sticky discussions between the countries involved. I personally think it will not be solved in a year or two or five or ten.

But this 50 million ringgit allocated by the federal government. How far do you think it's going lessen the problem? What equipments are they going to buy? And how much would they costs?

Nevertheless, on face value, the government is surely getting significant support for this so-called generosity. Since people want to believe that the government is very serious in that matter.

Some Sabahans may view that the government is sincere. Before you join these people to sing chorus of support. Let us just hop into a time machine. Look at the situation from a different perspective, draw a mental picture in your mind, 10 years from now.

When the political climate is good, no more pressures on the government. We no longer have Barisan's outcast like Yong Teck Lee. Will the government take heed of what we say?

Now close your eyes and jog your memory, what had happened 20 years ago. Until March 8, 2008. If it helps, hum your favourite 70's number, to make your journey down memory lane a breeze. The period where Barisan Nasional have absolute power in the country. Did they take heed to what we said?

Open your eyes and reflect on the past and the future. What should we do now? Always remember that History has a tendency of repeating itself.

Illegal Immigrants - Thank you for 50 Million ringgit

50 million ringgit is the money allocated by the government to get rid of illegal immigrants in Sabah. It was announced last night in TV3. Come to think of it, yes we thank Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak for being generous to us Sabahans.

Thank you very much. We will be forever indebted to the federal government. How could we repay you? We cannot! Just take our land instead, use all of Sabah resources, cut our forests, rob our oil, bring your Malayan people and prosper here, we will reciprocate and send our youths to suffer there.

Convert them to be "just like you", so you can indoctrinate your belief and at the same time dilute ours. With that you kill two birds with one stone, you can increase your number and dissolve our threats.

Don't worry we are already inured to hardship. After all we are indebted to you. 50 million ringgit. Thank you.

Wait! Hang on... A little bird told me. that is not for us. Oi then for whom? For illegal immigrants.

Nevermind since our Sabahans mind told us A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.

When are we going to change?

Public Perception - Questions on DNA

I heard this news on the radio this morning, also in the star newspaper. Read more here;

Govt studying best way to reduce power tariff hikes

"Shaziman said Malaysia's power reserve margin capacity level was not too high at 41%, and plans were underway to reduce this amount to 25% by 2014."

Note the timing. Is the government heeding Anwar's idea now? After the debate?

Another thing that's baffling me is the question of how long a DNA sample can last?

I think once a DNA is taken from someone, no matter how many years, it will still be the same. The characteristics will not change isn't it?

Out of the sample, blood, semen, hair, swabs or anything. I think they will produce codes, these series of codes are used in the DNA matching, based on certain sets of algorithm which only DNA experts can tell.

If that is true, then the matching is not done organically, as such, no flesh vs flesh comparison, or no semen vs semen comparison for that matter. All can be done via computer, because the so-called codes should already in a dna codes database somewhere.

This concept is similar to fingerprints matching. All matching are done by codes vs codes in computers.

Computers will extract binary codes (minutiae) from fingerprint images, the binary codes will then be stored in a database. If there is a need to identify someone's fingerprints, his live fingerprint image will be captured or dusted out from a latent fingerprints found in a crime scene, converted into codes, and matched against database of codes.

Out of the identification matching process, adhering to a certain matching threshold, list of candidates will be presented to the users. From there you can call the candidates as suspects for questioning.

That's why im wondering why the police required a fresh DNA sample from Anwar?

Think about it.

Sabahan Youths Trapped!

Call them unlucky!
Call them naive!
Call them notoriuous loose youngsters!

Whatever you like to put the blame on them! The reality is our Sabahan Youths are suffering. A journey to the unknown, faraway lands in search of a greener pastures, waves of goodbyes from their aging parents, wishes of good lucks, bitter separation. All swallowed with hope of a better future.

The malay adage "Hujan Emas di Negeri Orang, Hujan Batu di Negeri Sendiri, Lebih baik di Negeri Sendiri" is true to majority of these sabahan youngsters. But what can they do? Long endured suffering, lack of employment opportunities in Sabah have propelled them into making headlong decision, to try their luck in Singapore and Peninsula Malaysia.

Little did they know that some greedy recruitment agencies are there just for the headcount money. Whatever happen when they get to Singapore are totally ignored.

It's so sad really. In Kuala Lumpur, I saw their difficulties with my own eyes. Just to give you one example. My friend is working in an illegal gambling shop. The place where personal computers are turned into Jackpot betting machines. In the same shop, there are six others Sabahans, all boys.

My friends has a wife and they live together in one room on top of the shop. No partition, just one big room to accomodate seven boys and one girl. No mattress, just mats.

Constantly in fear of being raided by the authority. The worst part is recently she delivered a baby girl and still live together in that same room with all the others. With all the difficulties of baby care, not to mention the noise from late night tantrums, I wonder how they can survive the ordeal.

That is what I saw. I believe many others are living in misery in Kuala Lumpur alone. When i asked "why not go home?, Balik Sabah!", majority of them answered they wanted to prove something to their family at home. They fear of being mocked by the villagers who saw them left with great hope.

Well in that respect, I agree with them. These uncle, aunty in Kampung ahhh... sometimes being unreasonable. Some of them look down on farmers. The mentality is that working as Government Officer "Pegawai" is very highly regarded, compared to being a rubber tapper "putung gatah".

As for me I tried to help in any way I can. If I see someone in difficulties, I will lend a hand. And I hope everyone of you will do the same.

Find more here http://www.dailyexpress.com.my/news.cfm?NewsID=58718

Fuel Price Debate

Last nigth show was entertaining. I was glued to the television. Really refreshing to see political debate between the government and the opposition. Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim carried with him a glittering charisma. It sure felt good for him, after so many years not appearing on TV. Bravo Anwar.

On the other end, Datuk Shabery Cheek. Malaysia Information Minister. Sadly, In my opinion this chap doesn't have any idea about economics. We don't know what he learned in university, but clearly he is not up to the par with Anwar. Shabery resorted to personal attacks and always talked in retrospect instead.

Anwar was absolutely the victor and Shabery became the prey of the day. People said Shabery was frothing. Very funny indeed. Let me tell you about frothing, all my life, ive met several people and dogs too with frothing condition. Whenever they talk (or is it barking?), layers of white foamy substance forms at the corner of their lips.



This condition may be caused by several factors. One of them is chaotic nerves. Scared of being humiliated can be one of them. Since this is the first of its kind debate to be held live in Malaysia, Shabery must have felt tremendous pressures. Let alone, the intimidation of debating with someone of Anwar's calibre.

Second factor is alcohol. Couple shots of vodka, some anxiety pills, or beer or stout can produce swill in your mouth. Those stress reducing stuffs.

Shabery Cheek also promised to resign if he cannot convince Malaysians that the fuel price hike is the right thing to do. Well now it's up to him to decide his own performance. The PM should know better, oo ya i hope he did watch it.

Shallow analysis, wanton personal attacks on Anwar, often diverted to things in the past, and frequently fumbled on his words. This is a primary school standards. I think at the end of the debate, Shabery must have felt awfully relieved.

Thank you Agenda Daily for organizing such a great debate. I would like to see more, please call these fellas for live debate;

Bung Mokhtar Radin
Pandikar Amin
Nazri Aziz
Pairin Kitingan

I want to see them shouting and screaming like chimpanzees in the debate, they may throw a few fists too, and have a seizure in the end. You knowlah, these people are loud but have Burung Unta brains.

Traffic Jam - Motion of No Confidence - Today

This morning, there were roadblocks on all major road leading to Kuala Lumpur. The roadblocks started yesterday, and continued on until today.

Traffic was crawling, bumper to bumper, fuel burning, drivers honking, temper flaring, and as a result, my money flying to buy fuel. That was what happened on my way to Mid Valley Megamall yesterday. It was just chaos, police set up roadblocks everywhere. Stupid police! They reduced a four lanes highway into one. I refueled and faced yet again with another traffic jam, on another highway. Bloody hell.

Having lost count on the number of curses i made, every fucking derogatory words I can think of, in english, a little chinese "tiu" "mah hai", and some Kadazan dusun "kimbets" and malay.

Why? why? You know whenever there's a possible plan for opposition gathering, the police will be there manning the highway, like they don't have any other jobs to do. Better still, if the police are to be stationed in every bank, goldsmith and ATM in this country.

Nowadays, a lot of robbery cases happened in public. Even last night, I think a goldsmith had been robbed, somewhere in the city center. I would be glad if police are present when i withdraw money from the ATM or when i go to the bank to deposit a cheque.

I couldn't help but feel the strange inexplicable fear that something is going to happen whenever I am in a bank. A bank robbery, being shot dead, or wounded by stray bullets. Pheww... Too much hollywood Movie?

Yes it could happen to me, to you and to everybody else. Too much hollywood movie doesn't help. You cannot jump, grab the robber handgun, slides and shoots like Arnold Schwarznegger. No, don't do that please. Also, it could happen that when you double park in front of a bank, the robbers while trying to flee, may get into your car and drive off with you as a hostage.

The eery feeling is even more amplified when there's a cash delivering routine in the bank. You know those "Securicor van", carrying millions, usually guarded by a frail looking "pakcik" with even more sore looking pumpgun. I wonder how that pumpgun attached to a "pakcik" can match an automatic M-16 rifle. I would avoid that as much as possible, that is a prime time for robbers to strike. I wouldn't enter a bank when there's a cash delivery van parked in front.

The roadblocks were carried out in response to a possible no confidence motion to be moved against the Prime Minister today. It's rumored that a large gathering is to be held around the Parliament building. As a result, the public are also barred from entering the parliament building.

I said what the fuck! By right, gathering and demonstrations should be allowed to let the people air their grievances. Also, it's deja vu. It happened before. In the HINDRAF (Hindu Rights Action Force) rally, and BERSIH (coalition of Malaysian opposition political parties and NGO's with the stated aim of reforming the electoral process in Malaysia).

During the two demonstrations, the police did the same shit. They set up roadblocks. Bloody inconveniences to the Rakyat. You know lah, traffic jam and all. But still the demonstrations went ahead, contrary to what the government wanted to curb, the demonstrations proved successful and until today carried with it an even greater momentum. HINDRAF and BERSIH are the turning points in Malaysia politics, without them, I think Pakatan Rakyat would not be as successful as they are today.

Still the police don't realize it, what they are doing are causing many miseries to us Road Users. By setting up roadblocks and causing traffic jam, our anger towards the government is getting stronger, they are adding salt to the wound. It makes me more all the more influenced to join the rally in protest of what the government is doing.

Just look at the picture above, look at the policemen, they did nothing in the roadblocks. Absolutely nothing, except reducing the lanes to one, stood there and staring emptily at the passing cars. I bet the policemen didn't even know what they were supposed to do.

The policemen didn't event look inside my car. They wouldn't even notice if were to carry a Bazooka in my backseat. Maybe they were just silently complaining of having to endure the heat and the curses hurled at them by the public. And I saw three policemen and one policewoman chatting and laughing in the Sprint Highway roadblock. Fucking moron!

Oopps, I partially retract my words! The policemen are not all morons, they are not to be blamed entirely, I can understand their predicament, I thoroughly empathize with them. As a government servants, they have to follow order. Otherwise they will be fucked nicely.

The so called order must surely came from the paranoid government, the government is controlled by Barisan Nasional, and Barisan Nasional is controlled by UMNO.

Borneo Reality - Sabahans and Sarawakian (the Borneans)

Over the last weekend, I had Aramai Ti drinking and BBQ session with a bunch of Borneo friends. Sarawakians and Sabahans. As always, in any borneo hosted aramai ti session, the presence of alcohol is compulsory.

As usual variety of Tapai, Tuak and Langkau were the main attractions, top it with a couple of Thai Songs.

No no, it's not a Thailand music rendition, neither did we have Thai Hot Chicks to sing them, though I wish we had, hehe.

"Thai Song" is a cheapskates brand of bottled whiskey, commonly available in local supermarkets in Petaling Jaya and its vicinity. You can get it from local stores at a price starting from RM16.99 to RM19.99 in Giant Supermaket.

Among us, the aramai ti herd, we fondly call "Thai Song" simply as "Tai Sung". The taste, color and textures are deceivingly similar to Jack Daniel, the famous bourbon whiskey.



If I were to put the Thai Song content into a Jack Daniel bottle, I bet only a handful of people will be able to identify the difference. True whiskey connoisseur like my friend, a seasoned drinking champion. Not to worry though, because it is guaranteed to make you drop "kalapik" in no time.

Back to the Aramai ti Session, as always it was great to catch up with Sabahans and Sarawakian friends. There's a special bonding between us Borneans, the spirit of comradeship, camaraderie and always good rapport between us.

We share almost identical history, we formed Malaysia in September 16th 1963 as equal partners together with Malaya and Singapore. Both Sabah and Sarawak indigenous people are descendants of headhunters, we enjoy good traditional wines, we are proud of our ancestors and most of all we share the same political aspirations and hatred too, it's particularly true among my fellow friends.

After having one glass too many, as we were clinging on to last remaining bit of soberness, the conversations eventualy unavoidably turned to politics. As dirty as politics are to some people, we Borneans will not run away from it, as Borneans we have a deep rooted sense of insecurity after so many years in Malaysia.

This is partly because of the inconspicuous social marginalization faced mostly by the Non Muslim Bumiputra in both states. Also, a prolong institutionalization of subtle religious persecutions (forced conversions, ketuanan melayu, etc). Those topics came out top in our flurry and lively discussions.

Often interrupted by our friend ("tukang suki") who's holding the cup filled to the brim with intoxicating beverage, going round and pestering everyone to drink.

Intermittently, if someone took too long and struggles to finish a cup. We would sing the infamous annoying song to force him to drink.

Apa guna c Anu (Anu bukan nama sebenar) (2x)
Aiiya Anu ah! you are useless lah (Anu not a real name) (2x)
Kalau tida pandai moginum
if you don't know how to drink

Apa guna c Anu (Anu bukan nama sebenar) (2x)
Aiiya Anu ah! you are useless lah (Anu not a real name) (2x)
Kalau tida pandai monigum
if you don't know how to drink

Kalau tida minum
If you don't drink
Bagus pulang saja
You better go home

Kalau tida minum
If you don't drink
Basar kemaluan
You have Big Genital

(Repeat the songs - until of course the person emptied the cup)
* The english version with a Manglish twist

I frequently end up on the receiving end, for being the slowest drinker among us. I agree that you should go home if you don't want to drink, but the Basar Kemaluan part would make lots of people refuse to drink, for the fun of it.

We talked about the current status of Sabah & Sarawak, whereby now, instead of being regarded as a partner, we are merely the 13th and 14th state in Malaysia. How the previous leaders violated the agreements made during the formation of Malaysia. The twenty points agreements put forward by Sabah has been harshly derided, to the point of mockery.

Tun Datu Mustapha and Datuk Harris Salleh are largely culpable in the significant derision of the agreements. Datuk Harris Salleh is famously known as the one who literally sold Labuan to the federal government, and the money used for his own lavish greeds, which consist of foreign mistresses and even private jets.

Religious persecutions were also committed by these two leaders, their inspiration is to make Sabah as a muslim dominant state. As part of their malayisation campaign, the Berjaya government, and Tun Mustapha before that, sponsored mass conversions to Islam among the groups in the interior areas.

They also actually encouraged the inflow of illegal immigrants, giving them Identity Cards and the right to vote in order to “win the census”. The immigrants are almost entirely Muslim.

All in all, the governments under Mustapha and Salleh claimed to have converted 56,112 people to Islam between 1970 and 1985. And with their incorporation into society, the Muslim groups of the state would be able to hold on to power.

Although it's hard to swallow, I will admit that previous Sabahan leaders were unbelievably stupid, they totally imposed sectarian racism as a way of life in Sabah.

I am not against any creed or religion, nor do I have any qualms if all Sabah leaders are muslims. For me, as long as they can do their work sincerely and govern fairly, I am fine with it.

Religion was certainly out of my equation in choosing a leader. But to exploit religion to hold on to power is utterly senseless, preposterous! And that exploitation by UMNO alone, over time had injected hatred in our hearts. It may not be long before the marginalized beginning to revolt. Subversion may be the last resort, but it is not impossible.

Nowadays, Kadazan Dusun are further divided into religions. Whenever any leader speaks about Sabahans, they will categorically call us as either Bumiputra Islam, Bumiputra Bukan Islam, and others.

I suppose you remember during general election in 1994, the one where PBS lost to Barisan Nasional, not by proper democracy, but by apparent purchase of the bloody ADUNs.

Clearly in all the 1994 electoral lists, they showed the divide according to religions. Bumiputra Bukan Islam 40%, Bumiputra Islam 39% and so on. I see this as an attempt to divide the racial composition in Sabah, also to impose Ketuanan Melayu into Sabah.

On the other hand, I envy Sarawak as compared to the current status in Sabah. Just look at Sarawak, they have more state autonomies than Sabah. For one, UMNO has not invaded them, that makes them politically more powerful. We Sabahans are different, our own leaders brought UMNO into Sabah, in the process, they also sold piece of our land.

Thanks to the stupidity of Datuk Harris Salleh, he was also the one who inked the unbalanced distribution of oil money with Petronas, granting the oil company a good 95%. Whereas Sabah will only get tiny 5% of the oil revenues. But I think in this aspect, Sarawak is also getting the same lopsided deal as we do.

In the 12th general election, Sabah and Sarawak became the saviour for the ruling coalition. If not because of us, Barisan Nasional would have been eliminated. BN lost considerably in the peninsula. While Sabah and Sarawak contributed immensely to the simple majority won by Barisan Nasional.

Borneans are not happy on many issues with the federal government. But why the landslide win for Barisan Nasional? Giving BN the win can only show one thing, we are indeed content with the federal government. Confusing isn't it?

But then it struck me, after so many years of BN reign. The fine line between Borneo for Borneans and federal government injustice have been erased. I mean, as villagers in rural kampung. They only care about quintessential needs in life, like sugar and salt, coffee and tea, rice and vegetables. When they have these basic needs fulfilled, then the current government is good enough.

To attempt to vote for opposition is just to risky. That's why BN got a huge victory in Sabah and Sarawak. As my Iban friend told me, In between burps and belches... "Anak sedara saya dapat biasiswa cukuplah, satu keluarga mereka memuja BN".

Now we are at a juncture, we can take the same route as before and continue to be oppressed. Or we can take this off the beaten track to a new political revival and engineer our own destiny. However gloomy the journey may be, there will be a silver lining on the horizon.

The choice is in our hands.

Huguan Siou - Kadazan Dusun Paramount Leader

I am compelled to write about Datuk Seri Joseph Pairin bin Kitingan. As He is the current Huguan Siou for the Kadazan Dusun. Huguan Siou is the title honored to the most prominent Kadazan Dusun leader in Sabah. This title is very close to the heart of each and every Sabahan.

We look up to Huguan Siou to guide us, to lead us into better future, plant a sense of belonging on this land, give us protection from adversaries, spread foods on our table, cuddle us in our sleep. Hmm.. that may sound overly mushy2, but yes i stand adamant that as homosapiens, we always need some sort of epitome to take us and show the way, it's basic human nature. Just as the need to find a leader is important, finding a good one is even more paramount.

If we cannot find it within ourself, then we seek our uncle, father, mother, makcik, balachi, taiko, macha, etc. It gets more complicated when you have more than one figures to look up to. Hence you will start to categorize these people to household, dictrict, national, and international level. Or from a different viewpoint, a politician, performer, and perhaps even criminals as role model! Shocking isn't it?


Just look at American Idol, Akademi Fantasia, Miss World, Manchester United, etc. Why do you think your friends cried when Germany lost to Spain or even when Chelsea lost to Manchester United. When not even a drop of their blood colored Germans or Caucasians. Why? I am puzzled as well. I think it's just our inherent attribute as human to have a sense of belonging to a particular person or group of persons, as in a team.

When our friend support a soccer team, you want to join them and be a part of the group. You long for recognition so that when your friends talk about a team, they will refer that you belong to this team or that society.


Why? Why? Why? Germany Lost! Woaarrgghhhh....

I have some friends who don't even know anything about Manchester United, but he bought the team's jersey and sang the same chorus as his fellow supporters. At the end of the day, i think the emotion shown by most people are fake, skin deep and meaningless. You follow the majority, how they react to a situation and amplify that emotion on yourself to gain more recognition.




Now back to the Huguan Siou. Our first Huguan Siou was the venerable Tun Fuad Stephens, which is of course the founding father of Sabah. The figure responsible in bringing Sabah into the federation of Malaysia. Then came Datuk Seri Joseph Pairin bin Kitingan and currently he still is the incumbent.

The title Huguan Siou is an institutionalized paramount leader of the Koisaan. The power and responsibility to bestow the Kadazandusun Paramount Leadership Title termed as Huguan Siou rests with the KDCA (Kadazan Dusun Cultural Association), which, upon the vacation of the Huguan Siou's Office, may hold an Extra-ordinary Delegate's Conference to specifically resolve the installation of their Huguan Siou.

The title is given conspicuously to a person who contributed a great deal, willing to sacrifice and keep his people united without hidden motives. Award of multi-million dolar projects to family member included in the list of sins (in Huguan Siou perspective). In short, Huguan Siou must have all the virtues that Kinoringan has. Nowadays, finding these virtues in our people is very difficult, if not impossible.


I always believe that as human, however revered, you are still not GOD. Pope is not GOD, Ahmadinejad is not GOD, Kim Jung Ill is definitely not GOD but a tyrant who oppressed his people. Based on the above statements, you can conclude that All Human are not GOD, Huguan Siou is a human, therefore Huguan Siou is not GOD. Understand?

The previous statement holds true to all humans in position of power (king, prime minister, etc).

If one is not performing all the virtues as expected, thus he can be dethroned from the position. It's as simple as that. Take him down, strip him from the title he has been enjoying for so long at the Rakyat expenses. Because if no leader is considered worthy of the Huguan Siou's title, then so be it, leave the title vacant.

Until one day, when one redeemer rises amongst us and be worthy of the position. Because right now, I personally think Datuk Seri Joseph Pairin Kitingan has forgotten about his Huguan Siou role, instead he is eclipsed by the struggle for power. But i know there are staunch PBS supporters out there who will strongly disagree with me. I may be wrong, you be the judge.

I think he fought and still is fighting for more federal government representatives from Sabah, which is partially a good thing. Yes we have minister in the prime minister department, minister of science, bla bla bla. Did they do any good to Sabahans in general? Apart from recognition as Sabahan in cabinet, what else can they boast about? Did they help increase our income per capita in Sabah? Did they help stop the influx of illegal immigrant into Sabah? NO.


It has become even dirtier when billions were recently poured by Prime Minister Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, which of course many see it as a fire extinguisher to doused off Sabahans anger towards federal government.

However, as a man on the street, we feel that no amount of money or luxuries can be compared to state autonomy, freedom in religion, administration, and immigration. Plus of course the liberty in sharing the treasures of our land (oil).

With the present ruling coalition, the dream for these freedoms, will remain as they are 100 years from now. No hope in changing the constitution, there will be no hope to alleviate the people's suffering.

On the same note, I support Datuk Yong Teck Lee idea for the formation of an independent political bloc in Sabah and Sarawak.

Much that the people want this to happen, we have not heard of Datuk Seri Pairin supporting the move. Instead what he did has invoked much wrath in the air. He had reiterated his strong support to the administration of the ruling coalition. Indeed his moves had inadvertently switched the focus to the relevance of his position as Huguan Siou, because clearly judging by the mood in the air, Pairin had acted singularly in striking contrasts with what the people wanted.

There have been much talk about current position of Datuk Seri Joseph Pairin Kitingan. Is he up for the tasks? In which the answer is NO for majority of educated Sabahans, and also among the netizen. You can view a thread on Sabahforum.com that discusses everything about politics in Malaysia, especially in Sabah. One thread discuss about Adakah Datuk Pairin masih layak dengan gelaran HUGUAN SIOU? .

It's good to see that more young Sabahans are becoming politically savvy. Knowing their rights and often discuss about violations of the "Twenty Points" Agreements.

Dicussions often touched on sensitive issues that have long been neglected by the government, state and federal alike. Often critically commented and sometime outright curses were hurled at particular leader. And guess what? The frequently discussed topic is about the current Huguan Siou.

I am personally pleading to Datuk pairin to explain to the people what are his party PBS political stands, to be fair to him he has been quiet most of the times, except two or three times when he spoke of absolute support to the ruling coalition.


Knowing politics, there's a possibility that his stands might be different than what he uttered, you knowlah "Jaga Pantat" direct translation from english "To Save Ass" (Caution: Not Applicable to West Malaysian Language, only to Sabahans, but Metaphorically also can lah!), and they (politicians) are well known to be split-tongued.


Hopefuly the tide will turn, for our leaders to take heed at the voice of the people.