Rosmah says M’sian women already emancipated
The Mongolian delegation at the Global Summit of Women in Kuala Lumpur has urged the Malaysian government to provide answers on the mysterious death of Mongolian national Altantuya Shaariibuu in Malaysia.
To the world reading this. 1. “First Lady” is for the President or King or Emporer’s wife. NOT a Prime Minister’s wife. 2. How can a profesed Muslim women who has completed Hijrah and not wear a tudung as required? 3. Is she an exception? 4. Words from a person who do not fear Allah, are words of the Devil. Would you believe it?Remember the days when a “good” movie (meaning one that you intended to watch!) was defined by (a) genuine rave reviews written by unbiased journos, or (b) fantastic word-of-mouth publicity by those who had already seen it?
Of course, if you had your own reasons for checking out the film—for instance, you liked the star-cast or the music, or the director’s past efforts had impressed you, and so on—you would see it anyway and whether or not the movie lived up to whatever expectations you had was a different matter. Simple, uncluttered decision-making process, to be precise.
Malaysian women are already emancipated, and so, there is no need for them to take to the streets to fight for their rights, said the prime minister’s wife Rosmah Mansor.
Remember the excesses of the misuse of woman? Remember how these made emancipated M’sian women the ‘F’ word of Rosmah’s politics for well over a decade? So, it’s akin to culture shock to hear it being brandished khullam-khulla by the likes of the First Lady of Malaysia, Melinda Gates, Chelsea Clinton, Barbara B Bush (that’s the daughter, not the mother), an ex-president of Finland, the prime minister of Malaysia, the Crown Princess of Denmark, and the First Lady of Zambia. Along with 5,000 delegates, they had gathered last week in Kuala Lumpur for the 3rd biennial conference of Women Deliver, a punch-packed global advocacy group for the reproductive health of women and young girls founded by Jill Sheffield. Don’t get fooled by her benign, American-grandma looks. French lawyer William Bourdon, who represents Suaram in the Scorpene case, has indicated that he is willing to brief the Malaysian parliament on the matter. NAJIB’S ROMANTIC DREAM WITH MONGOLIAN GHOST ALTANTUYA SHAARIIBUU Young Malaysian Journalists Club president Dzulkarnain Taib question Suaram interest in scorpene honorary consul of mongolia: altantuya’s father gave all … Read more
Today’s situation is in rapier contrast. With technology trying to simplify (what was that again?) things, zeroing down on a movie to “partake of its audiovisual delights” (meaning: to watch for the sake of enjoyment, silly! After all, putting it “simply” is so passé now!) has become…phew !….oh-so-difficult.
Why? Because the electronic media has never had it so good—film producers are pouring in megabucks (where do they get that kind of moolah from, anyway ?) to have their films hysterically hyped, especially on the idiot box (so aptly named !). So what do we have?
Films declared “blockbusters” and “huge hits” long before they’ve seen the light of day, the stars hijacking every possible reality show being aired at the time and promos pushed down your throats till they come out of your ears and you are finally convinced (or at least struck to a state of incomprehension) to watch the movies. mongolian mothers. It is good enough if u can depart safely. Worse if u are deported immediately. Worst if u disappear without records of entering Malaysia. Standard answers will be “dont meddle with our judiciary system”. Perhaps u can come back in 2019 (after 14th GE), to request the case to be re-opened. By that time, probably the accused will be on wheelchair already..Beauty of a Woman The beauty of a woman is not in the clothes she wears, The figure she carries, or the way she combs her hair. The beauty of a woman must be seen from her eyes, Because that is the doorway to her heart, The place where love resides. The beauty of a … Read more
Inane questions fly around like bats in a belfry—Has the star become the next No. 1? Is he/she going to sweep all the awards this year? Did the hero do those amazing stunts himself? And the creme-de-la-crème, Is there something brewing between the stars? Then frenzied crowds rush to the theatres on the first day of the show and again such scenes outside the halls are beamed into our living-rooms, as if to justify the claims made in the promos we had been bombarded with for the last couple of weeks. Human as we are, we do start getting convinced and most of us end up watching those films.
Ah, here the scene undergoes a change! The movies in question turn out to be squibs and a very, very f-a-r cry from the winners they had been made out to be. Period. By then, of course, the media blitzkrieg has been withdrawn and shifted elsewhere, more often than not to another mega movie!Do men really hate women? It would seem they do; why else would there be so many cases of aggression against women — rape, acid-throwing, wife-beating, burning for dowry? Short of such crimes, men also get a kick out of scaring a woman. A shaken friend recounts an incident in the car park, when four … Read more
Two weeks post-release, the films have been taken down from the theatres and quietly replaced by other lesser-hyped but maybe better films which no one will see because no one will know about them! In this whole crazy rigmarole, the TV channels would have minted money, the stars would have hiked their prices ridiculously high (or at least the unsuspecting public would be led to believe by the stars’ hangers-on), and the producers would have earned enough to invest in another similar venture. (I really don’t know how the film distribution industry works, so I won’t be able to vouch for the kind of business generated here). But what I am concerned with is the plight of the poor viewer—you and me—who spends time, money and energy in seeing movies which he/she had been promised would give him entertainment with a capital E! What about him/her? Or does anybody care? In fact, numbed by the hype and the hoopla by then, does the viewer him/herself care any more?
That is what I would say is a scary screenplay. The fiendish publicity campaigns take over our sense and sensibility and we are hypnotized into applauding snazz without substance! A pity, really. Especially because really good movies made from the heart are side-stepped just because they weren’t peddled “right.” Commercial “masala” films have their own USP and will get their typical audiences with or without the frenzied ad campaigns. Why try to brainwash the public with false inputs? That is just not done, don’t you think? Just give us the sneak peeks and if we like what we see, we will throng the theatres—it’s that simple. I am sure the audience would like to be given credit for some brains and good judgment, huh?
