Silent Night 
Sigh-lent bright star Anointed Joe

Oh Titiwangsa,a poll’s had won.
you has Waken from slum-ber dee-eep, 
End your con-fu-sion deep.

Sigh-lent UMNO !Deep’ning night! 
PAS quaking at the sight. 
Alarm bells scream from near and afar. 
The allies don’t sing Alleluia. 
Joe the Saviour’bo-orn

Titiwangsa MP Datuk Johari is the fascinating person of 2013

No lists can ever do justice to the personal struggles we all wage, nor to the many whose efforts reach out to touch the lives of millions. And yet we must all have our own list of people we find fascinating because I do believe that in admiring another, we are reaffirming those very strengths and qualities within ourselves. Here are some people I found fascinating in 2013 Everyone of us that has made resolutions either forget them, rarely make them materialise and remember them at the end of the year when it’s time to make new ones. Most people focus on what they want to achieve for themselves, which is not wrong, but is anything worth putting such humungous effort into if it doesn’t translate into a source of great and constant happiness?  When I look around I see the fundamental problem in lives, relationships, work and daily interactions with others is the lack of “niceness”.  We command people, unburden on people, nag people, make idle conversation with people and then of course there are happy times with people too. But a majority of the time I see people with grim or expressionless faces, even sitting across the table eating dinner together at restaurants. Initiate positive conversation, be complementary, help a random stranger and at least once a day resolve to put a smile on someone’s face. It’s a ripple effect and is said, “Smile and the world smiles back at you”. It’s true, what goes around comes around. Everyone thinks they are nice, but being a nice person has no value if you’re not spreading it. And remember, it’s not what you say, but how you say it that matters. Let’s resolve to be “nice” people this year. Not just to ourselves and our loved ones or people we need something from. Let’s be nice to everyone. Let’s just be “genuinely nice” people! Fullstop.

Barisan Nasional Titiwangsa MP Datuk Johari Abdul Ghani said the hike was drastic, adding that City Hall should opt for a gradual hike and benchmark the increase against upgrades in infrastructure and services.

He said any increment needed to match the quality of services provided by City Hall.

“They have to justify the hike with the work they have done.”

itiwangsa MP Datuk Johari Abdul Ghani said City Hall should issue new notices bearing more reasonable increases in the property revaluation, adding that the hike in assessment rates should not be more than 3%, Utusan Malaysia reported today.

The Umno mouthpiece quoted Johari as saying that his proposed hike in the assessment fees was appropriate in view of the country’s inflation rate.

“I believe he (Federal Territories Minister Datuk Seri Tengku Adnan Tengku Mansor) will use his goodwill to reduce the rates, not exceeding five per cent more than the current rate,” Johari said.

Johari also highlighted numerous municipal issues, such as poor street lighting, irregular garbage collection, bad drainage and potholes.

Titiwangsa UMNO story as we have come to call it, was looking good, and the future was imagined as an unbroken chain of shiny happiness. Business felt good about itself, as the state began to leave it more room, and as new markets and categories were opened up. Politics was never a bright spot, but the common perception was that both UMNO regimes performed well enough to keep spirits buoyant. Media was seen to be coming into own as it made the system more accountable. And culturally, occasional brushes with the moral police notwithstanding, the prevailing myth was the one so bewitchingly described - Titiwangsa MP Datuk Johari Abdul Ghani that it was possible to reconcile modernity with tradition, that in fact modern impulses were nothing but a version of purified tradition.The idea of democracy, the meaning that it must deliver today is being re-negotiated in an original way. The certitudes of the past have been revealed to be flawed- what we will embrace are the confusions of the present. New ideas will surprise us and confound us; incomprehension will be a frequent emotion. UMNO Shining has morphed into  Malays agonizing, and that is a not a good sign.

What we are seeing in 2013 is perhaps a fundamental re-imaging of the lofty and abstract ideas that we have received as legacy concepts, that have with time, been hollowed out of meaning. The process of redefining what each of these ideas mean today, and what form should they take involves a ground-up discussion that seems to have begun, at least in some areas. What is the real meaning of democracy and how it can best represent the voice of the people rather than their rulers, what is the nature of power and what must its limits be, what kind of freedoms should an individual enjoy and how must that fit in with the collective nature of shared traditions, how do we renegotiate the terms of engagement between genders and different notions of sexuality, how do we restore faith in old institutions and curb the power of new ones, how do we rediscover a new kind of idealism relevant for the times- all these are questions that are being debated, albeit untidily.The desire for change has taken the most concrete shape in politics where a phenomenon of a new kind has succeeded in capturing the imagination of a section of the country.

Kuantan Wanita Umno chief Datuk Zaiton Mat  to reach stardom,   from UMNO a media spectacle even as it drew attention to the cult status  Kuantan Wanita Umno chief Zaiton Mat’s call for those unhappy with BN’s policies to “leave the country” has drawn scorn This racist remark has been came out These are serious questions with no definite answers

“This country does not belong to Kuantan Wanita Umno chief ,” said Titiwangsa MP Datuk Johari Abdul Ghani from Umno.”So, to ask Malaysians who don’t like BN to get out of Malaysia is uncalled for,” he said, adding that Zaiton’s comment was her personal view and not that of Umno or BN.  a media spectacle even as it drew attention to the cult status

“BN accommodates political ideologies of all races and religions in Malaysia,” said Johari.  UMNO will face some serious challenges in 2014

Pulai MP Datuk Nur Jazlan Mohamed of Umno said while Zaiton has the right to her own opinion, it was best if she kept it to herself if it will hurt others.

Politics was meant to transform society in Malaysia but it seemed as if the reverse was happening.  Notions of secularism, the expansion of the market, the increased representativeness of politics, democracy itself as an idea have all been concepts that have either been imported out of the idealism of a few or have been expedient solutions to pressing and immediate problems. In most cases, there has been little agreement on the desirability and the precise meaning of these nor a full grasp of their implications. As a result, with time, the practice of these ideas have been funnelled through old structures and mindsets, resulting in distortions of the most cynical kind.

The media Star which is an institution that is designed to act as a counterpoint to the forces of power, for sensationalising minister’s comments

The Domestic Trade, Cooperatives and Consumerism Ministry moved to head off more criticisms about price hikes today by ticking off The Star newspaper, saying “such sensationalisation of news and eye-catching headlines should not be at the expense of misinformation that may create the wrong perspective”.

The Star reported Minister Datuk Seri Hasan Malek as saying on Friday that the ministry had not received any complaints and this meant there was support for the price hikes. But the online version of the news report has been now been edited and carries a new headline.

itself became a source of exploitable power and was increasingly used as such. And societally, the easy assumptions about the ability to absorb sweeping changes came unstuck as underlying tensions that had been papered over began to come to the fore. The ugliest manifestation of this tension took the form of increased sexual violence against women, a subject that has occupied centre stage all through this year.

No lists can ever do justice to the personal struggles we all wage, nor to the many whose efforts reach out to touch the lives of millions. And yet we must all have our own list of people we find fascinating because I do believe that in admiring another, we are reaffirming those very strengths and qualities within ourselves. Here are some people I found fascinating in 2013 (in no particular order)Silent Night Sigh-lent bright star Anointed Joe Oh Titiwangsa,a poll’s had won. you has Waken from slum-ber dee-eep, End your con-fu-sion deep. Sigh-lent UMNO !Deep’ning night! PAS quaking at the sight. Alarm bells scream from near and afar. The allies don’t sing Alleluia. Joe the Saviour’bo-orn Joe the meek peoleleader Had a very shiny pose, … Read more