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p o l i t i k . . . . kita bodoh atau mereka diperbodoh? June 29, 2008

Filed under: semasa — kakikiri @ 6:21 pm
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“Anwar mungkin akan ditangkap polis” , ” Anwar Berlindung di Kedutaan Turki” , dan banyak lagi tajuk-tajuk berita, laman blog dan sebagainya. Politik malaysia kembali berombak dan awan hitam yang kelihatan menghampiri pantai pasti membawa seribu kemungkinan. Adakah hujan gerimis, tengkujuh, taufan tidaklah kita ketahui di sebalik awan hitam tersebut. Menurut laporan akhbar, Pembantu Khas DSAI (PA) atau menurut Din Merican ‘budak buat kopi’ Saiful Bukhari Azlan, 23 telah membuat laporan polis mendakwa beliau telah diliwat oleh DSAI. Terkenang kembali suasana politik Malaysia diambang tahun 1998, plot yang sama tapi pencetusnya mungkin berlainan.

Tahun 1998 merupakan tahun peperiksaan SPM, isu IMF, kegawatan ekonomi, nilai RM yang jatuh merudum, jumlah pelajar ke luar negara dihadkan dan 1999 saya melangkah ke kampus UTP di Tronoh dalam suasana reformasi yang masih segar, ditambah lagi dengan status anakanda DSAI yang merupakan salah seorang warga kampus UTP, Tronoh. Kumpulan pelajar, aktiviti pelajar dan sebagainya dikatakan diawasi oleh SB-SB yang berlindung di balik bayangan-bayangan ciptaan sendiri. Banyak cerita yang saya dengar namun yang pasti Nurul Izzah jarang berada di kampus kerana banyak berada di Lembah Klang memberi sokongan moral di mahkamah yang mendengar kes ‘angkut turun tilam’, ujian DNA, saksi itu, saksi ini yang mendorong kepada pemecatan DSAI sebagai Timbalan Perdana Menteri pada masa itu.

Semua ini memberikan satu wacana dan pemerhatian baru bagi saya tentang dunia politik semasa di Malaysia. Ada orang bercakap tanpa hisab, menghembur kata-kata picisan seperti, “Politik itu kotor, aku tak mahu terlibat dalam politik”, ” Politik lain, agama lain….. mana boleh orang agama main politik”, dan yang paling mengecewakan ada juga yang cetek fikiran mengatakan zaman Nabi dulu mana ada parti-parti, mana ada peti undi…..semua ini karut- marut, bidaah….. dan sebagainya. Namun ketahuilah, selagi kita hidup sebagai manusia, selagi itulah politik mempengaruhi secara langsung atau tidak langsung kehidupan kita. Islam adalah cara hidup, bukan sekadar agama semata-mata, dan siasah atau politik adalah sebahagian dari apa yang perlu diislamisasikan. Paling penting, jangan sampai agama dipolitikkan. Sebagai orang muda, peneraju zaman mendatang, kesedaran politik atau dalam bahasa mudah ambil tahu keadaan semasa dan kesannya, amat penting. Kalaulah remaja-remaja sekarang terus dilalikan, dikhayalkan dengan angan-angan hiburan, filem yang mempersona dan sebagainya, kita semua akan hilang kuasa politik. Soalan yang bagus, bagaimana politik boleh mempegaruhi kehidupan kita?

Contoh yang mudah, yang berlaku baru-baru ini semasa Majlis Perbandaran Seberang Perai bersidang, seorang ahli majlis MPSP Teoh Seang Hooi bangkit mencadangkan agar papan-papan tanda di jalan-jalan utama dalam kawasan PBT berkenaan menggunakan bahasa Mandarin dan Tamil selain bahasa Melayu. Alasannya bagi memberi kemudahan kepada para pelancong khususnya dari China yang ramai berkunjung ke negeri ini (Pulau Pinang). Kalaulah kuasa politik orang yang meng’selatan’kan hal ini cukup, nah, kita akan lihat papan tanda jalan lagi besar dari jalan (papan tanda raya di jalan raya) kerana terpaksa menampung semua bahasa-bahasa selain Bahasa Kebangsaan. Dalam isu ini, kekadang saya tertarik dengan apa yang berlaku di negara jiran kita Indonesia, masyarakatnya berbahasa Indonesia sama ada yang lelohornya kelahiran sini atau kelahiran sana, semuanya sama aja pak….. dan yang pasti, ‘my Indonesian Chinese friend can’t speak kantonis or mandarin. Namanya pun Muliyanto Halim, Buddhist lagi. What the heck!’

Lagi bidalan semasa, kenaikan harga minyak. Adakah politik memainkan peranan? Fikir-fikirkan. Bahasa Inggeris dalam pengajaran Sains dan Matematik, siapa yang merubah, ahli akademik atau ahli politik? Sungguh, dalam isu ini saya amat marah dengan ahli politik. Pendidikan samalah dengan agama, samalah dengan air perigi kat rumah, jangan dipolitikkan sebab semua ini adalah keperluan yang menjadi paksi hidup seorang manusia untuk memacu perkembangan diri dan seterusnya negara!

Teringat saya semasa hari pengenalan calon MPPUTP zaman-zaman ’student’ dulu, saya api-apikan HEP kerana tidak menggunakan peluang pilihan raya kampus untuk melatih pelajar cara-cara mengundi sebagaimana pengundian di luar kampus. Sepatutnya, semua tatacara, undang-undang mestilah sepadan atau lebih kurang yang diamalkan SPR, Malaysia supaya pelajar lebih terdedah kepada sistem demokrasi yang diamalkan di Malaysia walaupun sebenarnya masih tempang seperti yang tercatat dalam siri-siri pilihanraya terdahulu dibandingkan sistem yang diamalkan di Indonesia, dan negara-negara maju. merah muka pegawai HEP yang menjadi pemerhati ketika itu. Ahli politik mesti pandai mencari isu. ;) Namun, di sesi soal jawab, isu itu ‘makan diri’ tatkala ada seorang pelajar (saya masih ingat nama dan wajahnya) tampil menghentam HEP dengan keras dan meminta saya menjelaskan hal tersebut. Di sinilah saya sedar, ‘politician must be good in diverting the issue’. Ahli politik selalunya pandai membawa isu, mengolah isu serta pandai jua mengubah isu. Soalan yang menghala kepada jawapan ‘ya’ atau ‘tidak’ perlulah pandai untuk dijawab. Saya menjelaskan kepada pelajar terbabit, hidup kita di universiti seolah-olah kita menaiki bas ekspress dari KL ke Kuala Perlis. Sebagai contoh, naik bas Transnasional atau Kumpulan itu ini, yang kat depan bas terselit moto atau visi, “To produce well-rounded student, bla, bla, bla”. Jadi, kita pun naiklah bas tersebut, di tengah perjalanan, kita perasan sampah-sarap tetiba keluar dari bahagian belakang, tikus, lipas pun ada. Jadi kita pun cakaplah kat pemandu bas, “Kenapa begini, kat depan bas cakap pasal well-rounded, etc?” Jadi, jawab driver bas, “Kalau you tak setuju you boleh turun kat sini, Ipoh 50 km lagi, kalau you tak sedap nak tengok, tidor jerlah….” Jadi apa yang perlu kita buat? Kita nak pi Kuala Perlis, duit pula tak cukup nak naik teksi….. ikut ajerlah…. atau kalau kita ada kesedaran, kita cakap sama penumpang lain, kita buat buat bantahan, buat demo, suruh driver bas tukaq bas, atau bayar balik duit tiket, atau kita ramai-ramai cuci bas, atau kita suruh driver bas turun, kita plak yang jadi driver bas…….”. Lepas tu saya suruh pelajar tadi buat pilihan dan saya pun suruhlah dia buat perbandingan dalam kes yang dia marah-marahkan. Tersenyap dia ;)

Jadi, kesimpulannya, janganlah kita menjadi mereka yang diperbodohkan. Politik tidak salah. Kesedaran politik perlu. Ambil tahu dan bercakap pasal politik mesti, amal ibadat jangan ditinggal, janganlah menyokong ahli politik yang hanya pandai bercakap. Kita semua adalah ejen perubahan. Bila dan di mana? Hanya Allah yang menentukan, tetapi kita perlulah berusaha – Ke Arah Malaysia Yang ‘Bersih’. It is not a matter of being a politician but it is a matter of how far we are involving in the politic and what principles we are applying and the value that we keep with us. Adios <—-ala-ala blog YB Zulkifli Noordinla plak ;)

 

Kisah Manifa dan harga minyak….(Manifa Story and Oil Price) June 27, 2008

Filed under: sharing — kakikiri @ 1:51 am
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This time I’ll let you know something about Saudi Arabia. There is an area in the border with Kuwait that is not belong to anybody. They call this area as Neutral Zone and the good thing about this area, it has an oil reservoir. That was the reason why Saddam Hussain last time came up to here during the 1st Gulf War. Due to the ‘black oil’ availability here, both Saudi and Kuwait developed a joint venture company in order to explore this area. Erm, not that bad. When it come about money ….. everybody can be friend but sometimes it also can create an enemy ;) .

As the demand for oil increasing and unfortunately the oil price also become more expensive, the biggest oil producer in the world, Saudi Arabia is planning to boost up the production. As far as everybody here is concern, there is a field near to this Neutral Zone, known as Manifa field. The field located in the Persian Gulf – offshore, but most of the increment project will be done from onshore. For some reason, now, I’m working under this project – Manifa project which is one of the biggest project that my company have to run under Saudi Aramco.

Got the phone call from my wife after the government declared the new petrol price. Lucky for her, my car already was in full tank mode at the time of the terrible traffic jam at the Malaysian pump station. Quite interesting to compare it with my life in upstream side of the oil industry, trying to find, drill and produce the oil in order to make money. But people over there is loosing money because of it. May God bless us always and give us the right path. Here in Saudi we are not affected that much with the new world market price of the oil as the price per liter is still below SAR 1.00. Two years ago, Saudi government under previous King increased the price, and after that, the car market in Saudi (which is dominated by American car mostly) also affected. The number of car that was sold became less and going down slowly. Saudi people started to use Japanese car or Korean car (even they brought in the famous Proton car) with small engine capacity. When King Abdullah was appointed as the new head of the Kingdom, he made a popular movement by bringing down the petrol price and because of that the car businessman can smile again ( and also not to forget our famous ‘Uncle Sam’).

Everything related to oil must also related to US dollar as this black gold is traded in US dollar. As the value of the dollar is going down, most of the people who have it (mostly the one who own the dollar) will keep it or try to speculate the price so that they will never loose anything instead of low value of the dollar. Freak economic.

Let read an interesting comment from Iranian President, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad…..

(credit to http://kickdefella.wordpress.com/)

Market Full Of Oil: The USD VS Crude Oil Experience

25 06 2008

By Hashem Kalentari

ISFAHAN, Iran (Reuters) – The oil market is plentifully supplied and the rally to record high prices is “fake and imposed”, Iran’s president said on Tuesday, blaming a weak U.S. dollar which he suggested was being pushed lower on purpose.

“At a time when the growth of consumption is lower than the growth of production and the market is full of oil, prices are rising and this trend is completely fake and imposed,” Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said.

“It is very clear that visible and invisible hands are controlling prices in a fake way with political and economic aims,” he said when opening a meeting of the OPEC Fund for International Development in the central city of Isfahan.

With high fuel prices sparking protests worldwide, Ahmadinejad hit out at energy taxes in consumer nations. He said there was an “unfair” difference in income between energy exporting and importing countries.

Iran, the world’s fourth-largest oil exporter, has repeatedly said the market is well-supplied with crude and blames rising prices on speculation, a weak dollar and geopolitical factors.

Oil steadied on Tuesday after touching a record near $140 the previous day, with traders caught between a weaker dollar and expectations that top exporter Saudi Arabia will ramp up output to its highest rate in decades.

Iran has often said it sees no need for the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) to boost output, as the United States and other big oil consumers want.

“As you know the decrease in the dollar’s value and the increase in energy prices are two sides of the same coin which are being introduced as factors behind the recent instability,” Ahmadinejad said.

“EVER-INCREASING DECREASE”

The president reiterated his view that oil should be sold in a basket of currencies rather than dollars, an idea which has failed to win over other OPEC members, except Venezuela.

“The ever-increasing decrease in the dollar’s value is one of the world’s major problems,” he said.

“A combination of the world’s valid currencies should become a basis for oil transactions or (OPEC) member countries should determine a new currency for oil transactions,” he said.

He expressed support for a proposal by Venezuela’s anti-U.S. President Hugo Chavez to create a bank constituted by OPEC members to act as a counterweight to U.S. influence in the world. He also advocated the establishment of an oil bourse.

Iran, embroiled in a standoff with the West over its nuclear programme, has for more than two years been increasing its sales of oil for currencies other than the dollar, saying the weak U.S. unit is eroding its purchasing power.

Ahmadinejad, who has called the dollar a “worthless piece of paper”, suggested a part of its decline was deliberate, without naming any country:

“The planners for some big powers are acting to decrease the dollar’s value,” he said. “For years they imposed inflation and their own economic problems on other nations by injecting the dollar without any support to the global economy.”

Foes since Iran’s 1979 Islamic revolution, Tehran and Washington are also at odds over Tehran’s disputed nuclear activities. Iran says its atomic work is peaceful.

(Reporting by Zahra Hosseinian in Tehran; Writing by Fredrik Dahl; Editing by William Hardy)

 

Paris Again But Different View June 14, 2008

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Salam guys,

I’m here in the lobby corner of the Grand Hotel- Plessis Robinson, waiting for the taxi going to the CDG Airport. I have to check out early but the taxi will come in 4 hours. So, just ‘rig up’ my laptop and get connected to the internet. For your info, EU 5 was charged for 24 hrs connection from the time of the first log in, no matter you are connected or not after that – quite blood sucker way in doing bussines. I don’t understand why it is so different compare to Malaysia which most of the hotel provide free Wi-Fi internet access. No wonder the cost of life in Europe is too high. Erm, maybe some of you wondering, why I’m in Paris now instead of the dessert of Saudi Arabia?  I’m here for a 2 weeks long company related business and this is a technical one compared to the one that I had before early this year. To my dear Fae, sorry, you can’t join me this time….. be a good optometrist kay!!!

I arrived in Paris on 1st of June ‘08 with another team mates from another location worldwide. However, the course finished last week for the other guys but I have to continue another one week and today is the last day I’m here in Paris. Having a good day here this time but with another responsibility.

During the first week, we enjoyed ourselves well and everyday after the working hours, we went out to Paris from Clamart using RER @ Robinson station. Most of the time we wnet to St.Michael for the halal kebab and after that we will decide where we should go. Another guy who was in the group was also a guy with photo interest. Maybe I have to publish some of his photos here. Thanks to ‘bramtitikdua.blogspot.com’.

Compilation of the photos

Kutipan Photo - credit to Tabratas