Malaysia proclaiming 50 National heritage status as celebration of half century Independence

In conjunction to 50 years of Independence, Malaysia announces that it will proclaim fifty national treasures in the form of buildings, historical sites, objects and cultural practices as National heritage. They will be officially conferred Warisan Kebangsaan or National Heritage status.

Among the list to be converted as National Heritage are The Kuala Lumpur Railway Station, the Merdeka Proclamation read by Tunku Abdul Rahman at Stadium Merdeka on Aug 31, 1957, the Parliament building, the wayang kulit, mak yong, sewang, ngajat, sumazau and Joget Melayu are among the national treasures expected to be elevated from Heritage to National Heritage status.


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Singapore Lao Ah Beks love to go Karimun for SEX! POM POM!

Aiyoh, Singapore old men on news again. Guess what? Same thing again, sex in cheap island lor.

Tanjung Balai (Karimun), Indonesia is where they love to go. From Singapore, you can take a ferry and arrive there in about 3 hours. Eh, I not promoting the place okay. But just telling you all what they doing.

Apparently, there was a crackdown in Mid May 2007 this year, which lasted for about a month. 100 Singaporeans got caught at the scene. HAHAHAHA! (Want play kuku jiao dun scared kena. All the flowers growing on the birdy you also not scared, no need scared malu) This forced many Singaporeans to divert their attention from there, keeping their weenies small and controlled. Singaporeans always got this mentality: Dun get caught, very malu(embarrassed) one.

I think a lot of this visitors should be old people, or uncles in their mid life crisis. I suspect also most of them maybe are Taxi drivers. How not to think this way? Every time I sit Taxi, some uncles bored one will sure talk dirty with me: tell me where big where good where cheap where got many.

Occasionally some complain about the Mainland Chinese ladies who always loiter in our Geylang District. Now think back, aiyuh, all the uncles acting only.

Now their choices so many, got Tangkok-Ali, Viagra, old uncle no need scared cannot do. HAHAHAHA!

below is extracted from the straits times in regard to this post. Wah, I tell you, ST also damn good in choosing time write this kind of article one. Do on weekend news, then aunties see, then uncles hong-gan liao... LOL

source: The Strait Times

".....The Singapore men were seen walking hand-in-hand with their 'cewek' (Indonesian girls) making their way to seafood restaurants around town.

Most just smiled and refused to talk when approached by this newspaper reporter. Others shook their heads when asked if they were looking for girls and walked away.

One said: 'Sorry, I do not know anything about the raids. This trip is my first time.' But locals familiar with him said he was a regular.

Another, a widower in his 60s, said he came with a friend and worked as a lorry driver.

'I like to come to Karimun to enjoy myself. We can have a good seafood meal for $20.

'Sometimes, I try to get an Indonesian girl to keep me company. Those from Java are very pretty, and they also know how to treat men nice,' he said.

He said he had heard about the raids from a friend and avoided coming.

But now, he thinks that everything is okay.

'I am not scared because the Karimun police will only catch the types who book the young ones.'

A Singaporean who looked to be in his 50s said he had visited the island only last week.

'The usual things, makan, sleep, sing. I am not choosy. I do not need a young girl, but she must be pretty,' he said.

'We Singaporeans come here not to do bad things. We pay everything for the girl. Now, I do not go out of hotel room. I just tell my driver to take the girl to the hotel, and we stay inside. We do not need to come out; it is not safe.'

One man was even defiant about his plans. He said he was here to eat, drink and have a good time, and there was nothing wrong with that. .....

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When police raided the place sometime in May, close to 100 Singapore clients were at the scene.

'They were traumatised by the experience, although the police left them alone. Until today, some kept calling me to ask if it was safe to return,' he said.

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Aiyuh, don't disturb these old men la, Singapore. They're very lonely people. Some more standards of living in Singapore so high, want eat seafood also hard. Give them their imagined paradise for the weekend won;t hurt to much one. If you are so worried about the image of Singapore, then find some educational outreach to these old ah-beks sea whether will listen a not. They may probably visit your local turf club during the weekends and earn some short money to enjoy the trip over. Don't pour too much water on them.

Anyway, I think the local police in Karimun also trying to dig some Kopi-lui from all these, at the same time to stop all those forced prostitution and under-aged selling. So, this one we Singapore don't worry also. I think the one we most worry is scared those old uncle's wives go that island cat fight with the locals only. Socially, we all so scared die, WOMAN power very strong one. mai kia kia.

Singapore not a country?

LOL why Singapore don't have this kind of thing happening during their PAP gathering? Powderful, this one. But as a Singaporean I must say, we are a country. We have our corruption to the minimal, but that doesn't mean don't have. Our Golden Bowl NKF scandal quite furious also one.

Singapore is a real country. And you guys no need to keep saying "You have no brains" Thats personal attack you know :)

Weekend Reads - Pigs stuffed waste water before sale, Johore Bahru to tighten up Security Levels, China completes A huge bridge project

The following piglets look cute? Yes, they do. I took them during a trip to Hainan Island last year in Feb 2006. They are owned by my family members in Hainan Island. However, a horrible reality in China is make known to the public when villagers in Beijing forced-fed pigs with waste water before selling them to the slaughter house.

It is bad enough to know that the price of pork has doubled these few months. We do not need merchants to cheat and cause a scandal. There is enough diseases in relation to our human food chain. There are enough sick pigs to cause health problems to us. We do not want to end up dead in China. Why can't the locals think ethically in relation to this. The price has already doubled. You need feed them with waste water to increase your revenue. There is already a shortage all around China.

It would have been easier if China follows a system in which Taiwan merchants do. The Taiwanese ensured quality when they adopted a system in which only usable meat were weighed in the slaughterhouse, in which organs, fat, bones were not inside the calculation. If this is enforced by the locals, then there will not be bad taste for meat from out piggy who were forsaken their pigs rights.

China has completed yet another long stretch of Bridge crossing the East China Sea, known as the Hangzhou Bay Bridge. It is the longest bridge in the world across the sea, measure a distance of 36 kilometers The traffics of the bridge will be in operation in Jun 2008. You will expect a time cut in travel, saving a total of 120km for visitors and traders of Ningbo and Shanghai.

The bridge will be a great asset and further introduce development economically in Zhejiang province, ushing the already mega powered China market into a new sphere.

Back In Malaysia, we are hearing good news in which the Malaysian government finally, is doing something to curb the security problems in Johore Bharu. Recent scandals in which the police deny helping citizens who were calling out for help forced the local Chinese to request for enforcing of tighter management in Security. Johore will use air support to crack down on the syndicates and crime parties. They will patrol till 12th of July. How much impact will it have in improving the state is questionable. But it is good to see that actions are improvised downwards. Maybe along the way, we still can see some PTNNBCCB police eating snake, but that will be another story. Mr abdullah confirm want to develop Johore properly with Singapore. The local Chinese also don't wish to every weekend go RIOT and gain awareness. Let's see how things are in the coming months.

Personally thinking, I feel those rapers, murderers, robbers should all be face point shot dead and fed Nasi Babi as their last supper. Zzzz

China nod for Asian heritage perspective

If most people do not know, UNESCO formed their guidelines to approved their World Heritage lists based on their committee members mainly constituted of European countries. Most of such guidelines were formed straight after the 2 World Wars which devastated our heritage globally, making us lose many valuable treasure Man created in thier History make civalization.

Recently, China and Malaysia raises issues in concern to the guidelines whether Asian countries should follow the same methods follow by the western counterparts. As beliefs and values defers countries to countries, regions to regions, some of the Chapters and guidelines offered by UNESCO might not be catered to the needs of Asian countries. Facing such issues, Japan raises their voices in accordance to the meaning of authencity and wrote the Declaration of Authentication in Nara Chapter as a guideline. It raises certain issues in which heritage can be intangible, and preservation of building in accordance to what it is does not mean as much as the intangible factor in which spirit, values, culture, customs might hold the foundation to the foundation of what A national of ethinic value might believe in. This is due to their belief that their Shinto Temple can be rebuilt, but their beliefs go beyond just a simple Architecture in form.

The Kiwis believes that their heritage site should be left to nature, in which if the nature deems their houses should be decayed and return to Mother Nature, so be it. This is a code of conduct and respect to the nature in which they deeply believed in.

Poland was razed and destroyed during the world war. However, their city made it into the World Heritage Site as well because it goes beyond physical form, but the outreach of their fighting spirit and strong National Identity to the world.

Still, we must take note that nothing is simple, and daily we are facing loss in heritage all over the world, whether it is the last ethinic race, the last form of communication and culture, or the last folk song known in a region. Time is the essence in preventing further loss. But we all have our own limitations in how much we can do.

If there should be further implications and chapters added into the guidelines, and if it is for a good cause, I feel it will always be beneficial to the world globally. After all, everything is about preseving our own uniqueness and not be tainted too much by the effects of globalisation.

However, we must always consider backwards: are all this done for commercial purposes, political purposes? How many times a site enlisted falls into bad management? How many times it all fall back into an empty pit in which so much more were lost due to the enlistment? I welcome all comments in relation to this topic. You can leave comments and ways of contact in which we can further discuss this.

Let's hope what Malaysia is doing is not solely because they want to promote Malaysia Tourism Year 2007.

source: the star

KUALA LUMPUR: China supports Malaysia’s stand that Asian countries be assessed according to their own criteria for Unesco's Heritage Cities listing.

China’s Culture Minister Sun Jiazheng said Unesco should look at the Asian perspective when according such status, based on the specific environmental, historical, geographical locations and the nature of cultural heritages of the countries in Asia.

Sun, who headed a delegation that paid a courtesy call on Culture, Arts and Heritage Minister Datuk Seri Dr Rais Yatim at the Kuala Lumpur Craft Complex here on Friday, said Asian countries, which shared many similarities, should work together to ensure that Unesco accepts the suggestion by Malaysia.

On Thursday, Dr Rais had raised Malaysia's proposal to China for Asia to have its own version of “Unesco” to accord such status but the matter has yet to be decided as the Eastern Ministers of Culture have not met.

Dr Rais said there should be specific criteria for Asian countries, and that it was not right for Unesco to compare Asia to the Western nations.

“Our suggestion will be handed over to Unesco soon. It is important to give them an idea on how differently Asian countries look at artefacts or heritage sites, compared to European and other non-Asian countries.

“If there is a benchmark set for Asian countries, we will have more heritage sites,” he told reporters after receiving the Chinese delegation.

Dr Rais said he discussed training programmes related to culture and heritage with Sun, adding that China had vast experience in the conservation of buildings, cultural and heritage artefacts.

Culture on display at open house

source: the star

KUCHING: Sarawak’s ethnic communities celebrated the Gawai Dayak Open House last night with a colourful show of traditional cultures.

Iban, Bidayuh and Orang Ulu lasses and warriors in full regalia welcomed Sarawak Governor Tun Abang Muhammad Salahuddin Abang Barieng, Second Finance Minister Tan Sri Nor Mohamed Yakcop, Chief Minister Tan Sri Abdul Taib Mahmud and state ministers at the State Indoor Stadium here.

Among the highlights was a 30-strong Kelabit bamboo band from the Baram region in northern Sarawak.

Cultural troupes which took to the stage with their traditional dances included a group of elderly Bidayuh women from the remote village of Kampung Semban in Ulu Padawan near here.

Red carpet welcome: Tun Abang Muhammad (centre), his wife Toh Puan Norkiah and Deputy Chief Minister Tan Sri Alfred Jabu (left) being greeted by Bidayuh dancers in Kuching last night.

They wore distinctive metal coils on their arms and legs, a decorative element of their traditional costume unique to their village.

There was also a musical dance-drama and a parade of beauty contestants, known as “Kumang”, in three categories – Iban, Bidayuh and Orang Ulu.