Critical Thoughts

I thank her for addressing me directly in her post here but to be honest, she had done a “tembak sebelum semak” (to borrow the words of Tan Sri Dr. Koh during the Guan Eng-Tsu Koon debate) and assumed that I wanted to debate with her on the issue of Islam & Christianity. So in short, I think you have misunderstood the intention of the debate and even the topic of the debate that I invited you to debate me on. I wasn’t going to ask you to debate with me on the issue of Islam and Christianity (I could do that, but not at this time), but I want to challenge you based on the topic of this post. To be specific, it will be about the Jews and the Muslim attitude towards them, as well as whether Muslims really hate the Jews or otherwise. In fact I want to debate you based on these questions you have raised in your post:

“Why must ask Malaysians of a certain faith to stick together to be wary of the Jews? Why need to warn them? Like we have not enough problems of our own? Smaller, daily routine problems.”

So there is no need to “chicken out” on this. The debate (or if you prefer, discussion) can be conducted in a peaceful and informative manner and there is no need to go in a huff about it either.  So what say you? The offer is still open. I find you an intelligent person and that is why I made the offer because I don’t discuss with stupid people.

As for where Shadowfox is concerned, don’t even mention that bastard’s name to me. He is not even worth the speck of dust under my feet.

Came across this today in Malaysiakini:

New Straits Times and the Star headlined Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi’s displeasure over the services of KTM Komuter and LRT as both services do not meet expectations of its users. He used the KTM Komuter services from Serdang to KL Sentral where he switched to LRT before disembarking at the Masjid Jamek LRT station.

This is not a new problem. The deplorable state of our public transportation has been going on for years now. I am surprised that he has to actually experience this himself for him to know about it. You don’t have to play football to watch live football matches and its the same when it comes to knowledge about the state of public transportation. Has he not been doing his homework?

I saw the debate between Chief Minister of Penang Lim Guan Eng and the acting President of Gerakan who was also the previous Chief Minister, Dr. Koh Tsu Koon, which was for some reason a bit more muted than the previous debate involving DSAI and the Information Minister. For some reason, this debate did not enjoy the wide media coverage as the previous one did and it was only shown live on NTV7. On the issue debated, I personally believe that it was a tie, although I admit that Dr. Koh does look a bit unsure of his answer but he didn’t cede his debating ground.

But overall, I find the debate an interesting affair, although both were at their impeccable behaviour one cannot help but to notice the underlying animiosity behind the two under the “gentleman” act displayed. I guess that is the best one can expect from them, and after all they did not have a go at each other like trainees undergoing muay thai training in thailand. So on the whole, the debate was a success and further evidence (much like the more publicised “DSAI vs Shabery Cheek debate”) that such practice should be further encouraged for live telecast.

I wonder where did the AKIM guy go….I haven’t seen him in any news coverage except when mentioned together with BN and Pakatan candidates for the Permatang Pauh by-election. I am not too unduly worried about his presence as he definitely has no chance of winning at all and he even admits that himself. He must be crazy enough to throw away RM15K just like that, he might as well use the money for da’wah purposes. Or better still, give it to me, I can think of 1001 uses of what I can use the money for the cause of Islam if I have RM15K right now.

But I guess its a free country after all.

Well, what can I say? “Disappointed” is an understatement after I saw the very dismal performance during the Olympic badminton final. Its not a question of whether he could win the gold medal or not; its the lackadaisical attitude and the fact that he virtually handed over the match to Lin Dan in the second set without even giving him a run for his money (or in this case, medal). If he had lost when going down after a fight, I would certainly have commended him for the display. Last night’s game deserves nothing but hard criticism.

That silver medal is a lame-duck excuse for the performance he displayed last night. I am sure most of you would agree with me on that. Main cam palat, nak puji apa?