Kota Gelanggi ( lost city )

A small piece of History for our future generation. Why Kota Gelanggi (lost city) touted as earliest civilization in Malay Peninsula news were banned as they were Buddhist.

The Johor find of 2005 which was quietly dropped was none other than Kota Gelanggi lost city reflecting Srivijaya and its Buddhist splendour.

But they deliberately disregarded it because that would have sidelined Malacca Empire and Islam which was smaller and came some 500 years later.

Dr Lee Kam Hing, a former History prof at MU in Singapore, who is now Star research director, told that he was trying his best to highlight Kota Gelanggi, but that the govt killed it off.


This is clearly another case to cover up the real history of Malaya and fool the younger generations into believing that our history only began from Malacca 1400.. Not only that, they try to show Parameswara as Malay and Muslim, but actually he was Hindu!

A small piece of History for our future generation Hitler's public relations manager, Goebbels, once said, 'If you repeat a lie often enough, it becomes the truth.'

Once again our government wiped out any references to a famous Melaka prince as being Hindu and belonging to the powerful Hindu empire Sri Vijaya. So all of a sudden our museums, school text-books etc. all refer to Parameswara as a Malay prince.

What race ruled or did not rule is besides the point. What is important is not butchering history to create your own truths.

If this is what it is based on, there is no 'Ketuanan Melayu '.It is based on the fact and not meant to degrade any race. The lineage of Melaka Sultans are Indians, not Malays.


It is no secret that Parameswara was an Indian and a Hindu prince.

It is clear from records that Parameswara never converted to Islam. He was an Indian Hindu who fled Palembang in Sumatra to eventually found Melaka circa 1400 AD.


It was Sri Maharaja who converted himself and the court of Melaka to Islam, and as a result took on the name of Sultan Muhammad Shah sometime after 1435...

The most famous of Indian Hindu Kings were Raja Chola and his son Rajendra Chola who invaded Southern Thailand, Kedah, Perak, Johor and Sumatra about 1000 AD. This is Raja-raja Chola - the Indian/Hindu kings and not Raja Chulan - a Malay king.


But what is really sad is that our children are taught as though Malaysian history suddenly began in 1400 with an Islamic Melaka.

We are led to believe that the Indians and Chinese first arrived on the shores of Malaysia in about 1850 as desperate indentured labourers, farmers and miners . Nothing could be further from the truth.

The cultural influences of India in particular, and China, in South East Asia span over 2,000 years, starting with the arrival from India of the Brahmanical prince/scholar - Aji Saka in Java in AD78, through to Vietnam, Cambodia (Indo China), Thailand, Burma, Indonesia, Bali, Borneo, Brunei and beyond.

The findings at Bujang Valley speak of an ancient Indian/Hindu presence in Kedah. There were Chinese settlements in Pahang and Kelantan around the 13th-14th century and in 12th century in Singapore .

The early Brunei Sultanate had a Chinese Queen. One need not ponder at length the implications of Angkor Wat and Borobudur or that 40%-50% of Bahasa Malaysia comprises Sanskrit/Tamil words. To illustrate, some of these word are:

bumi = boomi
putra = putran
raja = rajah
desa = thesam
syakti = sakthi
kolam = kulam
bahaya = abahya
jaya = jeya
maha = maha
aneka = aneha
nadi = naadi
kedai = kadai
mahligai = maaligai
mantra = manthrum
tandas = sandas
(This list can go on)

An extremely important archeological find that pointed to one of the greatest empires in history - the Raja Cholan empire that ruled from the Maldives through India, Sri Lanka and right down to South East Asia found deep in the jungles of Johor a few years ago and made headlines in the mainstream newspapers in 2005, suddenly disappeared from the news...

The time has arrived for us to record our history as the facts tell us and not as we would like to wish it.

The truth will never hurt anyone. Lies, always will.


National Institute of Education ( Singapore )
http://www.nie.edu.sg/

Curfew or not

Recently, we came across the news about the government is planning to impose curfew for teenagers during night hours. For me, it is really a good idea even though it violates the human rights and receiving cold acceptance by some teenagers and irresponsible parents. How the parents know that the teenagers are not involving in bad activities even though they letting the parents know where they are during night hours?

What are we talking about human rights if the teenagers are not doing the right thing by going out at night where they are supposed to be home studying or relaxing at home? Tell me what is out there that is good for teenagers to be out up to 2 am? there are a lot of ways that they can wrongly indulge themselves into. clubbing, watching midnight shows and hanging out with friends are going to spoil them academically and socially.

I personally think that curfew should be made compulsory for all teenagers up to 18 years old from 9pm onwards.government should make it compulsory for the club owners and movie theaters not to allow this people to enter their premises at night.

No midnight shows anymore and less friends gathering in mamak stall will definitely help to curb the social problems among teenagers. gopi

Shooting of teen

KUALA LUMPUR: Only one policeman fired shots during the incident in Shah Alam that took the life of 15-year-old Aminulrasyid Amzah, Selangor police chief Deputy Comm Datuk Khalid Abu Bakar said.

Aminul was shot dead when he allegedly tried to reverse the car he was driving into policemen, who had stopped the vehicle in Section 11 in Shah Alam, near here.
This happened around 2am, after Aminul had sped off and ran several red lights before being stopped by patrol cars.

His friend escaped on foot while Aminul allegedly tried to reverse his car into the policemen, in his bid to escape.One of the policemen fired four shots, one of which killed Aminul.

Meanwhile, Women, Family and Community Development Minister Datuk Seri Shahrizat Abdul Jalil said all those entrusted with a firearm – enforcement personnel or licensed holders – should only use their weapons as a last resort and even then, only in self-defence.

She said she could not see any reason why anyone should open fire if their own lives were not in danger.

"A young teenager has been killed in this incident and this is a tragedy.

"Regardless whether it is negligience by the family, that the boy had no licence, or that he was afraid of being checked by the police, extra caution should be practised in the usage of firearms.

"Those licensed to possess firearms must follow standard operating procedures. Opening fire must only be as a last resort and in self-defence," she told reporters at the lobby of Parliament house Wednesday.

Shahrizat said she would ask that a welfare officer be on the special panel set up by the Home Ministry to investigate the incident to enable her ministry to follow the case closely as the victim was a child. The special panel is headed by Deputy Home Minister Datuk Abu Seman Yusop.

There is a need to put camera at the dashboard of police cars nowadays. No one knows what actually happened. By the way, how the police ended up using guns if they can't even aim properly towards the car's tyre within the range of lets say 2 metres? I will put the blame on both sides but the killing should not ever taken place together with the killing of few people by the police that never caught this much attention for the past 15 years- mamalado

Foreign views of the Hulu Selangor By Election

Posted by: zakimazlan http://blog.thestar.com.my/

I quote this from the Yahoo! news today (http://malaysia.news.yahoo.com/rtrs/20100425/tap-oukwd-uk-malaysia-politics-185f4fe.html). Read the one in bold!

Prior to Sunday the Front had lost seven out of nine parliamentary and state by-elections after stumbling to its worst ever results in national and state polls in 2008 when it lost its two-thirds parliamentary majority for the first time.

Najib took office in April last year and has pledged to reinvigorate a country that has lost out to Indonesia and Thailand in the race for foreign investment.

After the elections and as the global financial crisis hit Asia's third most-export dependent economy, $61 billion in investment fled the country in 2008 and 2009, according to official data.

Najib has pledged economic reforms to win back investment by dismantling some of the privileges enjoyed by Malays that include preferential company ownership rights, cheap loans and access to higher education.

However, policy flip-flops on ending fuel subsidies and introducing a goods and services tax to shore up public finances at a time when the budget deficit hit a 22-year high of 6.4 per cent of gross domestic product have further unnerved investors.

The Hulu Selangor campaign was characterised by attacks on the character of the opposition candidate, a former law minister and a Muslim who was accused of drinking alcohol, and by handouts worth thousands of dollars to voters from Najib.

Despite the narrow government win, the opposition, led by former deputy prime minister Anwar Ibrahim, will also come under scrutiny at a time when Anwar is facing charges of sodomy in a case that could end his political career if he is found guilty.

barisan won

The Barisan Nasional has recaptured the Hulu Selangor parliamentary seat which was won by PKR in 2008. Its candidate, MIC information chief P. Kamalanathan, beat PKR candidate Datuk Zaid Ibrahim by 1,725 votes. Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak said the victory in Hulu Selangor has put Barisan Nasional on the right track to win back Selangor in the next general election.

Higher car loan rates

I am paying for 3.5 % for a nine year loan for my myvi. I am glad I bought it early because the interest went up to 4%. that's a lot of money. it means you will pay RM 20 more than me every month if you go for more than 5 years term loan and Rm 8 more than me for a five years term loan. Now i love my Myvi.RM 20X12X9=RM 2150 more out of your pocket. for you information, I am paying almost RM 15000 for the interest and you might be paying almost rm18000 for the interest for a brand new MYVI for nine year term loan.

The news is attached below:

PETALING JAYA: Interest rates on car loans have increased by an average of 0.25 percentage point for national cars and 0.7 percentage point for non-national makes since the overnight policy rate — the benchmark interest rate which determines banks’ lending rates — was revised upwards by 25 basis points to 2.25% in early March.

Proton and Perodua car loan rates had been adjusted to 3.75% for loan tenures of five years and below, 3.9% for six to seven years and 4% for eight to nine-year loans, according to major car dealers. Previously, they ranged from 3.5% to 3.75%.

With the new rates, for example, a person looking to purchase a RM40,000 Perodua car with a five-year loan tenure (at the new rate of 3.75% per annum) will have to pay RM791, or RM8 more, per month.

This goes up to about RM20 more a month for a longer-term loans.

As for new non-national makes, a dealer with Kah Motor Co Sdn Bhd which distributes Honda cars, said hire-purchase rates for new non-national cars had been raised to 3.25% for loan tenures of five years and below, 3.4% for six to seven years and 3.5% for eight to nine-year loans.

Before, hire-purchase interest rates were in the range of 2.4% to 2.8%, he said.

star online

Internet disruption to go on until May 2

KUALA LUMPUR: Repairs to a fault in the submarine cable network linking Malaysia, Europe and the United States are expected to cause disruptions in nationwide Internet services from today until May 2.

Telekom Malaysia Bhd (TM) said it was taking active steps to minimise disruptions by having additional links on other routes and coordinating with other international carriers to provide additional bandwidth for its customers.

“Despite these initiatives, customers using Internet services nationwide may experience some degree of service degradation, such as slow browsing while accessing international websites.