From Peguampas
By Hanipa Maidin
I have been practising as a criminal lawyer for almost 16 years. I have considerable experience defending accused persons who were being charged for sexual related crimes. My experience tells me that the prosecution will never charge a person for an offence of rape or sodomy if the medical evidence is not favourable to them. It is almost an accepted rule of practice or a legal norm, as far as the offence of rape or sodomy is concerned, medical evidence operates as oxygen to the prosecution.
It seems to me that such a practice is no longer adhered to in the current ongoing trial of Anwar Ibrahim. When the accused person is Anwar Ibrahim the rule of game is suddenly and drastically changed. When Anwar is charged the prosecution no longer seems to gauge the strengths of its case on the available evidence they have. When Anwar Ibrahim is tried the prosecution will, come what may, happily proceed with the trial regardless whether it has fragile evidence or no evidence at all against him !!
The only crime Anwar committed in this case is for having the name, Anwar Ibrahim.
I believe that if another person by the name of Ibrahim Anwar or any other Ibrahims allegedly sodomised Saiful the prosecution would not charge such a person when provided with the medical report prepared by doctors in Pusat Rawatan Islam ( Pusrawi ) and Kuala Lumpur General Hospital respectively.
Both reports, as I was told by lawyers in Anwar’s legal team, contain a very damning evidence against the prosecution in that they unequivocally state that there are no visible signs of penetration of Saiful’s anus. As far as the report of the Kuala Lumpur General Hospital is concerned, it was duly signed by three doctors. So what the prosecution have in their possession are the reports certified by four doctors ( one from Pusrawi and three from KLGH ) apparently dismissing the prosecution’s theory that Saiful was ever sodomised by Anwar.
People may ask why the AG, despite such a damning evidence against the prosecution, is still adamant, and not withdraw the charge against Anwar?The reason is pretty obvious, that is the accused person is Anwar Ibrahim. When Anwar Ibrahim is tried the prosecution will not care even with the existence of a hundred medical reports exonerating Anwar Ibrahim of any sexual offence.
To the layman, this question may crop in their mind. Is the medical evidence really significant in Anwar’s trial ? The answer to that is a resounding yes. As I have indicated earlier the medical evidence is oxygen to the prosecution’s case. The prosecution case dies the moment oxygen disappears or malfunctions.
It is a rule of prudence, as the lawyers call it, in any sexual related crimes, the evidence of the complainant per se is legally insufficient . Such evidence must be corroborated by other independent evidence.
Translated into Anwar’s trial, Saiful’s evidence alone is not sufficient to convict Anwar. His evidence must be corroborated. Of course a corroboration is not needed for all crimes. But in sexual offences, corroboration is highly significant in order to support the factum ( act ) of the alleged sodomy.
Why corroborative evidence is necessary in sexual related cases ? The legal practitioners say such evidence is needed because of the nature of such offences. In any rape or sodomy case it is relatively easy to allege that a crime has been committed by such and such person but it is on the other hand difficult for any person who is being charged to such offences to disprove such an allegation.
We can see clearly even before the court passes any verdict on Anwar, judging from the media coverage which appeared in Utusan and other BN’s controlled media, Anwar is as good as being found “guilty” by these so called juries. The media coverage was so vicious that one wonders whether Anwar’s, or for that matter, his family’s dignity brings any value to this irresponsible media.
The law says if you accuse somebody of committing a sodomy against you the law requires you to furnish corroborative evidence to support your allegation. That is why even in Islamic criminal law if a person is charged for sodomy, the prosecution must bring four witnesses who really see the actual penetration. That shows Islam also takes into account corroborative evidence.
And in Islam the standard of proof in sodomy case is very high indeed that is the prosecution must prove its case beyond any shadow of doubt, and the present standard of proof in civil law which is only beyond reasonable doubt. Thus in Islam any iota of doubt must be ruled in favour of the accused based on the maxim that “ the offence of hudud is withdrawn whenever iota of doubt is present ” . Islam holds the view that it is much wiser for a judge to err in acquitting 10 guilty persons rather than to err in convicting even one innocent person !!
In sodomy , like a crime of rape, the essential element which needs to be proven by the prosecution is the act of penetration itself. In Islamic law the same element also needs to be established by the prosecution in certainty.
Now how is the prosecution able to prove the element of penetration if they do not produce the medical reports/evidence? And how are the medical reports in Anwar’s trial useful to prosecution if they clearly say no visible signs of penetration to Saiful’s anus. The medical evidence is supposed to corroborate Saiful’s evidence but apparently in this case the same medical reports in fact exonerate Anwar Ibrahim. The rule is so simple : no penetration no prosecution. But the AG seems to hold the view that yes, no penetration but mind you we still have persecution to do!!
It is beyond question if Anwar is tried under the Islamic law, the charge, as it is presently framed against him, will never see the light of the day. Seeing the oral testimony of Saiful so far one cannot avoid to jump to the conclusion that it was a groundless or trumped up charge.
The AG should exhibit a high level of professionalism and integrity in the Anwar’s case. Intellectual honesty dictates that the prosecution should withdraw the charge against Anwar Ibrahim. Period. To prosecute a person in the absence of credible evidence is definitely tantamount to a prosecutorial misconduct and wastage of public funds.
The day that AG becomes the tool of the crooked politicians should have passed after the election tsunami in 2008.
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Foreign Creature 2 – Walkthrough – Overview A Foreign Creature 2 walkthrough for those who dunno how to beat Foreign Creature 2 and is searching for a Foreign Creature 2 guide. A full, complete, extremely detailed Foreign Creature 2 walkthrough complete with images and text description for each action scene in Foreign Creature 2. |
Foreign Creature 2 – Walkthrough – Office
1. Click knife “a” to set it on fire.
2. Click orange hair guy’s head “b” to drop knife.
3. Click keyboard “c” and screwdriver “d” to kill off one guy.
4. Click the heads of all three (3) guys then click your head.
5. Click shotgun guy head “e” and then click your head.
6. Click the heads of both of the surviving guys.
Foreign Creature 2 – Walkthrough – Hospital
1. Click blood packet “a” to drain it completely.
2. Click wires “b” on your body.
3. Click machine “c” while the doctor is cutting your body.
4. Click doctor’s head “d” to kill him.
5. Click knife “e” on the floor.
6. Click orange hair guy’s head “f” to grab him.
7. Click security camera “g” to kill him.
8. Click knife on the floor to pick it up.
Foreign Creature 2 – Walkthrough – Back Alley
1. Click barrel “a” to levitate it.
2. Quickly click police “b” to kill him.
3. Click yourself to jump onto truck.
4. Click police “c” to kill him.
5. Click truck “d” to kill police at top.
6. Click barking dog and it will attack you.
7. Click police “e” to let him kill you.
8. Click yourself to escape from the body.
9. Click rat “f” to possess the rat and escape.
Foreign Creature 2 – Walkthrough – Couple
1. Click soft drinks cans “a” to knock down over.
2. Quickly click “b” to turn off the television.
3. Quickly click “c” to enter the house as a rat.
4. Click cereal bowl “a” to knock them over.
5. Click rat “d” to go behind the guy.
6. Click rat “e” to kill and possess the guy.
Foreign Creature 2 – Walkthrough – Concert
1. Click singer “a” to make her move.
2. Click guy “b” to make him go up.
3. Click the dancing guy on the stage.
4. Click guy “c” to make him go up the stage.
5. Click guy “d” to have him follow into back stage.
Foreign Creature 2 – Walkthrough – Changing Room
1. Click head “a” to get inside room.
2. Click head again to kill and possess her.
3. Click wardrobe “b” to open it.
4. Click dead body to hide it inside wardrobe.
Foreign Creature 2 – Walkthrough – Home
1. Click door “a” to enter.
2. Click on yourself.
3. Click on dogs to slience them.
4. Click on sofa “b” to sit down.
5. Click book “c” to read books
6. Click black dog “d” to silence it.
7. Click “e” to turn on television.
8. Click it again to turn it off.
9. Click “f” to light up fire and stand up.
10. Click “g” to sit down in front of computer.
11. Click keyboard “h” to use computer.
12. Click “i” to stand up and look at portrait.
13. Click yourself to morph your body.
14. Click food “j” to sit at the dinning table.
15. Click fridge “k” to eat.
16. Click yourself to possess the dogs.
Foreign Creature 2 – Bonus Scene 1
This is one of the bonus scene after you finished the game. You cannot click anything in here.
Foreign Creature 2 – Bonus Scene 2
Again, like the above bonus scene 1, you cannot click anything in this bonus scene as well.
Deimos’s Daily Reads
No reads for today.
Deimos’s Thoughts
Not really that hard and Deimos managed to complete it without external references.
Deimos Asks
Have you completed Foreign Creature 2? Was it hard or easy? Did you consult a walkthrough?
12 Februari 2010
1.00 tengahari
Masjid ar-Rahmah, Sg. Way
11 Februari 2010
7.00 petang
Masjid al-Hidayah, SS 3 Kelana Jaya
DAP expresses deep disappointment at the Federal Court’s unanimous decision that Datuk Seri Dr Zambry Abdul Kadir is the rightful Menteri Besar of Perak following the defection of 3 Pakatan Rakyat ADUNs towards BN on 4 February 2009.
The Federal Court decision is contrary to the basic democratic principle that a government must be elected by the people. Any government that does not derive any directly elected mandate, not only violates the democratic principle of people’s power but also questions the legitimacy of a people-centric government of the people, by the people and for the people.
Whatever claims BN and Dato Seri Dr Zambry may make over the state government of Perak, there is no denying the fact that both were not democratically elected by the people of Perak in the 2008 general elections. To restore democracy and the constitutional right of the people to determine their government, DAP reiterates our call to BN to dissolve the Perak State Assembly and return power to the people by holding fresh elections.
I had been wearing glasses for about 15 years.
I suffered from a myopia of 6.00 on both eyes. It all started back when I was in Primary 5. Even though I had awesome vision back then, I thought wearing glasses was damn cool.
Because a couple of my classmates wore glasses, I actually felt left out due to the fact that they had four eyes, and I only had two. What the heck, right?
Its because of this jealousy I had that I did something very stupid thing. For days afterwards, against my moms advice, I deliberately did all I could to destroy my perfect vision.
Sat in front of the TV as close as possible.
Read books while laying on bed in a dark room.
Wear my dads funny glasses that make me look like Harry Potter.
Eventually, my vision deteriorated to the point that my mom had no choice but to send me to the optometrist.
I had to start glasses. My mom was disappointed. I was overjoyed. Until puberty hits and I began taking interest in girls.
It was then that I realise wearing glasses does not make me look cool. Glasses make me look like a nerd. Unless your last name is Gates or Jobs, no girls would be impressed going out with a nerd.
So I started wearing contact lenses. But even that brought about its own set of problems.
The problems with wearing contact lens is the same with wearing bras: I cant swim with them on, I kept having to remember bringing them along for travel, and I gotta buy a new pair every few months.
This is what I did when I forgot to pack my contact lens case on my trip to Bali.
I used bottle caps.
Anyway, now that I am running around a fitness centre, I find it even more inconvenient to wear either contacts or glasses. I hated wearing glasses so much that it motivated me enough to seek that One Solution To End All Problems.
Laser Eye Surgery.
To be honest, Ive been thinking about doing laser eye surgery for a long time. The only reasons I hadnt gone ahead earlier were the same as everyone else.
1) I thought it might be expensive.
2) I thought its dangerous.
3) I thought if the doctor isnt careful, I might end up with eyes like The Terminator.
With the advancement of technology, all these are of course, exaggerated concerns.
These days, its possible to get laser eye surgery done in many parts of Malaysia, including Kuching. One of the countrys best-known eye specialist centre, Optimax, has a branch here and it is located near the Simpang Tiga flyover.
This is where I had my pre-surgery consultation done.
Optimax contacted me to fill the role as their ambassador. I gladly agreed after ensuring their reputation is solid.
They have experts doing the check-up and consultation in Kuching. Their doctors fly in here from KL on a scheduled basis to perform the actual surgery.
In KL, some patients even had their eye examination and treatment done on the same day. In a way its save up more time and patients do not have to lay off lenses for so long.
This is my lovely consultant, Ding. According to Ding (AccorDing?), there are different types of laser eye surgery.
The cheapest and most common one is LASIK surgery, which cost around RM1,500 per eye. Next step up is EpiLASIK, which does not use sharp blades to cut open the cornea. The most advanced form of is Custom All-Laser LASIK, which cost around RM3,000 to RM3,500 per eye, but utilizes the safest and most precise equipment ever brought into Malaysia.
Before I went for my eye check-up, Ding told me not to wear contact lenses for 3 weeks. So for 3 weeks, I was the nerdiest-looking gym owner in the history of Kuching.
She went ahead and did some weird eye tests on me: flashing alphabets on the wall and asking me to speak ABC as if I was back in kindergarten.
Next, she asked me to put my head into this bizarre-looking machine.
That machine looks like its gonna hypnotize me and make me do the Jai Ho dance. Naked.
Funny thing is, I complied.
Kinda disappointed that all it does is showing scan my eyeball.
Ding proceeded to perform more tests on my eyes.
Gimme all your cash. NOW!
Here, let me take a look at the cleanliness your eye... OH MY GOD!
At one point, she dripped some anaesthetic into my eyes, which felt funny. Then she dripped something to dilate my pupil.
My eyeball dilated so big until it became like this.
Kidding.
But the effect did last for so long that I wasnt able to read small printed words till the next day. The good news was that my eyes were all good for laser eye surgery. I was about to get a new pair of eyes!
My laser eye surgery was scheduled to be on the following week. As you perhaps may have noticed, the surgery was a success and Kenny Sia lived to tell the tale.
Im gonna talk about my experience inside the operating theatre on my next blog entry. Suffice to say, it wasnt really THAT bad.
All I ended up was looking like this.
X_X
On 21st February 2010 I will be speaking at Malaysia Internet Summit – probably the biggest local Internet marketing event ever in Malaysia – at PWTC or Putra World Trade Center. The organizers are expecting at least 1,500 participants for this one day event.
I am one of the four featured speakers, which include (left to right) Shuth from WangCyber, Irfan Khairi from RahsiaInternet and SmartZul from SmartUsaha. Malaysia Internet Summit also includes several expert panelists:
This seminar is predominantly in Bahasa Melayu but some speakers and panelists will of course speak both English and BM. Here’s why I recommend that you attend Malaysia Internet Summit:
I strongly recommend that you grab your seats now to qualify for early bird pricing.
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Majlis Penyampaian AngPow Kepada Warga Emas di Pulau Ketam
Live Update: 9 Feb ‘10, 9.39am PKT PST
From: Nokia E71
Author: KNizam
Tu dia, siapalah yg x teruja bila tengok gambar neh kan
Dapat menyaksikan permainan polo berkuda di padang rumput
Tengok la view kat belakang tuh, dengan gunung bersalji sekali
Ni yg nak kena pergi ke sana julai ni nanti. Hehe
Live Update: 9 Feb ‘10, 9.03am PKT PST
From: Nokia E71
Author: KNizam
Dah berhari2 hujan ni, semenjak jumaat lepas lagi
Best plak dapat smells the morning rain kan. Hehe
Last year ada hujan batu sekali
Harap2 this year ada salji la sekali kat town ni, bestkan kalau ada salji turun depan rumah. Hehe
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To lean on advance xml, we might need to know some W3C standards to extending the XML understanding, Encrypting and authenticating on XML data is one of the XML, XHTML and Webservices that we might need to know in order to master the XML skills
Using encryption and authentication with web services
As web services become more prevalent, the issue of security becomes more important. Encryption and authentication are vital tools for achieving secure web services.
Security protocols such as Transport Layer Security (TLS) and Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) enable you to encrypt data and transmit it safely over the Internet. However, these protocols have a number of shortfalls, in that they provide security only between the two parties sending and receiving data at a particular moment in a transaction, rather than among all the parties in a multi-part online information exchange. For example, SSL can encrypt all details of an online purchase you make. This ensures that your credit card number is encrypted when sent to an online merchant, but it cannot ensure that the merchant then sends the number securely to a credit card verification service. XML Encryption serves to address these shortfalls. It enables you to:
This means that you can choose to encrypt an entire document, a specific element, or the content of a specific element. For example, in an online transaction, you may need to encrypt the credit card details, but not the product details. In this case, you would encrypt a specific element or the content of a specific element rather than encrypting the entire document. You can also transmit data between more than two parties and ensure end-to-end security rather than party-to-party security. This provides opportunities for more advanced e-commerce applications.
Digital signatures provide authentication when using web services. They enable users to receive data that is signed by the sender and to verify the identity of the sender and the integrity of the document – that is to verify that the data has not been altered since it was sent.
Encryption and authentication can be used together to provide powerful security solutions. The W3C has published recommendations for both encryption and digital signatures using XML. However, these are only specifications. They do not provide implementation details. To implement XML Encryption or XML Signatures, you’ll need to create programs that use these standards.
Encrypting data using XML
The W3C’s XML Encryption standard provides a way to encrypt any data. That data can be an entire document, a specific element, or the content of an element. Also, it doesn’t necessarily have to be XML. The standard then specifies a way to create an XML document to store the encrypted data.
Data is encrypted using the following elements – EncryptedData, CipherData, CipherValue, CipherReference, and EncryptionMethod.
Encrypted data generally takes the following format, where ? indicates zero or one occurrence and * indicates zero or more occurrences of an element or attribute:
<EncryptedData Id? Type? MimeType? Encoding?>
<EncryptionMethod/>?
<ds:KeyInfo>
<EncryptedKey>?
<AgreementMethod>?
<ds:KeyName>?
<ds:RetrievalMethod>?
<ds:*>?
</ds:KeyInfo>?
<CipherData>
<CipherValue>?
<CipherReference URI?>?
</CipherData>
<EncryptionProperties>?
</EncryptedData>
The EncryptedData element identifies the section of an XML document that holds encrypted information. If an entire document is encrypted, this element will serve as the root element for the encrypted document. The EncryptedData element can have the following child elements – EncryptionMethod, ds:KeyInfo, CipherData, and EncryptionProperties. The EncryptionMethod element specifies the encryption algorithm used. The ds:KeyInfo element contains information on the key used to encrypt and decrypt the data. For example, it can provide the public key that was used for encryption.
The CipherData element can contain a CipherValue or a CipherReference element. The CipherValue element contains the encrypted data, whereas the CipherReference element provides a URI describing the location of the encrypted data. Finally, the EncryptedData element can contain an optional EncryptionProperties element, which describes the properties of the encrypted data, such as when it was generated.
For example, say you want to encrypt the following document:
<?xml version=”1.0″ ?>
<booking
xmlns=”http://www.easynomadtravel.com/securebookings”>
<vacation>
<destination>Acapulco</destination>
<startDate>2004-05-14</startDate>
<endDate>2004-05-28</endDate>
</vacation>
<customer>
<name>Jonathan Gold</name>
<creditCard>
<cardNumber>1234898888999968</cardNumber>
<cardType>VISA</cardType>
<validTo>2005-01-31</validTo>
<creditCard>
</customer>
</booking>
Encrypting the entire file would result in the following code:
<?xml version=”1.0″ ?>
<EncryptedData xmlns=”http://www.w3.org/2001/04/xmlenc#”
MimeType=”text/xml”>
<CipherData>
<CipherValue>A23B45C56</CipherValue>
</CipherData>
</EncryptedData>
All of the encrypted data is contained within the EncryptedData element. This element is in the XML Encryption namespace, whose URI is http://www.w3.org/2001/04/xmlenc#, and whose recommended namespace prefix is xenc. The MimeType attribute specifies the format of the original data. Note that the CipherValue in this example is a sample. A real CipherValue would probably be considerably longer.
Encrypting the creditCard element only would result in a document such as:
<?xml version=”1.0″ ?>
<booking
xmlns=”http://www.easynomadtravel.com/securebookings”>
<vacation>
<destination>Acapulco</destination>
<startDate>2004-05-14</startDate>
<endDate>2004-05-28</endDate>
</vacation>
<customer>
<name>Jonathan Gold</name>
<EncryptedData Type=
“http://www.w3.org/2001/04/xmlenc#Element”
xmlns=”http://www.w3.org/2001/04/xmlenc#”>
<CipherData>
<CipherValue>A23B45C564587</CipherValue>
</CipherData>
</EncryptedData>
</customer>
</booking>
Only the encrypted creditCard element is contained in the EncryptedData element. All other elements in the document are visible. Once again, the EncryptedData element uses the http://www.w3.org/2001/04/xmlenc# namespace. However, this time it also uses the Type attribute with the value http://www.w3.org/2001/04/xmlenc#Element. Note the word Element at the end of the URI. This indicates that an element is encrypted.
Alternatively, you could encrypt just the credit card number, in which case the resulting document would be as follows:
<?xml version=”1.0″ ?>
<booking xmlns=
“http://www.easynomadtravel.com/securebookings”>
<vacation>
<destination>Acapulco</destination>
<startDate>2004-05-14</startDate>
<endDate>2004-05-28</endDate>
</vacation>
<customer>
<name>Jonathan Gold</name>
<creditCard>
<cardNumber>
<EncryptedData Type=
“http://www.w3.org/2001/04/xmlenc#Content”
xmlns=”http://www.w3.org/2001/04/xmlenc#”>
<CipherData>
<CipherValue>A23B45C564587</CipherValue>
</CipherData>
</EncryptedData>
</cardNumber>
<cardType>VISA</cardType>
<validTo>2005-01-31</validTo>
<creditCard>
</customer>
</booking>
This time all tags remain visible. Only the content of the cardNumber element has been encrypted. Again, the EncryptedData element uses the http://www.w3.org/2001/04/xmlenc# namespace. However, it uses the following value for the Type attribute – http://www.w3.org/2001/04/xmlenc#Content. The word Content at the end of this URI indicates that the content of an element is being encrypted.
XML encryption is key-based. Key-based encryption can be asymmetric or symmetric. Asymmetric encryption uses public and private keys. You use an algorithm to generate both keys. Then you send your public key to anyone who wants to send encrypted data to you. They use the public key to encrypt the data and then send the encrypted data to you. Then you use your private key to decrypt the data. Symmetric encryption uses secret keys. Using symmetric encryption, you exchange a secret key with someone who wants to send encrypted data to you. Then you can both use the secret key to encrypt and decrypt data.
In a document that uses encryption, the ds:KeyInfo element contains information about the key:
<ds:KeyInfo>
<EncryptedKey>?
<AgreementMethod>?
<ds:KeyName>?
<ds:RetrievalMethod>?
<ds:*>?
</ds:KeyInfo>?
Note that these elements use the ds namespace prefix because they occur in the XML Signature namespace rather than in the XML Encryption namespace. For example,
<EncryptedData xmlns=”http://www.w3.org/2001/04/xmlenc#”
Type=”http://www.w3.org/2001/04/xmlenc#Element”/>
<EncryptionMethod Algorithm=
“http://www.w3.org/2001/04/xmlenc#tripledes-cbc”/>
<ds:KeyInfo xmlns:ds=
“http://www.w3.org/2000/09/xmldsig#”>
<ds:KeyName>Jonathan Gold</ds:KeyName>
</ds:KeyInfo>
<CipherData>
<CipherValue>A23B45C564587</CipherValue>
</CipherData>
</EncryptedData>
The KeyInfo and KeyName elements are qualified to indicate they belong to the XML Signature namespace.
The data in this code sample has been encrypted using the Triple DES algorithm. This is specified using the Algorithm attribute in the EncryptionMethod element:
<EncryptionMethod Algorithm=
“http://www.w3.org/2001/04/xmlenc#tripledes-cbc”/>
The KeyInfo element declares the XML Signature namespace:
<ds:KeyInfo xmlns:ds=
“http://www.w3.org/2000/09/xmldsig#”>
Triple DES uses symmetric keys, and the KeyName element is used here to indicate that the key used is Jonathan Gold’s.
<ds:KeyName>Jonathan Gold</ds:KeyName>
Alternatively, you could use the AES algorithm to encrypt the data:
<EncryptedData Id=’ED’
xmlns=’http://www.w3.org/2001/04/xmlenc#’>
<EncryptionMethod Algorithm=
‘http://www.w3.org/2001/04/xmlenc#aes128-cbc’/>
<ds:KeyInfo xmlns:ds=
‘http://www.w3.org/2000/09/xmldsig#’>
<ds:RetrievalMethod URI=’#EK’
Type=”http://www.w3.org/2001/04/xmlenc#EncryptedKey”/>
<ds:KeyName>Antonia Suares</ds:KeyName>
</ds:KeyInfo>
<CipherData>
<CipherValue>A23B45C564587</CipherValue>
</CipherData>
</EncryptedData>
This time the value of the Algorithm attribute in the EncryptionMethod element is http://www.w3.org/2001/04/xmlenc#aes128-cbc, to indicate 128-bit AES. The RetrievalMethod element is used to identify KeyInfo information that is stored remotely.
Wordpress has became the largest and the most popular blogging platform on the web, one of the reasons that Wordpress is popular is because of the features and it has tons of plugin available. I believe that major internet marketers do have at least a blog and the blog is hosted by Wordpress, people loves it because it has a lot of plugins available and we can enhance or improve our blog in easy way.
There are many plugins available on the net, either free or premium one. Wordpress.org itself has up to 8,245 plugins in the database and all of them are free for download, the number doesn’t include plugin from other webmasters that don’t upload the plugin to Wordpress.org, I estimate that there would be up to 10,000 wordpress plugins available on the net.
This blog currently is using up to 35 wordpress plugins, if you experience slow loading time, that might be some errors occurred from one or more of the plugins, just like what I mentioned about the Blogengage Button, but it’s back to normal right now. So here is a list of 15 wordpress plugins that I’ve been using, and I think they should be used for any blog in Year 2010.
1) Contact Form 7
This plugin generates a contact form, it allows people to contact you via the form in simple step. Many people are still leaving their email address in the contact page and ask readers to contact them via email, so readers have to open their email address account and send you an email. Since there is a plugin, why not you make the thing simple and make your readers happy?
2) Akismet
That’s the most common and useful plugin. It used to filter and block spam comment, it saves a lot of your time. It’s a default plugin, that will be in your wordpress plugin folder when you create a new wordpress blog. Many newbies don’t know what’s the purpose of Akismet, so now you know. Be sure you activate it.
3) Wp-Optimize
This plugin optimizes your wordpress database and your blog will load faster than usual. It removes all post revisions, cleans marked spam comments, cleans unapproved comments, and optimizes database tables. You don’t want to keep rubbish in your blog for a long period, use this plugin to clean your database and your blog will load faster.
4) Wp-PageNavi
A plugin that displays the page number bar within your blog, it makes your readers easy if they want to search something in your blog and don’t want to click the “Previous Entries” button, the page number bar would be faster.
5) Lucia’s LinkyLove
It’s a great wordpress plugin that I recently installed. It’s something like Dofollow plugin, it dofollow the commentator’s link when the readers leave enough number of comments in the blog, says 3 comments, otherwise they’re nofollow. This plugin is good to avoid people who just want to leave a comment and a dofollow link, then run away.
6) Top Commentator
This plugin is widely used by many bloggers. This plugin shows a list of top commentator together with the backlinks, it’s to encourage your readers to leave comment and increase the rate of participation on your blog. They leave comment and receive dofollow backlinks, and it improves your blog, that’s win win situation. So this plugin is a must-use for your blog.
7) Comment Approved Notifier
This plugin notifies the commentator who leaves comment in your blog and the comment is approved in email. I believe that majority of blogger read tons of blog in a day and leave uncountable comments, sometimes they wouldn’t remember which blog they’ve left their comment, so this plugin would be good to notify them that their comment has been approved in your blog, so they will return to your blog and see whether there is any updates.
8 ) Commentluv
This plugin shows the latest blog post with backlinks from the commentator. This plugin would help to increase the rate of participant in your blog as well as people likes backlinks, especially dofollow backlinks.
9) Google XML Sitemaps
A very common plugin that used to generate google sitemap for your blog, your google sitemap can be built in few simple steps in few minutes time. It saves a lot of time with the help of this plugin.
10) Wordpress Related Post
As the name of the plugin, it shows related post in every of your single posts. It makes your blog sticky, which means your reader won’t be leaving your blog after reading a blog post, they would be interested to read other related post in your blog as well. Usually we place the related post at the end of the content.
11) WP Smush.It
It’s a plugin that would help to cut off the loading speed if you have many images displayed at the main page. It smush or optimizes the existing images to smaller file size, says from GIF to PNG. In future, every images that you add to the post, it will be automatically run through Smush.it. With that said, your blog will be loading faster.
12) Wp Super Cache
That’s a great plugin to give the best experience to your reader when they visit your blog, your reader will experience a better loading speed in your blog. This plugin generates static html files from your dynamic WordPress blog. I’m sure you know about “Cache” in Google search engine right? It shows the latest snapshot of the site.
It goes same to wp super-cache, it shows the snapshot of your blog in a time frame, says it refreshes every 30 minutes if there is no updates on your blog. So your reader will be served static html files in your blog, and they will experience faster loading speed because the WordPress PHP scripts is much more heavier than the static html files.
13) Insights
It’s a plugin that saves your time, when you’re searching some relevant information with your blog post such as images, videos, blogs, news, books and etc, this plugin shows relevant information with your blog post and you can use them in your blog, but be sure to give credit to the owner.
14) All In One SEO Pack
It’s a SEO plugin that allows you to write your own title tag, meta description and meta keywords for the blog post you write. It’s must-use wordpress plugin if you like to receive organic traffic.
15) TweetMeMe
The last plugin will be tweetmeme. As we know, twitter is the largest social networking and microblogging service on the web, so you might want to share your blog post in your twitter and drive more traffic, at the same time you want others help you to re-tweet the blog post and drive even more traffic to your blog. So tweetmeme does the job, it displays a small tweet it button within your blog post, your reader re-tweets it and voila!
Having excessive numbers of plugin in your blog might slow down your blog, so you might want to choose the best plugins for your blog and giving the best performance to your readers. These 15 wordpress plugins are the one that I think you should install for your blog in Year 2010, especially akismet, wp super-cache and etc, all of them help to improve your blog and may bring your blog to the next level.
Also, be bear in mind that you’re recommended to update all your wordpress plugins to the latest version, the owner may fix some bugs or add some new features.
Do you use any plugin from the list? Any other wordpress plugin that you think is great and must be used but not in the list?
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Foreign Creature 2 – Flash Games Download – Overview If you played the original Foreign Creature point and click adventure flash game, you are probably anxious to know what happened to the original alien parasitic life form protagonist at the end of the first game. Continue the bloody, violent carnage in this bloody sequel – Foreign Creature 2. |
Download Foreign Creature 2 (File Size ~ 9.65 MB)
Download the ZIP archive: foreign-creature-2.zip
Foreign Creature 2 – Title Menu
The introduction in this sequel will brief the players about what happened earlier. Nice.
Foreign Creature 2 – Action!
Surrounded by armed men with guns. What will you do? Kill them all? Sounds like a plan.
Foreign Creature 2 – Hospital?
That plan did not work out quite well and you end up being incapacitated. Bummer.
Deimos’s Daily Reads
No reads for today.
Deimos’s Thoughts
Nice graphics, seems to have improved much since the original Foreign Creature. Simple controls and game play. Not really that hard as Deimos managed to finished it.
Deimos Asks
Played the original Foreign Creature before? Do you think such aliens already exist in earth?
Ok this is the last post from the SE event!
After Cyril’s performance, I walked around to check out the.. erm.. phones.
The Aino is actually quite nice.
The 12mpx Symbian shooter.
The 8mpx + PS3 media browser.
The motion detector.
More photos of ppl I met! lol… My buddies from FlyFM and my cousin.
My long lost friend.
OK FINISH! :D:D:D
EFO was kind enough to send me their RF keyboard. The wireless PC remote provides full control over a connected PC, with a generously-sized touchpad occupying the upper half, and a QWERTY thumb board on lower. The device, less than a centimeter thick, is most likely meant for presentations and controlling media PCs.
Just plug in the USB receiver, wait for the computer to automatically load the appropriate drivers, and you have full control over that PC. Moving the mouse pointer around is a simply matter of dragging your finger on the track pad like you would on a laptop, and pressing the thumb board provides keyboard input.
But the EFO RF keyboard has other, more amusing applications as well. Plug the receiver into the back of an unsuspecting co-worker’s workstation, then start randomly dragging your finger on the touch pad, and typing out random characters. Watch your co-worker start wondering what’s going on, and even bang the keyboard out of frustration! I wouldn’t recommend doing this if your victim is trying to meet a deadline though; he or she may go ballistic once you reveal you’re guilt as a prankster.
EFO actually sent me two PC remotes: the aforementioned RF wireless keyboard, and a wired USB version. Both are practically the same, but the latter is limited by the length of its USB cable. Stay tuned for a review! EFO’s products are compatible with Windows, Mac OS, and Linux PCs with plug-and-play capability. The company promises shipment to any country within 2 weeks from order placement.
EFO RF Wireless Keyboard Remote ($40)
EFO Wired Keyboard Remote ($22)
Post from: The Gadget Blog
I consulted a Neurosurgeon named Prof. Vickey at UMMC today. A young doctor assisting the professor asked who referred me and I said “Dr. Harjit”.
He asked who was Dr. Harjit.
I quickly searched for something to reply because Dr. Harjit wasn’t my doctor. He needed to know that or he’d want to know what the doctor thought of my case.
Narrowing my eyes as I pondered, I said, “The chief surgeon of Malaysia“.
He continued looking at me without moving, as if he lost me there so I explained.
“Actually, I showed an image cropped out of my MRI to Tan Sri Lim who showed it to Dr. Harjit. Then Dr. Harjit referred me here.”
Dr. Harjit wrote a letter of referral to the professor but his student wasn’t informed.
It’s not my intention to drop names! I only wanted to tell him that I came because these people asked me to.
When I came in, he was already looking at MRIs on the computer so I asked whose MRI were those. They turned out to be mine, done at UMMC three years ago which I forgot. When asked, I proceeded to tell the doctor about weakness in my right arm.
Prof. Vickey came. He looked through the MRI reports and at the films before he examined my arms. Then like an expert, he pointed at my neck tumor and said that was weakening my tricep. “See you again after CNY,” the surgeon said.
The young doctor took back over. “Do you want to discuss with Prof. Vickey by e-mail or see us here?”
Us? Who’s ‘US‘? I wondered who he was. “Are you a Neurosurgeon?”.
“I’m a clinical staff,” he wrote and showed me his name tag which said ‘Dr. Kevin‘.
When I read that, I chuckled remembering Tiam Loong whose name is also Kevin.
Before leaving to surgery in December 2009, I left my plant under Tiam Loong’s care. The plant blossomed and bloomed during the two weeks while I was gone. Tiam Loong gave me back the plant when I returned but it died on me.
While it withered, I sent Tiam Loong an e-mail which sounded something like, “My plant is in the I.C.U. Sr. nurse removed life support prematurely and the plant withered from dehydration. Jr. nurse is too embarrassed by her own carelessness to ask Dr. Kevin come look at the patient.”
So when I saw that the young doctor was also named Dr. Kevin, I found it humorous. As if God was cajoling me.
Like God was saying, “See Yvonne, don’t worry. Everything will be okay!”.
Remember how reluctant I was to meet any Neurosurgeon locally? Many of those I saw in the past were arrogant and impatient. Prof. Vickey did not seem like that.
It is quite annoying when each time I open a new tab in Firefox 3.6, the new tab will be opened next to the tab I’m viewing. I don’t like it very much. The new tab supposed to open at the far right of the tab bar like in the previous Firefox versions.
Luckily, I found the solution on how to fix that.
You don’t have to restart your Firefox 3.6 as the change takes effect immediately. If you want to switch it back, just change the setting back to ‘true’.
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*ini adalah catatan perjalanan sepenuhnya di dalam bahasa melayu,
tanpa dirojakkan dengan bahasa penjajah, yang kononya dikatakan sebagai bahasa seantero alam.
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selepas melewati kota rohtas yang tersergam indah, hasil binaan sultan sher shah suri,
aku memberitahu pemanduku, seorang warga pakistan untuk segera beredar kerna kami sudah kesuntukan masa.
solat jumaat akan dilangsungkan pada pukul dua petang. ya di sini jika mahu solat di mana-mana masjid,
anda perlu tahu waktu sebenar masuknya waktu solat.
lain masjid lain waktu solatnya. jangan tanya aku kenapa kerana itu sudah lumrah di sini. terimalah seadanya.
kami menaiki kenderaan melewati kubu rohtas yang berdebu menuju ke jalan utama
perjalanan yang hanya 10km dirasaka begitu lama. manakan tidak, kerana hanya kereta kami sahaja yang ada di jalan ketika itu
“di mana semua kereta menghilang?” getusku di dalam hati.
tak berani rasanya nak bertanya kepada pemanduku yang dilihat sedang memandu dengan berhati mengelak batu-batu di atas jalan.
dalam kepalaku sudah terbayang akan banyak perkara-perkara tidak diingini.
apa akan terjadi sekiranya kereta kami dihalang oleh konco-konco kampung di sini?
di mana kami akan bersembunyi dan meminta pertolongan, sedangkan signal telefon bimbitku umpama mati segan hidup tak mahu.
aku rasa kesal kerana singgah secara tidak dirancang ke kubu rohtas.
di sini apa-apa sahaja boleh berlaku. bukan semua manusia dilahirkan untuk berjuang untuk bangsa
ada juga yang dilahirkan untuk menguji kesabaran manusia yang lain
alhamdulillah setelah 10km perjalanan, kereta kami berjaya keluar daripada jalan yang kecil menuju ke jalan utama
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aku mengarahkan pemanduku untuk bertanya kepada orang awam sekiranya terdapat masjid sunni yang mengadakan solat jumaat di bandar dina
pemanduku melilau mencari warga tempatan yang boleh ditanya
masjid yang terdekat rupanya adalah dalam 2km perjalanan
bagus! aku akan solat jumaat di bandar dina.
ketika sampai ke masjid berkenaan, aku bingkas masuk dan bersedia untuk mengambil wuduk
“di mana pula paip air di masjid ini?” ujarku
“sir, the ablution area is at the other masjid, no pipe here sir” ujar seorang warga tempatan yang beserban kuning kepada aku
baru aku perasan rupanya bangunan yang ku sangkakan masjid tadi adalah sebenarnya makam seseorang yang alim
termalu aku seketika. itu lah kan. malu bertanya sesat jalan, dalam kes ini, malu bertanya tak jumpa paip air wuduk
selesai mengambil wuduk aku bingkas bangun menuju ke masjid yang dikatakan.
tempat wuduknya adalah 2 minit perjalanan di luar masjid
hatiku agak resah melihatkan kelibat 2 orang anggota polis di luar masjid
mereka lengkap dengan senjata berkawal di luar masjid
“ada apa pula hari ini?” hati kecilku berbisik
aku lontarkan perasaan syak wasangka jauh-jauh dan cuba sedaya upaya untuk berfikiran positif
aku masuk ke ruang solat utama. kelihatan khatib sedang memberikan bayan atau tazkirah di dalam bahasa urdu
pemanduku bersila di tepi kananku. tanpa menunaikan solat sunat, aku terus juga bersila.
rasa canggung seketika memasuk masjid tanpa menunaikan solat sunat
kelihatan semua ummat manusia di dalam ruang solat utama khusyuk mendengar bayan pada ketika itu
bagiku, satu patah pun aku tidak faham. daripada melangut lebih baik aku kemaskini mukabuku aku
kalau ada apa-apa berlaku, setidak-tidaknya rakan-rakan mukabuku ku tahu aku berada di mana
sedang aku asyik melayari laman web mukabuku secara curi-curi menggunakan telefon bimbit nokia e71 ku, aku terperasan keadaan sekeliling
diperhatikan masjid ini adalah tiga tingkat. belum siap sepenuhnya. masih di dalam pembinaan
kelihatan agak usang, dengan kain rentang di letakkan sebagai dinding di sekeliling masjid
karpet yang disediakan juga agak lusuh, terdapat tikar yang seakan-akan tikar mengkuang di tengah-tengah ruang
bumbung masjid juga ada yang rongak.
selipar dan sepatu diletakkan berserakan di sekeliling ruang solat utama
“belum siap sepenuhnya agaknya masjid di sini” getus hati ku lagi
mataku melirik pula kepada khatib yang sedang memberikan bayan dengan penuh bersemangat
laksana panglima perang yang memberikan ucapan berapi-rapi kepada barisan hadapan tentera di dalam siri trilogi lord of the rings, return of the king
aku perhatikan perwatakan khatib adalah sama dengan osama bin laden, manusia yang sungguh dibenci oleh amerika syarikat dan sekutunya
mukanya sama. matanya bercelak hitam pekat. serban pun sama. malah cara pemakaian serban pun sama
tak mungkin suku sakat osama berada di depan mata ku.
kemudian aku mengalihkan pandangan ke sekeliling jemaah yang hadir. hatiku sedikit takut
tiba-tiba aku teringat akan peristiwa pengeboman oleh pengebom berani mati di masjid di islamabad, sehari sebelum aku pulang ke malaysia disember lepas
pengeboman yang menyebabkan masjid runtuh dan mengorbankan banyak nyawa
aku rasa tidak tenteram. terasa seperti menyesal kerana melabuhkan punggunggku di sini
macam-macam perkara bermain di benakku.
“apa akan berlaku sekiranya terdapat pengebom berani mati di sini?” aku berbisik.
adakah aku akan selamat?
adakah masjid ini akan ranap sepenuhnya?
dengan struktur masjid yang tidak kukuh aku rasakan bom yang kecil pun mampu memusnahkan tiang-tiang seri dalam masjid ini
aku mulai risau. aku terbayang-bayang akan orang-orang yang aku sayangi
namun adakah aku ada pilihan?
haruskan aku angkat kaki meninggalkan masjid sebelum azan dan menunaikan solat zuhur sahaja?
keputusan segera perlu dibuat ketika itu.
kalau anda berada di dalam sepatuku (atau di dalam crocs kelabu hitam ku) pasti anda juga akan terasa bimbang
namun aku kuatkan hati. aku kuatkan semangat
apa nak jadi, jadilah. aku akan duduk bersila di sini dan menunggu sehingga solat jumaat selesai
perasaanku selama dua jam berada di dalam masjid semasa bayan, azan, khutbah dan solat, hanya tuhan sahaja yang tahu
tiada kata-kata yang dapat menggambarkan perasaanku. rasa takut, resah, bimbang, khuatir, menyesal, tawakkal dan sebagainya
selesai sahaja imam memberi salam, aku turut berdoa bersama-sama imam
alhamdulillah tiada apa-apa perkara yang tidak diingini berlaku
selesai sahaja doa, aku segera angkat kaki
tak sanggup lagi aku untuk berada di masjid ini. kulihat kelibat polis bersenjata jugak sudah tiada
aku dan pemanduku bergegas ke kereta
pasti pemanduku hairan mengapa mukaku agak pucat. lebih pucat daripada biasa
baginya mungkin suatu yang lumrah bersolat jumaat di tanahairnya
bagi kita warga asing di sini, memang bukan suatu yang lumrah merasai pengalaman sebegitu, malah ianya menakutkan!
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ketika penulis kembali ke rumah di islamabad, berita di tv menunjukkan terdapat serangan bom oleh pengebom berani mati di bandar karachi pada pukul 3 petang hari jumaat yang sama
ianya dikatakan twin blast atau letupan bekembar kerana satu letupan berlaku di jalanraya dan satu lagi di kawasan tempat letak kereta di hospital jinnah
dan sekarang baru anda tahu kenapa aku seharusnya berasa bimbang yang amat sangat semasa solat jumaat tadi kan!
Action and war movies have established that night-vision renders the darkened world as green, and this is an accurate reflection of what real military operators use. So do night-vision goggles present the world as green? Here’s the quick answer: according to Nat Geo’s Helicopter Wars, in an episode featuring the HH-60 Pave Hawk, the human eye can distinguish more shades of green than any other color.
In other words, the color green was chosen because it presents a night-vision operator with the most accurate picture possible, the most perceivable. Obviously, in situations where seeing everyone else before they see you represents the difference between life and death, this is a crucial advantage. According to keylawk.blogspot.com, our visual affinity for green is due more to our brain than our eyes:
Because the sensitivity is indifferent to whether the green is pigmentation or wave length, solid or light, it is probable that our brain, not the naked physics of the peep-hole, the optic orb, is cue-ing the green.
So, unless there are significant changes in how our brain perceives the world through our eyes, expect low-light hardware to present everything in shades of green.
(Photo from Wikipedia)
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The beauty of CubeMe is its simply mockery of Apple’s refusal to support Flash content through the iPhone OS. As the description reads:
This extension replaces all Flash content with the ubiquitous blue cube iPhone users are accustomed to seeing. Pretend you’re on an iPad!
Follow the blue cube on Twitter – http://twitter.com/thebluecube
Please note: this extension and its developers have no affiliation with Adobe or Apple.
Known issues:
- Extension can only be disabled by accessing chrome://extensions and disabling it there.
Current version is 0.4.1, which was uploaded yesterday. Chrome users, install CubeMe on your favorite browser and starting limiting your online experience today!
Post from: The Gadget Blog
From AFP
Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim moved Monday to have the judge in his sodomy trial disqualified, complaining he had refused to rein in biased media coverage.
The trial, which Anwar says is a plot to end his political career, began last week with graphic testimony from 24-year-old former aide Mohamad Saiful Bukhari Azlan who accuses Anwar of sodomising him.
Defence lawyers objected Friday when Utusan Malaysia, a Malay-language daily linked to the government, ran photographs of the court’s closed-door visit to the apartment where the sexual encounter allegedly took place.
Judge Mohamad Zabidin Diah refused a request to admonish the daily over the pictures, as well as an earlier headline that said “Not willing to be sodomised again,” which the defence said suggested they had sex more than once.
Anwar, who was jailed on separate sodomy and corruption charges a decade ago in a case widely seen as politically motivated, said in a statement to the High Court there was a “real danger of bias” on the part of the judge.
“The local media has condemned me as they did in 1998 without (giving me a) chance to listen to my reply,” the 62-year-old opposition leader told reporters. “Clearly it’s a political trial.”
The judge adjourned the trial until Tuesday when he will hear the application to remove him from the proceedings.
However, the defence has lost several earlier legal manoeuvres including a bid to strike out the case, and to force the prosecution to release evidence including medical reports and closed-circuit TV footage.
Anwar has said that the charges, which carry a penalty of 20 years imprisonment, are an attempt to end his political career and neutralise the threat he poses to the Barisan Nasional coalition government.
Malaysia on Monday hit out at foreign governments for interfering in the trial, which is being watched by Western nations whose diplomats have attended the hearings. Related article: Malaysia warning to foreign media
“They are welcome to follow Anwar’s trial as closely as they want but they must observe our laws and not meddle in our internal affairs by hurling all sorts of accusations,” deputy foreign minister A. Kohilan Pillay told AFP.
“The case has only just begun so these foreign countries should please leave it to Malaysia’s judges to decide rather than creating their own trial by making damaging comments about our system.”
Kohilan did not single out any nation for criticism but the government-linked New Straits Times reported on a speech to Australia’s parliament by Michael Danby, chairman of its sub-committee on foreign affairs.
“The Malaysian legal system is being manipulated by supporters of the incumbent government to drive… Anwar Ibrahim out of national politics,” Danby told parliament last week.
“Perverting the legal system for political ends by charging Anwar with sexual offences is an affront to human rights,” he added.
Anwar, a married father-of-six, was sacked as deputy prime minister in 1998 amid a power struggle with then-premier Mahathir Mohamad and spent six years in jail before the sex conviction was overturned.
After his release, he reinvigorated the opposition and led it to its best ever elections results in 2008 polls when it seized control of five states and a third of seats in the national parliament.
I did not notice how well Google Chrome has become after the beta. I was always with Mozilla Firefox and the almighty FireBug.
Recently I updated my Google Chrome since the extensions has been a chaos on some forum 
Even though FireBug built FireBug Lite for Google Chrome, I tried but it doesn’t work at all. So I figure it’s time to explore the old school “Inspect element” of Google Chrome and A-Ha! again 
I am too ignorance to know that there is actually an Inspection button on the button, which work pretty well.
Information are well planned and placed on the other side, which of course, editable.
Seriously, with the loading speed Google Chrome has, it really beat Mozilla Firefox hands down 
Now I’m with Google Chrome, fuck the new-ie6-rumor shit!
Running the ‘ history ‘ command only gives you line numbers. Sometimes it’s useful to have a time stamp attached to each command to build a clearer picture.
Simply set the ” HISTTIMEFORMAT ” env variable to enable time stamps in ‘ history ‘.
Run the command below.
export HISTTIMEFORMAT=' %F %T '
Before:
After:
From “Magicgates”
Even if he did not pass motion for two days, the urge would have been very strong. The peristaltic movement of the bowels would have been there and there would have been some secretion. The anus being a place in which bacteria is excreted, substances like semen would disintegrate fast.
It is different if the semen is deposited into the vagina where it can stay on for up to three days. But then God intended the semen to be deposited in the vagina – not the anus. So nature in itself has a way of dealing with this kind of situation!
Too bad, Malaysians are not the type of people that will revolt. If it had been India, Pakistan or the Philippines the people would have responded by now. But being Malaysians, our leaders know that they can even feed ‘poison’ to us and we will willingly take it saying that is is ‘teh tarik’.
No matter which Malay leader rises against the establishment, the oldest trick in the book will be used against him. All it takes is to have a willing boy.
While observers on both sides of the political divide are eagerly awaiting the verdict on who is the legitimate Menteri Besar of Perak tomorrow, the question remains whether both sides will accept the decision and put to rest the issue.
Perak has been caught in a political limbo, with Datuk Zambry Abdul Kadir and Datuk Seri Nizar Jamaluddin both claiming to be the rightful menteri besar.
Political analysts are of the opinion that, regardless of the decision, the ongoing tussle between the current state government under Barisan Nasional (BN) and the PAS-DAP-PKR coalition known as Pakatan rakyat (PR) will still drag on, at least until the next polls.
“If Zambry is declared as the rightful MB, somehow PR would continue to be dissatisfied. It would question the judiciary’s independence while at the same time harp on BN as being a temporary government,” said political analyst Dr Sivamurugan Pandian.
But if Nizar was declared as the legitimate menteri besar, he said the PAS politician may seek a fresh mandate but this would depend whether the state assembly could be dissolved or not.
The decision by the Federal Court is unlikely to satisfy everyone. If the decision is not in favour of Nizar, the Opposition will continue to question the legality of the BN state government.
“If Zambry wins, he has about two years to prove that his government is a legitimate government. Will the Opposition accept that in the next state sitting or will they continue to create chaos? Perak will continue to be in an uncertain situation unless both sides compromise after the court decision,” said Dr Sivamurugan, adding that both parties needed to understand that there was no need to prolong the dilemma.
“If Zambry wins, he might consider to reconcile. If Nizar loses, can he accept the legitimate state government until the next election?” asked Dr Siva.
According to findings released by the Merdeka Centre, an opinion research firm, last Friday, the first anniversary of the BN ruling Perak after the 2008 general election, 46 per cent of those polled backed Nizar while Zambry trailed closely with 44 per cent.
Nizar had a significant edge over Zambry when it came to the Chinese community (59 per cent for Nizar vs 16 per cent for Zambry) but Zambry led the race when it came to Malay support, securing 67 per cent as opposed to Nizar’s 35 per cent.
Perak state executive council member Dr Mah Hang Soon said BN realised that support from the people was still very much divided.
“But things are improving for us, the people are not as hostile as before. We believe that if we can continue to work hard and prove our economic plan, they will support us. The only thing is that we got to work hard, move forward and show that we can be a better government,” he said.
For the Opposition, it still regards the ultimate solution for the impasse is through a fresh poll.
“Nothing will change unless there is a fresh poll. I don’t see there is any other way out. Whatever the outcome of the court decision, it will not change public sentiment,” said DAP strategist and MP for Bukit Bendera, Liew Chin Tong.
In Bolehland, flip flop policies are the norm. At first we read that Senator Datuk T. Murugiah “was looking at increasing doctors’ compulsory service in public hospitals to between five and 10 years” and now the Health Minister says it may be shortened from the current 5 to 4 years.
Health Minister Datuk Seri Liow Tiong Lai said the government is studying the possibility of shortening the doctors’ compulsory service in public hospitals. He said the ministry was hoping to come up with the decision by this year.
“The ministry is looking at four years of service (two years of housemanship and two years of compulsory service) compared to five years (three years of housemanship and two years of compulsory service) now,” he told reporters after launching B-Nes Sdn Bhd, a company specialising in birdnest products, near here, today.
He was commenting on a statement made by Deputy Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department Senator Datuk T. Murugiah on Jan 27 that the government was looking at increasing doctors’ compulsory service in public hospitals to between five and 10 years to overcome the shortage of doctors.
He said the idea to extend the compulsory public service for doctors to five or 10 years from the current three in order to overcome the annual shortage of doctors in government hospitals, was not practical.
“We are looking at cutting it (the compulsory service) and making it more attractive for doctors to practice voluntarily in the sector. Forcing them to do so is not good,” he said.
What’s behind the politico-speak I wonder? Perhaps the crux of the problem is the massive number of medical graduates which will be coming out over the next few years, meaning there won’t be enough government jobs for doctors and thus the government won’t “force” you to stay on. At this rate, I think the Government in 5-10 years time will be hiring doctors on a competitive annual contract basis and no more “permanent” civil service jobs!
Spotted in the blogosphere:
Another U-turn
My Health Matters (Dr. David Quek’s blog)
from the Malaysian Medical Resources
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We have a special kueh expert as our guest. It’s Xiamen Ah Long’s aunt, Chio Bee Bee. Ah Long himself, and eating expert, San Kiu Kiu. We talked about Chinese New Year kueh. How to make and how to eat! Share your favorite CNY kueh in the comment area.
Anwar-The Victim of Overzealous Prosecution
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Sodomy Trial II: People Be The Judge
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Why the prosecution of Anwar Ibrahim matters to the West
Will Perak Political Saga Drag On After Court Verdict?
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Early Morning Trip to Zoo Johor
Doctors’ compulsory service may be reduced?
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