As widely predicted by everyone, Japan has voted in a new government after 50 years of LDP.
Japanese wake up today to see the DPJ in charge.
Out with the LDP, which people are tired of.
The Democratic Party of Japan won 308 of 480 seats in the lower house elections.
Malaysia also has its lower house (Parliament) and upper house (Senate).
This guy - see picture here - will be the new Japanese Prime Minister. Let's get to know his name first - Yukio Hatoyama.
Nampak orang muda berbanding dengan yang tua-tua PM lama. Baguslah tu. Lebih semangat.
TETAPI sebenarnya berumur 62 tahun! - Umur bersara di Singapore!
Bapanya ialah orang yang memulakan syarikat gergasi tayar, Bridgestone. Adoi, anak orang kaya. Profil Hatoyama-san di sini.
Unlike the Liberal Democratic Party which is full of factions and kept changing PMs (it changed four PMs in the last four years! That was part of the reason also why people got fed up), DPJ is so strong he could last quite long, it is said.
My big hope for all of us in Southeast Asia - is that Japan will become more confident and its economy, still the second biggest in the world after the Americans', will grow strongly again after like 15 years of being half-asleep.
Jika depa ni masa musim dia tidur boleh bawa kepada dunia Sony dan Toyota, Nintendo dan Toshiba, Canon dan sushi, Doraemon dan Pokemon, bayangkan jika ekonomi dia kuat!
And in Malaysia, Happy 52nd Birthday.
Although, as we all know, there is a big sense of disquiet on the ground. Nothing much, really, to celebrate about.
Not just among the Chinese and Indians who are pushing for their rights (as they should) after being denied for so long, but as I wrote here, among the Malays.
There is big unease in Melayudom that the other races are pushing too strongly at the gates for their rights in Tanah Melayu. As reflected also by the much-loved sakmongkol AK47 .
The problem is how to manage this without the "bridges", as PM Najib Razak said last night, being broken.
Everyone knows that they should continue to share the country, because the alternative is very bad. Very ugly.
Najib said in his speech that issues are now exploited for political gains - you can see that clearly whether in Kampung Buah Pala (where it became a racial issue, no thanks to Hindraf) and the cow-head parade in Seksyen 23 Shah Alam).
Worries about the country being torn apart, and that both the opposition and the government should work together was one key reason why PM Najib met with Parliamentary Opposition Leader Anwar in July, I was told.
There is such a thing as bi-partisanship, ie there should be issues where whether you are Government or Opposition, you should step back from playing politics and work for the good of the country.
Like no more huge street demos that disrupt the flow of goods (I wrote about Malaysia's weak economy and how exports could be disrupted here). Nak demo masuk stadium lah, bukan tak boleh. For the sake of the country.
And of course, the government agencies have also to show evenhandedness to control emotions. The police's excuse on why it didn't stop the cow-head parade was disgraceful.
Dah 52 tahun Abang dan Datin, bila nak taubat?
Nak kasi hancur negeri ke?
Seriously, I don't think there is a sense of realisation among politicians of both stripes that they should play less politics and see the big-picture of trying to heal the wounds from the fight since general elections in March 2008.
Umno-BN want to fight to stay in power at all costs, Anwar and Pakatan want to come to power at all costs. Hancur.
I weep for my adopted country.
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Jika ada perubahan politik di Malaysia, ia nampak kelamkabut tetapi sebenarnya masih terkawal kerana ujudnya Sultan dan Raja2 Melayu.
Itu adalah proses demokrasi dan pengisian kemerdekaan yang tulin dan sihat.
Adakah Singapura akan ada kebebasan seperti ini dan mampu keluar dari cengkaman kuku besi.
Seindah mana pun Singapura, rakyatnya sekadar seperti patung2 dalam peti kaca.
Saudara mampu melihat keluar tetapi buta untuk melihat diri sendiri.
kluangman,
betul kata anda, kita selalu buta tentang masalah diri sendiri!
bagaimanapun, saya pernah bincang isu dalam komen posting minggu lalu. sila Lihat: 'Selangor - Umno, BN mungkin dikuburkan'.
spore bukan dalam cengkaman kuku besi, tuan, tetapi kuku emas.
bukan peti kaca (yang boleh pecah) tetapi peti kaca kalis bom bertatah diamond!
dia maca, burung dalam sangkar - syiok kat dalam, walapun orang luar kata kamu bodoh.
dia rasa, cukup diberi makan, ada kerja, dalam sangkar aman, ok lah!
isu-isu di spore yang menaikkan darah setengah orang ialah 1) gaji menteri dirasakan sangat tinggi, 2) keluarga lee berkuasa penuh, 3) orang miskin susah nak hidup, 4) ramai sangat orang asing di sini (sejuta dari 4.5juta pekerja asing), 5) kebebasan media.
saya ada bincang dengan detail dalam komen di bawah posting di atas tu.
pada saya, semuanya OK pun, saya boleh jawab. walau jika orang kata 'melayu spore tertindas'.
saya rasa di spore, kerana yg nak pertukaran (iaitu mengundi keluar PAP) kurang sangat dari yg rasa pemerintah masih bagus, maka kerajaan temasek terus selamat.
ini kerana puak middle class ramai di temasek.
dan pada orang spore dia ada 5C, atau sebahagian dari 5C ini, oklah.
5C = Cash, Car, Condo, Credit card, Country club membership (ada yang kata yg kelima ialah Career). saya cuma ada credit card dan career saja, cash ada sikit ler.
tetapi negeri aman dan ugama islam dijaga - dah dua orang belia berbangsa cina kena tangkap sebab hina islam di internet! mereka tak guna nama betul tetapi pemerintah cari sampai dapat (kat msia sekarang dah open season utk hina islam, nampaknya!)
tetapi sekarang LDP dah jatuh, orang spore pun tengok juga: wooi, selapas LDP jatuh parti yg paling lama berkuasa di dunia ialah yang di Paraguay, lepas tu PAP.
Bro, Singapura terlalu selesa, (kuku emas, kaca bertatah intan) dan itulah sebenarnya 'timebomb' yang sedang menanti kerana rakyat terlupa dan jarang bersyukur - malah mentaliti mereka yang rasa cukup pandai, cukup sempurna, ego tetapi sentiasa terasa terancam.
Mas Selamat boleh kembali dan muncul sekali lagi, tak sempat nak 'lepaskan' macam kelmarin lagi.
Kemanjaan yang melampau. syiok macam anak burung disuap ibunya.
Sebagai jiran kita tak minta, tetapi awaslah dengan penyakit dan tsunami ekonomi - singapura akan jadi belalang dihurung semut.
kluangman,
i totally agree!
negeri temasek dalam jangka panjang, pada pandangan saya, 'tak selamat'.
saya gemar dengan sejarah. sejarah rome, egypt, turkey, moghul.
dalam sejarah, tak ada negeri kecil (city-state, island-state) yang kekal independent lebih 100 tahun! baik sparta pun, military state yg kuat habis. dia di absorb negara besar di kiri-kanan.
paling lama 200 tahun.
lagi satu: memang betul, orang spore ni ngada-ngada dia act dia tahu semua, sedangkan (dan ini selalu saya beritahu yg bertanya tentang beza pembangunan spore-msia) ia sebuah negeri kecil - misalnya malaysia jika hanya dari gombak sampai shah alam, senang nak tadbir (lihat peta msia - spore hanya sebesar perlis, negeri terkecil).
walaupun itu, memang betul juga pemerintah spore ni banyak baiknya. negeri yg tak ada natural resources (minyak, tin mining, padi, palm oil, getah semua tak ada) boleh maju cepat. pemerintah bersih dan efisyen.
saya ni skrg ialah apologist spore dan cara ia memerintah sebab dah banyak lihat cara pentadbiran lemah di banyak tempat. dah banyak lihat-baca kemiskinan dan corruption di banyak negeri (corruption di msia adalah ringan jika dibanding dgn china, india, jepun, korea - ini negeri yg ramai orang tabik!!! belum masuk indonesia, philippines, thailand dsbnya)
saya ni juga gatal: kalau orang spore serang msia, saya defend juga. di office, orang semua anggap saya 'malaysian' sebab selalu 'jaga' nama msia. heehee. itulah makhluk dua alam. macam biawak dan buaya. kat air dia suka, kat darat dia suka.
orang spore sebab mewah dia ingat sampai bila-bila hidup mewah.
msia walaupun nampak cacat skrg ini, ramai orang spore jealous sebab wider open spaces dan penting juga: saling memaafkan jika buat salah (spore kiasu - cannot lose! sebab kalau berlaku salah, orang pandang rendah sampai mati), harga barangan murah, kerajaan pun relax dgn rakyat, tak intense sangat macam di nanny state ni.
itulah hidup saya sebagai biawak. dua-dua suka.
jangan panggil aku buaya, sudah!
bak kata pepatah melayu (literal translation): swallow mother dies, vomit father dies.
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