Comments for Why is this hot seat such a hot choice? at http://www.malaysianbar.org.my , comment 0 to 2 out of 2 comments http://www.malaysianbar.org.my Sat, 10 Jan 2009 08:47:57 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://www.malaysianbar.org.my/legal/general_news/why_is_this_hot_seat_such_a_hot_choice_.html#pc_7523 Hi Seto, To grant us the PEACE that our country needs, we ask ourselves, "WHY NOT PERMATANG PUAH?" Therefore, as an outsider to our nation, please do not side-track to ask any other question/OR to request for any other location. It is only prim and proper for a family not to be so greedy as to take any other seat from anyone else except of that from his/her own family member. Therefore, it is PERMATANG PUAH, and NOT ANY other. Tan Peek Guat - Tan Peek Guat Mon, 04 Aug 2008 12:53:56 +0100 http://www.malaysianbar.org.my/legal/general_news/why_is_this_hot_seat_such_a_hot_choice_.html#pc_7519 My friend, a Penang-based analyst, has said at a breakfast session last weekend that barring the unforeseen, Anwar should get 35,000 votes if the turnout in the 58,500-strong constituency reaches 80 per cent. This means that the National Front candidate will get only 11,800 ballots. With the unearthing of the two land scandals that may cost the state government RM120 million or more that the former chief minister Koh Tsu Koon of the Gerakan has so far been quiet about, sentiment against the National Front is very strong. Tsu Koon must now clear the deck by explaining how the land scandals had occurred during his watch. Stephen Tan Ban Cheng P.S. I dedicate the above posting to Mr P. Patto, my former teacher friend and Member of Parliament for Ipoh and later Bagan, who died on July 12, 1995, or slightly more than 13 years ago. P.P.S. I also received a short note from Janadas Devan, the journalist son of the late Devan Nair on Aug 3 after he read the following comment that appeared at the end of "Armed for a Fresh Battle" (July 27, 2008): MUG CONFUSED FOR COFFEE? Written by Stephen Tan Ban Cheng, 27 July, 2008 at 03:16 pm One man against the entire system. Sounds like George Orwell's Nineteen Eighteen-Four to me, except that this is for real, a real life story, and Jeya has been at it for the last 37 years from 1971. There were more downs than ups for this solid man, this character with moral fibre. Thanks to the law of defamation in the island republic that virtually denies the existence of qualified privilege, he was bankrupted and marginalised from the political arena for at least seven years. Jeya epitomises the sorry state of human dignity in Singapore. I have a friend called Devan Nair. He was also given a very rough deal, and he certainly deserves much better, very much better treatment after being with Lee Kuan Yew through thick and thin. He has since passed away in Ontario, Canada. As I have said all the time, how do we treat our fellow men? With kindness or with cruelty? And I do agree with Jeya that life is to be celebrated. Life is the coffee we drink. The shirts we wear, the cars we drive and the houses we live in – these are just the mugs. We must never confuse the mug for the coffee. Just enjoy the coffee. I humbly dedicate this posting to Mr C.V. Devan Nair, a fiery trade unionist and politician who passed away on Dec. 6, 2005, at the age of 82, a few months after the demise on April 18, 2005, of his wife, also a former MP of the Singapore Parliament. - Stephen Tan Ban Cheng Mon, 04 Aug 2008 11:45:21 +0100