Some thoughts on Daim

For decades now we've heard from Anwar and his sycophants of the evils of men like Mahathir and Daim. Insinuations were thrown out in the open that these people had plundered the country's riches to line up their own pockets. But until now, apart from some poorly made lists that have been so pixelated from being re-shared again and again from the Yahoo mail days that they could be hardly read.

Today they dragged Daim to court (29/1/2024). It's a sad sight seeing the poor old man being wheeled into the car and he looked very frail especially since he's lost an eye to infection. He's definitely seen better days, the days when he rose from a kampung boy in Kedah to a fairly successful businessman making fortunes from Maluri. His success, rare among the Malays that time, got the attention of the UMNO leadership who brought him into their fold to serve as the finance minister.

The dumb PH supporters, showing total lack of manners and sympathy seemed to be enjoying the sight very much. They cheered to see a weak and physically failing old man being 'brought to justice' for 'crimes' that I bet none of these corrupted souls even know of. The charge read out against Daim was a failure to declare his assets to SPRM. It'd have been ironic if not for the flagrant hypocrisy on the government's part that the head of SPRM is Azam Baki, who not long ago was mired in his kerfuffle regarding his assets that PH made it an election campaign promise to go after him if they won the election. They did win the election but didn't keep the promise; a theme that by now has been completely synonymous with this cheating, manipulating lot that is the Malaysian government of the day. Instead, they keep Azam Baki to be their hatchet man at their disposal, primarily used to settle old scores. Mahathir and his sons, Daim, and a lot more are probably being threatened at the moment to either switch their allegiances or face the same fate.

The questions I'm wondering are very simple: a) Which public money that Daim stole? b) How much and when?

And yet, until today, we don't know the answers to the above, apart from the revelation in the Pandora Papers, which listed a few other Malaysians, 2 of them happen to be a sitting DPM and Minister. 

But sure, Daim is the biggest evil known to man and must be sent to the firing squad.

New year same me

As expected, this week had turned me upside down. Since my HOD and all the managers were on leave, I had to attend meetings with the COO and the business unit CEO. The former was a lot tougher since the COO is quite demanding guy and he at least has an idea of what we do in our work. I got tasked to chasing our suppliers to supply the materials for our urgent production needs and hooked me up with the higher management of the supply companies. He told me to keep a close eye and I haven't been able to get a proper night sleep since Tuesday. The much feared nightmare happened. As of today, I still can't deliver 100% so I'll see what happens when all my bosses get back to work tomorrow.

Today is the new year 2024. Between the work pressures and the mounting study work, I don't know how I could balance my life. It's driving me mad that I'm a year older and still haven't found a good woman to wife.

On another note, I went to a small bookstore this morning. Let's call it 'IB'. I saw from their social media posts that they were having new year sales and I just found out that their store was not far away from my place. So after doing some laundry and work, I drove to IB and had a bit of a tough time to find the store. Reason being it's located in a business park with many shops -- unfortunately mostly empty. And the IB store is not directly accessible to the road. I was circling the area in confusion because Google Maps told me I already arrived but I couldn't find the store. Thank God I managed to find it in the end, the empty shops around it made it easier for me to navigate since there was barely any traffic.
So the shop was a small one. Maybe 15 feet wide and it was divided into a sales area and an office at the back. It was a small place though. The books that couldn't fit on the shelves were stacked on a few desks, and below them. And most of them were quality books that are rather hard to find at regular bookstores. It slightly bothered me to see copies of SMN Al-attas' The Covenants Fulfilled on the floor below the desks. On the desks were mostly popular books from international publishers. I was actually planning to get Orwell's Animal Farm published by Penguin. Unfortunately, there was no available stock so I just picked up a Malay novel. This will be a companion to Plato's The Republic that I'm reading. I will share a review later.

So that's my first day of 2024. Hopes, dreams, ambitions, etc. May they all be met this year. Happy New Year.