Rudyard Kipling"
“When you're left wounded on Afganistan's plains and
the women come out to cut up what remains, Just roll to your rifle
and blow out your brains,
And go to your God like a soldier”
General Douglas MacArthur"
“We are not retreating. We are advancing in another direction.”
“It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.” “Old soldiers never die; they just fade away.
“The soldier, above all other people, prays for peace, for he must suffer and be the deepest wounds and scars of war.”
“May God have mercy upon my enemies, because I won't .” “The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
“Nobody ever defended, there is only attack and attack and attack some more.
“It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.
The Soldier stood and faced God
Which must always come to pass
He hoped his shoes were shining
Just as bright as his brass
"Step forward you Soldier,
How shall I deal with you?
Have you always turned the other cheek?
To My Church have you been true?"
"No, Lord, I guess I ain't
Because those of us who carry guns
Can't always be a saint."
I've had to work on Sundays
And at times my talk was tough,
And sometimes I've been violent,
Because the world is awfully rough.
But, I never took a penny
That wasn't mine to keep.
Though I worked a lot of overtime
When the bills got just too steep,
The Soldier squared his shoulders and said
And I never passed a cry for help
Though at times I shook with fear,
And sometimes, God forgive me,
I've wept unmanly tears.
I know I don't deserve a place
Among the people here.
They never wanted me around
Except to calm their fears.
If you've a place for me here,
Lord, It needn't be so grand,
I never expected or had too much,
But if you don't, I'll understand."
There was silence all around the throne
Where the saints had often trod
As the Soldier waited quietly,
For the judgment of his God.
"Step forward now, you Soldier,
You've borne your burden well.
Walk peacefully on Heaven's streets,
You've done your time in Hell."
In Ayer Hitam, DAP's Malay-candidate gambit not paying dividends yet By Fion Yap
Thursday, November 10, 2022
A gambit....
For an ambit...
For wakil rakyat to ace it.....
Malays have no option but face it.....
PH works for all in tacit....
All that matters now is to nail it.....
And show pnbn a speedy backdoor exit - Loga
Malaysiakini : GE15 | In their quest to unseat MCA
president Wee Ka Siong in the Ayer Hitam parliamentary seat in Johor,
DAP chose to field a Malay candidate, Sheikh Umar Bagharib Ali.
It
is largely believed that the move is meant to make DAP more appealing
to Malay voters - who in 2018, made up almost 58 percent of the
constituency’s electorate. On paper, if Sheikh Umar can get 10 to
15 percent of Malay votes and maintain a majority of support from the
Chinese community - which has been a vote bank for DAP - he could win Ayer Hitam for Pakatan Harapan.
However, observations by Malaysiakini on the ground indicate that things aren’t going as planned. While Sheikh Umar has been hard at work since before nomination day, meeting and greeting voters at Malay villages and warong (stalls) - and was received politely - many were not familiar with him.
During
one meet-and-greet session, many of those he shook hands with asked
where he was from, while a few of them, including some Harapan
supporters, knew that he was the Paloh assemblyperson elected in 2018. Among the few who recognised the DAP candidate was a traditional kuda kepang performer Hazim Mohamad, who recalled meeting Sheikh Umar during the Ayer Hitam Puteh Festival in 2018.
The festival was organised by Sheikh Umar when he was a Johor state exco member in charge of the creative economy for 22 months. Hazim had welcomed Sheikh Umar and other Harapan campaigners to his
house in Kampung Parit Bingan before introducing them to a nearby warong.
Sheikh Umar Bagharib Ali (first from left) and Ng Suee Lim (second from left) posing for photos with Ayer Hitam constituents
Kampung
Parit Bingan is located under the Semarang state seat, about a
10-minute drive from Ayer Hitam town and the main toll exit. In many kampung parit
(trench villages) in Ayer Hitam and many parts of Johor, most of the
residents are of Javanese descent and still speak the language.
But while Sheikh Umar can speak some of this dialect, he is not very fluent. Instead, another DAP leader, Selangor state assembly speaker Ng Suee Lim - who is famous for his fluencywho
is famous for his fluency in Javanese - served as the lubricant between
Sheikh Umar and the locals.
While visiting the warong in the village, Ng would urge locals to vote for the Ayer Hitam hopeful - while also criticising BN for being corrupt. At one warong,
Sheikh Umar also delivered a brief speech to the 20 locals and
introduced himself as a “Malay youth candidate” and asked for their
support.
Sheikh Umar Bagharib Ali (standing) speaking to voters
Sticking with familiarity
YellowRusa5552 : That's the problem with BN stronghold like this, the diehard supporters just cannot see things beyond their surrounding. To them voting BN is like hereditary trait that cannot be broken, passed down from their grandfather's.
These people will probably wake up in ten years time, when the country cannot sustain the kind of looting and corruption by BN and the country go broke and bankrupt!
Robbed!! : Just dont understand why the Malays are so obsessed with race religion and BN. They just cannot seee the bigger picture where the nation is heading
SAVE MALAYSIA : Maybe most of them are 'kurang cerdik'...not wake up yet..like some of chinese old folks...
Nona888 : Mana tau, pada 10 malam 19 Nov, PH akan menang. Masa kempen, pengundi tak nak tunjuk pilihan sebenar.
Demi Rakyat : To save Malaysia from the corrupts, hope things will change over the next week or so.
ABU!
Oh, MCA is nothing more than a "division" of Ummo, another "woof, woof".
Hidup Rakyat! Hidup Malaysia!