我国华社的悲哀！

政治最好的功能就是它能让清醒的人看透政客的真正的面目。政治人物是经验老道，善于“见人说人话，见鬼说鬼话”，随机应变的熟练手法让情绪易于波动选民难于区别。对于冷静，思维成熟的选民，在“听其言，观其行”下，政客会原形毕露，赤 裸裸的暴露他们的丑态和谎话。这些政客在他们的族群前，高声大喊捍卫他们的权益，但在非他的族群前，却默声不出，一句不敢再谈他本身族群的权益！

为了利益，这些政客没有立场，颠倒黑白；为土霸漂泊，为华族的敌人站台。这是我国华社的悲哀！

Where the room charges on tourits go ?

Room surcharge or Levy has been imposed and implemented by Penang Government since June 2014. The authority said the levy collected would be used to promote tourism in Penang for the benefits of visiting tourists. It has been almost three years since the collection of levy but we have not heard much about the development plans or promotional events pertaining to the tourism or its related operation.

There is an obvious lack of information centres on most of the Penang tourist centres. What the tourists especially non-local tourists need is the information and briefing on the attractions where they are visiting. Not only information centres are not available but also booths and stalls where pamphlets flyers and brochures can be obtained are hard to locate and find.

In some foreign countries where tourism is blooming, shutter buses are easily available from hotels to designated tourist spots and to ease the maintenance of these fleet of vehicles transporting tourists to the tourist sports, the local authorities can reimburse the hoteliers with the levy collected.

Levy collection is logic and relevant to be used to fund the tourism related activities including the maintenance. There are still many improvements needed for enhancement of the infrastructure in the tourist spots such as toileting facilities and erection and placement of informative signage.

政客又出现了

大马选民很无奈又无助，一直以来就受到无良和经验丰富政客的游说把选票投给他们。要不是前首相马哈迪医生因私利与现任首相纳吉反目成仇，我们不会看到这些政客的真正无耻无立场没有原则的丑陋的另一面。

这群政客为了选票，善搞课题煽动华裔选民的情绪不惜牺牲国民团结的根基。第十四届全国大选即将来临，我们相信这些政客又将在政治市场推出应时性的产品来吸引选民捞取选票。甚么华教课题，华社问题，宗教问题，自由民主等等，只要能在讲座会，宣传或文宣能有吸引力，能卖座有号召力就是他们的利用品。

今天我国的华裔须面对种种的障碍和困境，最大的问题是不懂如何鉴别政客和政治家。政客为私利，政治家为国为民不为私利而存。还有更重要的是，我们华裔选民也不能区别应时性的政治产品的虚与实，真与假。在情绪被煽动时，误判就出现了。所以，冷静的头脑，深思后的决定来投票是重要的。

Scene around Four-faced Buddha

谢谢雨 ，你 让他们原形毕露

我很喜欢雨因为它有着不平则鸣的性质永远向下流；倾于填平低处。连续几天的热天气，突然来了一场多雨，那该是众人欢天喜地期待的及时雨。雨水可冲散严热让人们凉快，也可冲掉许多伪君子的假面目，让他们原形毕露，让我们看了真“心凉”。

政客是利害而不是有智慧的人物。所谓利害就是利己害人也。君不见槟州有许许多多的屋业计划多是破坏环境须挖掘山地砍树倒木的利己害人的吗？

大雨一到，土崩水淹赤裸裸把政客们批准那些只利发展商害人民的屋业计划暴露无遗。

Are the safety cones really safe for the bridge users?

The scheduled maintenance works on the slow and emergency lanes of Penang Bridge has begun and is expected to last at least a year for its completion. As expected, traffic is slow during peak hours. Barricades and safety cones have been placed along the affected lanes especially at the middle span of the bridge to facilitate the work of maintenance carried out.

I am the regular commuters of the Penang Bridge and for the past weeks while crossing the bridge, I have noticed that many safety cones are being placed at the affected work site. A question on the safety to the bridge users has been raised by many bridge users with the placement of safety cones since the scheduled maintenance work started. Are the safety cones easily blown and flown away during bad weathers of strong winds and heavy rains and endanger the safety of bridge commuters?

Since the commencement of maintenance work begins, there is a noticeable show of patience by bridge users as well as commendable control of traffic flow by the Bridge authority. However, to many bridge users, they want to know if the safety cones are really safe during bad weathers.

Togetherness we can strive for goal

In appreciation and recognition of much efforts for success and achievement of 29th SEA Game put up by various quarters specially our athletes for our historical 145 gold in the overall medal tally, our Prime Minister, Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak, declared an additional national holiday on 4th September 2017 for all Malaysians. However, our Prime Minister implied that announcing an additional national day was not easy as there were too many public holidays in Malaysia.

To put it explicitly what meant by “not easy” by our Prime Minister, an additional day of national holiday meant an additional cost to private sectors and any impromptu announcement of an additional holiday might derail planned and schedule operations and business and executive activities.

Our open economy depends much on the foreign investments. With the implementation of Minimum Wages Order in July 2016, competition for foreign investments become tense and keen among the Sean countries. For the 2nd quarter 2017, Vietnam achieved and exceeded 6% in her economic growth while Thailand had shown solid economic performance at her faster speed in over the last 4 years with exports growing at a double-digit rate. For our country, IMF had projected our economic growth for year 2017 at 4.8% and clearly we lagged behind our neighbouring countries. Notwithstanding the present scenario, our economic growth can still be accelerated if cooperation and positive approach can be propelled by all quarters especially from political parties. Influx of foreign investments depend on many determinants, labour and wages are one of inclusive and deciding factors. Other determinants are political stability, non-ambiguous economic and financial policies and public confidence.

Upon conclusion of 29th SEA Games, Selangor Menteri Besar, Datuk Seri Azmin Ali, reiterated that Selangor had helped Malaysia hauling 145 gold medals. The statement from Datuk Seri Azmin Ali may be interpreted as with cooperation and coordination of all parties mindlessness of political differences, our country can achieve desired goal. However, since the emergence of a strong opposition alliance in our political scene, our political stability becomes challenging and fragile. Since 2008 after the opposition successfully established reckoning force in Malaysia political arena , we have come across many irresponsible statements and acts to undermine the political stability in our country which is one of the major factors for influx of foreign investments.

Malaysia is now mature enough by her age of 60. Similarly, our rakyat share the same view hoping that our politicians are mature too not to undermine our political stability en route for greater and faster economic advancement for the betterment of ours.