Girls and pleasure of the flesh

This is from Bernama today:

Most Female Students With Disciplinary Problems Admit To Having Sex

By Syed Azwan Syed Ali

KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 26 (Bernama) -- A Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM) study has revealed a shocking finding about high-risk female students with most admitting to have had sexual intercouse.

In the study conducted by UKM's Children and Youth Psychology specialist Dr Khaidzir Ismail, all the 887 high-risk female students except for one confessed to have had experienced the "pleasure of the flesh".

The three-month High-Risk Female Youth Profile Study which ended last December, had 20 students with disciplinary problems from each school, ranging from Form One to Form Five, as its respondents.

"It is sad and shocking to find all except one of the respondents admitted to having experienced sex. This is a painful finding but it is a reality that we have to accept," he told Bernama at his office in Bangi, near here, today.

It is understood that the study was a state government initiative to deal with the deterioration of moral values among female youths in the state.

From the findings of the study, the state government aims to formulate a special training module to promote high moral values among girls.

Khaidzir said the study also found that the female students, aged between 15 and 16, were at a high risk of being involved in various disciplinary problems like trying to lose their virginity.

"The study also found that the problems committed by these students were due to external pressure like coming from broken homes where their parents were having difficulties in coping with life," he said.

The study also revealed that apart from having sex, most of the respondents took drugs and were involved in pornography, secret societies, vandalism and truancy.

Khaidzir said most of these high-risk female students had low academic achievement and self-esteem, and poor communication skills, self-control and problem-solving capability.

Now, lets wait and see the excuses, justifications and condemnations, followed closely by the knee-jerk political solutions.

‘Foolish’ MyKad contest scrapped

Finally some sense has prevailed. The government has decided to stop the foolish act of dishing out prizes to lure people to apply for MyKad.

Home Minister Radzi Sheikh Ahmad got it right by saying that rewarding people for applying for the new identity cards was a ‘foolish’ move.

Bernama quotes him as saying:

"Hold lucky draws (and) only then the public will come - that's rubbish...It is a silly thing to do."

But the question is why halt it now, after running the contest for almost two years?

Radzi also did not explain if the Cabinet was aware of his decision.

I truly wonder why the contest was scrapped. Was it because the government can’t afford to dole out the Perodua Myvi, which was to be the grand prize?

Let’s see if the great leader will say something, anything over this. (Don’t hold your breath folks - that’s not going to happen). Thus this too will remain a mystery to us.

Read more about the origin and the working of the contest here.

joke: beer and being a baptist

A cowgirl, who is visiting Texas from Arkansas, walks into a bar and orders three mugs of Bud. She sits in the back of the room, drinking a sip out of each one in turn. When she finishes them, she comes back to the bar and orders three more.

The bartender approaches and tells the cowgirl, "You know, a mug goes flat after I draw it. It would taste better if you bought one at a time."

The cowgirl replies, "Well, you see, I have two sisters. One is in Australia, the other is in Dublin. When we all left our home in Arkansas, we promised that we'd drink this way to remember the days when we drank together. So I'm drinking one beer for each of my sisters and one for myself."

The bartender admits that this is a nice custom, and leaves it there. The cowgirl becomes a regular in the bar, and always drinks the same way. She orders three mugs and drinks them in turn.

One day, she comes in and only orders two mugs. All the regulars take notice and fall silent. When she comes back to the bar for the second round, the bartender says, "I don't want to intrude on your grief, but I wanted to offer my condolences on your loss."

The cowgirl looks quite puzzled for a moment, then a light dawns in her eyes and she laughs.

"Oh, no, everybody's just fine," she explains, "It's just that my husband and I joined the Baptist Church .... and I had to quit drinking."

"Hasn't affected my sisters though."

Tuhan yang mengkagumkan

A first glance at this French movie poster will surely cause some embarrassment for a few. But honestly do we truly know what’s behind the act as depicted in the poster?

There are many possibilities, though the most common one which most of us will immediately fathom has to do with a sexual activity.

The couple could be up to something else entirely. However I leave that to you to imagine. For me, this is a very good movie poster – very sensual and sexy in delivering its message. I read the movie too was good, a peculiar piece.

A friend of mine wrote this after seeing this poster:

“Sehinggakan, suatu hari saya selalu percaya keagungan Tuhan yang paling puncak bukannya tersimpan di sela-sela halaman kitab suci. Tuhan yang paling mengkagumkan sebenarnya (ulang: sebenarnya) tersimpan di celah dua peha seorang wanita!”

What do you think?

The de-flowering process - when no means no

“If a woman consents to having sex with a man but then during intercourse says no, and the man continues, is it rape?”

This is a question asked by Time magazine in a recent article.

Although it is very US-centric, and based on an ongoing controversial court ruling, it nevertheless still makes a good read.

Read the article : A Time Limit on Rape.

Controversy is never far from Dr M

At the end of his three-day War Crimes Conference, Mahathir left the crowd pondering by giving thumbs up to the Iraqi resistence fighters.

He congratulated the Iraqi resistence forces fighting the US-led military occupation of Iraq, urging them to "make sure the Americans pay a very high price for their adventure".

"I congratulate them, the Iraqi resistence. Carry on. You have been successful," he said, as reported by malaysiakini and wire services.

Well first he said President Bush was a war criminal and now he seems to be propagating the increase of US body bags.

Wonder what will the reaction from the Malaysian government, the international community as well as from US be to this?

an addendum:

malaysiakini carried the second part of the interview with Mahathir today where he continues his criticism in the economic mismanagement under Abdullah Ahmad Badawi.

The very last question in the interview was mine:

Are you suggesting the government’s economic policy is actually imbalanced or they don’t know what they are doing?

It is up to you to decide, whether they do or not.

Not the answer we were expecting but if your look at the full transcript, that’s what he is saying.

The new government logo

Crime rate is alarming. Economy growth looks limp despite the government's assurance that it is indeed a robust growth. Foreign direct investment is at an all time low. Inflation too looks to be on the high side. Oil prices have increased a couple of times, toll too has seen a sharp hike. Social ties look fragile on the surface. Islamisation has taken its root. Are we happy in Malaysia?

Has the time now come for the government to change its logo from

this:

to

this:p/s: thanks stan for the 'new' logo

A meeting with Dr Mahathir

Last Friday, a group of us from malaysiakini went to interview former prime minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad at his office at the Perdana Leadership Foundation in Putrajaya.

It was an excellent session. He spoke about the war crimes conference he was organising. Most of the time he also spoke passionately about bringing war criminals to trial (read: Bush and Blair).

Apart from that the old man simply couldn’t stop talking about how Malaysia’s economy was being mismanaged, on how the government was sidelining Proton and Langkawi and the purchases of a new plane and super yacht.

Of course, he also spoke about his health and his new vegetarian diet. He also confirmed that he is now on doctor’s orders to stop eating thosai and chutney as coconut milk is bad for him.

It was a revealing interview and malaysiakini carried the first part today (read here and here). The second part, on local politics, will be published on Wednesday.

Below is a short interchange I had with him during the interview:

We note that there are no government representatives at the conference. Is that done purposely?

We don’t want the government to be involved because this is an NGO effort. Government ministers are bound to speak in support of government’s policies, we don’t want them to be embarrassed by the kind of stand that we take. So it is far better if they don’t get involved.

Is this initiative going against the government? We have (Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi) as the OIC and NAM chairperson (at the same time). In this sort of situation, for us to have this conference in this place, will it be perceived as something to embarrass the government?

No. This government accepts freedom of speech and accepts criticism. It is an open government.

You seriously subscribe to that?

That is what the government claims so the government must be prepared to listen to voices of dissent but if they don’t want, of course they can put a stop to this meeting. You can’t do anything (about that).

What will happen if something - as during your rule - such as Apcet II, the government comes knocking down the door to say you can’t do this (conference)? How would you react to that?

During my time, there were lots of complaints and campaigns against me, even people who stood against me, I didn’t put a stop to that. They campaigned, they said nasty things about me, even in papers, even malaysiakini, you were not very kind to me before, did I close you down? I told you don’t attend my press conference, that’s all.

But you did call us a traitor which we think was quite unwarranted.

That was my feeling at that time. You were saying something that was not fair.

There was also the police raid.

That’s my freedom of speech. As much as you can criticise me, I can criticise you.

p/s: I am not in the by-line in the story, although I wrote it, as mkini policy stipulates editors from not being named.

Unfulfilled promise of openness

Media watchdog Reporters Without Borders have issued their annual report on Press Freedom.

On Malaysia, it said that Prime Minister Abdullah has still not fulfilled the promise of openness which he made when he came to power in 2003.

The report added that censorship and self-censorship have not gone away and media concentration in the hands of the families of government members has been further boosted this year.

An excerpt of the report reads:

“...Sensitive subjects are censored or avoided completely. For example, in March, demonstrations against a hike in the price of petrol went off without any coverage in the main media...In the same way, in November, police summoned several journalists to tell them to cut back their coverage of a particularly grisly murder in which police officers were implicated.”

Read the full report here.

MRR2 fiasco – accountability needed

This is yet another example of how things are done in Malaysia.

The cost of the Middle Ring Road 2 (MRR2) was RM120 million. However just months after opening it to traffic, it was found to be defective.

The highway was closed, causing terrible traffic problems for road users, for almost more than two years for repair works.

Now it is re-opened but the cost of repairing it stands at RM70 million.

Strange indeed! The government builds the highway for RM120 million and then repairs it for RM70 million, which means the total cost is actually a whopping RM190 million.

Public Accounts Committee chairman Shahrir Abdul Samad thinks the cost could be higher still.

"It has not been confirmed but I expect it's bigger than the earlier estimate," he said.

Will the works minister comment on this? We still don’t know who is responsible for the defective work, or about any action taken against them, but why should the public bear the cost?

Betulkah ini?

Apparently this is a signboard in Kelantan, as a result of a new policy by the PAS-ruled government.

Although it is funny, I have major doubts if the PAS government would have gone about implementing the sexy-dress code in this manner.

It is just not their style.

This looks very much like a handiwork of someone's photoshop.