Thursday, August 30, 2007

MALAYSIA's 50th Independence Day...31st August.

Malaysia's flag is based on that of the United States, a country whose democratic ideals the young nation sought to emulate upon gaining independence from Great Britain in 1957. The 14 stripes represent Malaysia's states, while the square in the upper left contains the moon and sun of Islam.


Ancient Malaysia: 35,000 BC - 100 BC

Homo sapiens have been in Malaysia for a long time. The oldest known evidence of human habitation is a skull from the Niah Caves in Sarawak dating from 35,000 years before Christ. On the peninsula, stone age tools and implements from about 10,000 BC have been found, and some archeologists suggest that they were left there by the predecessors of the Negrito aborigines - one of the earliest groups to inhabit the peninsula.
We also know that about 2,500 years before Christ a much more technologically advanced group migrated to the peninsula from China. Called the Proto-Malays, they were seafarers and farmers, and their advances into the peninsula forced the Negritos into the hills and jungles. History's periodic waves of cultural evolution, however, soon created another group, the Deutero-Malays. They were a combination of many peoples - Indians, Chinese, Siamese, Arabs, and Proto-Malays - and they had risen by mastering the use of iron. Combined with the peoples of Indonesia, the Deutero-Malays formed the racial basis for the group which today we simply call the Malay.
Hindu Kingdoms 100 BC - 1400 AD

Early writings from India speak of a place called Savarnadvipa -- the Land of Gold...that the first Indians were lured to the Malay Peninsula. Blown across the Bay of Bengal by the reliable winds of the southwest monsoon, they arrived in Kedah sometime around 100 BC.The sailors considered the trip lucrative. From that point on, and ever-growing stream of Indian traders arrived in search of gold, aromatic wood, and spices.
Islam and the Golden Age of Malacca 1400 AD - 1511

Until the 15th century, the Hindu kingdoms of peninsular Malaysia were largely overshadowed by neighboring kingdoms in Cambodia and Indonesia. The strongest of these kingdoms was called Srivijaya, and the records of Chinese, Indian, and Arab traders laud it as the best trading port in the region. It was the first great maritime kingdom in the Malay archipelago, and other ports quickly emulated its success. At some time around the 13th century, as other entrepots emerged, Srivijaya's influence declined. The lack of a strong central power, coupled with the ever-present nuisance of pirates, amplified the need for secure, well-equipped port in the region. Fate would make this port the city of Malacca.
According to the Malay Annals, Malacca was founded in 1400 by a fleeing Palembang prince named Parameswara. Its rise from a village of royal refugees to a wealthy kingdom was swift. Perfectly located for trade, within 50 years it was the most influential port in Southeast Asia. At any one time, ships from a dozen kingdoms great and small could be seen in the harbor. With these traders came Islam, and Malacca's rulers now referred to themselves as "sultans." The sultans were the heads of a highly organized municipal government, whose main purpose was to facilitate trade. Every incoming ship was met by a multilingual harbor capitan, whose staff would see to all the vessel's needs. There were also gaurded storehouses where goods from the interior and abroad could be stored until traders arrived. Most importantly, Malacca was able to control what had always been the bane of trade in the Straits area - pirates. By building alliances with outlying tribes and ports, Malacca established a kind of regional "navy" that policed the local waters and escorted friendly vessels.
With the success and power it enjoyed, Malacca came to control the entire west coast of the Malay peninsula, the kingdom of Pahang, and much of Sumatra. At the height of its power, however, fate would ruin the city as quickly as it built it up. In 1511, the Portugeuse arrived, beginning a colonial legacy that would last well into the 20th century

Colonial Malaya 1511 AD - 1957 AD

At the beginning of the 16th century, the eastern spice trade was routed through Egypt, and no non-Muslim vessel was permitted to dock in Arabian ports. The competing European powers, painfully aware of the need for an open trade route to India and the Far East, sought to establish their own trading ports at the source. In 1511, a Portuguese fleet led by Alfonso de Albuquerque sailed into Malacca's harbor, opened fire with cannon, and captured the city. Malacca's golden age had come to an end.
The Portuguese constructed a massive fort in Malacca - A Famosa - which the Dutch captured in turn in 1641. This would give the Dutch an almost exclusive lock on the spice trade until 1785, when the British East India Company convinced the Sultan of Kedah to allow them to build a fort on the island of Penang. The British were mainly interested in having a safe port for ships on their way to China, but when France captured the Netherlands in 1795, England's role in the region would amplify. Rather than hand Malacca over to the French, the Dutch government in exile agreed to let England temporarily oversee the port. The British returned the city to the Dutch in 1808, but it was soon handed back to the British once again in a trade for Bencoleen, Sumatra. The Dutch still largely controlled the region, however, and in 1819 Britain sent Sir William Raffles to establish a trading post in Singapore. These three British colonies - Penang, Malacca, and Singapore - came to be known as the Straits Settlements.
While the European powers played their regional chess game, the local Malay sultanates continued on their own affairs. After Malacca was captured, the new Muslim trading center became Johor, then later on Perak. Both the Minangkabau Immigrants from Sumatra and the Bugi people from Celebes immigrated to the peninsula in large numbers, leavingn lasting cultural contributions. In the late 1860's, a number of Malay kingdoms began fighting each other for control of the throne of Perak, causing enough of a disturbance in the region to inspire Britain to intervene and essentially force the Malay rulers to sign a peace treaty known as the Pangkor Agreement in 1874. The treaty, unsurprisingly, gave Britain a much greater role in the region - a role it would need in order to maintain its monopoly on the vast amount of tin being mined in the peninsula.
Coupled with the power of the White Rajas in Borneo, Britain ruled over what was then called Malaya until the Japanese invaded and outsted the British in 1942.At that time, large numbers of Chinese fled to the jungle and established an armed resistance which, after war's end, would become the basis for an infamous communist insurgency. In 1945, when W.W.II ended, Britain resumed control again, but Malaya's independence movement had matured and organized itself in an alliance under Tunku Abdul Rahman. When the British flag was finally lowered in Kuala Lumpur's Merdeka Square in 1957, Tunku became the first prime minister of Malaya. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_Occupation_of_Singapore
Malaysia - Independence and Onward: 1957 - Present

With 1957's independence, a new series of difficult decisions lay ahead of Malaya, the first of which was to determine exactly what territories would be included in the new state. In 1961, the term "Malaysia" came into being after Tunku convinced Singapore, Sabah, and Sarawak to join Malaya in a federal union (Singapore later opted out of the union, peacefully, in 1965). Afraid that the union would interfere with his expansionistic plans, Indonesia's president Sukharno launched attacks against Malaysia in Borneo and on the peninsula, all of which were unsuccessful.
Another immediate problem was the determination of a national identity. Malaysia was a mix of people from many races and cultures, and uniting them under a common flag was not an easy enterprise. Because Malays represented the majority, the constitution gave them permanent spots in the government, made Islam the national religion, and made Malay the national language; but the Chinese firmly dominated business and trade, and most Malay were suffering economic hardships. The government, controlled by the United Malay National Organization, passed the New Economic Policy, which attempted to increase economic opportunity for the Malay by establishing various quotas in their favor. Unsurprisingly, many Chinese opposed the new arrangement and formed a significant opposition party. In 1969, after the opposition party won a significant seats, riots swepts through Kuala Lumpur and the country was placed in a state of emergency for two years. It was a painful moment in the young nation's history that most Malaysians prefer to forget.
In the last two decades, Malaysia has undergone tremendous growth and prosperity, and has arguably made significant progress in race relations. Many attribute the country's success to the dynamic leadership of Prime Minister Mahathir bin Mohammed, who led the country from 1981 through 2003. Hey..!remember Mahathir who has a tussle & war of mouth with George Soros during the currency crisis in 1997!!!Anyway he's an Indian-muslim origin which we call "Mamak"

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Market Turmoil...Trading Rules being shattered..!

The past month's stock-market gyrations seem to have everyone on edge. If you've managed to remain calm, congratulations--that's the way to succeed as a long-term investor. If you've been shaken, that's understandable, too. It's tough not to be, given the drumbeat of dramatic news reports about collapsing mortgage firms and 200-point drops in the Dow.

Even more unnerving than the stock market's slide itself is the notion that the recent turmoil has taken an unprecedented and completely unexpected turn. From several fronts we've heard that the markets are behaving in strange, wild ways. The implication: All the assumptions previously underpinning standard investment theory have gone up in smoke.

For example, the manager of a long-short fund, which is designed to handle all sorts of market conditions, explained in The Wall Street Journal his fund's unimpressive showing by saying recent events were "an anomaly." In a Financial Times article, Lehman Brothers explained that its computer models were "behaving in the opposite way we would predict and have seen and tested for over long periods." Later, that same article noted that the computer models running an institutional Goldman Sachs fund had called the confluence of market events so unusual it could happen only once every 100,000 years.

Similarly, according to The Wall Street Journal, some managers "said they were surprised the sell-off was spread so widely across various sectors of the market--from stocks to bonds, to commodities such as gold--which usually tend not to move in tandem. The correlation meant that no matter where they had invested, they would take a hit."

Scary stuff, no? Panic might indeed be called for if every sector was, in fact, behaving in new and irrational ways, and if there truly was no place to hide. Fortunately, neither of those claims is true.

I don't doubt that shocking, unprecedented things have happened to mortgage-bond traders or others at the immediate center of the storm. But it's important to note that the investments favored by the masses generally have performed just as one would expect--and that most time-tested investing tenets remain intact.
Moreover, hiding places weren't hard to find.

Safe Haven? Bonds don't always provide shelter when stocks are falling. Bonds (even Treasury securities) and stocks can decline in value simultaneously, most commonly during periods of sharply rising interest rates. In such periods, the rising rates make the coupon payments on existing high-quality bonds less valuable, sending the bonds' prices down. Meanwhile, those same rising rates increase the cost for businesses that must borrow in order to invest, and they make it less likely consumers will borrow in order to spend. As a result, stocks can fall as well.
Even at such times, though, bonds typically suffer milder losses than stocks. More important, in many other situations higher-quality bonds actually rise when stocks fall, as frightened investors overloaded in equities turn toward alternatives they consider less risky.
The managers' statements above would seem to indicate that this standard relationship had disappeared. But bond-fund investors know better. Over the one-month period through August 16, while every one of Morningstar's diversified stock-fund categories, domestic or international, suffered painful losses of at least 7.7%, the long-government bond category gained more than 2%. The intermediate bond group (the biggest bond-fund category, which includes core corporate-bond funds) and intermediate government category also landed in positive territory, posting gains of more than 1% each.

In other words, investors who had bought straightforward bond funds for protection against a stock-market swoon got exactly what they hoped for.
Keeping Their Balance How about old-fashioned balanced funds--those that split their investments between stocks and bonds? And target-date funds, the newest of balanced-type offerings, which have taken the fund world by storm? These, too, behaved as one would have expected over the past month. The conservative-allocation category (funds that own a mix of stocks and bonds but tilt more toward bonds) lost just 3.5% on average over the month-long period. The funds we classify as moderate-allocation, which have higher stock allocations, also provided the expected results under the circumstances. They lost more than their conservative cousins--down 6.4%--but less than any of the diversified stock categories.
The reassuring patterns go further. The target-date funds designed for the youngest investors are the most aggressive, and those geared for older investors are the most conservative. So you'd expect the former to have suffered the worst losses and the latter to have held up best--and for all of these funds to have fared better than all-stock funds. (That's because these portfolios tend to include bonds and cash in addition to stocks.) Sure enough, the groups' results over the past month fit that pattern almost exactly. Those funds targeting 2000 through 2014 lost a little more than 4% on average, the middle range of target funds lost a bit more, and those aiming for 2030 and beyond lost the most but still outperformed nearly all the pure-stock categories.

High-yield bonds also behaved as theory would have it. Conventional investment wisdom holds that the prices of such "junk" bonds, which have below-investment-grade ratings, should behave partly like high-quality bonds, which respond primarily to interest-rate movements, and partly like stocks, in that the changing outlook for the particular company or sector has a substantial effect on the price. And over the past month, the high-yield category lost 3.6%, one of the weakest showings among the bond categories but far better than any stock category.
The Other Extreme So much for those funds that were supposed to hold up fairly well. How about the other end of the spectrum? Conventional wisdom states that in exchange for their higher potential gains, emerging-markets funds also pose a greater risk of loss than do foreign funds that focus on developed markets. That goes double when such funds have been on a heated rally for years, as they've been since 2003.

So what happened this time? Over the past month, emerging-markets funds suffered the worst losses of any Morningstar categories, with diversified emerging-markets funds losing more than 16% and the Latin America category plummeting roughly 21%.

Don't Rip 'Em Off.!
Not every type of fund reacted in expected ways. As Russel Kinnel explained in a Fund Spy column last week, some ultrashort-bond funds performed much more poorly than most would have predicted. Precious-metals funds sank sharply. Surprises could be found in certain other corners of the investment world as well, especially in the more esoteric realms explored by quantitative hedge funds and the like. By and large, though, true surprises in more standard areas were much less common than the startling media reports would lead one to believe.
Of course, such reassurance only goes so far. Even if your bond funds held up well, it's no fun watching your stock funds fall. But we can at least take comfort in the fact that we need not rip up those investing guidebooks just yet.



It's only a short-covering! See the white bullish candlestick did not pierce thru the previous day open.The pivot-point methodology does not apply only to charting,but also the mid-15minutes price movement (where the High & Low & MAV is fixed to form the chart),the mid-week i.e.Wednesday (where big pullback & retracement) occur here....noticed Mr.Ben gave us the carrot on Wed.(22Aug)-rate cut and gave another lollipop on Wed(29Aug)-inflation concern.And also mind you,today is also the mid-month of Dow Index Futures..?As a daytrader for index futures over here,I've noticed all these agendas that benefitted all the big boys.All the laymen in the street are like sheeps being led to the slaughtering house



Wednesday, August 29, 2007

Another Mid-Week Fatal Crash.....!

"Every market has its own personality,and while the patterns do not necessarily repeat,they often rhyme."
In keeping with the Principle of Reflexivity, when a big wheel of time turns such as the Quarterly and Monthly, the market usually gives a knee-jerk reaction back in the opposite direction.
The market often does an excellent job of making itself look good in bear market rallies, the old saw being that the sharpest rallies are many times those in bear markets, albeit they are short lived.

In both 1929 and 1987 there were snapback rallies that lasted approximately seven days before rolling over into the most devastating part of the decline.

In 1987, that reflex rally peal coincided with a lunar eclipse. Tuesday morning there is a lunar eclipse. W. D. Gann devoted a book which was veiled in a love story to these most powerful of astronomic occurrences. Of course we keep time by the cycles of the sun and the moon, the waxing and waning of the moon being more or less a month.

Will the S&P be able to stretch its rally out and turn up its monthly chart on trade above its August high of 1503.90 or will the Monthly Swing Pivot of 1484.20 define resistance? The key 50 dma of the S&P lies smack between these two levels at 1494. So, you can see that the index is facing formidable resistance and has its job cut out if it is going to convert the trend.

Additionally, Monday is the seventh day up from the August 16 reversal low. As you know seven is often times the number of change and defines a time to look for a turning point. At the very least, the expectation would be for the S&P to begin a retracement to a test of the low even in the most bullish of circumstances. I believe betting on the notion of a V bottom given the recent prevailing fragility of sentiment and the angle of attack to the downside is betting the short straw.

The behavior on trade back below the Weekly Swing Pivot, where the weekly swing chart on the S&P turned up at 1466.30, will be the first critical test for the market.Every market has its own personality, and while the patterns do not necessarily repeat, they often rhyme.

It is interesting that last week's rally phase has spiked up opposition to the February 22 peak. It is interesting that the July 19 closing S&P high is 90 degrees in time from the October 19 Black Monday crash in 1987. It is interesting that one of the analogues we have been looking at, the 1990 high, saw the DJIA find high precisely at the round number of 3,000 in mid-July, just as the DJIA found a high at the round number of 14,000 this July.

Additionally, the market continues to play out very much according to the road maps of 1957 and the second half of 1907 and 1937. Perhaps the Bernanke Bid is sufficient reason for stocks to diverge from the patterns of past panics, but I'll have to see it to believe it. If the pattern is going to diverge, the nature of the next pullback, which should start no later that Tuesday, should tell the tale.Before getting too aggressive on the long side, I would be more risk adverse until we see how the next pullback shapes up.So far the road map for a panic beginning in July is playing out.

The market would like to trick us into thinking otherwise at the most inopportune of times.Is this road map happenstance and coincidence? Does the market actually have its own internal clock?Eternal return is a concept which offers that the universe has been recurring and will continue to recur in a similar form an unfathomable number of times. The concept has its roots in ancient Egypt, which is interesting because the Square of 9 Chart is basically the Great Pyramid from a bird's eye view.

The philosophical concept of eternal recurrence was addressed by Arthur Schopenhauer where time is seen as not linear but cyclical. The concept of cyclical patterns is prominent in Buddhism where a wheel of time concept manifests the idea of an endless cycle of existence and knowledge.

The markets represent such an endless cycle of birth, life and death, from which we seek liberation through knowledge. What is the difference between knowledge and wisdom? Knowledge is knowing something, wisdom is doing it.The wheel will whirl. Price will fluctuate.

Getting Better All The Time.
So far, the Fed’s strategy has worked. The rumor of a Fed rate cut leaked out mid-session on Thursday August 16, with the DJIA sporting a 343-point intraday decline, and caused a sharp rally that left the senior index off only 15 points by the closing bell.

The next day the Fed indeed cut the discount rate. While underlying concerns have not yet faded by all that much, the commercial paper market appears to have stabilized and the DJIA has gained some 850 points from the recent lows. Consequently, as stated, if this was a typical selling stampede, we likely have seen the low.
Another Dow Black Day!!

Chart shows 5days movement.
The long red-candlestick shows how market got wipe off again.
Open:13318.43 Previous:13322.13
High:13318.60
Low:13034.78
Last:13041.85 down 280.28points.(2.10%)
Causes:-The Fed's chairman minutes of the August 7,meeting of FOMC.
Effect:-The Wall got tremor,the Street got stampede.
The magnitude:-aftershocks felt worldwide.Mr.Ben Anarchy wrecked the financial market.
The epicentre:-"Fed put INFLATION skeptism Above Credit Concern."Is this the main policy bias & not in touch with how severe the credit dislocation was?

Tuesday, August 28, 2007

Solving the US credit crisis.










End in sight for U.S. subprime crisis?
COLLEGE PARK, Md. (UPI) -- The U.S. subprime mortgage financial crisis may be past its midway point and an end may be in sight, some economists are beginning to say -- with caveats.

"In a month or so, we'll be past it," as long as investors aren't surprised by another major bout of bad news, University of Maryland economist Jeff Werling told The Christian Science Monitor. "There are clear signs that it's easing.
It doesn't mean it's over," Standard & Poor's Chief Economist David Wyss said. The crisis is actually a crisis in short-term debt, which has hurt everything from the ability of consumers to buy houses or cars to the ability of manufacturers to make big sales, many economists said. And if the current problems with credit availability persist much longer, they could deepen the current housing slump, adding to downward pressure on home prices and stock values -- which could, in turn, hurt consumer spending, the economists the Monitor spoke with said.


But short-term Treasury yields have rebounded, which "may be an initial sign that their comfort is being restored," even if "there is still a lack of normal function" in the short-term credit market, LaSalle Bank Chief Economist Carl Tannenbaum said

Quote of the Day
George Washington, First US President "Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable, procures success to the weak, and esteem to all."

Washington debates U.S. credit crisis
WASHINGTON (UPI) -- Politicians and consultants are debating what, if anything, Washington should do to keep the U.S. credit crisis from further damaging the U.S. economy. But given the complexity of the problem and the U.S. capital's political power division, it's not clear if the debate will produce much more than some regulatory tweaks, The Christian Science Monitor said.
Nevertheless, the debate is on. "The subprime (mortgage) crisis demonstrates the serious negative economic and social consequences that result from too little regulation," House Financial Services Committee Chairman Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass., wrote in an Aug. 20 Financial Times op-ed piece.
Frank and other Democrats argue unregulated mortgage companies, which have increased their share of the business, are responsible for many of the imprudent loans that spurred the crisis, the Democrats argue. But many Republicans oppose actions they see as interference in the operation of financial markets, the Monitor said.
And in recent days, Bush administration officials have argued the overall economy remains strong and now is not a time to panic. "We are going to work through this problem just fine," U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson said in an Aug. 22 broadcast interview.

Monday, August 27, 2007

Fed's annual meeting in Jackson Hole,Wyoming

As Bernanke Retreats to Wyoming, Critics Ask Is He Prime Time
By Scott Lanman

Aug. 27 (Bloomberg) -- Ben S. Bernanke's critics from Washington to Wall Street are starting to ask whether the Federal Reserve chairman is ready for a prime-time crisis.
The global credit crunch is proving the severest test of Bernanke's 18-month tenure atop the U.S. central bank as he tries to avoid a recession while steering clear of bailing out those who made risky investments.
Some seasoned Fed watchers say he should have avoided the optimistic assertion that the damage caused by subprime mortgages was ``contained'' before the collapse of credit in the world's money markets prompted extraordinary central bank intervention earlier this month. Now, as he resists demands to cut the benchmark interest rate, the faultfinding, some from former Fed policy makers, has escalated to charges that he's behind in the game and losing his credibility and effectiveness.
``This is a make-or-break moment for Bernanke,'' says David M. Jones, a former Fed economist who has written books on the central bank. ``It is an early and maybe ultimate test'' for the Fed chairman, who finds himself in ``a position of weakness, not strength.''
Bernanke, 53, hasn't made any public comments since July. He'll break his silence with a speech on housing and monetary policy Aug. 31 at the Fed's annual retreat-cum-symposium in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, before central bankers and economists from around the world.
`Oblivious to Pain'
The Fed Aug. 17 cut the cost of direct loans to banks and revised its economic outlook, opening the door to lowering the benchmark interest rate. Before that, ``there was this growing sense that he was oblivious to the pain in the marketplace,'' says Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. chief U.S. economist Ethan Harris.
``Monetary policy is very much about confidence,'' says Harris, a former New York Fed official who'll be in the audience when Bernanke speaks. ``If the Fed doesn't unfreeze the markets, we'll have a recession, but also reputationally it's important'' for Bernanke.
Bernanke's performance in a crisis is being compared with that of his predecessor, Alan Greenspan, whose make-or-break moment came less than three months into his chairmanship. When stocks crashed in 1987, Greenspan pumped out money to help the economy rebound, bolstering credentials that some politicians had doubted. ``That was an extraordinary baptism of fire,'' Greenspan, 81, said this year.
Greenspan's Experience
Greenspan was a respected economic forecaster before joining the Fed and was well-known in Washington, having served as an adviser to Presidents Richard M. Nixon and Gerald R. Ford. He often based his economic outlook on his own research and experience. Bernanke, a former Princeton University professor, came to the Fed without Greenspan's Washington experience and relies more on economic models and forecasts to guide his views.
Bernanke has weathered criticism before. As a Fed governor in 2002, he earned the title of ``Helicopter Ben'' when he said the Fed would do everything necessary to fight a deflationary slump, a strategy he compared to a ``helicopter drop'' of money.
As chairman in April 2006, Bernanke said the Fed might pause from raising rates even if economic risks were still tilted toward inflation. His candor made him appear soft on inflation to some bond investors.
Those incidents pale beside the pressure Bernanke faces now, in the most tumultuous month of his tenure.
On Aug. 7, Bernanke and the Federal Open Market Committee voted at their regular session to reiterate that inflation was their main concern, while acknowledging increased economic risks. Three days later, the Fed pumped $38 billion into the banking system -- the most since after the 2001 terrorist attacks -- in its first effort to contain the credit crunch.
Unprecedented Steps
The following week, with borrowing continuing to dry up, the Fed took steps unprecedented in recent years: It cut the rate on direct loans to banks while issuing a revised outlook that acknowledged economic risks had risen ``appreciably'' and omitted any mention of inflation.
While some of the turmoil subsided, many financial-market participants clamored for Bernanke to follow the discount-rate cut with an immediate reduction in the benchmark federal funds rate to stimulate the economy.
His defenders say Bernanke's decision to stop raising interest rates a year ago ultimately proved correct, and so will his policies now.
Bernanke's Defenders
One who'll speak up for Bernanke's approach at Jackson Hole is Stanford University economist John Taylor, a former Treasury official. The Fed has made ``good decisions'' in the past two weeks, he said in an interview.
Stuart Hoffman, chief economist at PNC Financial Services Group Inc. in Pittsburgh, agrees: ``Bernanke's handled this very well, despite some hysterical cries on Wall Street.''
``He's been very balanced, setting up the possibility of a fed funds cut, but for the right reasons,'' Hoffman says.
Bernanke's academic work, which includes a study of the Fed's role during the Great Depression, equips him well to deal with the current crisis, says Lyle Gramley, a former Fed governor and now senior economic adviser to the Stanford Group Co. in Washington.
``The economist who has done the seminal work on the impact of credit crunches on the economy is named Ben S. Bernanke,'' says Gramley, 80, who'll also be at Jackson Hole. ``He's well aware of the fact that this situation could pose serious downside risks for the U.S. economy. His views are the ones that are going to ultimately prevail.''
Even so, criticism of Bernanke continues to mount, including an unusual public airing from former Fed policy makers.
Former Policy Makers
Former Fed governor Wayne Angell, 77, wrote an opinion column in the Aug. 23 Wall Street Journal calling for a cut in the federal funds rate and saying the central bank ``will continue to fall behind'' if it waits for more evidence of an economic slowdown.
``What the Fed did was too slow, and maybe it's because they're too cloistered,'' Martha Seger, 75, a Fed governor from 1984 to 1991, said in an interview. ``They're out of touch with what's going on in the real world. The problems that are out there go way beyond Wall Street.''
And former Dallas Fed President Robert McTeer, 64, said in an interview that he disagreed with the Fed's Aug. 7 view that inflation was still the ``predominant'' concern.
Some members of Congress are joining in.
`More Assertive'
Senator Sherrod Brown, an Ohio Democrat who serves on the Banking Committee, said in an interview that he wishes Bernanke had been ``a bit more assertive and aggressive on pre-empting much of this and in fixing what he can.''
Barney Frank, the Massachusetts Democrat who chairs the House Financial Services Committee, wants to discuss the issue after returning from Congress's August recess: He is convening a hearing on the market turmoil Sept. 5 with Fed and Treasury officials.
Frank said in an interview he continues to believe Bernanke ``is as good as we could have gotten from this administration.'' Still, Frank says, ``I am troubled that he is too much of an `inflation-is-the-only-issue' chairman.''
Senate Banking Committee Chairman Chris Dodd, a Connecticut Democrat, summoned Bernanke and Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson to an hour-long meeting Aug. 21 and said Bernanke had agreed to use ``all of the tools at his disposal'' to restore stability in financial markets.
When he speaks, Bernanke may end up disappointing investors who are looking for fresh guidance on Fed policy.
Bernanke will ``say absolutely nothing about what the Fed might do,'' said former Fed vice chairman Alice Rivlin, 76, now a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution in Washington. ``He just wants to make everybody feel that the Fed is in good hands and that he is in charge.''


How Asian Stocks Performed Today!




Bank of China disclosed that it has almost USD10 billion in subprime exposure,far exceeding analyst expectations.



Chinese Government last week allow individual investors to invest in markets abroad.The move has ignited hopes that some of China's USD1.33 trillion of foreign currency reserves will flow into Hong Kong market where shares of mainland companies have been trading at prices lower than in Shanghai.
It's
a black candlestick and there's a danger of filling up the gap again.Looks like the bears have full control and the chances of gap-down play is imminent.






Wow!the Singa is not roaring.It looks like it's going to fall sick again.Caution..!



Sunday, August 26, 2007

Negaraku - Original Version.

namewee on taiwan news

Negaraku In Rap!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gyiBvJtJ5Z4

YouTube National Anthem Rapper..Malaysian Government Hot on the Heel.







Wee Meng Chee[1] (Traditional Chinese: 黃明志; Simplified Chinese: 黄明志; Pinyin: Huang Ming Zhi (Hainanese Pinyin:Wee Meng Chee)) (born 1983 in Muar, Johor[1][citation needed]) is a Malaysian university student currently majoring in Mass Communication at Ming Chuan University, in Taipei, Republic of China. He is also commonly known under the alias Namewee.
Wee gained notability after releasing a controversial hip hop song fused with the national anthem of Malaysia, Negaraku, which describes the state of the country and its government. A video complementing the song was also released on YouTube.( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gyiBvJtJ5Z4). In the following weeks, the song increasingly drew both praise and criticism from various quarters of Malaysian society, and prompted the government to voice the possibility of action towards Wee.
Other songs released by Namewee include Muar's Mandarin (麻坡的华语) and Kawanku, directed at Malaysian Chinese, Singaporeans and Malays.
Contents:-
1 Negarakuku
1.1 Reaction
2 Kawanku
3 REleasing of new album
4 References
5 External links


Negarakuku
Wee's sudden rise to stardom is the result of his highly publicized piece - Negarakuku. Its Chinese title reads 我愛我的國家 Negarakuku (2007大馬觀光年主題曲) translated as "I Love My Country Negarakuku (Visit Malaysia 2007 Theme Song)".
The structure of the song consists of two major components: the rapping, which is exclusively composed and performed by Wee, and Malaysia's anthem, Negaraku,(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lqlsA0r3ZA8) which is split into three segments between the rapping and sung out in groups of two or three verses. While the national anthem is fragmented and sung in an "R&B" tone, Wee had no intention of altering the melody and lyrics of the anthem, as the song would still retain its original theme and meaning. The rap lyrics are uttered in Mandarin with occasional Hokkien passages and words, while verses of the national anthem are sung in their original, Malay form.
The song touches a range of topics pertaining the day-to-day lives of Malaysians from the perspective of Wee and his friends,referencing various aspects of life (including the police and government services), treatment by the Malaysian government and affiliates, and observations to common occurrences in the country. Verses in the song also reference Malay people and Islam. One segment mentions the azaan to Fajr, the earliest of the five daily prayers by Muslims, described as a "morning call" that would wake Wee up at 5 a.m. ("早上五点, 还有 MORNING CALL 会叫我起床") and sung like a love duet with a voice that ululates like an R&B song ("有时几间一起唱, 听起来好像情歌对唱, 声音拗来拗去像唱 R&B 一样"). Two other verses describe people who "cover their heads" and walk slowly ("他们把头包起来, 慢慢走慢慢过马路"). In the beginning of the song, Wee dedicates the song to "all Malaysians, especially the Government." Nevertheless, the rap lyrics were only intended to describe without bias, leaving listeners determine on their own the right or wrong of any observation Wee raised in the song.
A music video for the song was uploaded to YouTube by Wee on July 15, 2007, which featured a montage of photographs of Malaysia, a Visit Malaysia 2007 video and a video of Wee rapping against the backdrop of a Malaysian flag. The video ends depicting both a Chinese caption thanking unnamed parties for videos and images provided for the montage, and a Manglish caption asking not to be sued as he has no money ("please don't sue me, saya takde duit"). The video was removed by Wee on July 23, 2007,but copies of the video, including one with Malay subtitles of the song's Chinese lyrics, are still made available on the site.

Reaction:-
Public reaction towards the song is virtually split. Immediate reactions in the form of YouTube comments range from agreement with Wee or support to him, to attacks and threats towards Wee, to racist remarks directed towards both Chinese people and Malay people in general.
Official criticism of the song was primarily centered around the song's anti-government undertones, which resulted in comments by members of the Malaysian parliament to take action on him. However, as Wee is currently in a foreign country, he is out of Malaysia's jurisdiction.
Accusation of disrespect towards Islam and Malay people were brought up by Malay tabloid Harian Metro, claiming that Wee's song had mocked Islam and the mindset of Malay people.Wee disputes this claim by stating that the paper, as well as several Malaysian news channels, fail to objectively report facts, resulting in misunderstandings of his song.His comments were further directed at Metro, claiming that the paper did not understand the implicit meaning of his song's lyrics before concluding its nature.He added the paper had not provide any translations of the song, which language is not widely used among the Malay-speaking community, resulting in their dependence on local media channels for interpretations of the song.
In an August 9, 2007 telephone interview from the Republic of China, Wee clarified that the song was merely reflecting satirical social commentary social life in Malaysia as a Chinese, and added humours solely for the pleasure of the Chinese community. Wee posted a blog entry typed in both Malay and Traditional Chinese on August 12, in an attempt to clarify the nature of his song and its lyrics.( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=thxvvLnhSMc)
On August 14, 2007 (and later, on August 16 on his blog), Wee issued a public apology to the government and Malaysians who found it offensive.While the Malaysian Chinese Association accepted Wee's apology with Datuk Seri Zainuddin Maidin, Malaysia's Minister of Information, urging Malaysians to the same, the cabinet rejected Wee's apology; Datuk Seri Mohamed Nazri Abdul Aziz added that "the law will take its course." Other actions voiced by the government include bringing Wee to court, probably under the Sedition Act, as he had insulted the symbol of the nation,and further action against YouTube.

Kawanku:-
Kawanku, posted months before Negarakuku, was sung in Hokkien, Hainanese, Cantonese, Mandarin Chinese, Malay and English.
The song commences with Wee warning those who dislike him not to listen. Wee goes on to proclaim himself as an ethnic Hainanese with the ability to speak in six languages. He later dedicates the song to his friends. He raps in Cantonese by blasting people living in Kuala Lumpur and those who speak Cantonese, telling them "not to be so arrogant". He wonders why most media sources in Kuala Lumpur use Cantonese, although most Malaysian Chinese are of Hokkien ethnicity, by saying "This is not Hong Kong./Why is Cantonese spoken so often?"
Wee talks about Singapore in Mandarin Chinese, starting with the story of Singapore's independence in 1965, before stating that he "had only one opinion about Singapore": that all Housing Development Board flats were "all the same". Wee described this planning as "downright Communist" and that Lee Kuan Yew and Mao Zedong "are friends" and that Marxism "lies heavily on Singaporeans' shoulders". Wee calls Singaporeans "kiasi" and "kiasu". Wee later raps in Malay, by saying that Malays should not tell Chinese to "go back to China" as there won't be any jobs created in Malaysia but then Malays "do not want to work hard" anyway. (As a result of losing jobs) Malays "go to the jungle and live like sakai", a derogatory term for indigenious tribes in Malaysia. Wee also asks Malays not to call Chinese pigs, and says Bak Kut Teh is delicious (words often used by Chinese for making fun of Malays when Malays call Chinese pigs).

REleasing of new album:-
Namewee has announced that there will be a nationwide release of his new album on 3rd of September. source : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5x0grVUx-Vc //someone please help me to wikify this news. thanks//

References:-
^ a b University student comes under fire for video clip. The Star (2007-08-09). Retrieved on 2007-08-10.
^ Namewee (2007-07-15). 我愛我的國家 Negarakuku (2007大馬觀光年主題曲) (Chinese). Blogger. Retrieved on 2007-08-10.
^ a b c d e f g Namewee (2007-08-12). Hello, Semua Orang Melayu sila tengok sini (Chinese)(Malay). Blogger. Retrieved on 2007-08-13.
^ Colourful World (2007-07-16). 我愛我的國家 Negarakuku (2007大馬觀光年主題曲). Blogger. Retrieved on 2007-08-10.
^ Namewee (2007-07-23). remove 掉了!! (Chinese). Blogger. Retrieved on 2007-08-10.
^ 'Negaraku' is outside police jurisdiction. Daily Express (2007-08-09). Retrieved on 2007-08-10.
^ "Dalam lagu itu, pelajar berkenaan juga menyentuh sensitiviti masyarakat Islam dengan memperlekeh ibadat umat Islam dan sikap orang Melayu" Ahmad Fitri Che Musa (2007-08-07). Pelajar cerca negara, polis (Malay). myMetro/Harian Metro Online. Retrieved on 2007-08-10.
^ Yeow, David (2007-08-10). Namewee: I did not mean to insult Malays. The New Straits Times Online. Retrieved on 2007-08-10.
^ Wee Meng Chee aka Namewee (2007-07-16). KENYATAAN MEMINTA MAAF OLEH WONG MENG CHEE ATAU NAMEWEE (Malay). Blogger. Retrieved on 2007-08-17.
^ a b Manirajan, R. (2007-08-14). Negarakuku rapper apologises. Sun2Surf. Retrieved on 2007-08-17. See also The Sun, August 15, 2007, page 4.
^ Student rapper apologises. The Star Online (2007-08-15). Retrieved on 2007-08-17.
^ Malaysians Must Accept Wee's Apology - Zam. Bernama (2007-08-14). Retrieved on 2007-08-17.
^ "(The) govt will not accept student Wee Meng Chee's apology for his Negaraku rap video clip on You Tube, the law will take its course, says Nazri Aziz." - The Star SMS news. Retreived from Rocky's Bru: Govt rejects Negaraku-ku student's apology (2007-08-16) on 2007-08-17.
^ a b Manirajan, R. and Dass, Maria J. (2007-08-16). Who’s sorry now? - Cabinet cannot accept apology, rapper who mocked Negaraku must face the music. Sun2Surf. Retrieved on 2007-08-17.
^ 杨凯斌 and 黄凌风 (2007-08-16). [http://www.malaysiakini.com/news/71260 内阁拒绝接受黄明志道歉 纳兹里:检察署援煽动法调查 (Chamorro)]. Malaysiakini. Retrieved on 2007-08-24.

External links:-
Official Namewee website (Chinese).
我的名字叫明志, Wee Meng Chee's blog (Chinese).
Negarakuku
Negarakuku on YouTube (Chinese) (with Malay subtitles).
7 Edition news snippet from ntv7 on Youtube, featuring Syed Hamid Albar, Malaysia's Foreign Minister, commenting Wee's matter will not be taken lightly and an apology will not be accepted.
7 Edition news snippet from ntv7 on Youtube, featuring a statement by Fu Ah Kiow, Malaysia's Deputy Internal Security Minister, on "negative elements" in Wee's song.
Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wee_Meng_Chee"
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Here are the song's lyrics:-
[2007 has been designated as Visit Malaysia Year, millions upon billions has been spent to promote the country around the world with the hope of attracting more people to choose Malaysia as their holidays destination.
The title of the song is Negarakuku, Negara is country in Malay, ku is mine, which literally means My Country, that’s the title of our national anthem. The double ku(s) used for this title, could be just a rapper echo or it could be kuku, which is a slang for the male reproductive organ or d@#k or c#%k.]
(Repeat) Check it out, yo, yo, yo.
(Repeat) Negaraku, Negarakuku.
I love my country, only when you have a country you have a homeOnly with a home then there will be me, standing here with youLoudly singing, don’t be afraidEven though I curse all the time
My song, is just like the durianTough and spiky, onlyTo see if you dare to open it, to look at the truth insideIt can be very stinky, it can be very fragrantIt only depends on what kind of nostrils you have.
[Country, when translated directly to Chinese is “country family/home”. The Chinese through the Confucius teaching strongly believe that a country is a home. It’s a top down approach, when you have a stable country then you can have a caring and loving family, only then the individual can thrive.
The Malaysian Chinese in general are a very timid lots, they will avoid any politically or socially sensitive topics like a plague. They only want to maintain a stable environment to live in and are afraid to voice out their grouses in public.
Durian is a type of fruit that is peculiar to the tropical Asian region. The pungent fresh is hidden behind a thick, hard and thorny shell. Most people in Malaysia love the smell while a minority, especially foreigner can’t stand the smell and will bolt when the first whiff past their nostril. Thus, Namewee used the durian as a paradox, some will hate him for this song but others will love him for it.]
Our police is called MataBecause they have very shiny eyesOnce it’s New Year, they will be very hard workingHolding pens but they will rarely write you a receiptBecause they are thirsty, they need to drink teaAlso kopi-O, want to add sugar?If they add sugar, their mouths will sweetly smile at youWhen you are leavingThey will even go “Tata.”
[During the olden days, the enforcement officer in Malaysia is called mata-mata which can be loosely translated as “The Eyes”. When the festivals season draws near, there will be a surge in the police present on the road and every where else. Because, the government servants here only bring home a meager package every month. They will be on the look out for some sweetener which is bribe to you and me. This phenomenon is most prevalent just before the festival as they need that little extra to spend for the celebration.
When the man or lady were caught for some offences especially traffic related, the officer will walk up to you holding the compound booklet and talk very politely to you. The officer is expecting something from the offender and will normally ask: Now how? Then, the offender will plead: Can settled? Meaning we wish to settled the fine on the spot. The euphemism term for this convenience is “Tea money”, which means that we can get off the hook by buying the officer some tea. After, both parties got what they wanted. The officer pocket is enhanced with some extra cash and the offender got off relatively light, the officer will wave and said good bye which is “tata”]
NegarakuTanah tumpahnya darahkuRakyat hidup bersatu dan maju.
This phenomenon, doesn’t need any improvements.Neither does it need strengthening, the police and the people work togetherA cup of coffee keeps our relationship temperateI so very sukaAt least I won’t go home and receive a saman (fine or ticket)My dad would sure be pissedI would also kiong kan (swear word in Cantonese for “get raped”), with no car to driveWhat to do, this time so very kao lat (an expression, something like aiyo)With no car, how do I go out and play?With no car, how do I wage “wild war”? (I don’t know what it means but I assume it has something to do with a girl)With no car, how do I go and watch ah kua? (transvestites)This country, I like it very much.
[The authority has embarked on a few campaigns to improve the police efficiency and to foster a closer and friendlier relationship with the people. But in actual fact, the people and the enforcement officer do have a very good working relationship as long as the clandestine activity of settling fine on the spot is still on going. A cup of coffee or any other drinks is what keep the relationship between the police officer and the people intact.
There is a perceived mutual benefit of this arrangement. The offender can get off the hook with only minimal financial lose while the officer’s pocket will be thicker with extra cash.
If the offender took his or her parent car out for a joyride, he or she don’t wish to receive a compound send to their home and later found out by the parents. Then the juvenile will be grounded. In Malaysia, we will be immobile without a car as the public transport system is not up to scratch. The car is also the best and for some the only place to get intimate with girl friend or boy friend. Without a car, the “wild war” which literally means making up at places other than a room or a house. It is almost a national pass time to drive around with a few friends and roam the street at night looking out for transvestites. Most of the transgenders will stand on the street at night soliciting for clients though most of us will just see or tease but dare not touch.]
5 in the morningThere’s even a morning call to wake me upSometimes a few of them will sing togetherWhen you listen to it, it’s like a love duetThe voice ululates like an R&B songEven though sometimes they sing until it’s out of tuneEven though sometimes they even sing until their voices breakSome sound like cockerels, but they wake up earlier than themThis way we can know the time to get ready for class and for work
[At around 5 in the morning, the mosque will start praying by piping through the prayer via loudspeaker. It is a prerequisite for every housing development to allocate a land and resources to build a building for worshipping. Some areas even have a few religious building in close proximity. As a result, you will hear prayer echoing through a large swathe of land in the cold morning with all sort of rhythm and tempo rivaling the best performance dish out by the Idols wannabe. 5am is a time when even the cockerel is still in the dream land, let alone the rest of the non early morning praying population. Anyhow, there are more and more people who will have to rise early due to the escalating amount of vehicles on our road with no other transportation mode to turn to. Besides, many families shifted to the city outskirts in search for cheaper alternative accommodation which translate into longer distance between home and office or school.]
Don’t blame, the government only takes cares of the nativesDon’t blame, we don’t receive equal careOnly this way we can prove that we Chinese are not afraid of hard workOnly this way we can train ourselves to find a solution during hard timesDon’t feel weird about their standardsBecause this only shows that we are smart (or capable)Children who are not spoilt will not be dependantBecause you see some children are still not weaned off breast-feeding.
[Malaysia is a blessed country, with plentiful natural resources, relatively stable political climate and not prone to natural disaster. In spite of the god send gift, many among the ethnic minority have a linger feeling that the nation could have been progressing much further up the economic value scale. The sticking point is always the achievement of our neighbor, the tiny weenie nation state of Singapore. The southern neighbor was split from the federation of Malaysia in 1965 and has developed from strength to strength. The developed status acquired by Singapore was because of and not despite of the fact that they have nothing in term of natural resources.
When the world is being flatten and moving at break neck speed toward a borderless community, Malaysia has not completely dismantled the wall build to protect our economy. Much worse, there are some restrictions put up to protect a certain ethnic group to much chagrin of the other minorities. The Chinese always have the feeling of being short changed by the government. In Malaysia, we practice what is essentially a one party democracy. Opposition parties exist and are allow to contest in the general election but there is no way that an alternative coalition can be form the next government. The opposition parties just don’t have the campaigning machineries and unity to mount a serious challenge. So, the mentality of the Chinese is, better the devil you know than the devil you don’t know. Fearing that if and when the government is changed, their plight will be even worse rather than improved.]
Rahmat bahagiaTuhan kurniakanRaja kitaSelamat bertakhta.
People who hide in government departments are even better (even more capable)They can do everything so slowlyEven when people are queuing, are cursing stinky lelai (what’s that?)They’re chill and unfazedSometimes they even bring out their kuihThey eat their nyonya kuihMore people will continue queuing upEven when you curse stinky lelai it doesn’t matterBecause the guard at the side is dreamingAnd he won’t scold you one lah.
They wrap up their heads; walk slowly and cross the road slowlyWhen you pass in the car you even have to let them pass firstThe most important thing is to live happily; the most important thing is to live comfortablyDon’t be like the ChineseBusy the whole day, very toughWe really cannot NOT admire this spirit”Because this is their attitude in life.
(Attitude, attitude)
I’ve been saying good things in this songI believe those of you who are pissed at me will like this nowThe world is peaceful, and full of hopeNo one is hurt, there aren’t any riotsYou’re so classy, you’re so elegantYour shit is fragrant, and you don’t curseYou guys are the most high class, every day it’s just romancing
Listening to Guang Liang Pin Guan (this local Chinese artiste)But he already ran to TaiwanPrivate school students graduateIt’s so very tough to get admitted into local universitiesActually we don’t have to get pissed about this issueActually this is the a very noble plan by the governmentThey want us to explore the world, to find new opportunities for ourselvesTo learn things and come back and repay the countryThis is plan is so great, I can’t quibble about itAll over the world you can see Malaysia’s childrenThey’re like refugees, so very shiok (expression for orgasm or high)
2007, Malaysia’s having Visit Malaysia YearThe Chinese culture is brought out and paradedThe government doesn’t even care about private school studentsThe certificate is thrown into the longkang (ditch), just like me
Graduated and went to TaiwanLearned about things, and got ready to come back to repay my countryI stood on the streets of Taipei with my guitarBut my mouth still sings.
Rahmat BahagiaTuhan kurniakanRaja kita Selamat bertakhta.(source: nulife05202007)
Song’s lyrics - Malay translation
NegarakuNegarakukuNegarakuNegarakukuNegarakuNegarakuku
我爱我的国家 有国才有家Aku cinta Negara aku ada Negara baru ada keluarga有家才有我 站在这边跟你Ada keluarga baru ada aku berdiri disini大声唱歌 你麦惊Nyanyi dengan engkau engkau jangan takut虽然我每次骂粗话Walaupun aku selalu cakap kasar我的歌 就像榴莲一样Lagu aku sama macam durian硬硬尖尖 只是Keras dan tajam tetapi看你敢不敢打开 看看里面的真相Tengok engkau berani buka ke tidak tengok apa yang ada di dalam它可以很臭 也可以很香Dia boleh dikatakan busuk dia juga boleh dikatakan wangi只是看你又怎样的鼻抗cuma tengok engkau ada macam mana punya hidung
我们的警察 叫做MATAPolis kita panggil ‘mata’ (dlm bhs hokkien)因为他们的眼睛很亮Ini kerana mata mereka sangat tajam新年一到 他们就很努力Apabila raya mereka akan jadi rajin拿住笔可是很会少跟你开单Pen di tangan tetapi jarang bagi saman因为他们口很渴 需要喝茶Ini keran mereka dahaga mereka mahu minum teh还有KOPI O 要不要加糖Ataupun kopi O nak tambah gula ke tidak如果加糖 他嘴巴会甜甜跟你微笑Kalau tambah gula mulut mereka akan senyum dengan engkau你要离开的时候Apabila engkau nak pergi他还会跟你TATADia akan ucap TATA (maksudnye bye)
NegarakuTanah tumpahnya darahkuRakyat hidupBersatu dan maju
这种现象 不需要改善Gejala ini tidak perlu memperbaikikan也不用加强 警民合作Juga tidak perlu memperkuatkan , kerjasama antara pihak polis dan rakyat一杯咖啡感情不会淡Secawan kopi hubungan boleh kekal我西北sukaAku memang suka至少不会回家收到三万Sekurang-kurangnya balik rumah tidak akan dapat saman我爸爸一定赌懒Ayah mesti geram我一定欠干 没有车给我驾Aku mesti kena marah tidak ada kereta untuk aku怎么办 这次西北够力Macam mana kali ini memang teruk没有车 我要怎样出去玩Tak de kereta macam mana aku nak keluar main没有车 我要怎样打野战Tak de kereta macam mana aku nak XXX没有车 我要怎样看阿瓜Tak de kereta macam mana aku nak tengok ah kua这个国家 我很喜欢Negara ini aku memang suka早上五点pukul 5 pagi还有morning call会叫我起床Ada morning call akan suruh aku bangun有时几间一起唱Kadang-kadang beberapa ‘buah’ nyanyi sama-sama听起来好像情歌对唱macam tengah duet lagu cinta声音坳来坳去像唱R&B一样Suara tinggi rendah macam tengah nyanyi R&B虽然他们有时唱到走声Walaupun kadang kala sebahagian daripada mereka out of tune虽然他们有时还会唱到破声Walaupun kadang kala sebahagian daripada mereka pecah suara有些声音像公鸡 可是比公鸡早起床Ada juga suara yang macam kokokan ayam tetapi dia bangun lagi awal dari ayam这样我们才会知道准备上课上班Macam ini baru kite tahu mase untuk bersiap ke sekolah dan kerja
不要怪 政府只会照顾土族Jangan salahkan kerajaan hanya akan jaga rakyat tertentu不要怪 我们没有受到公平照顾Jangan salahkan kami tidak dapat jagaan yang adil这样才能证明我们华人不怕吃苦Macam ini baru boleh menunjukkan yang orang cina tidak takut menderita这样才能训练我们逆境寻找出路Macam ini baru boleh melatih kita mencari jalan keluar apabila menghadapi kesusahan不要邹德他们的标准 很奇怪Jangan mengatakan standard ini sangat pelik因为这样反而表现我们 很厉害Kerana dengan ini baru menunjukkan kami sangat teror没有被宠坏的小孩 才不会依赖Anak-anak yang tidak dimanja baru akan menjadi tabah不然你看有人到现在 还没有断奶ada orang sampai sekarang masih belum berhenti minum susu
Rahmat bahagiaTuhan kurniakanRaja kitaSelamat bertakhtaRahmat bahagiaTuhan kurniakanRaja kitaSelamat bertakhta
躲在政府部门里面的人更厉害Pekerja dalam kerajaan lagi teror他们做什么事情都可以慢慢来Apa yang mereka buat boleh slow slow就算排队的人等到要骂 臭lelaiWalaupun orang yang beratur marah他们心情还是一样自由自在Mood mereka tetap rase bebas dan seronok有时kuih都拿出来Kadang-kalag kuih pun mereka ambil keluar他吃他的娘惹kuihDia makan nyonya kuih dia你的队继续排Dan engkau sambung beratur就算你真的骂臭lelai也不要紧Walaupun engkau nak marah pun tak pe因为旁边的guard他在做梦Kerana guard kat tepi pun tengah bermimpi他不会鸟你的啦Dia takkan layan engkau他们把头包起来 慢慢走慢慢过马路Mereka yang memakai tudung perlahan-lahan melintas jalan你驾车经过还要小小让路Engkau yang memandu kenalah berhati-hati最终要活得开心 最重要活得舒服Asalkan hidup dengan gembira asalkan hidup dengan selesa不要学华人一样Jangan macam orang cina整天忙忙碌碌 西北辛苦Tiap-tiap hari sibuk sangat susah这个精神我们真的不能不佩服Semangat ini mesti kita kena kagumi因为这个就是他们生活的态度Kerana ini adalah sikap hidup mereka(态度 态度)Sikap sikap
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