Th Greatest Political Saga

As pointed out by Harun Yahya in one of his famous books, scientists have proven that the universe is expanding at a very very precise systemic speed. Thus the scientist, baffled by this, unrealazingly commented that there must be an overseeing bigger rule that is controlling the events in the universe. They were and rather still are and also in the future will be rigtht as this overseeing is done by GOD himself.

In relation to the political saga in Perak and other equally minute things, the saga is expanding but there is no underlying control to it. No rules, no ethics, just expansion in any which way direction possible which would usually lead to a nice but unwanted creation of a black hole.

Even in a debate with good teams with good contents, if they are not govern by shared laws, rules and ethics, by the middle of the debate, people would be trading blows by the middle of proceedings.

There must be agreed terms, agreed rules and agreed ethics for logic and sanity to prevail. The universe is expanding fine due to the attachement to the rule of GOD as proven by the many great scientist. Though miniscule in the scheme of things, it still relevant to the politicians to realize this simple universal notion. They must agree to a common ground then talk, chat, argue than do something worthwhile. Else... find a lawless land and have a nice fist fight, ensure knock outs to both sides as we do not really want you back.

Ethics and curtness

It is good to be ethical and curt but it is certainly not easy to most people. This is due to the fact that ethics and curtness are mostly culture related and hence differ oftentimes from place to place and situation to situation.

Nonetheless, there are general guides to ethics and curtness that you may follow that may lead people into viewing you as curt and ethical. This section is made for university parliamentary debaters that may also be generalized to other people.

1. Listen and look like listening to people by jotting down something.

2. Smile a bit more so that people especially judges will have a more favorable view on you.

3. Clearly understand that you do not have to be cocky to be smart.

4. Talk nicely to judges even if in your opinion they are crappy as you may meet them again in the next round.

5. Learn as much as possbible what are the tules to debate ethics and curtness according to the judges in the room or tournament not from a freind watching TV at home.

6. Remember the key importance to having the right ethics and curtness will be high marks on manner which will definitely have some bearings on your matter.

7. Do not judge abook by its cover. Bo Hoo! We do this all the time and so will the judges no matter how experienced or inexperienced they are.

Teaching the uninterested

Teaching is a tough job especially if you are not that prepared and the students do not really want to learn.

My proposal to you;

1. Keep it simple

2.Have a planned fun session every ten minutes (more or less)

3. Ask the students what they want (preferably before session starts)

4. Remember, check your activities: If they are fun to you, confirm this with a trusted comrade because if they are not fun to you, well the students will not like them either.

Try: DO and do some more.

Eagles and Manner

An eagle would always fly majestically even in not a so majestic situation. It could be trying to escape a storm but the posture would remain, poised and ready, sometimes seemingly oblivious to danger.

And thus the similarity starts with manner and its link to context. The eagle's brain has never been dignosed, scanned or basically checked in any way. Therefore, we do not really know whether it was just the poise that was shown to be magnificent but inside, it may just be as fearful as other birds facing the mighty wind and thunder. Will we ever know? Well, only God knows.

What we can do is follow Vulcan logic. They, the eagles, magnificent though they mayhaps, should still be afraid but would not yield tactical strength to their enemy who could just by chance be sensing that this great hunter is also afraid. Perhaps, an eagle is able to fly close to the storm but not close enough to be sucked in but as a result to any eyes from afar, "Wow! what a great creature"

Lesson one:

Arrange the right context : the storm

Execute the right manner: looking cool flying over the storm

People might think that you're an EAGLE.

Of Manner and Biases

I like Manchester United. I have been a follower since the Bryan Robson + Paul Ince era, almost 20 odd years. Thus, whatever they do would almost always be okay. In my eyes, knees, kidneys and nostrils, everyone's out to get them and I mean everyone. Here's a list of possibles and probables MU haters who are evil and under preveliged.

1. Liverpool fans

2. Terrorists

3. All fans of other football clubs

4. Politicians in Perak

5. Anyone I do not like

Thus whatever these group of people would do or say are categorically wrong or at least plain old wrong or at least inferior.

Why is this happening to me? I am Bias. I am and so are all of us and that is why manner is so so important plus the right contextual evidence in any discussion, presentation or debate.

The trick to get people who are bias against us to be on our side is through pre-planned and pre-prepared bias manerism.

1. For a Liverpool fan (a fantastic example), to get free coffee from an MU supporter, tell them in a convincing manner that you wish Ferguson is Liverpool's manager (it will help if you are not wearing a Liverpool T-shirt at the time).

2. For a Perak politician, look calm (smile, offer handshake, bring small tokens, even food is okay) be in the mood to discuss (look at your kids, favourite car, listen to favourite song) then go to meet your opponents. Chances are, there will be a discusion not a fracas. Even wear, 'We love Perak' T-Shirt.

3. For debaters, choose a tone that is not intimidating or humiliating to the other debaters and adjudicators. 'I am your friend and am helping you out tone' would help and would usually score a point with adjudicators and audience.


If you set the right tone in your head, you will have the right manner and with the right manner, people would believe i your matter. Because, if you have the right manner,people would think so to as they are your audience, audience who can only see what you show and lsiten to what you say, what's inside is invincible to them.

P/S do not smile and look calm if you are up aginst a mugger. They will not be kind to their own mothers.

Kay Pees Eyes

Well, it is really nothing to shout about, the KPI's, I mean. It should have been in any organization worth their salt to have some kind of mechanism to evaluate staff performance in lieu with the organizational objectives.

Thus,when people all over the country jumped, hopped and dived on the KPI's bandwagon, a startling thought crossed over me, "We've never done this before?

In debate, parliamentary debate that is, KPI's and KRA's is like the name of the game. We set objectives and tell our debaters how best to achieve them and then evaluate them through results and observation and do the same things again.

I guess, things, ideas,procedures which we debaters deem as normal is not so in the real world, or only maybe in Malaysia. I do worry.