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Awww... no soalan tambahan...

that means they can answer as crappy as possible... and you can do nothing... LOL

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Anyway... as you are the chief of staff and also the MP of Penang... Could you take a look on the recent outcry by about 55 NGOs regarding the un-transparency and unsatisfying appointment of Cities Councilors by Penang government?

As a supporter of DAP, I'm deeply saddened by the fact that the DAP-led government did not react positively towards the outcry...

JEFF OOI says: Let's recognise the fact the NGOs have domain knowledge of their respective silos of specialised areas. The better solution is to to have election of the local government and the NGOs -- sloganeering aside -- must also campaign and try to win the ratepayers' heart. I hope to facilitate this to happen before the next general election. There are legal hurdles to be overcome at the federal level as the relevant Acts were passed at the Parliament and not at the state level. That's Ong Ka Chuan ministry, which must lead the change thought we will certainly advocate this.

Wow... so they are trying to oust the father and son YBs from Bukit Gelugor and Puchong... tsk tsk...

Thanks for your live update! :D Can feel the fire even I'm hundreds kilometers away from the house..

This is certainly not a 1st class Parliment that the rulling government tries to create. The speaker seems to be protecting the PM by giving lame excuse.

Also, can you find out what makes a question be rejected? It shouldnt be due to the number of words exceeded. Your question on WIMAX was an important one and I believe many are wondering what is happening to the implementation which has been delayed for a year now.

Thanks YB for your updates! Can kinda visualize whats happening!

Good stuff Jeff!

Please update more on the proceeding and if possible, make it like a live report.

30 minutes of live coverage is barely enuf for us rakyat! It was wasted by the long and boring prepared "speech" by PM and that is what RTM is focusing onto...safe debate and answers from BN!

More...more...more pls Jeff...please share the update load with Tony if it's too taxing for u alone. Thank you.

BTW, are you permitted to record and broadcast via your handphone or any other webcam? Will be good if their antics are broadcast, if not live, then at least recorded and shortly thereafter...it is important that some of these useful idiots are seen in action by their children, wives, grandchildren, parents, relatives, friends and neighbours etc.

Jeff,

Is there a possibility for bloggers to get media accreditation to cover parliamentary debates?

If so, what are the requirements?

As it is, live coverage on TV is the norm hence there shouldn't be any 'good' reasons to deny bloggers their presence.

Thanks, bro.

Hi Jeff... thanks for your reply... :)

I think it's a more or less public relation issue, where the NGOs complaint for no transparency which I think the government should address...

I do think some of the NGOs are "bleh" by the fact that they refuse to even nominate a person, and then slam the government for not having enough NGOs people in the local government... and worse, rapping the peniagas by saying they are not "non-governmental" and "non-partisan"... which is ridiculous...

However I do think that, the government should lay down a clear roadmap, showing how and when the government wants to revive the long gone local election... :) Again, it's a PR thingy... I myself feel very uncomfortable the fact that the government does not seem to have any plan in bringing back the LE...

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Finally just hope that you could list down your questions and answers given by the ministers in parliament... Hansard is too LONGGGG and obviously people are lazy LOL~~

I saw the proceedings live on TV. I can see clearly the Speaker is trying to deal with situations way over his head. I am not sure but the thought crossed my mind whether the order of questions was to give the PM the chance to have his full say in the short time the proceedings were telecasted. In any case, the PM just mouthed the same old crap. Nothing new.

And I was just as stunned when the Speaker disallowed supplementary questions. What kind of 10th world Parliament (to quote YB Lim Kit Siang) is this that supplementary questions are disallowed? The whole charade was orchestrated to give the PM the maximum time to say his propaganda while no time is allowed to embarass him with questions he cannot answer without his 4th Floor boys' help.

Greetings YB,

In all fairness, these wasteful antics (name-calling and what-not) are perpetuated by both sides, escalating from one time-wasting volley to another. The backbenchers specialty is to provoke, disrupt and bog down opponents with petty squabbles...why go down to their level? It might be the only way in the past to be heard but now with almost equal strength in numbers, perhaps it's time to adopt a better strategy. The people have high hopes for PR wakils rakyat to make a difference. We hope you guys can rise above all the trivial cheapshots (however entertaining it may be), and find a way to put forth the issues that matters most to the well-being of all Malaysians.

On the rejection of question about the the WiMAX license issuance, it prove me suspicions : The Legal Division of Parliamen Malaysia are merely a rubber stamp bureaucracy body of BN.

It is common sense that WiMAX is a spectrum. Whether commercialise or not, spectrum controller roles are never extend to MITI.

Apparently, many bullshit in Malaysia Parliament are kept this way for many years.

Eh? You guys squabling over the number of words used in a question? Wow, democracy in action. Fourty word, pulak tu. What lah? The speaker has a sub-32bit processor for his neural logic system is it?

Man you gotta love it when these Fed gov guys resort to some of the most lame tactics to subdue question. Hey brader-brader and sister-sister of BN... please lah. This is not main konda-kondi. This is my life you are messing with. Geez!

Jeff, I too want to know about the WIMAX question, man. Hmmm...

To Observer: Wah lau eh... Observer, you damn terror man. We already have the recordings of that... that... that lawyer, and now you want Jeff to do a "phone cast". You champion lah you. But yeah I have to admit I kindda want to see the fun we can get from watching these monk...errr... representatives debate in parliament. Baaaaaaasket... number of words also want to count, ah? Cheh!

To Shar: Aaaaaaactually Shar, your point about accrediting, I brought this "opportunity" up with Jeff over 3 years ago. Interestingly, the Ministry of Information was keen in putting up a paper on this. In my proposal presentation I intentionally termed bloggers as "people who run web resources". Why? Because by that time, the term blogger was over trivilazed by those within the government framework. I wanted to show that bloggers had some substance lah. That's why I never call my blog a blog. I call it a web resource. We did some of the initial work on this, invited some experienced (and independent) journalism scholars who were all for this idea, and I thought Jeff would be a good addition to our team, as I was the only one representing industry. If we could get across-the-board (and I use the term across-the-board carefully, here) recognition of Internet resources, perhaps the editors of these resources can be allowed in as observers at the very least lah (dan macam-macam lagi). But hey, all these were just ideas at it's infancy. I've been pushing for things like this for some 6 @#$%^& years. Unfortunately, Jeff at that time... sombong... told me that I was overly hopeful lah, no better work to do lah, sure going to kena shot down big time lah, this lah, that lah. Jeff told me he go make his millions in the fashion industry with Versace even better. Oh well, the Jeff of those days is different from the Jeff now. "How so?", you ask. Simple. The Jeff now... wears Calvin Klein **Grin**

Previously, I was quite happy to see and respect the way the Opposition stood for the betterment of Malaysians. However, after the first day the parliament proceeding was casted on TV, I am wondering if this is the way the members of parliament should act to enact Acts and question the government on its responsiblity to the people.

I am quite upset to see the MPs did not actually discuss the legal issues as well as the matters faced by the people who voted them especially Karpal Singh, Gobind Singh and Lim Kit Siang. They only harp some trivial issues, for instance the sitting of the sole independant MP, rather than more crucial issues like rising food prices and crimes rate in the country. This is really dissapointing as the people expect more from the MPs they have voted for.