"Ceko" checking out ...

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In about 30 hours from now, "Ceko", the vegetables market under the long horizontal olive-colored roof will be vacated. The stall owners are second generation small traders from parents who together have served Kuching citizens for some 7 decades or so.

The thought touches and tugs on some heart strings. Many people have passed through there, passengers of the sampans seen in the picture. Many events have been woven by lives fabric that have bound and nurtured them. The present Tun Abdul Rahman Yaacub used the sampans; Tan Sri Abdul Taib mahmud, the present Chief Minister of Sarawak did, too, long ago!

Come Sunday 15th, in about 30 hours, the DBKU, Kuching North City Council, will move the traders to another place some 5 miles out of Kuching. To begin anew and forerun the next generation of traders.

I have a full 24 hours tomorrow to capture the rest of the scenes there. Yeah, maybe capture the night scenes of trading there, too!

It's Goodbye "Ceko"! You have been part of our lives. But some things need to pass on and I'm glad we were part of it!

This will replace the "Ceko", this, the sparkling New Sanctuary Hotel by the Kuching Waterfront.

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...more will stream in.

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"Ceko" - Deafening silence

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A deafening silence seems to engulf the trading area under the olive-colored roof.

A glance at the soul in the left of the picture, one leg up, sitting on his heel, speaks chronicles best left unintruded. I shuffled away, did not ask, lest I make myself an ass, crass.

Give him his moments, while I sift through the shots I took the night before and today. Perhaps, among the jumble, one in time will save me nine!

...more streams in.

Pakatan Rakyat? Perhaps?

When is this going-ons and wooing-ons going to end? The Sabah MPs last heard have crossed the line. Sarawak MPs apparently are heavy footed! Can't we put the matter to bed now or in 12 weeks?

Some people I've met have bitten their nails off!

We can't continue with this, perhaps! perhaps! perhaps!

Footing a biggie

To sensationalize, media glitze sound acceptable and would justify things you do for an honest day's work. That's all empty spins. Well, lies ...

Bigfoot came to a small town in Sarawak, Daro. This one must have been the same Johore one and swam the South China to Sarawak to leave his marks. Well, just two footprints. Maybe bigfootie did not swim to Sarawak. He could have taken one big leap and landed in Daro. Then leapt back, I guess. There were only two footprints, his left and right.

Is this how Azlina and Sulaiman Taib do their work? If not them, probably their kakis. Well, OK! So they didn't! They damn well would not come out and expose the scam, I'll bet!

But perhaps some smallfooties want to scram out of Sarawak BN and make it big in Pakatan Rakyat!

Perhaps! Perhaps! Perhaps!

Biggie Scammie's footprint - poor guy has bad corns or warts behind his small toes!


The Borneo Post

World Finance - Bad news keep coming

BIS Warns Of Great Depression

06-11-2008
Banking Times


The Bank for International Settlements (BIS), the organisation that fosters cooperation between central banks, has warned that the credit crisis could lead world economies into a crash on a scale not seen since the 1930s.

In its latest quarterly report, the body points out that the Great Depression of the 1930s was not foreseen and that commentators on the financial turmoil, instigated by the US sub-prime mortgage crisis, may not have grasped the level of exposure that lies at its heart.

According to the BIS, complex credit instruments, a strong appetite for risk, rising levels of household debt and long-term imbalances in the world currency system, all form part of the loose monetarist policy that could result in another Great Depression.

The report points out that between March and May of this year, interbank lending continued to show signs of extreme stress and that this could be set to continue well into the future.

It also raises concerns about the Chinese economy and questions whether China may be repeating mistakes made by Japan, with its so called bubble economy of the late 1980s.


www.roguegovernment.com

Thanks to Sarawak Tall II for the headsup!

Dead men walking

"The Unknown Citizen"
W. H. Auden
(To JS/07/M/378)
This Marble Monumeht Is Erected by the State)

He was found by the Bureau of Statistics to be
One against whom there was no official complaint,
And all the reports on his conduct agree
That, in the modern sense of an old-fashioned word, he was a saint
For in everything he did he served the Greater Community.

Except for the War till the day he retired
He worked in a factory and never got fired,
But satisfied his employers, Fudge Motors Inc.
Yet he wasn't a scab or odd in his views,
For his Union reports that he paid his dues,
(Our report on his Union shows it was sound)
And our Social Psychology workers found
That he was Popular with his mates and liked to drink.
The Press are convinced that he bought a Paper every day
And that his reactions to advertisements were normal in every way.
Policies taken out in his name prove that he was fully insured
And his Health-card shows he was once in a hospital but left it cured,
Both Producers Research and High-Grade Living declare
He was fully sensible to the advantages of the Installment Plan
And had everything necessary to the Modern Man,
A phonograph, a radio, a car and a frigidaire.

Our researchers into Public Opinion are content
That he held the proper opinions for the time of year;
When there was peace he was for peace when there was war he went.
He was married and and added five children to the population,
Which our Eugenist says was the right number for a parent of his generation,
And our teachers report that he never interfered with their education.
Was he free? Was he Happy? The question is absurd:
Had anything been wrong, we should certainly have heard.