Biggest event since Merdeka - Permatang Pauh : what it was like there

Anwar Ibrahim - Nomination day in Permatang Pauh, 16/08/2008

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Photos:
[Top Left]Lim Kit Siang(DAP), Nik Aziz (PAS) among PKR leaders
[Top Right]The crowds of PR supporters & well-wishers
[Bottom Left]Jazzing it up!
[Bottom Right]Zorro remasked!

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So what else happened?

It appeared that the BN men were booed at. Cries of “pembunuh”(murderer) and “Altanuya!, Altantuya!” were heard. Hardly complimentary!

When compliments were paid to Puteri UMNO they (complimenters) must have been quiet. But the ladies were not and decried the "buttock binching" by the PKR men!

Some people are hard to please. The Police were quiet, too!

Thunderstorms are forecast for the next 3 days over Penang and Permatang Pauh. It would be difficult to plead with voters if it rains and if eager party workers are drenched to the bone.

Biggest event since Merdeka - Permatang Pauh: Nomination done!

Pix: The Star Online - Saturday August 16, 2008 MYT 2:05:25 PM
Anwar looks his opponent straight in the eye, while the the 3rd candidate looks nowhere but has 3 left fingers up!

Looks like the bizness of nomination has been wrapped up. It cost PKR RM15,000 to set up another candidate, just in case BN were to panic and zap up Anwar.

3 candidates will vie for Permatang Pauh Parliamentary Constituency seat:

1.Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim, (PR)
2.Seberang Jaya MP Datuk Shah Omar Shah (BN)
3.Hanafi Hamat (Angkatan Keadilan Insan Malaysia (Akim) president )

I thought Ariff Shah was the real dude! It appears he's also Shah Shah Omar or Omar Shah Shah or Shah Omar Shah. If I'm not mistaken, anybody who carries "Shah" in his name is a King of some kingdom!

Biggest event since Merdeka - Permatang Pauh: flags up!

Ku Li, Gua Musang Umno division head appears to more than appreciate the significance of Permatang Pauh by election. I may have gone over a little and dubbed it "Biggest event since Merdeka". Well, I ain't alone!

Meanwhile, the battle of the flags and banners has started. It appears BN's flags are stuck. Have they been paid for or not?

[L]Anwar's party flags already up || [R]BN's still stranded! Paid or not?

Big event since Merdeka - Permatang Pauh : Diary for Sat 16 August, 2008

9.00 am - Nomination of Candidates

Location : Tunku Bainun Teachers’ Training College

Polling and casting of votes follow on Aug 26, 2008 after 10 days of scheduled campaigning.

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Weather Forecast for Penang - appr. 40km away from Permatang Pauh

Saturday

Chance of a Thunderstorm. Scattered Clouds. High: 89° F. / 32° C. Wind light. Chance of precipitation 20%.

Saturday Night

Chance of a Thunderstorm. Partly Cloudy. Low: 77° F. / 25° C. Wind light. Chance of precipitation 50%.

Sunday

Chance of Rain. Scattered Clouds. High: 87° F. / 31° C. Wind light. Chance of precipitation 30%.

Sunday Night

Thunderstorm. Overcast. Low: 77° F. / 25° C. Wind light. Chance of precipitation 60%.

Monday

Thunderstorm. Scattered Clouds. High: 84° F. / 29° C. Wind light. Chance of precipitation 60%.

Monday Night

Chance of a Thunderstorm. Scattered Clouds. Low: 77° F. / 25° C. Wind light. Chance of precipitation 50%.

---as at 10:04 AM 8/16/2008

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Biggest event since Merdeka - Permatang Pauh: News

A school bus driver and secondary school students gesture as they display anti-government and pro-opposition election campaign placards near Permatang Pauh in the northern Malaysian state of Penang. REUTERS/Tim Chong [March '08]

#01:

In fact, he said that he was advised that members of Puteri UMNO were on house to house campaign to buy voters. In exchange for payment, a voter must give a copy of the identity card. I was told by some people in Bukit Mertajam yesterday that the going rate is between rm1000 and rm1500. Anwar advised his audience that given his knowledge of the people in Permatang Pauh, he was confident that they would vote with their conscience, not be tempted by such gesture.


...quoted and extracted from Din Merican dispatches

Biggest event since Merdeka - Permatang Pauh by Election : Anwar Ibrahim(PR), Ariff Shah (BN)

Situation - weather

As at 4:55 PM 8/15/2008 (Local Malaysia Time):

Weather near Permatang Pauh; Report from Penang / Bayan Lepas, 37Km away
Weather : thunderstorm
Temperature: 32°C / 89.6°F
Wind: 12.7Km/h Southwest
Cloud: Few Cumulonimbus at 1700ft Broken at 28000ft

Nomination Day - 16 August; Polling Day - 26 August

Location - Locality

Permatang Pauh - General Area Map


"Pak Saidin" - By the Prai River Bend


Permatang Pauh Area and Constituency compared


[Please CLICK on images for better view]

What's ground "zero" like? Where is the "action"? Will someone fill us all in, please?

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Permatang Pauh - The Candidates


[L] Anwar Ibrahim (PR) | [R] Ariff Shah (BN)

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Permatang Pauh - past elections

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• Anwar takes campaign online, too
  
• Ariff Shah's agenda fpr Permatang Pauh
  
• Anwar's New Agenda

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US Elections - Voters besieged by Bullshit

Poll: Bullshit Is Most Important Issue For 2008 Voters[theOnion.com]

In the 2008 US Election, it seems voters are fascinated by a lot of bull. Instead of serious issues, voters get bewitched by bullshits. A director of political polling Kip O'Leary thinks, there'll be a lot less bullshits if it weren't for news vendors and newsmen. It's kinda of true. With a lot of C4's in Malaysia politics and fire-crackers exploding in your own faces, it stands to juicy contemplation with the bulls released through open flies.

Well, yes! Don't forget blogs! Many blogs can be full of bed sheets, too!

More open flies - See Four Yourself or "get hoisted by your own petard! "

When UMNO or Mahathir threw out Dr Chandra Muzaffar from UM, beware all other UM people, he founded Parti KeAdilan together with others and became its Deputy President. Some iinternal struggle for leadership came to a head and Chandra quit. Not long after, he sided with UMNO/BN and became its "brainy" poster boy. Many thought and still do that Chandra was never really in PKR but all the time in the UMNO/BN fold. But this is mere speculation. It would be more acceptable to say that he defected to the BN camp sanitizing BN's less ethical or moral stance. He recently highlighted that Anwar Ibrahim's open declartion of courting BN's MP's as undemocrative undemocratic and unethical..


Chandra's solid faith in his new found pulpit with BN has drawn a lot of flak. When there are rampant examples of BN's unethical practices in all the previous general elections, the sorry state of the Judiciary, and the excesses of the those in power including the Police are considred, not many would stake their underpants on the incoherence of Malaysia's politicians. Insuniating Anwar's open declaration to return to Parliament as "back door" many are roiled by his inconsistency. Khalid Jaafar wrote a stinging rebuttal and leaves Chandra "hoisted by his own petard"---or in more present day terms "C4ed himself" !