Atlantis Kadayan 14: Amerika

Written by Codec Cadaianicus

Catatan-catatan Orang Asli Amerika Purba Mengenai Ibu Tamadun

Teks dikemaskini pada 19 Feb 2010.

Salah seorang penyokong kuat ide bahawa Nusantara dan pentas Sunda merupakan pusat tamadun ialah Prof. Arysio Nunes dos Santos (1937-kini).

Beliau merupakan seorang pemegang ijazah Ph.D, Free-Docency bidang Kimia Fizik, ahli fizik nuklear, jurutera elektronik, professor kejuruteraan neuklear dan pemegang paten untuk beberapa ciptaan teknikal di Brazil.



Segala-galanya bermula dengan kejadian mala petaka di masa lampau. Satu gempa bumi yang dahsyat telah menenggelamkan hampir keseluruhan pulau ¹ dan akibatnya kebudayaan Atlantis telah dihancurkan. Tetapi terdapat beberapa orang yang terselamat dan mendarat di pesisir pantai di Eropah di sebelah timur dan benua Amerika di sebelah barat².


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Prof. Arysio Nunes dos Santos (1937 - kini) merupakan seorang pemegang ijazah Ph.D, Free-Docency di dalam Kimia fizik ahli fizik nuklear, jurutera elektronik dan merupakan professor kejuruteraan nukleur di University of Minas Gerais (Brazil). Juga merupakan pemegang paten untuk beberapa ciptaan teknikal, seorang “otium cum dignitate” (leisure with dignity) di Brazil.

Beliau telah membuat kajian mendalam di dalam hal-ehwal Atlantis selama 27 (bermula dari 1980) tahun dan telah menerbitkan beberapa artikel dan sebuah buku mengenai Atlantis.

Beliau mendakwa menggunakan kaedah saintifik di dalam kajiannya meliputi bidang mitologi, keagamaan, antropologi, linguistik, geologi, arkeologi dan sains tradisional.

Beliau merupakan penyokong kuat idea bahawa Atlantis adalah terletak di Indonesia (Nusantara, Pentas Sunda, Borneo). Anda boleh melawati laman web beliau di www.atlan.org.

Sementara itu anda boleh membaca biografi penuh beliau di SINI
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Catatan-catatan mengenai Ibu Tamadun di Amerika adalah menarik. Malah ianya sangat menarik kerana dunia mereka terpisah langsung dari Eropah sehinggalah tahun 1492. Mereka bersih dari sebarang pengaruh orang-orang barat yang tamak, pembuli dan suka menjarah sehinggalah tahun berkenaan, tahun malang buat mereka.

Terpisah, terasing dan tersendiri, tetapi mereka telah membina tamadun yang seakan-akan sama dengan tamadun Mesir dan India. Lebih dari itu, cerita mereka tentang Ibu tamadun adalah sama dengan yang kita pernah dengar sebelum ini.

Catatan Amerika Mengenai Atlantis

(Catatan-catatan dari Amerika Selatan dan Amerika tengah mengenai Atlantis)
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Aneh bagaimana kepingan batu yang ditemui di Illinois - Amerika Utara ini menggambarkan muka dan gaya ukiran mesir hampir sepenuhnya, sedangkan kedua benua Amerika dan Afrika terpisah beribu-ribu kilometer di antara satu sama lain


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Orang-orang Maya menceritakan di dalam mitos asal-usul mereka, mengenai suatu pulau atau benua yang misteri dipanggil Atzlan yang merupakan tanah ibunda mereka. Tanah asal mereka ini kemudian tenggelam ke dasar laut, menyebabkan mereka terpaksa (berhijrah) keluar. Mereka datang melalui laut, menyeberangi lautan Pasifik, menggunakan rakit dan catamaran serta singgah beberapa tahun di pulau-pulau yang ada di lautan. Perjalanan mereka direkodkan di dalam dokumen-dokumen seperti Codex Boturini, juga di dalam rekod-rekod lain³.

Sukar untuk dinafikan bahawa Atzlan yang dimaksudkan ini lain dari Atlantis. Tambahan pula, di kawasan barat lokasi Atzlan, dan keadaan aktiviti gunung berapi yang menyebabkannya tenggelam menghilangkan segala keraguan bahawa apabila ia benar-benar Atlantis, benua tenggelam berkenaan terletak di timur jauh, kemungkinan terletak di Indonesia (pentas Sunda)⁴.

Orang-orang Indian di rimba Amazon Brazil – Tucanos, Desanas, Barasanas dsb., – mendakwa berasal dari firdausi yang karam, dimusnahkan dan ditenggelamkan oleh banjir. Firdausi ini mereka panggil dengan banyak nama Yvymaraney (“Tanah Tanpa Kejahatan - Evil-less Land” atau “Pure Land”), atau Emekho Patolé (“Pusat Semesta”). Mereka mengesahkan datang dengan kapal-kapal yang tidak berbeza dengan cerita bahtera Nabi Nuh dan terpaksa merentasi “Lautan Susu” (Diá Alpikun Dihtalu) yang bertepatan dengan nama lautan yang terdapat di dalam cerita Hindu⁵.

Orang-orang Hindu menggelarkan firdausi primitif mereka dengan nama seperti Shveta-dvipa (“Tanah Tulin”), berhubungkait dengan rakan mereka di Amerika (ini). Di di dalam lagenda mereka, orang-orang Hindu juga mengatakan bahawa Lautan Susu merupakan tapak firdausi yang musnah dan karam di dalam peperangan di antara dewa-dewa dengan kejahatan⁶.

Seawal abad ke enam belas, sekurang-kurangnya seorang paderi Sepanyol mencadangkan bahawa orang-orang Maya dan puak-puak yang berkaitan dengan mereka adalah berasal dari Atlantis; orang-orang yang terselamat dari tamadun maju yang lenyap di dalam gempa bumi dahsyat dan letusan gunung berapi beribu-ribu tahun lepas. Jika orang-orang Maya memang merupakan anak cucu orang-orang Atlantis, ianya memang berpadanan dengan pengetahuan mereka yang tinggi di dalam astronomi, kejuruteraan dan matematik⁷.
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Siri 11 yang sebelumnya, siri ini dan siri yang akan datang (14) menggunakan beberapa bukti hasil kajian Prof Dr. Dos Santos, Brazil.
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Mengikut Cel. Braghine, penulis buku terkenal mengenai Atlantis “The Shadow of Atlantis, Northants (USA), 1980” suatu puak Indian Venezuela yang dikenali sebagai Paria tinggal di wilayah yang dipanggil Atlan. Orang-orang Paria ini berkulit putih dan memiliki tradisi mengenai mala petaka besar yang memusnahkan tanah tumpah darah mereka. Ianya merupakan pulau yang besar atau benua jauh di tengah lautan didiami oleh bangsa bangsawan yang sangat maju, dan ini sangat kedengaran seperti Atlantis⁸.

Orang-orang Toltec, yang merupakan anak cicit kepada orang Maya, juga menyebut mengenai benua karam sama yang dipanggil Atzlan, seperti yang telah disebutkan di atas. Orang-orang Nahautl, Maya dan Aztecs juga menyebutkan mengenai Wira Putih Bertamadun yang datang dari daerah yang karam ini, yang mereka namakan sebagai Quetzalcoatl, Kukulkan, Gucumatz, Bochica, dsb⁹.

Nama-nama ini bermaksud, di dalam bahasa ibunda mereka, “Naga berbulu pelepah (Feathered Dragon)”, gelaran yang jika diterjemahkan dengan kasar menjadi Naga yang mana kita jumpai di dalam lagenda-lagenda di Dunia Lama dan, yang paling penting, yakni Timur Jauh¹⁰.

Kesimpulannya, cerita mereka tentang Ibu Tamadun adalah menyerupai cerita-cerita orang India, Phoenicia, Mesir dan Greek. Cerita mereka adalah asli, kerana satu-satunya rujukan yang boleh kita buat adalah dari puak mereka sendiri. Malah keanehan ini merupakan lanjutan daripada apa telah kita bincangkan mengenai sistem tulisan mereka pada siri 8 yang lepas. Untuk artikel yang akan datang, kita akan meneliti beberapa lagi catatan mengenai Ibu Tamadun, termasuk catatan-catatan yang tertulis di dalam kitab suci orang-orang Yahudi.


Akan Datang: Atlantis Kadayan 15: Catatan Masyarakat Polynesia, Hebrew dan Celtik Mengenai Ibu Tamadun.


Endnote:

¹Kadangkala ia disebut sebagai pulau-pulau, pulau besar, dataran besar, dataran luas dan benua.

²Sudheer Birodkar, 2006.

³Dos Santos, A.N., 1997.

⁴Ibid.

⁵Ibid.

⁶Ibid.

⁷thothweb.con, 2005.

⁸Dos Santos, A.N., 1997.

⁹Ibid.

¹⁰Ibid.


Reference:

1. Sudheer Birodkar, 2006. Hindu Beliefs and Folklore - Pralaya, Kalki, Satyuga and Kaliyuga, Swarga and Narka, and Surya Grahana by Sudheer Birodkar. Accessed on 02 Aug 2006. http://www.hindubooks.org/sudheer_birodkar/hindu_history/satyuga.html

2. TheMystica.Com, 2006. Atlantis: the Myth. Accessed on 02 Aug 2006. http://www.themystica.com/mystica/articles/a/atlantis.html Sources: 16, 17.

3. Leonard, C., 2006. ECHOES OF ATLANTIS. Myths and Traditions of Ancient Lands by R. Cedric Leonard. Accessed on 02 Aug 2006. http://www.atlantisquest.com/Myth.html

4. thothweb.com, 2005. Atlantis: the Andes Solution: Ancient History. Posted on Friday, December 16,

2005 (CST) by Thoth. Accessed on 03 Aug 2006. http://www.thothweb.com/index.html

5. Dos Santos, A.N., 1997. CORROBORATING EVIDENCE ON THE REALITY OF ATLANTIS by Prof Dr. Arysio Nunes dos Santos. Accessed on 17 Jan 2007. http://www.atlan.org

6. unxplained-factor.com, 2006. Introduction to Atlantis. Accessed on 22 Nov 2007. http://unxplained-factor.com/index.htm

7. user.on.net, 2006. Accessed on 12 Jul 2006. http://users.on.net/~mkfenn/page10.htm

8. Childress, D.H., 2007. Top Ten Ancient Civilizations With Advanced Technology by David Hatcher Childress. Accessed on 28 Aug 2006. http://www.atlantisrising.com/issue1/ar1topten.html

Politik Biut 8: Didikan biut Politik

Written by WaJiD Manis

Politik Biut 8: Didikan biut politik

Entah bagaimana, semalam aku terlalu mengantuk. Senja kelmarin aku sibuk mencari Hayam Laki yang selama ini aku jadikan mentor politik. Ia tidak kelihatan di reban seperti biasanya. Entah ke mana agaknya ia ba tapuk. Jadi aku terlelap di meja tulis.



Hayam Laki & Parti Politik

Aneh, Hayam Laki muncul di dalam mimpi aku. Di dalam mimpi ini, ia tetap juga seekor hayam, tetapi ia sangat petah berkata-kata. Menurutnya, hakikat politik sebenarnya jauh lebih biut dari buku-buku, majalah dan suratkhabar yang pernah aku baca.


Rooster Cartoon

Di dunia sebenar, ia merupakan sebuah rimba. Hayam Laki mencabar aku, cubalah bertandang kalau tidak percaya. Ia adalah dunia yang lengkap seperti rimba biasa. Ada tempat yang ceria dan menghijau dek sinar suria. Tetapi di bahagian-bahagian yang terlindung dan suram, kawasan ini penuh dengan harimau, biawak, musang-musang politik yang buas.

Di peringkat marga satwa yang seni pula, pacat-pacat, "halim bada", nyamuk dan "agas" sentiasa mengelilingi kita, ujar beliau lagi.

Kalau tidak mampu bertahan dan tidak berupaya membiut dan menyusuri jalan yang bersimpang siur, tempat anda bukan di sebelah sini.

Adeh, ambong bana hayam ni. Sudahlah hilang, pandai pula nak menasihatkan aku. Buat gulai kari kang baru dia tahu.

Aku terjaga dan merenung kembali apa yang diutarakannya. Memang ada yang betullah. Di negara kita, ideologi parti hanyalah roman picisan dan hanya akan keluar sebagai manifesto parti sekali dalam setiap lima tahun.

Kualitinya pula sama rendah dengan modul kursus universiti terbuka yang main tangkap muat, asal ada.

Tiada anjuran yang bernas selain dari janji-janji pilihanraya yang tidak masuk akal. Tiada yang menarik selain menabur janji manis yang pasti tidak akan ditunaikan.

Tiada gagasan dan wawasan yang mencabar minda aku yang kehilangan Hayam Laki ini.

Apa yang ada aku lihat hanyalah warisan-legacy. Hampir semua parti, sama ada pemerintah mahupun pembangkang adalah adalah pendukung legacy yang kaya harta tetapi kemarau idea.

Legacies yang aku maksudkan termasuklah legacy racist-nationalist 50an yang berwarna garang. Hatta parti agama pun masih berlandaskan legacy 50an.
Kenapa politik mendidik kita dengan begitu biut?

Parti parti politik kita hanyalah merupakan kilang fotostat idea, tidak lebih dari itu. Politik kita pula sama dengan dunia hayam, kokok seekor kokok sekampung. Sudah lah cuma tahu ikut berkokok, tidak pula pernah hendak mengambil tahu apa yang sebenarnya akan terjadi kalau mereka tidak ikut berkokok.


Big Rooster picture

Sebagai contoh yang mudah, lihat saja apa jadi dengan slogan - slogan kerajaan seperti ”Pandang ke Timur”, ”Ke arah 70 Juta Penduduk”, ”Bersih, Cekap dan Amanah”, ”Wawasan 2020”, ”Cemerlang, Gemilang dan Terbilang” dan sebagainya.

Darjah semua slogan berkenaan telah jatuh merudum menjadi sekadar momokan rasmi-rasmian, tidak lebih dari itu.

Kesimpulannya, bagi aku tiada parti yang boleh dikatakan terbaik di negara ini.

Untuk kita lebih mudah berkira, silalah undi berdasarkan individu terbaik yang bertanding kali ini, hatta dari parti Setia sekalipun.

Tapi alahai, Hayam Laki aku ini pun entah di mana sekarang. Besoklah aku teruskan mencari...

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[From Cbox] Ingaa Yah... 2/15/08
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bah sadang amai nya.....

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bah sadang amai nya.....

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Salam,apa habanya liau kaawai? inda nyungkil2kah?

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From Cbox: kaawai 13 Feb 2008 10:43

habaa baik, sadang malihat kanak2 bamain
ampaa miaa pisinnya. bia tia...
batah sudah sanyam, hantap siuknya
samuha kamu yang tatap nyokong, taimakasih
dikit lagi mati web ani tahun lapas....

Savages of Borneo, 1853 part 1

Written by Arimi Sidek


Savages of Borneo part 1


I concluded that early western researchers had no respect toward Borneo people in their researches. Probably there are rationales for such arrogant behavior as their works came with invasion process. As invaders, they were military powerful. Superiority feeling was in its peak. It was the lifetime opportunity to see “savages” in action, and those “savages” were happen to be our immediate ancestor back in 19th century - about one hundred and fifty years from now.

19th Century Dyak of Borneo Picture



They had equally narrow mindedness and huge bias pre built in their head upon arrival. When they saw our ancestors, they look down terribly, to the deepest bottom, with incomparable feeling of superiority and might. For them, we are just slightly clever than the famous Orang Utan, native primate of Borneo.

Craufurd is without exception. According to him, the aborigines of Borneo are of the same race of men as the Malays and Javanese - are, in fact, these people rude, uncivilised, and in the infancy of society, just as the Silures of Agricole are the civilised Welsh of our time. The dyaks of Borneo are divided into probably not fewer than hundred different tribes or nations speaking as many different tongues. This is tropical Africa, or tropical America all over, and a sure indication of a low state of society.

He think that the natives of Borneo, of whatever description, have no name, or, at least, no popular and well-known name, for it, this is, indeed the case with all the natives of the Archipelago to which it belongs. in so far as concerns all the greater islands, with, perhaps, the single exception of Java.

He observed that Borneo people does not know how to differentiate the real “pulo” and “islet”. According to him, “What they call "an island" (pulo), is no more than an islet, an object, of which the insularity is palpable, almost to the eyesight. This is quite consistent with their narrow knowledge and their limited powers of comprehension and generalization”.

But unless Borneo natives were really equivalent to Orang Utan at the time, I don't think these “savages” were too stupid that they can't comprehend with their own surrounding.

At the very least, now people of Borneo already know that Borneo is a pulo, a real pulau - an island.

Europeans, on the other hand maintain the ancient presumption that Europe is not part of Asia until now.

With all the biasness and shortcomings, we still have to relied on their record, as we do not have properly documented past.

He mention that "Borneo is inhabited by four descriptions of people-the original inhabitants, the Malays, the Chinese, and the Bugis of Celebes. The first of these are the most numerous, and from the singularity of their manners best worth a detailed account".

Biasness aside, Craufurd did some observation that match with other researchers findings. The aborigines of Borneo have no native name by which they distinguish themselves in the aggregate, but each tribe commonly takes the name of the principal river on which lies its chief residence. The Malays call them all Dyak, a word equivalent to our own term "savage" or wild man, and apply the term equally to the wild tribes of Sumatra and Celebes, as to those of Borneo.

To distinguish one tribe from another, they add to the general term the name of the tribe'chief river, as Dyak Kayan, "the savages of the Kayan," Dyak Sakaran, "the savages of Sakaran," &c. &c.

Craufurd wrote the life of Borneo natives quite descriptively, and in a way from broader perspective. It is carried out in a more Borneo way than we have now. It is interesting to note that early researchers, including himself does not segregate Borneo based on the political boundary that we have now, that is Kalimantan, Sarawak, Brunei and Sabah as they had none.

So when he said Borneo, he meant the whole Borneo, not just part of Borneo the way we segregate our mind on the subject at present.


Source:

John Craufurd, 1853. A Sketch of the Geography of Borneo by John Craufurd, Esq., F.R.S. &c. read May 10, 1852. 11. Journal of the Royal Geographical Society of London, Vol. 23. (1853), pp. 69-86.

Harta Kedayan di Brunei Semakin Hilang

Written by Alisofie

Harta Pusaka Kedayan di Brunei Semakin Hilang

Kali ini aku mengutarakan SOAL HARTA PUSAKA KAUM KEDAYAN YANG SEMAKIN HILANG. Pengalaman ku sebagai PROPERTY MARKETING lebih 10 tahun dinegara kami (BRUNEI DARUSSALAM), puak Kedayan dahulunya merupakan bangsa yang mempunyai harta pusaka yang unggul disegi Tanah.



Jerudong Highway

Tetapi akhir akhir ani nampaknya bangsa kitani semakin kehilangan tanah akibat kemiskinan.

Apakah Paadiaan Paadianku di Malaysia sama jua liau? Akibat miskin tanah dijual?

Aku amat sedih melihat betapa mudahnya bangsa kitani melepaskan EMPIREnya kepada bangsa lain. Kalaulah satu ekar dilepaskan dan akan datang semula berpuluh puluh ekar itu tak mengapa. Tetapi ekar ekar tanah yang dimiliki oleh bangsa kitani terus hilang satu demi satu ke tangan bangsa lain. Dahulunya bila disebut sahaja Puak Kedayan maka bangsa lain berucap "ahh... banyak banyak tanah kaum kedayan atu!"

Tetapi sekarang kitani sudah mula berkurang pemilikan tanah. Susah payah orang tuha kitani dahulu menghimpun harta pusaka dan kini anak anaknya mula mengadaikan dan menjualnya dengan mudah.

Satu perkara lagi bila Kaum kitani sudah kaya ia lupa kan siapa asal usulnya. Maksudnya apa yang ku katakan lupa akan usulnya atu adalah inda tia sanggup berkuapak cakap Kedayan dan hawar tia kan mengakun kedayan. Kerana anggapan Kedayan selepas kemiskinan bahawa adalah bangsa kedayan ani inda standard. Inilah amat menyedihkan.

Apa pendapat liau disana?

Apa yang aku kuapakkan disini inda pulang semuha kedayan begitu tetapi kebanyakannya begitu.


Salam hormat Suara dari Buhor (Bukit) 2008!

AliSofie

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Comments

Bunga |2009-02-10 07:45:00
Masalah serupa banyak berlaku di kampung-kampung yang terdapat di negeri Sabah.Pemilik tanah dengan mudahnya menjual harta pusaka kepunyaan ibubapa mereka kepada bangsa lain tanpa memikirkan sedikit pun usaha-usaha yang telah dilakukan oleh ibubapa mereka utk mendapatkan hak milik tanah berkenaan sedikit masa dahulu.Jika penulis berkesempatan melawat negeri sabah, silakan melawat ke ke satu Daerah bernama Ranau disana buktinya ramai bangsa lain sudah memiliki tanah bergeran dari penduduk kampung.Siapakah yang harus disalahkan?

Bloggers are Coward

Written by Kadayan Banaa

UMNO information chief Tan Sri Muhammad Mohammad Taib once has described writers of political blogs, whom he says looked brave in criticising government leaders, as cowards. I bet, like Zam, he doesn't do online much. If he does, than he knew that he has a huge fan base in the Internet.


Muhammad Muhammad Taib

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Just use Google search engine and search by "muhammad muhammad taib" keywords and you will find not less than 50 pages of online material pointing to himself.

Google Search Keywords "Muhammad Muhammad Taib"

And you will find 50 pages of google search page!



Not just 50 articles or websites. These are some of the most popular available items

Investigate Malaysia Today Allegations On Muhammad Muhammad Taib Petition, hosted at PetitionOnline.com. http://www.petitiononline.com/

MdMdTaib/petition.html

Muhammad Muhammad Taib, 52, was acquitted by a Queensland state District Court jury in May this year on one count of knowingly making a false currency

http://www.malaysia-today.net/blog2006/holds.php?itemid=7593

On April 14, Muhammad, 51, resigned as chief minister of Selangor, ... Muhammad did not do so, and was found out. He says he was unaware of the law and that ...

http://www.asiaweek.com/asiaweek/97/0425/nat4.html

Pengendali dan penulis blog dibiaya organisasi luar negara hingga mencecah RM100,000 sebulan, kata Ketua Penerangan Umno, Tan Sri Muhammad Muhd Taib. ... http://tellusomething.wordpress.com/category/muhammad-taib/

The ntv7 anchorman has raised the issue of voters who were unable to vote with UMNO vice-president Muhammad Muhammad Taib. The anchor said many voters had ... http://aliran.com/oldsite/charter/monitors/2004/03/

ntv7-questions-muhammad-taib-over.html

Muhammad Muhammad Taib in Google

Pipl profile of Muhammad Taib. Quick facts, related people, online personal profiles, publications, contact details and much more.

http://pipl.com/directory/people/Muhammad/Taib

This morning however, the Umno General Assembly did not prevent a large crowd of Umno supporters of Muhammad Taib from turning up in Parliament for the ..

http://www.dapmalaysia.org/english/2006/nov06/lks/lks4109.htm

Muhammad Taib should explain the latest Australian press revelation that he had ... It is most ironical that when Tan Sri Muhammad Muhammad Taib resigned as ...

http://www.limkitsiang.com/archive/1997/June97/sg512.htm





Congratulation Tan Sri!

But there are diferences between political blogs and blogs that write on politics. For example, Malaysia-today.com, harakahdaily.net and limkitsiang.com are the political blogs.

For most of them such as asiaweek.com, bharian.com.my thestar.com.my [and here, kadayanuniverse.com], they are of websites that write on politics; they aren't necessarily political blogs. Blogging on political issues isn't taboo in Malaysia. Nor that it should be discussed only by politicians. It interests everybody.
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KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 18 (Bernama) -- Umno information chief Tan Sri Muhammad Mohammad Taib has described writers of political blogs, whom he says looked brave in criticising government leaders, as cowards.
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Now, back to the “coward” claims. There are specific political coward definitions to be fair with bloggers.

If you are the government backbencher, and maintain silence over everything that happen around you, that is a real coward. You are in the position to say something, but had choosen not to. You are too afraid of losing position and source of income.

If you are the government backbencher, and you are willing to stand up, it's just a normal thing that you do. Good friend isn't necessarily be a YES man.

But if you are outside of government circle, and being vocal or make constructive criticism at the same time, that is what we called as brave. Those people in power can do many nasty things to you. Therefore, if you vocal and manage to hide yourself, then you are smart.

If you play vocal but exposing your self daringly, and you don't know where to stop like Hindraf – then you are stupid fool.


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Now You See, Now You Don't - SESB

Written by arimi sidek

Electricity: Now You See, Now You Don't
(Sabah Electricity Board, SEB, Sabah Electricity Sdn. Bhd., SESB)

I think most of us still remember the interesting TV commercial not long ago. At the moment I begin to feel that electricity supply in Sabah is quite like that. Its highly unreliable, unpredictable, and really troublesome to many.



Sabah Electricity

Well, it did a good thing to me. Without this unreliable supply of electricity, I wouldn't had discovered that my phone has text processor feature. But that is not the point I would like to highlight here.

Disruption of service simply too much to ignore as if it never happens, as it does and in terribly disturbing manner.

I noticed that there are two types of disruptions. The first, and more frequent is of the quick and short type. It is as if a prank plays off and on the main switch momentarily. It takes only 3 to 4 seconds, and the supply back to normal.



Blackout Cartoon

Others, long and of regular disruption type, lasting from 5 minutes to several hours.

But no matter what, I really hate them both. Sudden supplies disruption had caused me to lost many unfinished writing works. Imagine an hour or two of your work vanish in front of your eyes and nothing can be done about it. Such a waste of effort.

I wonder what is going on with SESB. Are they still using diesel-powered generators? If they are then this answer the short disruptions. It happens during generators switching process. As for the longer type, the only possibility I can think of is due to faulty generators.

I thought Pangi hydro electric station is big enough to provide electricity supply to major towns in Sabah. If station of that size were built to covered only Tenom district and the surrounding area, shutting it down is always the best decision to be made. At the very least, fresh water aquatic lifeforms that are currently trapped inside the huge dam be freed and they can live happily ever after somewhere's else.

Some years ago, former Chief Minister of Sabah Datuk Yong Teck Lee cited a popular joke on the then SEB - it stands for "Sabah Everyday Blackout" instead of Sabah Electricity Board.

That was the situation before Tenaga Nasional (TNB) took over. Now, with TNB the problem persist.

How about we invent a new meaning for SESB - Sabah Everyday Still Blackout.

Apa yang saya perlukan di Sipitang

Written by giin buagas


Apa yang saya perlukan di Sipitang

Barisan Nasional – BN telah mengumumkan barisan calon mereka untuk kawasan Dewan Undangan Negeri Sindumin kelmarin, 21 Februari 2008. Tn Haji Ahmad bin Hj Bujang dipilih untuk bertanding sebagai Ahli Dewan Undangan Negeri – ADUN. Manakala penyandangnya, YB Datuk Hj Sapawi Hj Ahmad beralih ke Dewan Rakyat. Belasungkawa untuk karier politik Datuk Dr Hj Yussof Hj Yacob – nama beliau lenyap langsung dari senarai.


Pemimpin Sipitang

Sementara itu, Tn Hj Ramlee Dua jelas menjadi bakal calon PKR setakat ini, walaupun saya tidak pasti tentang sebarang pengumuman PKR mengenainya sehingga ke hari ini.

Pertama sekali, saya berbangga menjadi seorang Kadayan walaupun tidak sampai ke tahap taksub dengan bangsa sendiri. Manakala Sindumin atau Sipitang adalah tanah tumpah darah saya. Saya tidak begitu peduli sangat apa jadi dengan jiran sebelah – Lumadan. Biarlah mereka sendiri yang memutuskan apa yang terbaik untuk diri mereka sendiri.

Dari sudut pandangan bangga saya, sebenarnya para pengundi di Sindumin merupakan di antara yang terbaik di Sabah. Mereka merupakan rakyat yang paling sabar dan mudah bersyukur, patuh serta orang-orang yang cintakan keamanan di muka bumi.

Kecuali beberapa orang yang bermulut lancang dan tidak pernah duduk diam – termasuklah saya sendiri – mereka tidak banyak merungut. Umpamanya, mereka terpaksa menunggu lebih dari tiga dekad supaya kerajaan menyediakan tanda paling asas bagi dunia moden – jalan bertar KK-Sindumin yang sewajarnya dan menghubungkan Sipitang dengan dunia luar.

Tetapi, sekarang selepas “50” tahun merdeka, kemudahan ini masih lagi merupakan impian yang tidak kesampaian bagi penduduk di kampung Banting, Kuala Mengalong dan beberapa kampung lain.

Mari kita mulakan dengan perkara paling asas, pembangunan daerah Sipitang. Sebenarnya bukan susah untuk membangunkan daerah ini. Cuba ingat pelajaran pengurusan pemasaran yang kita pelajari di sekolah. Ia bersangkutan dengan kedudukan tempat, tempat dan tempat.

Selaras dengan ini, kedudukan Sipitang ADALAH strategik.

Ia terletak bersempadan dengan Sarawak – sebuah negeri yang lebih membangun di pulau Borneo. Sipitang merupakan pintu terakhir ke Brunei dan Sarawak.

Lebih dari itu, ia juga terletak bersebelahan dengan Wilayah Persekutuan Labuan – “peliharaan” kesayangan kerajaan persekutuan sebagai sebuah wilayah persekutuan sejak dari 1982. Keadaan ini menyerupai Pulau Pinang and Seberang Perai di semenanjung Malaysia.

Jadi, apa yang benar-benar kita perlukan ialah cara untuk menterjemahkan kedudukan strategik ini ke dalam ringgit dan sen . Untuk itu, kita SANGAT-SANGAT dahagakan manusia yang kreatif – YB yang berkebolehan.

Sesiapa yang berkesempatan merayau ke daerah ini dan celik, beliau akan dapat melihat potensi-potensi berikut hampir serta-merta.

Pertama, ikuti kegemaran kerajaan sekarang. Bina saja sebuah “corridor” pembangunan, segitiga pembangunan, kawasan pertumbuhan atau gunakan apa saja istilah yang berkaitan – di antara Sabah, Sarawak, Labuan dan Brunei tepat-tepat di daerah ini – untuk memacu pertumbuhan ekonomi.

Wujudkan sebuah "Corridor”, bukan “esplanade”. “Esplanade” tidak bermakna apa-apa pun untuk sebuah pekan malap seperti Sipitang – ia hanya akan membuat kontraktor yang membina “esplanade” berkenaan menjadi lebih kaya. Pak cik dan mak cik saya TIDAK akan bertandang ke “esplanade” berkenaan hanya untuk berehat-rehat dan melihat pemandangan, rasa-rasanyalah.

Kedua, kita bercakap mengenai potensi-potensi pelancongan – yang saya rasa tiada kurang satu apapun. Kita boleh menyenaraikan segala-galanya daripada Batu Narit lagenda di Long Pasia, Ulu Bole, Bukit Jabih, Wasai, Pantai Marintaman, Pantai Kuala Mengalong, musim durian dan sebagainya.

Jika kita benar-benar berkeinginan, kita malah mewujudkan sesuatu yang baru, seperti taman tema atau muzium seperti Kampung Budaya Monsopiad di Penampang, Sabah. Saya tidaklah sempat bertanya kepada datuk saya sendiri, tetapi rasanya Monsopiad bukanlah terlalu terkenal di seluruh Borneo semasa hayat beliau dahulu.

Ketiga, wujudkan sebuah Universiti di daerah ini. Berilah peluang untuk daerah terkucil ini untuk menjadi pengkalan pendidikan untuk kawasan-kawasan sekitarnya. Jangan merendah-rendahkan ide ini. Ini merupakan ide Tun Dr. Mahathir untuk membangunkan Sintok – pekan yang lebih “malap” di Kedah apabila beliau memutuskan untuk membina Universiti Utara Malaysia (UUM) di sana beberapa dekad yang lepas.

Tidak susah untuk membina sebuah universiti. Malah individu seperti Datuk Dr Lim Kok Wing berupaya membina universiti beliau sendiri – Universiti Limkokwing.

Keempat, pilih yang lebih berani. Ia lebih mudah dibuat, tetapi juga merupakan idea UMNO, bukan saya sendiri. JANGAN SEKALI-KALI menuduh saya sebagai tidak beragama, kerana sebenarnya saya patuh mengenainya.

Bina sebuah Kasino sama ada di Long Pasia atau lagi baik di Bukit Jabih.

Ini merupakan sebenar-benar cara UMNO di dalam membangunkan kawasan rimba Genting [Bentong] di negeri Pahang. Kawasan ini merupakan 'sarang' Komunis satu masa dahulu.

Jika anda merasakan ide ini tidak masuk akal langsung, orang asli di Pahang juga berfikiran demikian semasa pertama kali mendengarnya.

Keempat cara mudah untuk membangunkan daerah ini hanya boleh dilaksanakan jika dan hanya jika, YB Sipitang mempunyai kriteria-kriteria berikut:

a) Pemimpin itu merupakan orang yang berpengalaman

Bukan pengalaman sebagai kakitangan kerajaan, tetapi sebagai 'setan' politik. Orang selalu menyarankan untuk 'memilih yang paling kurang di antara dua setan' di dalam memilih calon – semuanya pun 'setan', setan politik. Tetapi bagi saya, 'setan' lemah adalah lebih tidak berguna berbanding dengan manusia yang paling buruk sekalipun. Saya akan memilih yang terkuat – ini merupakan sebab kenapa empayar Inca di Amerika Latin sangat berkuasa satu ketika dulu, mereka malah berani menjadikan manusia sebagai korban sembahan untuk membuktikan mereka berkuasa.

b) YB yang saksama dan berakal

Hampir semua YM memilih pusat kekuasaan di kampung mereka sendiri. Begitulah juga dengan segala proses pembangunan dan prasarana, sehingga ke tahap mengabaikan kampung-kampung lain. Jika tidak percaya, pergilah ke Sipitang, lawati kampung YB, dan bandingkannya dengan kampung-kampung di penjuru lain daerah ini. Jika anda merasakan tiada apa-apa perbezaan pun yang kelihatan, saya syorkan supaya anda pergi berjumpa doktor mata dengan segera.

c) Parti-parti politik TIDAK penting untuk Sipitang

Bersikap setia dan patuh merupakan kelemahan penduduk Sipitang yang sebenar selama ini. Di masa lalu mereka sangat menyayangi USNO, walaupun hakikatnya USNO gagal seluruhnya untuk meningkatkan taraf hidup penduduk daerah ini.

Mereka mengundi berdasarkan simbol parti, bukan kualiti calon yang bertanding secara individu yang menurut fikiran saya, adalah SANGAT SALAH. Jika orang Sipitang benar-benar mahu membangunkan diri, pilihlah calon berdasarkan kualiti seseorang, bukan parti.

Tiada apa yang hendak dimalukan dengan melompat parti kemudiannya – ia tidak berkaitan apa-apa pun dengan dosa besar menukar agama, atau “murtad”.

d) YB tidak sepatutnya menyandang jawatan terlalu lama

Saya berpendapat dua penggal adalah cukup panjang untuk seseorang YB. Mereka harus faham dari awal lagi bahawa kedudukan sebagai YB bukan dari jenis jawatan “P&P – tetap dan berpencen".

Rakyat Amerika belajar mengenai perkara ini dari kesilapan lalu. Kerana itulah mereka menghadkan jawatan presiden kepada hanya dua penggal.

Tetapi rasanya kerajaan Filipina kelihatan agak dungu di dalam hal ini. Apa yang boleh dibuat oleh presiden yang hanya berkuasa selama satu penggal?

Di Sabah, kita sebenarnya banyak belajar dari sistem penggiliran ketua menteri sebelum ianya dimansuhkan oleh kerajaan persekutuan. Tiada apa yang boleh dibuat oleh Ketua Menteri yang 'berumur' singkat – hatta untuk mengaut wang untuk membayar hutang judi dan membina 'esplanade' sekalipun.

Kecualilah seseorang YB itu merupakan genius – seperti Tun Dr. Mahathir atau Tan Sri Taib Mahmud [Saya menghadkan pujian ini ke atas perkara yang telah mampu mereka lakukan tidak termasuk kes sodomi], lebih baiklah berhenti selagi masih boleh.

Berkhidmat terlalu lama dan hampir tidak melakukan apa-apa kecuali bersalaman di sana sini sepanjang masa – bagi saya, blah la lu.

e) Sipitang perlukan pemimpin lancang

Lihat saja Bung Mokhtar Raden dari Kinabatangan. Usia politik beliau adalah lebih 'muda' berbanding dengan pemimpin BN Sipitang semasa. Bagi saya, beliau ini tidak pintar pun, selain dari memiliki mulut yang berkuasa laser dan tidak bertapis.

Namun saya berkesempatan untuk melawat kawasan Kinabatangan sebanyak dua kali pada tahun lepas. Dari apa yang saya lihat, kelajuan pembangunan di kawasan berkenaan adalah mengkagumkan, tidak seperti yang terdapat di Sipitang.

Terus terang, saya tidak suka dengan pemimpin yang terlalu berbudi bahasa.

Mereka biasanya dari jenis yang licik. Pemimpin begini sentiasa memilih jalan selamat, sentiasa bersembunyi di mana mana tempat yang tersorok – mengelakkan jawapan yang paling berterus terang iaitu YA dan TIDAK. Ini merupakan jenis manusia yang paling saya cuba elakkan selagi boleh.

Kaedah penyingkiran yang paling mereka sukai ialah tikam belakang. Ini kerana tidak mampu untuk berbincang secara berhadapan, berterus terang dan berbahas dengan cara yang wajar.

Mereka dengan sendirinya adalah suatu penghinaan – menganggukkan apa saja yang anda katakan, berpura-pura seolah-oleh seorang yang mengambil berat. Seorang kawan melabelkan YB jenis ini sebagai“YB boleh boleh”. Kali ini saya akan menukar istilah ini menjadi “YB bulls**t”.

Telah saya nyatakan, saya berbangga sebagai seorang Kadayan dan tidak suka berbasa-basi.

Saya tidak sensitif mengenai isu sama ada YB Sipitang hanya mengisi tembolok mereka dan mengkayakan diri sendiri semasa menyandang jawatan berkenaan. Beritahu saya siapa di antara mereka yang tidak berbuat demikian sejak kita merdeka. Dan beritahu saya, kecuali Datuk Nik Aziz Nik Mat di Kelantan, mana-mana Ketua Menteri yang tidak mengkayakan diri mereka sendiri juga?

Jadi, para pemimpin sekalian, angkutlah segala yang mampu anda bawa menggunakan kedua tangan yang ada.

ULANG SIARAN. HANYA angkut menggunakan KEDUA TANGAN.

Jangan terlalu tamak, jangan terlalu pentingkan diri, tinggalkan yang selebihnya untuk kami di Sipitang.

Jadi, jika anda berfikir saya seorang glamor [sebenarnya tidak], silalah anda meneka siapa yang akan saya undi dari sekarang.

Saya masih belum membantu mana-mana calun, BELUM sehingga kini kerana nampaknya mereka semua pun begitu kuat tanpa saya di sisi. Lagipun saya juga seorang yang sibuk. Tetapi sebenarnya, saya bukan hanya pandai menulis [saya seorang yang bangga diri, sebarang kata saya jangan terlalu disimpan di hati] tetapi juga seorang orator yang sangat bagus, jadi hubaya-hubayalah. Tetapi tentunya, undi saya akan selama-lamanya menjadi rahsia.


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What I need in Sipitang

Written by giin buagas

What I need in Sipitang

Barisan Nasional – BN had announced candidates for Sindumin constituency yesterday, 21 February 2008. Tn Haji Ahmad bin Haji Bujang heeds for State Legislative Assembly (Ahli Dewan Undangan Negeri – ADUN). While the incumbent, YB Datuk Hj Sapawi Hj Ahmad shifted to Parliament. It is a sudden demise for Datuk Dr Hj Yussof Hj Yacob political career– his name is missing.


Sindumin Leaders



Meanwhile, Tn Hj Ramlee Dua is a clear candidate for PKR so far, although I am not aware about similar announcement from PKR to date.

First of all, I am a proud Kadayan albeit NOT racist. And Sindumin or Sipitang is my hometown. I don't care about the next door neighbor – Lumadan. Let them decide what best for themselves, for their own goodness sake.

In my proud view, sindumin voters are among the best in Sabah. They are most patience citizens with incomparable self complacency, obedient and peace loving people on earth.

Except for a certain outspoken and restless souls – that includes myself - they never complaint much. For example they have to wait for more than three decades for government to provide the most basic sign of modern world – a proper asphalt KK-Sindumin highway that connects Sipitang with outside world.

Now, after “50” years of independence, luxury of this kind remains as untouchable dream for people in Banting, Kuala Mengalong and some other kampungs.

Lets started with the most basic thing, development of Sipitang district. It is not difficult to develop Sipitang actually. Remember the marketing management in school. Think about location, location and location.

And Sipitang location IS strategic.

Its located in border with Sarawak – a more developed state in Borneo island. Sipitang is the last exit to Brunei and Sarawak.

It is also next to Wilayah Persekutuan Labuan – the “pet” of federal government as federal territory since 1982. The situation akin to Pulau Pinang and Seberang Perai in Peninsular Malaysia.

What we need is a mean to translate the strategic location into ringgit and sen – and for that, we are in dire need for creative soul – a capable YB.

If one lurking around and is not blind, he can spot the following potentials almost immediately.

First, to adopt the liking of present government. Create a “corridor” of development, a development triangle, a development area or use whatever term - between Sabah, Sarawak, Labuan and Brunei exactly in this area – in order to promote growth.

"Corridor", instead of “esplanade”. “Esplanade” mean nothing to a shanty town like Sipitang – it will only make contractor who built the “esplanade” richer. My uncle, my auntie will NOT go to that “esplanade” just for sightseeing, I bet.

Second, we speak about tourism potentials – which I think we are lack of nothing here. We can sort out anything from legendary Batu Narit in Long Pasia, Ulu Bole, Bukit Jabih, Wasai, Pantai Marintaman, Pantai Kuala Mengalong, Durian season and the like.

If we really want to, we can even create a new one, such as a theme park or a museum like those of Monsopiad Cultural Village in Penampang, Sabah. I don't had a chance to ask my grampa, but I don't think Monsopiad was a very famous calebrity in the whole Borneo in his life time.

Third, create a University in Sipitang district. Let this humble place became an education hub for the surrounding area. Never underestimate this. This is Tun Mahathir idea for development of Sintok – a “shantier” town in Kedah when he decided to set up Universiti Utara Malaysia (UUM) some decades ago.

It's easy to set up a university, an individual such as Datuk Dr Lim Kok Wing even created his own university – Limkokwing University.

Fourth, go for a daring one. This is even easier, but also UMNO's idea, not me. NEVER blame me as unreligious being, as I am quite religious actually.

Build a casino somewhere in Long Pasia or preferably in Bukit Jabih.

This is the exact way UMNO developed Genting [Bentong] jungle of Pahang. The place was the famous hideout of Malaya Communist Party.

If you think this is totally ridiculous, the "orang asli" of Pahang felt exactly the same when the first time they heard the idea.

The above four simple mean of district development can only be materialised if, and only if, Sipitang YB are made of these criteria:


a) The leader has to be the guy with experience

Not as government servant, but as a political evil. People always talks about picking up “a lesser between the two evil”.

But to me, a weaker evil is even useless than the worst human being. I rather pick the strongest – that is why Inca empire in Latin America was so strong, they even sacrifice human to prove that they are powerful.


b) A fair play YB with sound mind

Almost all YBs pick the locus of their power in their very own kampung. So are development process and basic amenities, at the expense of other kampungs. Just go to Sipitang, locate the YB's kampung, and compare it to other kampungs at the other end of the district. If you can't tell the different, you better go and see an ophthalmologist.


c) Political parties are INsignificant to Sipitang

Being loyal and obedience are the true weakness of Sipitang people. In the past they love USNO so much, despite of the fact that USNO failed to bring a better quality of life to the district.

They vote base on party's symbol rather than the quality of individual candidates which I think, is terribly WRONG. If Sipitang people really look for development, it is always best to choose candidate based on individual quality rather than a party.

There is nothing shameful about switching party later – it has nothing to do with unforgivable sin of switching religion, or “murtad”.

d) YB should never be too long in the office

I think two terms are long enough for any YBs. They must understand the very beginning that the position as YB is not of “P&P – Permanent and Pensionable” kind of post.

US citizens learn the lesson the hard way, that is why they limit the presidential post into a mere two terms.

But I think The Philipines is pretty damn stupid. What a single term president can do to their country?

In Sabah, we learn this from chief minister rotation system, before it was scrapped by federal government. Nothing can a short lived Chief Minister does – not even capable to collect enough money to sustain a compulsive gambling habit, and an "esplanade", for example.

Unless the particular YB is a genius – such as Tun Dr Mahathir or Tan Sri Taib Mahmud [I limit my compliment on things that they did for economics development not on sodomy case], it is better to stop while they still can.

Too long in service and doing almost nothing except shaking hands everywhere – I rather say, goddamn you.

e) Sipitang need outspoken leaders

Take a look at Bung Mokhtar Raden of Kinabatangan. He is junior compare to the present BN leaders of Sipitang. And I tell you, he is not very smart either, other than the possesion of “laser-powered”, and "unfiltered" mouth of himself.

But I visited the Kinabatangan area twice last year. And the development pace there is tremendous, nothing like it I can see back in Sipitang.

Honestly, I do have problem with soft spoken type of leaders.

They are most likely cunning. These leaders play safe forever, keen on hiding somewhere in gray area – avoiding the most straight answer of YES or NO. This is the most difficult type of persons that I want to avoid if possible.

The common elimination method they use is backstabing. This is due inability to hold correct arguments and confrontation.

They are an insult – they nod to everything you said, pretending to be attentive like no other. A friend of mine call YB of this type as “YB boleh boleh”. This time, I will change the term to “YB bulls**t”.

I told you, I am a proud Kadayan, and I am a practical one.

I am not sensitive over issue whether Sipitang's YBs enrich themselves while in the office. Just tell me who among them were not, since independence. And tell me, except Datuk Nik Aziz Nik Mat of Kelantan, any Chief Ministers who weren't enrich themselves too?

So, leaders, take everything that you can carry with your bare hands.

READ AGAIN. ONLY with your BARE HANDS.

Don't be so greed, don't be so mean, leave the remain for the rest of us in Sipitang.

So, if you think that I am a glamorous person [which I am not], you may start to speculate whom I will vote for, from now on.

I have yet to assist any candidates, NOT for the time being as I think all of them doing good without me. Afterall am a busy man. But not only I am good at writing [I am a proud man, so take it easy] I am the best orator too, so watch out. Of course, my vote remains secret, forever.

This is the personal view of the author and it does not necessarily reflect the official view of KadayanUniverse.Com on the matter – Kaawai Tanah.

Sipitang: Komposisi Etnik-Etnik Utama

Written by Amde sidik

Sipitang: Komposisi Etnik-Etnik Utama Daerah
Sipitang: Composition of Main Ethnics

Beberapa gambarajah yang berikut ini adalah menunjukkan lokasi daerah Sipitang serta taburan etnik-etnik utama yang menduduki daerah ini sebagai makluman dan pengetahuan masyarakat umum.



Peta Daerah Sipitang

Sila klik peta di atas untuk mengetahui kedudukan sebenar daerah ini di negeri Sabah.
Please click the above map for more details on location of Sipitang district.

The following graphs and map that being published here are to show the location of Sipitang district and composition of main ethnics for public viewing.


Rajah 2 Sipitang - Taburan Etnik utama [pie chart]

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Figure 2 - Main Ethnic Composition [pie chart]

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Rajah 3 Taburan Etnik Utama Sipitang [histogram]

Maklumat-maklumat ini diperoleh ehsan Sdr. Amde Sidik - Kaawai Tanah.




Figure 3 Sipitang Main Ethnic Composition [histogram]

These information are courtesy of Mr. Amde Sidik - Kaawai Tanah.

Comments

danazach - Ethnic composition in Sipitang |2008-09-20 19:09:02
Hi Mr. Amde Sidik,

I'm currently writing a wikipedia article on Sipitang and I've been trying to look for a more precise ethnic composition of Sipitang district (since the one given by the state Statistics only lists the main ethnic group in Sabah, i.e. KDM ad Bajau). I am wondering whether you can tell me the source of your ethnic composition and whether it includes the whole Sipitang district or just Sipitang town (Considering there's a significant amont of Kadazans in SFI). Thanks in advance.

amde Sidik - Kadayan Journal |2008-09-21 13:08:53
Hi Danazach

I didn't quite get your question.
Are you saying the locations, e.g.,museums, archives, statical agencies?

The answers are none of these.
If you are thinking about listing the available ethnics found in Sipitang District, then you ought to be covering the whole district.

I can only put in chronological order here, starts from the main ones:
1.Kadayan
2.Lundayeh
3.Brunai (notice the spelling)
4.Chinese
5.Murut Tagal
6 Kadazan (may be?)
7.others

Thank you
amde sidik

Politik Biut 7: The art of reasoning

Written by WaJiD Manis

The Art of Reasoning

Pada zaman dahulu di negara Arab, hidup seorang atheist yang terkenal. Beliau mahir berhujah mempromosikan ide tentang ketidakwujudan Tuhan. Panjang ceritanya, tetapi sudah tentu akan aku "goreng" semula sesedap rasa.



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Beliau kemudian mengajak seorang ulamak berdebat dengannya di khalayak umum. Ulamak berkenaan tidak datang, sebaliknya menghantar seorang anak muridnya yang paling pintar [macam aku].


Betullah strategi ulamak itu. Jika murid berkenaan kalah, orang akan berpendapat memang padanlah dia kalah, kan dia hanyalah seorang pelajar. Akan tetapi, jika beliau sebaliknya menang, orang akan memberikan publisiti berganda-ganda tentang kepintarannya.

Anak murid ini sengaja datang lewat. Orang atheist pula sudah terasa menang. Beliau lalu mengumumkan kepada para hadirin bahawa ulamak ini takut untuk berhadapan dengannya.

Akhirnya si murid sampai dengan tergesa-gesa.

“Maaflah, saya terlewat” kata beliau.

“Tadi semasa saya dalam perjalanan ke sini jambatan telah putus. Nasib baiklah tiba-tiba ada sebilah kapak ajaib datang terapung-apung. Dengan sendirinya ia telah menebang pokok besar di tebing sungai menjadi titi untuk saya menyeberang”, sambung beliau lagi.

“Kamu hilang akalkah”, bentak si atheist sambil memandang kepada para hadirin lalu meneruskan kata kata, “mustahil, mustahil ada kapak boleh buat kerja-kerja begitu”

“Nah kan tuan-tuan”, jawab si murid. “Saudara ini pun tidak percaya sesuatu benda boleh bergerak dengan sendirinya. Itu baru kapak. Bagaimana dengan alam semesta yang luas ini boleh terjadi dengan sendirinya tanpa ada Tuhan?”
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Ada mantik yang kuat, banyak mantik yang lemah. Anda mungkin akan jadi rujukan bijak atau rujukan dungu di masa depan.
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Itulah mantik.

Art of reasoning adalah logic. Mantik. Ia hanyalah kata-kata beralasan yang boleh dibuat walaupun semestinya tidak bersandar kepada mana-mana fakta pun.

Malah fakta pun boleh dipesongkan sesedap rasa. Sesedap rasa, keluarkan apa saja dari mulut anda.

Asal namanya menjawab, jangan pedulikan betul atau salahnya.

Di masa yang sama mantik boleh menjadi mantik yang kuat; juga mantik yang lemah.

Tetapi terutamanya di dalam soal politik, anda mungkin akan jadi rujukan bijak atau rujukan dungu di masa depan.

Ada beberapa insiden mantik ini anda boleh tafsirkan sendiri bijak atau dungunya.

Salah seorang pemimpin pemuda UMNO – dengan gahnya disiarkan melalui berita TV semasa Parti Keadilan Rakyat mula-mula memperkenalkan logo parti mereka dulu. Dia menyatakan bahawa lambang parti itu adalah sama dengan ukiran di matawang kertas Amerika. Bagi beliau ini menandakan adanya agenda tersorok parti keadilan.

Keadilan dan wang kertas Amerika?

Tengku Razaliegh Hamzah dari parti Semangat 46 [telah berkubur dan dinisankan oleh UMNO] pernah ditimpa bencana semasa melawat Sabah. Di sana beliau dipakaikan dengan sigah kaum Kadazan sebagai tanda setiakawan semasa berkempen. Lalu dengan tidak samena-mena beliau dituduh menyokong ugama kristian oleh akhbar arus perdana negara, Utusan Melayu. Sedangkan sigah seperti itu juga sebelumnya pernah dipakai oleh Tun Dr Mahathir.

Sigah dan Kristian?

Itu aku inda tahu lah. Tetapi, biasanya motif anyaman tradisional sigah adalah terhad. Bentuk motif biasa adalah derdasarkan pola empat segi dan pola ini telah dituduh sebagai lambang salib.

Tan Sri Muhammad Muhammad Taib semasa menjadi Menteri Besar, ketika ditanya mengenai kemampuan salah seorang calon BN yang bertanding di negeri beliau telah menyatakan “sudah tentulah si anu ini boleh memberikan khidmat yang lebih baik berbanding calon pembangkang kerana dia adalah anak jati kawasan ini”.

Anak jati dan kampung sendiri?

German pernah dimusnahkan oleh Hitler, anak jati Jerman dan memperjuangkan "Aryan Supremacy".

Jepun juga dimusnahkan oleh pemimpin jati mereka sendiri dalam Perang Dunia Ke II.

Tun Ghaffar Baba semasa mengulas tindakan Datuk Pairin membawa PBS keluar dari BN pada 1990 dulu mengatakan “... dulu kita ajar dia, sekarang dah pandai, dia lawan kita kita balik”.

Maksud terdekat “kita” ialah sipenutur dan sekutu-sekutunya, “dia” ditujukan kepada Datuk Pairin dan sekutu-sekutu beliau pula. Atau maksudnya “orang semenanjung [lebih popular dipanggil "orang Malaya" ” dan “orang sabah”?

Begitu?

Sekarang ini aku lihat, Bung Mokhtar Radin dan Datuk Mohd Said Yusof sangat layak untuk menjadi rujukan dungu di masa hadapan. Dengan segala mak nenek "bocor" lah, apalah, aku rasa YB-YB begini patut dihantar berkursus "pengucapan awam - public speaking" dan "perhubungan awam - public relation".

Beginilah. Aku mesti belajar lagi tentang art of reasoning, logik atau mantik ini. Aku inda mahu nanti sampai 10 tahun, 50 tahun, 100 tahun orang lagi memetik kata-kata aku kerana kedunguannya.

Aku kan ahli politik...


Akan datang. Didikan Biut Politik

Native of Borneo Equivalent, Jakun , 1894

Written by Arimi Sidek

Native of Borneo equivalent to Jakun (1894)

Frank A. Swettenham, senior colonial officer of Malaya (he was the British Resident General of Selangor) observes that there are similarities between Jakun people (he called them Jaccoons) in Selangor and Perak and natives of Borneo.

F.A. Swettenham

According to him, “In Selangor, but more especially in the Ulu Bernam and Ulu Slim, there are numbers of the "Orang Utan" or "Jungle People," known also to the Malays as "Sakai," "Semang," "Orang Bukit," and "Orang Raiat," and to Europeans as Jacoons.

"Like the natives of Borneo, the Jacoons cover their arms with the brass wire. A girl I saw, whose toilet had apparently cost her some trouble, had her arms covered with numberless brass rings."

He did not specifically mention which Borneo tribe, that perhaps include Kadayans in general. But the comment he made was only 114 years old by now and talking about tribal people covered their arms with the brass wire. Hence, I believe this does exclude kadayans as they don't practiced such custom as far as I know. Not to the extend that brass wire cost them trouble in toilet, to the very least. Kadayan have been practiced Islam for almost six centuries earlier, and had abandoned the custom for good.

Reference:

Swetteenham, F.A., 1894. Note on the Jacoons by F. A. Swettenham. The Journal of the Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, Vol. 23. (1894), pp. 89-90.

Penulis Blog Syok Sendiri

Written by Kadayan Banaa

Zam: Penulis blog syok sendiri, macam nyanyi karaoke

Not long ago Zam, Federal Information Minister quoted as saying that some blog writers are like karaoke singer, that “syok sendiri” in singing. I think “syok sendiri” means self glorification, self gratification, self enjoyment or, blowing your own trompet.


Zainudin Maidin

Zam is right indeed. He was the reporter / journalist before he became full time politician and a minister. Its only natural for him to knew exactly what does “syok sendiri” mean.

Ask him how does he felt the first time his article being published in Utusan Melayu.


It isn't just karaoke singer.

[But man, if you ever listen to his interview with Al-Jazeerah you can guess, zam really can't sing. No wonder he hates karaoke singer as well]



Be either politician or journalist, “syok sendiri” is the fundamental of everything that you do. It is a raison d'être for everything, without it you are a dead meat. You need to “syok sendiri” first before you can “kasi syok orang lain”.

I mean it. How can you “kasi syok orang lain” if you can't even “syok sendiri” of what you are doing.

In politics and or journalism, or blogism, all of them are about selling oneself. It is similar to sell hot “pisang goreng”s. One sells good “pisang goreng”, it becomes best-selling and his clients eager to grab for more on the following day. But what happen if he doesn't turn up on the next day? Oh well, its just a “pisang goreng” after all. Since he does not sells on that day, clients may simply grab “pisang goreng” from other sellers.

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Menteri Penerangan Datuk Seri Zainuddin Maidin berkata sesetengah penulis blog adalah umpama penyanyi karaoke, "yang seronok sendiri dengan nyanyian mereka", tetapi sebenarnya tidak berpengaruh walaupun mereka mendakwa laman itu dilayari jutaan pembaca. 24-08-2007 04:59:26 PM mstar.com.my
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I think Zam is too old to understand the internet. But since he does not understand what blogs and bloggers are all about, he talks the talk of grumphy old man. He was a journalist once, but that was for newspaper, not for blog.

If he still capable of learning, and then knew how observes blogs carefully, he can sort out lot of differences among the two.

Newspaper and blog is like a manual type writer and a Pentium D computer. Publishing your articles in newspaper and blog is like sending mail and sending email. [The last time I send physical mail via post office was 5 year ago].

Writing via PC is never similar to writing via manual type writer. It has copy and paste feature, Datuk!

Newspaper is truly an old school media. Nevertheless, they still cater the masses, still very much important. I don't thing they are going to die any soon. But the clients generally are getting older over time.

Bloggers on the other hand are more young [in mind] and energetic, full of ideas, and willing to share them to the entire world, not just Malaysia. But most of them don't get the opportunity to show up in mainstream media.

Selling oneself and image building in real life isn't easy, isn't cheap. So blogging is just what they need. Blog helps them to express themselves, to sell their images and to position themselves in the community. Afterall, internet is something that is within the reach of everybody. It is easy to learn too.

With newspaper, if you curse someone it will be published on the next day, the fastest. The person that you cursed on the other hand, will have to wait for another day to see his reply - that is to curse you back, being published in the same newspaper. But thats only if he is lucky because every news and article subject to editor's approval.

There is no such thing in blogs. Blogger can even publish Zam speech in real time while he is still talking. If zam farts while reading his speech text on stage, his speech will appear somewhere in some blogs while the audience still sensing the foul smell of his fart.

The avid bloggers normaly know much about internet, read a lot and stay long hour everyday in front of their PC. They knew about many things, they travel frequently into virtual world or the Internet with population of 600 – 700 millions, and still growing.

Bloggers, especially the younger ones, normally are highly knowledgeable people. But at the same time they tend to be highly indualistic too. These are the result of spending lot of their life sitting on the chair and glued to the screen - reading, browsing, writing, talking to their virtual friends, etc..

This is not a newspaper but blog, they can reply to whatever you said while you still on stage.

You just can't win by cursing them. If you read the above paragraph you will understand, they are good at cursing you back. Thing will be easy if you, Zam, talk to them nicely instead.

Useless Meetings

Written by arimi sidek

This is quite trivial, but sometimes I truly wonder how long will a meeting last.

How long can you stand a meeting?

As a chairman, its deadly serious to observe how efficient you are during meeting.

Useless Meeting Cartoon



Actually I don't want you to answer the above questions for me.

It is sufficient to have momentary reflection on this hog time – eater. Especially if you belong to managerial part of workforce, it going to eats up a considerable portion of your life.

Imagine the continuous and monotonous life that you going to face during meetings. Any meetings at all – PIBGs, Schools, Projects, Workplaces, etc..

I am in the workforce for nearly two decades and had attended many useless meetings so far.

Honestly, I think its hard to put specific time line for any meetings. They can last for hours, days, weeks, months, etc., subject to necessity and degree of the seriousness of matters discussed during the meeting.

But not in single session, please.

How long do you thing human attention span is? Its an oxymoron to think that member of meeting can listen to chairman's mambo jumbo for 4 or 5 hours non stop.

If you still remember, that is why in school, session breaks into several sub-sessions known as “period”, 35 – 40 minutes each. Partly this is to address attention span problem among students.

Unless you practice sufi kind of exercises, yoga, samadhi or the like, you are likely to experience “ghaflah”. That is, among other, short attention span. Just try to focus in your solat [in case you are Muslim] and then realize how short attention span can be. You mind is truly like wild beast that wandering around wherever and whenever it likes. Just matters of seconds after “takbir ratul ihram” you mind already gone else where.

I believe the success of the meeting lies mainly on the the person who lead the session.

But in most meetings, I notice that the real culprit is also the chairman. I have seen many kapurt chairman that are truly oxymorons. The older they are, the more stupid they became. I wonder how the proverb “wisdom begin at forty” come about.

Most of the older chairmen are like antic collectors that trapped in time zone. Often, they spoken their mind off and what come out just like shit.

They only capable of talking about socio-politics, economics and management ideas of 70s and 80s, because that is the only knowledge that they have. They gathered these knowledge long time ago in 70s, in 80s, while study in the university and do not bother to add more as part of the thinking process and thinking dynamics.

Some chair persons think they are so good because they are the head of department and thus, chairing the meeting at the same time.

They think they know more than others. As their ego is so big, it explodes shortly after the meeting begin. Quite often I saw chairmans that “syok sendiri”. They really, really keen on talking off topic subjects and getting lost in the meeting.

Simply put, many of them have terrible time management.

Their time management is so terrible that, if there is a chairman that truly time conscious, that is considered good enough. Others, I think must have some thing to do with their personal thing if suddenly they become time conscious sort.

Such as, picking up their school kid at 12 noon...

I seldom encounter meeting chair persons that capable to hold correct argument with others the meeting. Correct arguments include fairly good art of reasoning, logic and sufficient knowledge on the subject that was discussed.

During meeting, most chairmen just come to know about the matters as written on the minute of meeting per se. These retardos do not even care to read the minute prior to the meeting. In several occasions, they just realize that they brought wrong meeting file and wrong meeting minute 15 minutes after the meeting started.

If you are among those chair persons, please, take long holiday or simply opt for early retirement. Remember, we have passed new millennium eight years ago. Now it is about radical knowledge explosion since the Internet emerges as knowledge super highway, huge source of knowledge.

The younger generation read more nowadays.

They mind are more exposed and hence, tend to know more.

If these old frogs still insist to live under coconut shell, at the very least, they have to accept the fact that they are of ridicule and mockery subject wherever they go.

Suara dari Buhor 2008!

Written by Alisofie


Selamat mengundi kepada samuha paadian ku kedayan kedayan di Malaysia. Nasihatku bisai bisai tah memilih ketua asal jangan terpilih Gihin Buagas, kalau terpilih iatah memberi bangsa kitani nuhon!

Perkembangan Paadian kitani Kedayan di Baunai ani masih mantap dan merupakan penduduk Majority nyamu liau. Aku bangga lahir menjadi kedaayan asli walaupun bangsa lain mengihina kitani, tetapi jiwa Kedayan disini masih bersatu.

Apa apa pun walaupun perubahan cara hidup baubah, namun Paadian kamu di Baunai ani tetap mengigati paadian paadian yang berada di Malaysia. Aku sandie pun bahau/baru balik melawat Paadian di Sibuti Miri Sarawak. Kulihat disana masih belum banyak kemajuan disegi kemudahan Awam khususnya di Kg Pejuang, Kg Kelulit dan Sekitarnya.
Sampai disini dahulu, semoga jumpa lagi diarena dialog kedayan serantau. Lurus ada article yang liau tulis atau kawan kawan liau dahulu bahawa KEDAYAN TAK AKAN HILANG DI CYBER. Aku sukung dan teruskan perjuangan kitani.

Salam hormat.


Suara dari Buhor 2008!

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Bunga |2009-02-10 07:29:04
sudah seharusnya kita bangga dengan bangsa kita sendiri..!

Parliament dissolved!

Written by KaaWai ^TaNaH^

KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysian Prime Minister Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi said he was dissolving parliament Wednesday to pave the way for general elections. The king has given his consent to dissolve parliament, effective today the 13th of February, to allow the elections to be held," he told a press conference that ended months of speculation."The states have been advised to dissolve the state assemblies on the same date," he said.

Source: Soc.Culture.Malaysia

My Phone Rocks!

Man, my phone rocks!

In just 2 days, I converted my outdated Nokia N70 into a full fledge word processing machine totally. I managed to get two de facto office suites for palm / hand held machine, QuickOffice and OfficeSuite of MobiSystems [MobileSystems].

My Nokia N70 in Action



QuickOffice - I mean full feature premier version of it, not just QuickOffice Viewer that always came pre-bundled inside your Nokia gadget, includes three standard office documents; word processing, spreadsheet and presenter with full editing capabilities.

Quick Office Premier


OfficeSuite of MobiSystems came in two, word processor and spreadsheet but richer in features compare to QuickOffice.

MobileSystem OfficeSuite



As a writing addict what else do I need now, except continue writing non stop 24/7.

This is perfect, taking into account of upcoming general election of Malaysia. Pak Lah will make an announcement about it anytime soon, and I will surely capable to write about politics as much as I can. It is a frenzy for every 5 year, how can I afford to miss.

Forget about laptop. I just about to buy the cheapest notebook that currently in the market. The notebook produced by Asus with 4GB flash disk and 512 MB memory, available with RM1,299 price tag here in Kota Kinabalu.

But my phone, with 1GB memory card that I currently placed inside, I want nothing more, nothing less than this outdated mobile set to be able to write.

It is unbelievable, the tiny word processors even have spelling checker feature!

If it just about writing in *.doc format, I can type for the whole year of 2008 without having to worry that I will be short of memory space.

I truly regret on why I don't discover this IT luxury two years ago. Now, it is about glued to hand phone, previously with PC - you still the same, my wife started to complaint. But I like my phone more. I can truly sit down, mingle with them, and having good conversation in the living room watch TV while I do all the typing.

It has been a week that I did not sit "properly" in front of the PC – alright, “properly” mean 3 - 6 hours non stop, is it okay for you :^p ?

Email me if you want both softwares, I can send it to you for a mere RM20 ;^) ...

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Early Kadayan Songs, 1914

Written by Arimi Sidek


These are the oldest Kadayan songs ever recorded properly, as what I found so far. Unfortunately, no lyrics available. According to Myers, he obtained several phonographic records of native songs, thirteen of which he had analyzed and presented in his paper.

Kedayan Love Song (1)

Like other researchers in his time, Myers classified Kadayans as part of Klemantan ethnic group. In his own word. “Kadayans belong to the Klemantan group of Bornean Peoples; to this group also belong the Bakongs ..., the Long Kiputs ..., the Sehops ... and the Lepu Anna ...”

Kedayan Love Song (2)

There are two Kadayan songs presented in the article. One he called as “Love” song and the other, “Boat” song.

I wish those who can read the notes will record the tones and send them back to kadayanuniverse.com in *.mp3 format, so we can share what the tones sound like.

Kedayan Boat Song


Source:

Myers, C.S., 1914 . A Study of Sarawak Music. By Charles S. Myers. (Cambridge, England.) Sammelbände der Internationalen Musikgesellschaft, 15. Jahrg., H. 2. (Jan. - Mar., 1914), pp. 296-308.