Thursday, 29 April 2010

Results that matter but why was he hated?

My favourite football coach was Brian Clough.
He managed to transform a 2nd division side, Nottingham Forrest into a
European Champion using old footballers, and yet the British public
don't like him or that is what the journalists will like to convey.

Brian Clough was never offered the coaching for England or even
Scotland. If he had coached England, I'm sure, England will be a World
Cup holder. Even Scotland will become World Champion.
There is something about Brian Clough that make me doubt that he will
want the job in the first place. Despite him being competitive, he
loves peace of mind more than anything else. His competitiveness made
him unpopular with the public, but this is the price you pay if you
want success. The ultimate judgement is for the players to decide. If
the players like him, despite his harsh treatment, that will make him
a good and nice person indeed.

Mourinho has the same intelligence and driving sprit as Brian Clough
but has even the strength to withstand all the mental pressures. We
have yet to see his greatness. He also suffer the same fate as Brian
Clough. The press don't like him. I was worried when he was out of
football for a long time. He should be able to uplift any team into
greatness but I would like him to see him lead a rich team to even
greater achievements and beautiful, intelligent and efficient game.
Imagine Mourinho leading Real Madrid. I wonder if he lasts a season in
Real Madrid.

Detractors will argue that Mourinho wins by losing forgetting that he
won 3-1 against Barcelona in Milan. Mourinho may not even last a
season in Real Madrid that fire coaches every month. Mourinho lost in
European Championship last year to MU. Every coach need time to
adjust.

Even sport journalists know the potentials of people like Mourinho but
somehow they don't like him to succeed. They prefer someone who is
more diplomatic and a liar. That is what I call those people who are
charming and saying nice words all the time. They care more for their
ego than results. In fact that is what most people want to do anyway.
They want themselves to succeed, not others, and they call this team
spirit.

And yet team spirit is about sacrifice. It is not about our egos. We
should be able to work together with people with different views and
styles because that is why they are more successful than ourselves in
their fields. It is not about sacrificing talent in order to fit into
a team in the name of discipline. Discipline that does not contribute
to result is a misplaced discipline.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/football/european_football/article7111127.ece

From Times Online
April 29, 2010
Jose Mourinho enjoys finest hour after conquering Nou Camp
Matt Dickinson, Chief Sports Correspondent, Barcelona
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José Mourinho reached the Champions League final with Inter Milan last
night after a 1-0 loss away to Barcelona that he described as "the
most beautiful defeat of my life".

It was an achievement, he said, that even surpassed winning the trophy
with Porto in 2004, but, inevitably, it was also an occasion that
involved the Inter coach becoming embroiled in yet more controversy.
At the final whistle, Mourinho celebrated the 3-2 aggregate victory by
sprinting across the pitch, where he was confronted by Víctor Valdés,
the Barcelona goalkeeper, who thought the Inter coach was taunting the
Nou Camp fans. The pair grappled.

"I was celebrating with my fans; it is my right to do that," Mourinho
said. As for the loathing of the Barcelona supporters, he shrugged it
off. "If I came here and lose all the time, they love me," he said. "I
always say that the team that wins all the time, it is very difficult
for them to lose. I was a bad loser when I came here and lost 2-0 in
the group stage."

Mourinho's achievement in steering Inter to their first European Cup
final since 1972 is all the sweeter for knocking out two former clubs:
Chelsea in the round of 16 and Barcelona, the holders and the side
most people considered almost unbeatable.

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Bernabéu, Madrid, on May 22, when Mourinho could become only the third
coach, after Ottmar Hitzfeld and Ernst Happel, to win the European Cup
with two different clubs.

His stock as a manager who guarantees success could scarcely be
higher. As for complaints that his teams are overly defensive, never
more so than at the Nou Camp last night, when they clung doggedly to a
3-1 first-leg advantage, he proudly stated that Inter were "a team of
blood not skill". They had no choice than to defend in numbers, he
said, having lost Thiago Motta to a controversial dismissal in the
28th minute.

"We played to win at home," Mourinho said. "Tonight we played as we
could. It was the same style we played against Chelsea. And the style
against CSKA Moscow, when we could win 5-0 or 6-0. And the style
against Barcelona in the first leg when we could have won 5-3.

"Barça controlled it early on and logically with ten men we had to
defend, but we controlled it with our spirit and organisation. We made
huge sacrifices.

"They had the ball more, but it is Barça that take the ball from you
and don't give it back.

"This match was difficult with 11 players. With ten against 11 it was
historic. It is an incredible joy. I have already won a Champions
League, but today was even better."

Mourinho said that he had been bombarded with text messages straight
after the game, including from former colleagues at Chelsea. "I have
so many messages from them," he said. "I know how they felt when they
lost. And friends are friends."

But it is he who, to the envy of Roman Abramovich and Co at Stamford
Bridge, stands on the brink of claiming the trophy. A treble also
looms, with Inter in the final of the Coppa Italia and chasing the
Serie A title. And Mourinho says that he is far from finished.

"I am 47 so I have 23 years to coach," he said. "If Lord helps me and
gives me health, I'll coach for 23 more years and I'll lose, I'll win,
I'll cry, I'll jump. I have so many years in front of me."

Could it involve working at Barcelona, he was asked. "It is possible
that my career ends in another place," he replied. "It is a thin line
between the love and hate that fans have for you."

Monday, 26 April 2010

poor aircon installation causes millions of RM losses

Current Installation Practise, not following Installation Manual.


Old way of installing. Should be the correct way.


My current Sharp Installation manual.


Below is a copy of the reply to Sharp Roxy sales. Their authorised
technican had gone to my house paid with my warranty claim.
Unfortunately he does not find anything wrong with my installation.

I use my knowlege of thermodynamics which Physics and Chemistry SPM
students should be able to apply in analysing the correct way to
install aircons.

The key is hot air rises.
The higher the temperature difference, the higher is the heat
transfer.
When a lower temperature pipe meets with a higher temperature pipe,
the lower temperature will increase in temperature(hotter), while the
higher one will become cooler, i.e. temperature lower.


I suspect the position that we install our aircon is also wrong. We
tend to install our split unit aircon about 7 feet above the floor.
There is a .5 degree temperature difference based on my infrared
temperature reading of the concrete wall.

1)The higher the aircon blower is inside our room, the hotter is the
intake air making it less efficient.
2) Also, cold air sinks and will seep out through gaps in our doors.
Only if the aircon air flow exceeds the amount that leak out, will the
cold air slowly rises from the floor level, and thus lowering the
temperature of our body. If we sit down, it will be only about 3 feet.
If you stand up, it should be lower than 6 feet.

3) So why should we put the blower above 7 feet? There is no need to
cool the air above our head.

Despite my strict instruction to install the aircon at 6 feet, my wife
instructed the installer to install at 7 feet and she thinks that this
is low enough. Aesthetics is more important than efficiency to her. I
think this is the reason why all over the world, they install aircon
at high places on the wall.

Putting the air intake at the bottom of the blower may help to speed
up the cooling since the intake temperature is cooler. We need to
exhaust at higher altitude in order to spread the cold air around the
room faster as well.

I shall upload the photo of the Sharp aircon installation manual at my
blog othmanahmad........

****sent to Sharp Roxy **********
For your info, your authorised technician had come to my house but he
mentioned that this is normal practise, unlike the olden days for my
National Aircon which uses two insulator tubings for each copper pipe.

If this is true, consumers all over Malaysia are losing millions
because of the drop in the efficiency of their aircons which are not
installed correctly even by your authorised aircon installer.

Just a drop of 5% in the efficiency of our aircon will mean that I
shall lose thousands of RM in a few years time.


> I suspect the contractor engaged by my supplier, Top Kinabalu, at Kota
> Kinabalu, Mr. Hua didn't install my Sharp Aircon properly. The use only a
> single insulator to put the two copper pipes together. In the installation
> manual, each copper pipe should be insulated separately.
>
>
> This causes hot pipe to mix with cold pipe making each one less cold for the
> room, and less hot for the compressor to cool efficiently. This causes me
> to lose up to 20% of Aircon efficiency despite the cooling function still
> functioning.
>
> Since my view is not accepted by the dealer since the dealer is not an
> expert in Air con installation, I was asked to get confirmation with the
> supplier of the aircon, i.e. Sharp, in order to check the installation of my
> aircons.
>
> I notice this error when I compare with my National Aircon. Each copper pipe
> has it's own insulation.
>
> Since this contractor is supposed to have installed thousands of aircon
> already, I fear that many customers of all brands had been affected. Since
> each brand of aircon may require a different installation style, I request
> that you send your representation to comment on the installation of my Sharp
> aircon. I notice also that the screws used are too small for such heavy
> aircon compressor.
>
> This may cause safety concerns.
>
>

Monday, 19 April 2010

60MB/s speed

Just installed DLINK 5-port Gigabit Ethernet DGS-1005D for RM150.

I used self-installed and crimped Cat5e cable using. The other PC is
just at the next room but the length of the cable is more than 10m.
I'm surprised that my 5 year old Cat 5e cable can still connect at
such a high speed, despite passing underneath a hot zinc roof.

I used to connect my PS3 at the ground floor using a 10m Cat 5e cable
dangling over the window but for a short while using Fast Ethernet. It
worked but when I connect my old SMC router, b type, with the cable,
it is now damaged and one port of my Linksys Wireless router is
damaged. I am scared of using cables dangling outside our house walls.
It will lead to damage due to induction with lightning. The zinc roofs
and brick walls provide some sort of screening against excessive
induced voltages.

So far there is little need for high speed video streaming for my PS3
because PS3 cannot accept lots of video formats, especially the .mov
format for my camera. Despite having gigabit speed, my PS3 still
cannot be connected to my main PC upstairs. Thinking of the best ways
of drilling through the floor after learning about my damaged port and
router.So near, and yet so far.

Friday, 16 April 2010

Malaysian Muslims have very low faith/Iman

Just attended friday prayer this afternoon.

The Imam cite a verse from Prophet Muhammad that had been a guidance
for me all this time:
"If you see something wrong, stop it with your hands if you are
strong, or use your tongue if not strong enough, or at least with your
heart".

Unfortunately this is not the complete verse. I only learned this
afternoon that there is an additional phrase:
"If you only use your tongue, it shows that you have a low Iman/Faith
in Islam". This phrase had been hidden from me all these years.

This shows clearly that I have very low Iman because I only know how
to protest with my tongue, not with my hands, i.e. take concrete
actions. Only Anwar Ibrahim and PAS have the right Iman/Faith.
Most of us just do not have the correct amount of faith in Islam. No
wonder I and my statesmen are punished by living in the poorest region
on Earth despite having such abundance of resources and beauty.

Wednesday, 14 April 2010

Re: Writings From Wan Hamidi

This is just an accusations and without any valid fact. It may be true
based on logic but very racist in attitude.

If we leave racism behind, you'll find the truth.

It happened to my cousins at batu Sapi Sandakan, the most beautiful
piece of land in the world that is now turned into the ugliest place
on earth equivalent to a shit hole.

A chinese immigrant worked with their grandparents at BAtu Sapi as
fishermen.
Their grand parent was promised the Batu Sapi based on the british
customary law because he was a native.
When the British departed, they sold the whole land to the chinese
immigrant.
The question is, how could the chinese immigrant have the money to buy
the land in the first place?
He was just as poor and uneducated as the natives.

He must have got advise from chinese bank clerks and took up loans to
finance the purchase of the land.
In those days, very few natives went to school in order to become
clerks.

Many stories of land being sold in Tanjung Aru because of debts. The
chinese will just let the native fishermen take provisions from his
shop without charging at first. Later on charge interests for non-
payments. The natives don't bother to check the prices and interest
rates of of the goods sold. They end up selling their land to settle
these debts.
How could fishermen sell land right near the beach in order to move
inland where he cannot fish at all?

My friends grand parents were Arabic traders. He used to own almost
the whole of Sandakan Town. When he died, he passed it to his
descendents that turned into drunkards. Who enticed him to this state?
It was the chinese businessmen who pretend to befriend him and let him
into a drunkard stupor so that he will sell all his land cheaply to
them.

These are documented reasons why these people lose their lands unlike
the false accusations made below devoid of any fact.

Contrary to most opinion, the natives know the value of land, at least
those who have land titles. They just lose their land because they
were manipulated by unethical chinese businessmen. Actually any
businessman will do the same but the chinese are the most numerous in
those days.

Nowadays, these businessmen could be the natives themselves and the
victims could be gullible chinese also.

The fact remains that the majority chinese had managed to manipulate
the situations to get the upper hand in the early days of Malaysia
because they are the most educated and business minded. They exploit
the systems to their advantages due to lack of enforcement of laws.
Even now this exists with banks exploiting their clients with
"incontestable, irrevocable terms for their managers to calculate
interests and charges at will" for all car and housing loans in
Malaysia.

I imagine it was much worse in those days. It had led to the racial
discrimination that exist today making the chinese the richer ethnic
groups. That is why, even in USA, the affirmative action is devoted
mostly to Education in order to close the income gap between ethnic
lines.

Malaysian laws and systems are also not efficient enough to stop
unethical and discriminatory practises unlike in USA.


On Apr 14, 12:27 pm, "mm" <m...@gmail.com> wrote:
>       We Malays are great. We want a pension for life from cradle to grave
> and the pension must be great enough to enable us to dongdang sayang daily.
> It is what ketuanan Melayu is all about.
>
>         > READ MORE HERE:http://www.themalaysianinsider.com/index.php/opinion/wan-hamidi-hamid...
>
>           By: Wan Hamidi
>
>           Umno, the Malay Chamber of Commerce, Perkasa, Ibrahim Ali, and
> what not are shouting, ranting, raving, screaming and hollering about 'nasib
> Melayu' or the plight of the Malays, in particular the Malays of Penang.
>
>           I don't know what Ibrahim Ali was doing back in the mid-1970s but
> judging from the age of many of those others in the crowd I think many of
> them tak sunat lagi back in the mid-1970s. Tak sunat lagi means you are so
> young that you are not circumcised yet and your little dick still has its
> foreskin.
>
>         Yes, back in the mid-1970s -- 35 years or so ago when I was still in
> my 20s and not even 30 yet -- I was already fighting to improve the lot of
> the Malays. And 35 years ago those shouting, ranting, raving, screaming and
> hollering today were either too damn young or were not even born yet.
>
>         We realised even back then that if something were not done the
> Malays would be left out. We realised that unless something were done now,
> 35 years ago, the Malays would be left behind. So we sat down with various
> Malay leaders and those who walk in the corridors of power -- the Prime
> Minister included -- to plan and chart the future of the Malays. And we did
> this for more than twenty years from the mid-1970s to the mid-1990s before I
> decided it was a lost cause and that I had better move on to other things.
>
>           The problem we faced was as what the then Minister of Trade and
> Industry Rafidah Aziz said: Melayu mampu daya maju tapi tak mampu daya
> tahan. This came from the Minister herself and means the Malays can be
> viable but can't be sustainable. Malays can achieve success but can't
> sustain the success.
>
>           The Minister then revealed details and lamented about all the
> wealth the government gave the Malays in the form of land, concessions,
> permits, 'pink slips' on new stock exchange listings, and whatnot, which, if
> the Malays had kept, would mean the Malays would have far exceeded the 30%
> target of the New Economic Policy.
>
>          But the Malays did not keep this wealth. The Malays sold it. The
> land, concessions, permits, 'pink slips' on new stock exchange listings, and
> whatnot, were all sold. So the Malay holding reduced and ended up in the
> hand of the non-Malays. This was what troubled the government, the Malay
> leaders, those who walk in the corridors of power, and us in the Malay
> Chamber of Commerce.
>
>         So they now lament about how left behind the Malays in Penang are.
> They should chart the progression of the Malays in Penang from 224 years ago
> until today and analyse at what point it went up and went down again. Were
> the Malays driven out? Were the Malays pushed out? Or did the Malays sell
> out? And why and how did the Malays sell out?
>
>         There is such a thing called the law of supply and demand. There is
> such a thing called market forces. There is such a thing called willing
> buyer, willing seller. When there is a demand there will be a seller. And
> since there was a demand for land in Penang then for sure the landowners
> would sell. It is all about making a profit.
>
>         So Penang developed. It became known as the Pearl of the Orient. So
> the capitalists moved in, as capitalists always do anywhere in the world
> where there is money to be made. And the Malays saw the route to easy and
> quick cash available to them. So they sold their land for a lot of money and
> moved on to another place where the land was cheaper. Now they could have
> their cake and could eat it too. They sold their small piece of land in
> Penang for a lot of money and bought an even bigger piece of land, say in
> Kedah, for a small amount of money and still had a lot of money left to go
> to Mekah, send their kids to university, and whatnot.
>
>          Today, many of those old folks and landowners of the 1960s and
> 1970s are dead. They are no longer alive. Their land in Penang had been sold
> off long before they died. And their children and grandchildren no longer
> own land in Penang . This is because the old folks had sold it off when they
> were still young or before they were born.
>
>           Today, the Malays are angry because the land in Penang is owned
> mainly by the non-Malays. But this is so not because the non-Malays stole
> the land but because the Malays sold it for a lot of money. It is what any
> property owner would do when the property they bought for RM100 two world
> wars ago can now fetch RM500,000 on the open market. Only a fool would turn
> down RM500,000 in profit.
>
>         The more the Malays scream about being left behind in Penang the
> more the Malays would look stupid and would be revealing their weaknesses.
> Back in the 1970s the government already sighed and lamented that come the
> year 2000, the Malays would still be left with nothing.
>
>         We can help the Malays, the government said. We can do, what you
> want us to do. But if the Malays just sell off whatever we give them, then
> come 2000 the Malays would still end up with nothing. And then the Malays
> would turn round and blame the government. The Malays would say the
> government does not care about them. They will never admit that the
> government did so much for the Malays but the Malays chose quick cash
> instead of sustaining and maintaining for the long term what the government
> gave them.
>
>           Say what you like about Rafidah Aziz and those many of the 1970s
> and 1980s era. They did try and they tried very hard. I should know because
> I was part of it. But we all knew that it was a futile effort. We can try to
> help the Malays to get rich. But they will not stay rich. They will sell all
> for quick cash and then will become poor again. And then they will blame the
> government because they are poor.
>
>           This was anticipated 35 years ago back in the 1970s. And the
> government told us this would happen. But we still tried. And now it is
> proven that the government was right, 35 years ago.
>
>         Today, Pakatan Rakyat is ruling Penang . But Penang was founded 224
> years ago back in 1786.
>
>         Tomorrow, Pakatan Rakyat would have ruled Penang for exactly two
> years. For 222 years before that it was not Pakatan Rakyat that was ruling
> Penang . But Pakatan Rakyat is being blamed for 224 years of Penang history.
>
>           Yes, Perkasa, the new 'Malay rights' movement headed by Ibrahim
> Ali. Ask Ibrahim Ali how much the government gave him since the 1980s. In
> the 1970s when I was already fighting for the Malays he was still a student.
> Ask Ibrahim Ali to total up everything the government gave him the last 30
> years or so. That figure should come to at least RM200 million-RM300
> million.
>
>           How much does Ibrahim Ali still have left? Can he even find RM1
> million in his bank account? Where did all that hundreds of millions go?
> Yes, ask Ibrahim Ali to ask himself all these questions. Then he will
> understand what happened to the Malays. What happened to the Malays is
> exactly what happened to him. He sold off everything and spent all the money
> just like those other Malays. And now he blames the Chinese because he is
> broke.

Chinese the largest recipient of Hard Core Programs

Despite clear evidences that the Chinese are among the richest ethnic
in Malaysia, they are also the largest recipient of the monthly RM300
hard core poor recipients.

My cousins, who do not have any husband, living in shit infested
place, only receive zinc roofings every election time, relying on
their sons who are paid below poverty level. These sons also have
families of their own to look after despite having such low wages.

This information is told by the Welfare Ministry who handle this hard
core programs with the intention to tell the poor natives to apply for
the hard core poverty eradication programs.

How could this happen in a BN controlled state such as Sabah. These
poor natives are all strong BN supporters and they only demand these
zinc roofs come election days. It never occurred to them to demand the
RM300 per month programs because nobody told them anything.

The simple reason is that, the natives are so poor that they are
uneducated, that they cannot afford even to go to the ministry and
fill up the forms. The chinese, despite being labelled as hard core
poor, can afford the trips and education to fill in the forms.
Probably even bribe the welfare officers to expedite the processing.

The best solution, is the pay all those above the age of 60 RM300 per
month. Only then will it be fair for everybody.

Despite all the UN statistics indicating that the natives are much
poorer than the chinese, it is the natives that get the least
allocation of help for the hard core poor. What is BN's strategy? To
win over the chinese votes while neglecting the natives that have
always supported them stupidly?

State government more important for Bread and Butter issues

Zaid is right. The state government is more important for bread and
butter issues.
If the voters are only interested in bread and butter issues such as
land titles and garbage collection, then since PKR is the current
state government, no matter what the result of the MP election is, an
BN MP will not help them at all. It will make it worse.

This is confirmed by the voters comments in this article.

Why on Earth Sabahan MPs be so scared in crossing over to any party
they wish at the MP level when the people already got the state
government that they want?

sabah already got the BN, touted as more Islamic than PKR that had to
sleep with the racist DAP, as the State Government. As normal bread
and butter issues are handled by the State Government, why not topple
BN at the Federal Level in favour of someone who can give more grants
to Sabah State Government directly, i.e. PR.

The total grants may be the same as pointed out by Musa Aman, but it
won't solve the bread and butter issues of the State since it is
handled by the Federal Government, not the State Government.

What sort of stupid arguments that Sabahans had succumbled to, to the
point that Sabah is now confirmed as the poorest, not only in Malaysia
but the whole world, despite having such immense natural resources and
natural beauty.


BN sees easy shot with Zaid as goal keeper
WED, 14 APR 2010 11:40
By Zainal Epi

KUALA KUBU BARU: Barisan Nasional sees an easy battle now that PKR is
fielding former minister Zaid Ibrahim as its candidate for the Hulu
Selangor parliamentary by-election.

For one, Zaid is not a local boy, and so he is not in touch with local
issues which the upcoming by-election is expected to focus on. Worse
still, he may not be able to blend with the locals, some voters here
say.

The semi-urban voters of the constituency are mostly working in
factories, plantations and their own land and bread-and-butter issues
are their daily worries. National issues, which Zaid is fond of and
which brought him into the limelight, are treated as "extraneous" and
do not concern them.

"I heard of him (Zaid). PKR members told me he is a righteous man.
It's good but what we want here is someone who can relate to us,
someone who can help us solve our local problems such as licensing,
garbage collection, developing the town so that our business can
grow," said one shop owner here.

But PKR de facto chief Anwar Ibrahim probably has other plans for
Zaid. Anwar may be looking at the larger picture: Zaid is not just a
man representing 64,500 voters; more importantly, he is someone who
can be a great asset in Parliament to address the bigger issues.

While Anwar probably wants Zaid to be a national player as an MP, the
main concern for the party now is how to sell Zaid to the local
voters. The 198-majority votes garnered by the late Zainal Abidin
Ahmad in the 2008 general election was "unreal" because it reflected
more a general anti-government sentiment than a liking for PKR,
according to folks here.

Office worker Rosmina Ismail, 44, said voters wanted someone whom they
could relate to.

"The late Zainal Abidin was an intellectual but he came across as a
people's man whom the semi-urban voters could relate to. He was simple
and down-to-earth.

"We thought PKR would have picked a local man but instead it chose a
prominent personality, someone we find difficult to communicate with,"
she said, with two friends nodding in agreement.

For BN, the early prediction of an uphill battle has now ceased as it
sees Zaid a candidate with "loads of baggage".

"It is good for us that PKR is fielding Zaid. It will be a pleasure to
fight him here. Our chances of winning are better now since he has
lots of baggage with him," said Jerlun MP Datuk Mukhriz Mahathir.

The Deputy International Trade and Industry Minister believes that
Zaid's past disciplinary problems when he was in Umno will be his
undoing.

Other BN MPs shared similar sentiments: the field is clear now and the
goal post is wide open for a good shot; there is no need for a
penalty.

Despite BN's "feel good" sentiment, the ruling coalition is not
without problems. With just two days to go for the coalition to name
its candidate, squabbles within the MIC may just blow away BN's
chances of walking away with the coveted prize, come April 25.

Former three-time MP G Palanivel is still being pushed hard by party
president S Samy Vellu while the preferred choice among Umno division
members is MIC deputy Youth chief V Mugilan.

Whoever the candidate is, some local folks said they would prefer
local boy Mugilan who is known to be affable and easy to get along
with.

The ball is now in BN's court: it must field a suitable candidate who
can win the hearts and minds of the local people. More importantly, he
must be someone who can effectively serve the people after the battle
is over.

If BN fields the wrong candidate, then PKR may romp home with a bigger
majority.