The stupid minister opens her mouth again and syok sendiri
So, the minister Azalina Othman was in town and gave some really strange, if not stupid, announcements….
Looks like she has appointed the person who screwed up tourism in the state in the past to be the chairman of Penang Tourism Action Council. Now, I am sure, all of you know Mdm Kee Phaik Cheen?
That woman is known to make long, long trips overseas in the pretext of promoting Penang and come back with expensive, designer items for herself. Ahhh…we all know who benefited the most from her trips, it was definitely NOT Penang!
So, now she is back. I guess, PTAC is in very good hands and will be organising more trips overseas huh?
Then the new tourism minister started babbling about getting rid of syok sendiri programmes in the country.
Wah, minister, we know you always do things syok sendiri but why lah you start potong stim for others who want to syok sendiri?
She seemed to think that certain tourism events are merely ’syok sendiri’ so the ministry will no longer support nor organise such events.
“We are only interested in major events which bring in foreign tourists and benefit the whole industry.” she reportedly said.
Ah, so. And who is the expert to know which programme bring in tourists and which does not?
Don’t tell it’s the minister who blew millions on a facility to ‘train’ Malaysian footballers in UK?
Oh right. That incident was a mistake and this time she has supposedly wised up by:
1.Cutting off the tourism action councils of five states from the state government
2. Announce new chairmen, who may or may not be good, for the councils
3. Announce no support for any tourism events except those sanctioned by her…err..the ministry with a ’syok sendiri’ rating as the judging factor.
So, how do you see the tourism industry in Penang in future? Well, looks like the state’s soon to be formed Penang Tourism Council will have to work doubly hard to promote tourism events, syok sendiri or otherwise, and raise their own funds. The dyke has spoken in no uncertain terms that there will not be any support from the federal.
Meanwhile, PTAC will probably become what it used to do before Teng Chang Yeow took over in 2004 and turned it around a bit. It will now serve as nothing but a front for Kee to travel worldwide to shop…err…promote Penang. As for funding channeled through PTAC, the state can probably say goodbye to all that and they are better off raising their own funds.
The fat lady has sung and she ain’t parting with her money till ’she is certain that it is spent properly’ – meaning masuk someone’s pockets lar….
Hmmm….is it me or do I sense a foreboding looming in the horizon especially for the tourism industry in Penang? Sigh, poor tourism exco Danny Law, he has some interesting times ahead of him.
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Wuah…that lau ee still around ah? We all paling pantang to hear her name.
April 26th, 2008 at 3:41 amAzalina thinks that she is the Tourism Minister for only the states that BN rules. This sounds like in-subordination. Her boss, the PM always stress that he is the PM for all Malaysian… (Or is he lying through his teeth when he said this ? Or is he sleeping again when Azalina setup this Council in the state the PR rules ?)
To the fat lady, possibly Tourism could meant making trips outside of Penang or Malaysia. This is also tourism mah… Oooppsss.
What did you get when two not so smart person get together ? We could ONLY hope for breakthrough.
April 26th, 2008 at 6:14 am5xmom: Ya lor. Wat to do. That’s why people say unpleasant things always tend to surface during good times!
anon: Ahhh.. but the PM said he is PM for all Malaysian…in BN states. We all must have missed the last three words!
April 26th, 2008 at 10:12 amMadam Kee is back……………
Aiyoh what will Penang be?
When I was in Penang for years
People said she syiok sendiripunya
So now I don’t know
What she will do?
Shopping……..
This one she is eager to glow
The ‘lau yee’ should have stayed back home
No need to polish her face on papers any more
Maybe she needs it…………..
Since her place now has a security pondok
Or has the MPPP pulled it down already?
The Penang Government should clean up the beach
Introduce more greens in the state landscape
Highlight the old buildings and make it a hawkers’ centre
Introduce the old BB park theme in the Old George town area
Advertise the Penang Hill
Do more cultural and modern, rap, hip-hop dancing
Don’t do the longest this and that
The ‘lau yee’ then seemed to enjoy doing it
The syiok sendiri Azalina
She doesn’t want others to do it
Why so stingy one this woman?
Let others enjoy it mah!
O the food!
April 27th, 2008 at 3:16 amThis is what I remember
Friends I have forgotten and lost in contact
But food……………………?
Penang better make full use of it