Disclaimer: All puns intended!
PKR MP for Ampang Zuraida Kamaruddin and PKR MP for Subang Sivarasa Rasiah had told a press conference that the minister lavished RM1.5 million on the actress over a period of just 4 months.
They urged the minister to come clean and account to the public on how he could afford such a lifestyle on his Cabinet pay. Otherwise, they would reveal his identity. Even though the PKR leaders have not revealed any names yet, the alleged affair has been an open secret for months, especially after the actress’s driver lodged a police report exposing the duo.
why will some make then rised jail for making false police report
The driver, Noor Azman Azemi, lodged the complaint on March 13, following an accusation by the actress that he had absconded with RM200,000of her company’s funds. He claimed that the Umno minister, who hired him, had an “intimate relationship” with Zahida spanning three years.
Afraid of reprisals, a relative of the driver then sought Zuraida’s help and gave her a copy of the report. In the police report, the driver called himself the “trusted middleman” who helped channel the funds into the personal account of the actress.Embattled Rural and Regional Development minister Shafie Apdal has finally admitted an affair with actress Zahida Rafik, on whom he was accused of lavishing RM1.5mil over a 4-month period.
I work hard for my money’ – actress being Minister’s RM1.5mil mistress
and once I get there I start digging. I just could not sit back and rest and have a small voice in my head going, “There is money out there”.
My heart! -
I don’t want to be hypocrite and pretend I am not hurting, I am! I am hurting. I knew from the start that we were bound to end sooner or later, in our case 3 happy years later. However, I am still having difficulty moving on because there are a lot of questions left unanswered and there are a lot of feelings left unresolved. Knowing me I need answers, I need resolutions! I need the money badly!
I must admit that I still love him and how’d I wish I stayed within my boundaries of just loving him and not loving him too much. I should have taken his advise of loving him less and loving my self more.. well sometimes (most of the time) I am stubborn. Like right now, I know that I would benefit more from our separation and that it is for my own good more than his BUT I refuse to see that that I’ve compromised my love of self. At this point I asked my self ‘Why?’ and my heart tells me only 2 reasons ‘1) I love him and 2) I don’t want to see his family, his friends and other woman getting hurt (more or less) like I am now’.
The four years that we’ve been together were so beautiful and I want it to stay that way in my heart and mind. This is why I must be strong before he treats me any worst. I would rather be remembered badly for loving too much than hurting the person I love.
He said this once to me and I will say it back to him “thank you for loving me, wanting me and making me feel happy!”
My heart is my next destination.
WHAT MAKES A MAN FALL FOR A WOMAN JOHN F. KENNEDY CARRIED ON AN 18-MONTH-LONG AFFAIR WITH MIMI ALFORD,
—John F. Kennedy carried on an 18-month-long affair with a teenaged White House intern, according to a new book by the woman who claims to have been the late US president’s lover.
Excerpts of the shocking memoir, “Once Upon a Secret: My Affair with President John F. Kennedy and Its Aftermath,” were released Monday by the New York Post, which said it purchased a copy of the book at a local bookstore, although it is not scheduled for publication until Wednesday.
In her tell-all memoir, author Mimi Alford, now a 69-year-old grandmother, recounts the president’s tears after the death of his newborn son, and recalls that he confided to her, while
embroiled in the drama of the Cuban missile crisis that “I’d rather my children red, than dead.”
Alford provides intimate details of their relationship, which started in the summer of 1962, when she was just 19, less than half the age of the dashing president, who was killed the following year by an assassins’ bullet at the age of 46.
In an excerpt published by The Post, Alford wrote that she met Kennedy just four days into her internship, and that he invited her the following day on a personal tour of the White House residence that included first lady Jackie Kennedy’s bedroom.
Now 50 years later, Alford, a retired New York City church administrator, writes that it was there that she lost her virginity to Kennedy that day.
“Slowly, he unbuttoned the top of my shirtdress and touched my breasts,” Alford — at the time Mimi Beardsley — wrote in the excerpt.
“Then he reached up between my legs and started to pull off my underwear. I finished unbuttoning my shirtdress and let it fall off my shoulders.”
“After he finished, he hitched up his pants and smiled at me” before pointing her in the direction of the bathroom, the Post reported.
Embroiled in a CD controversy,Congress leader Abhishek Singhvi today resigned as chairman of a parliamentary committee and party spokesperson in a damage control exercise ahead of the resumption of the budget session tomorrow.
53- year-old Singhvi, an eminent lawyer and a Rajya Sabha member, sent a letter to Congress President Sonia Gandhi informing her of his decision ten days after circulation of a CD purportedly involving him.
“I have done this only to prevent even the slightest possible parliamentary disruption regarding the purported CDs being circulated about me.
“Since I am a disciplined party soldier, I did not think it fit to subject the party to any inconvenience on this account. All allegations are patently baseless and false,” he said in a statement.
Singhvi acquired high profile after the committee headed by him came out with a report on the Lokpal last year on whose recommendation the government brought a legislation on the issue.
Singhvi, who was taken off the AICC briefing last week, said that “canards and baseless” allegations were being spread about alleged inappropriate conversations in the alleged CD.
“People inimically opposed to me, who have assiduously spent over ten days hearing, seeing, amplifying and distilling the CD found no vestige of any reference, not even remotely, to any illegality, corrupt practice or wrongdoing. “Specifically, some sections of the print and visual media are spreading a falsehood simply by repetition and hearsay that there is a reference in the CD to the promise of any post. No one has heard any such reference in the CD. There is none simply because it does not exist. It is pure imagination, wishful thinking and sensationalism,” he said.
Singhvi said the canard was spread simply to give the issue a public interest flavour since otherwise the contents of the CD, “assuming them to be true, (which they certainly are not), would disclose only something private and consensual giving a cause of action only to aggrieved family members (who have stood completely by me) and to no one else”.
Falling from grace in the land of Kamasutra where octogenarian party members exhibit their proficiency while orchestrating orgies,
Abhishek Manu Singhvi has allegedly hit an all time low. Settling with a humble ‘blow job’ session and a cheap excuse in the name of fornication, the veteran advocate is having a ‘hard time’ justifying his antics. If ‘analysing’ the somewhat scandalous video the term despicable is an appropriate term, no younger companions, no fancy lighting, no noises, not even a bed, I mean yes office porn is a rage but it needs to be coordinated properly.
Singhvi ji allegedly dominated the ‘proceedings in the house’ with a quick “lie down here” to the lady who seemed to rape the Honourable Chairman of the Parliamentary ‘Standing’ Committee on the Lok Pal bill. Amidst a vociferous background score Singhvi ji (allegedly) was quick to ‘get down’ to business and optimised the space in his chamber to violate the lady’s chamber. The near to 13 minutes of erotic caper for the father of two is largely ‘all crap and no fap’ with continuous mumbling and a somewhat comfortable conversation ensuing between the two.
Though the sex was not unnatural in any sense (overlooking the sheer monotony), what appalled the masses was the irresponsibility adopted by the political circles. After preaching to use condoms for decades the very basic premise of safe sex was completely overlooked by Singhvi ji. I believe further exploration into the Honourable Member of Parliament’s ‘excitable’ sex life is not needed as any further discourse would result in the eventual arrest of the author. Singhvi ji also needs to be commended for being one of the top 10 trending topics on twitter for three days straight, an achievement worthy of being mentioned.
Nonetheless with the release of the new sleaze video (if considered one) the belief in the politicians of the nation has fallen to an all-time low. The series of respectable gentlemen falling into the abyss of unholy desires has another addition to the already excruciatingly extensive list and the worst antics on record are of those belonging to the congress party. Though Singhvi ji has obtained a restrain order on the broadcast of the contents of the CD, the video has gone viral on micro blogging platform twitter. Ironical it is that the very congress party that vehemently advocated the digitalisation of the masses and hailed themselves as the harbingers of the computer revolution are the one’s worst affected. Further deplorable is the proposal to censure this revolution when the masses have realised its importance.
It is without doubt that social networking has been instrumental in ensuring that the educated masses are empowered and such antics of ‘reputable’ individuals are brought to the fore. It would be advisable for the political establishments to harbour creative exchange rather than considering regulating it. For the congress party it is time to discard the highhandedness which they have adopted for long and a serious need to reconsider their election strategies and image makeover techniques is needed.
Civility and contemporary society — have they not simply become antithetical to each other?
Most of the time “civility” appears to be nothing but an old fashioned and out-of-fashion reminiscence of a by-gone era.
What has taken the place of civility in contemporary society may well represent “freedom of expression,” but do we really benefit by having achieved the lowest common denominator of human expression as common parlance and conduct?
Is it really necessary to “give someone the finger” as an expression of the most minor of annoyances? (e.g. The guy behind you does not like the way you are driving!) Must we express ourselves daily in common discourse in what in another age would have been deemed a “vulgar tongue”? Must disagreements become the basis for personal attacks on the character of another person?
Dare we ask where lies dignity and respect?
Several months ago The New York Times (Sunday, February 5, 2012) carried an article suggesting that in South Korea an initiative has been undertaken to address the lack of civility that has become endemic of our contemporary world and Korean society in particular.
The initiative involves the reintroduction of Confucian education.
It is spearheaded by Korea’s oldest private Confucian Academy, Sosu Seowon. Opening originally in 1543, the academy has seen a growing number of school children attending the academy over the past several years for extracurricular education in Confucian values. The country has some 150 such academies that have reopened to offer the same kind of education. Multiple thousands of students are involved in this educational initiative.
And what is the education offered? It is learning focused upon civility, upon the importance of community and family in a time where the dominant paradigm has shifted to monetary and material success of the individual seemingly at the sacrifice of numerous values.
The drum beat of the contemporary world’s mantra continues — me, money, me, money…
Perhaps, however, in the crazed competition for the world economic market something intrinsic to the soul and character of the Korean people had been lost. Deeply steeped in a heritage of Confucian learning and values, South Korea like other Asian nations, often saw much of modernization as a necessary rejection of its Confucian roots. And there are good reasons why much of the past was rejected. I am not justifying the past simply as the past.
The lesson came home, however, with the collapse of the halcyon days of the financial bubble for South Korea. The importance of the traditional heritage was suddenly more important than the newly found materialist opulence. The mania of materialism seems only to have separated people from each other and destroyed the foundation of civility at the deepest level of society, community and family. So-called modernization had taken its toll on the soul of Korean society.
Though we do not have a historical foundation of Confucianism ourselves, perhaps the mania of materialism have also taken a toll on our own tradition of values of respect and dignity. We may be “richer” by far through the “benefits” of modernization, but it is perhaps also the case that something has been lost in the process. Respect and dignity seem often to be the first casualties, and with their loss comes the loss of basic civility.
And what is Confucius’ teaching on civility?
“To subdue oneself and return to propriety is goodness… Look not at what is contrary to propriety; listen not to what is contrary to propriety; speak not what is contrary to propriety; make no movement that is contrary to propriety…” (Analects XII:1)
Strong words and a strong code of conduct, an antidote perhaps to a world pervaded by its own strong (and expletive!) words and conduct that manifest so often only a forgetfulness of even the most basic standards of civility.
Respect and dignity — where are they? — Certainly not in giving someone “the finger” or using expletives in virtually all day-to-day discourse!
Confucius’ passage suggests that “civility” is defined in terms of propriety, li, a virtue that emphasizes an inner attitude of respect and dignity toward others and the building of community. It suggests as well the need to “subdue the self,” k’e chi, what is bound to be a very unpopular notion in an age where “freedom of expression” dominates civility.
“Freedom of expression” — oh sure, the world we have created is all about “freedom of expression!” There seems to be no goal more important today and we certainly don’t want to ever limit any freedom of expression!
And the mantra of “me” marches on…
Surely, however, the very dignity of the notion of “freedom of expression” is at best compromised, however, by its lowest common denominator. Such “compromise” is nothing short of prostitution — a word whose basic meaning suggests taking something at less than its true meaning. What better way to describe where “freedom of expression” has taken us as a culture and as a community?
Must we dwell where dignity and respect no longer have a home, no longer define us as human beings, and no longer chart the long course of extraordinary human achievement? Should not human achievement, however, be more about building upon what is best about us as a species, not the lowest common denominator?
The answer to that question, at least for South Korea, is to reintroduce schools for the teaching of Confucian values as its own antidote to a world where the ability to act and talk with dignity and respect, civility, if you will, seem only vestiges of a by-gone era.
And how and when do we address our own lack of civility?
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