Monday, 25 July 2011

Down the Seremban memory lane...

24th July 2011 was a day of nostalgia of sorts. It was a day down the lane of nostalgia. After working in Kuala Pilah (1989-1991) and Seremban (1991-1992), I never really went back. 1989 to 1991 was a time of life with lesser complications and responsibilities - before marriage (KP) and the time of euphoria just after (S'ban). 20 years later, Seremban looks less green, more 'exposed' and 'brighter'.

Starting ill-prepared after dealing with post-Standard Chartered Marathon malaise and inertia of restarting training (having reached the big one!), nursing a low backache and being pulled into a turmoil of the supra-tentorial type, I started the early morning low budget 21km, run.
This time around, only Suresh and I partook in this regatta. Raj, who was gung ho in doing his maiden half, had to pull out due to irresistible work commitments (or did he really chicken out?) In spite of being of low budget, the run was well run. It started promptly at 6.45am. The same familiar faces were seen again amongst the crowd (die-hard running fanatics). 
Starting at the council grounds in the heart of town, bordered by a temple and gurudwara, it took us along the roads of Seremban...So did my mind, just as I do in most runs, jogging down memory lane...

Life in the late 80s and early 90s was blissful. Having graduated from varsity and starting work, given a lot of responsibility and respect, finally settling down in matrimony after a rough patch, I thought that was it. Of course, there was the desire to pursue to further my career via post-graduate studies; that was okay!

From the starting line, we strolled down Rahang Road via various newly constructed highways and made ourselves to the Paroi area. This Paroi area was familiar as through these roads, I used to speed to make it to punch in after a long locum session in KL through the weekend, feeling tired but happy with money jingling in my pants!

In my mind, I was chuckling at the names of buildings. I was wondering whether Klinik Rahang was a dental clinic or medical clinic as Rahang in Malay meant 'mandible' or 'jaw', and Rahang was also an area in Seremban! That lame joke, my son would say.
Amy Winehouse - Rest her soul!
Back to the Maker (not Rehab)
Taman Rashidah and Taman Guru... What used to be an army camp is now an open-air exhibition ground. Here we turned towards Ampangan. What used to be a sleepy Malay neighbourhood had transformed beyond recognition with residential and commercial buildings. A short while later, we turned off to the Kuala Klawang exit, entering the tarred but old dual-country carriageway. Enjoying the loud, energetic music of FlyFM (no reception for BFM) and enjoying the early morning scenery of the countryside, I almost tripped over when I heard the bad news. Amy Winehouse was found dead! Holy cow! Didn't I just hear a couple of months earlier that the curse of the 27 was to strike soon (over the internet)? Many a great musician has succumbed to the curse of age 27. This includes Jim Morrison (The Doors), Jimi Hendrix and Kurt Cobain (Nirvana). The article had actually predicted Amy Winehouse to join the 27 Club!

All this while, I was just running at my own relaxed pace, oblivious and not ambitious of improving my time. At 1h 1m, I had covered the 10km mark, regularly sipping my self-made concoction of cordial drink with tonic water (with quinine -cramp buster).

Somewhere at Taman Kayu Manis (what a name but sounds 'high class' as 'Cinnamon Garden', though), we turned towards Sikamat. The route was undulating but manageable. The last 3km were, as usual, the 'longest'. And were painfully obstructed by casual and love-struck 10km jaywalkers! From Sikamat, we made it back through Lake Gardens back to our starting point in one piece at 2h 22m. Suresh was in cloud nine after breaking the sub-2h barrier at 1h 57m! Congrats. The last time I heard, he was still flying high!

We celebrated our success by indulging in banana leaf thosai but too early for mutton as the cook had not started cooking yet. Probably still running after the goat to slaughter!


Saturday, 23 July 2011

When great nations go broke


The Star

Friday July 22, 2011

Why Not?
By Wong Sai Wan

Populist decisions and fear of election backlash are the surest way a country would go bankrupt.
TAXI drivers went on strike against the issuing of more licences as part of austerity measures adopted by the government by parking their vehicles on the highway leading to the airport.
Another government had to sell off its embassies in 11 countries to raise RM300mil because it could no longer afford to keep them.
And in a third country, the government is in a tussle with its elected representatives as the country hurdles towards defaulting on its US$14.5tril (RM43.4tril) debt.
No, none of the countries referred to is Malaysia. Instead, the striking taxi drivers were in Greece, the embassy selling country is Britain and of course with such a huge debt, the third is the United States.
It’s frightening to think how these three countries – at one time or another was the greatest country of a certain generation.
In ancient time, Greece was the centre of the universe for everything ranging from democracy to sciences to world conquering feats by its leaders like Alexander the Great.
But it can no longer live on its past glories as it wallows in its own Greek tragedy.
Its economy, the 27th largest in the world, is in ruins just like the things that Greece is most famous for.
Britain – once called by everyone as the United Kingdom or Great Britain – had the largest empire in the world just a century ago with colonies in every continent. Malaysia was once its colony.
The British claimed the industrial revolution as its own and is rightly credited for turning manufacturing into becoming the mainstay of the global economy.
It is now a shadow of its glory days and at best is the rabble rousers in the European Union (EU) zone. Gone are its colonies in every far-flung corner of the world that kept its super economy running.
Now the British have even got to putting for sale its huge Chancery in Kuala Lumpur because it would be cheaper for the High Commission to operate out of a commercial building.
As for the United States, wasn’t it the leader of the free world and the fatherland of industrialisation where hardwork is always rewarded with ample financial gain?
But now the country is bogged down with wars on various fronts from Libya to Afghanistan.
Yes, the United States is still the No 1 country in the world as far as the economy size is concerned but for the first time in the past century, everyone else – especially China – is catching up quickly.
The Americans owe more money to everyone than anyone has in the past.
Go to the website http://www.usdebtclock.org/ and you will get the real time feeling of how much the land of the brave and free owe the rest of the world.
It will probably take hundreds of PhD thesis to explain what went wrong for these three nations but suffice to say that successive governments did not do enough to prevent their economies from falling into such a dark hole.
On top of that politics has played a strong role in pushing these economies into even darker places.
Political opponents in these countries, especially in the United States and Greece, have been playing a game of one-upmanship on every issue.
Even now on the brink of economic ruin, these politicians continue to play the game.
As for Greece, there are enough MPs there who want to play the popular game of not going ahead with the agreed austerity drive because it is supposedly too painful for its people.
But wasn’t it their foolhardiness that brought Greece to this position in the first place.
What was the hurry for Greece to join the single Euro monetary system? It was obvious that it was not ready to meet the standards set by the technocrats in Brussels (where the EU is headquartered). The same can be said of Ireland, Spain, Portugal and many of the old eastern block countries.
It is hoped that the Greek government will stand firm against pressures from the likes of the taxi drivers and proceed with the unpopular austerity measures.
As for the United States, the rivalry of Republicans and Demo-crats is threatening to send the world into possibly the biggest depression ever as there is less than 10 days left before America defaults on that huge debt.
The Republicans, who control the House of Representatives are refusing to approve President Barack Obama’s proposed budget on the debt ceiling because they claim it would hurt the American economy (read the rich).
If they default, the entire world can look forward to decades of depression as lenders will panic and demand all nations to repay their debts immediately.
Our national debt stood at RM233.92bil last year or 34.3% to the Growth Domestic Product.
It used to be worse but some of the debts were repaid in the last decade when the ringgit gained in strength.
Yes, surprisingly our country’s debt is not a huge mountain as some people would like us to believe, but what is worrying is the lack of support for efforts to reduce it further.
A sure way of doing it is by reducing subsidies.
In 2009, it was reported that the Government spent RM74bil in subsidies ranging from social projects to energy and food. This translates to an annual subsidy of about RM12,900 per household.
Cutting back on subsidies would be unpopular with the people. The negative reaction to the floating of the premium petrol prices and the allowing of energy prices to rise are examples of the backlash the Government has gotten from its efforts to reduce its subsidy spending.
The most popular comments against Malaysia’s spending cuts has been to ask the Government to reduce the leakages before even thinking of cutting back on subsidies.
Of course, it does not help the Government’s plans that in the past there has been ample evidence of such leakages.
Something must be done to convince the people there is a total war against wastage including using unpopular means. Why not?
After all, the most important lesson from the Greece, Britain and United States stories is that being popular will only guarantee election victories that will eventually lead to financial disasters.
> Executive editor Wong Sai Wan has been through three recessions and fears the fourth the most.

Thursday, 21 July 2011

Your mess, your headache!

So there I was, talking to my old friend on the cell-phone. As per courtesy, when he answered, I asked him whether it was a convenient time to speak. He replied in affirmative as he was just waiting to pick his son from school. My friend had 2 sons and a daughter. I came to understand that this was the second son that he was waiting for. The first, a 12 year old lad, had been packed off to stay with my friend's brother in law in Australia. Why? Has he been banished from our motherland for some unforgivable crime sentenced to the pleasure of the King or something like that? Of course not! They are staying in Klang, with dearth of quality international education in the vicinity, my friend thought that for the sake of his future, his son would be better off let to grow up in a foreign land away from his parents!
Well. this is not the first time I have heard off such a 'sacrifice' done by parents, all in the name of securing a bright future for the children (as if children educated here in Malaysia are only fit to sell nasi lemak; not to imply that nasi lemak sellers are educationally challenged and have a bleak doomed future). They forget that many a successful entrepreneurs the world over did not even have the opportunity to even seek shelter from rain in a school compound! Lim Goh Tong and Boon Siew (of Honda fame) are 2 living (deceased) examples.
There is a family friend (an Indian in Thailand), who, in the not that well globalized Bangkok of the 1970s was mercilessly sent away to study in a boarding school in India at an unbelievable tender age of 5years old (no kidding). After being traumatized by home sickness and peer bullying, lucky for him, he continued the rest of his education in a newly established international school in Bangkok then.
And yet another boy (another friend's early teenage son) who after failing to perform well in the Malaysian schools, was bundled off to a boarding school in Chennai.
Hey, am I missing something here? Have I been misinformed all this while? I have always thought that you are responsible to the DNA that you sow. Just like you cannot go around spilling and sowing your wild oats recklessly without taking responsibility as a man, you are also responsible for the product of the half of the DNA that you did not 'waste'. In the immortal words of MSM, anyone can be a father; a good father takes responsibility of his offspring and nurtures him through his financial, physical, spiritual and psychological needs. Nobody likes his little own to be associated with such a brilliant but sickly serial killer like Charles Sobhraj.
My take on this is, you left this carbon foot-print, it is your job to ensure that this isotope, even if it does glow like diamond, it does not burn aimlessly like charcoal in a wild fire! You would not want your mess to be other people's headache.

Now, you understand economics!

http://www.bfm.my/resourcecentre_20110719_ahamed_kameel.html
Another product of Penang Free School and a good buddy of mine with a razor sharp mind but with a gentle personality and demanour. Everyone used to be jealous of his crowning glory of hair which looked a splitting image of Paul Glazer a.k.a. Starsky of the 'Starsky and Hutch' fame. Unfortunately,whilst in university it started dropping till he decided to shave it all off (even before Bruce Willis in Die Hard series) and he know looks like and his mannerisms are like one of Karamchand Mohalal Gandhi!
He was born on the southern most tip of Indian subcontinent in a village named Pannakollam (Lake of Money) overlooking into Palk Straits. His father had earlier started a jeweler's store in Penang in the early years of Independent Malaya. The rest of the family joined him later. AK arrived when he was a toddler, I think.
AK and I started studying in Hutchings Primary School and we progressed to Penang Free School.
In PFS, we were quite close. Before Martell started churning out the board game 'Master Mind', AK had already taught our group of friends his own version of this game (we had not given a name yet!) with paper and pen/pencil! He was (and probably is) a maths whiz and could understand concepts very fast. He was in Double Maths class and did economics as well. He had been quite sure all his life that he was going to do Business Administration and that is what he is doing now - Professor in Business Administration in IIU. How did he land in IIU (International Islamic University)? It is because when he had completed Form 6, he was still holding a red I/C which made him ineligible to apply to the public universities which was controlled by UPU which made it compulsory for entrees to hold blue I/C. And IIU was open to all.
Listen and be enlightened......
http://www.bfm.my/resourcecentre_20110719_ahamed_kameel.html

Wednesday, 20 July 2011

'Why I am a socialist and intend to remain so' - Dr. Kumar in detention

19 Jul 2011

“Hey Kumar! Still tilting at windmills are you?” a doctor friend greeted me at an MMA function 4 years ago. There had been some news regarding the Parti Sosialis Malaysia in the media that previous week.
For many, the socialist experiment had already been assigned to the dustbin of history and only deluded people would still work towards socialism.
But in the PSM, we believe that socialism has an important, even crucial, role to play in averting a collosal economic-ecological disaster that will occur within the next 30-60 years!
We believe that the world has to find a workable alternative to an economy driven by corporate greed. We advise 3 main arguments for this position.

1. Malaysia’s current economic course recommends to a "Race of the bottom"

The global owners of capital and technological expertise who control market access are a relatively small number of corporations – about 500 to 1000. They have become all powerful in the unipolar world of today and they can “bargain hunt”. Even the biggest governments can’t control them. 

The measures that Malaysia is taking to attract investors into Malaysia include
  • Lowering corporate tax and supplementing tax income by enacting a GST. The tax burden is being shifted onto ordinary Malaysians
  • Enhancing “labour flexibility”. This is a misnomer - it undermines job security and workers’ rights through allowing contractualizing of labour and by weakening unions.
  • Privatization of basic services such as health care and tertiary education.
All these measures pile economic pressure on the lower 70% of the population.
And these are measures other developing countries are also taking – each outdoing the neighbor in the mad rush for FDI. It is very difficult to build a caring society within this framework of development.

2. Chronic under consumption leading to massive growth of financial capital and increasingly volatile financial “bubbles”

The ability of large corporations to “bargain hunt” in the cheapest sites to station their factories has meant mega-profits for these corporations but at the same time has stunted the aggregate consumption power of the global economy. When a US or European firm lays off 100 US workers by shifting to China and hiring 100 Chinese workers at 1/7 the wage, the total buying power of the working class is reduced.
The absence of robust growth in consumer demand dictates that the profits of the corporations cannot be invested in the production of more consumer goods. So the corporations need to try other alternatives to make money such as the Futures Market, Currency Trading, the Share Market, and other financial products like derivatives.
This tendency is highlighted by the fact that “Quantitative Easing” – the release of more money into the US economy in an effort to stimulate industrial production thus reducing unemployment – has backfired into the creation of more financial bubbles in various parts of the world. The problem is sluggish consumer demand, not a lack of productive capital.
The issue here is not insufficient regulations but a misdistribution of the world’s wealth! To address this problem, the power of the corporations has to be challenged!

3. We are reaching the environment limits of growth

The global economy is heavily dependent on petroleum. This commodity is going to run out within the next 50 years or so. We urgently need to think not only of alternatives sources of fuel, but also of much greater fuel efficiency! 
Global warming is with us. How soon and how fast sea levels are going to rise is still a matter of conjecture – but does that mean we can afford to ignore the issue if it only impacts our grandchildren and not us?
An economic model that requires a global average rate of growth of 4% per year to avoid downturns is clearly not sustainable! Not for the next 50 years! We need to redistribute the wealth we already are creating more equitably. We have to cut down waste! Growth cannot be endless.   
All of these are only possible if we are ready to challenge the paradigm that unchecked greed will lead to the best possible outcome for the world’s majority because Adam Smith’s “Invisible Hand” is still operating in today’s corporate led globalization.
The ordinary people of the world need to take power to dictate the direction of the national or world economy away from the hands of the 560 richest corporations of the world.
We need to empower the marhein of the world to take on these tasks through a democratic process. These are the tasks facing 21st century socialism. These are not easily attainable goals.
But the problems we are facing are extremely serious. Unchecked they could lead to an ecological, food or climatic disaster that will lead to a decimation of the world’s population.
This is not the world that I wish to bequeath my grandchildren. That is why I am a socialist and intend to remain so despite the EO/ISA arrest!
Written in detention,
Dr. Jeyakumar Devaraj

Monday, 18 July 2011

Ancient Aliens

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Ancient Aliens is an American television series that premiered on April 20, 2010 on the History channel. Produced by Prometheus Entertainment, the program presents theories of ancient astronauts and proposes that historical texts, archaeology and legends contain evidence of past human-extraterrestrial contact. The show has been criticized for presenting disputed pseudoscience. The series' de facto pilot was a TV special of the same name that aired on March 8, 2009. A second season began airing on Thursday, October 28, 2010 in the 10ET/9CT time slot.
Production
The executive producer of Ancient Aliens is Kevin Burns, who also directed and wrote the pilot episode. Giorgio A. Tsoukalos serves as consulting producer and appeared on screen in the pilot. Erich von Däniken appeared in the pilot episode, and UFO researcher C. Scott Littleton served as an expert consultant for the show until his death in 2010.
Radio talk show host George Noory spoke in five episodes, including the pilot. Reverend Barry Downing, known for describing angels in the Bible as ancient astronauts, offered his viewpoints in the pilot episode. Psychologist Jonathan Young appeared on screen in every episode but the first pilot.
Critical reception
Reviewers have characterized Ancient Aliens variously as "far fetched" and "hugely speculative", and of "...expound[ing] wildly on theories suggesting that astronauts wandered the Earth freely in ancient time." The ideas presented on the program have been criticized as pseudoscience and pseudohistory.
Episodes
Pilot (2009)
Episode Title
Original Air date
Pilot (1)
"Ancient Aliens: Chariots, Gods & Beyond"
March 8, 2009
The pilot presents the views of author Erich von Däniken who theorized that advanced beings from another world visited primitive humans, gave them the knowledge of the solar system, concepts of engineering and mathematics, and became the basis for their religions and cultures as he claims are evidenced by ancient monuments such as the Nazca Lines, the Pyramids of Giza and the Moai statues of Easter Island.
Season one (2010)
Episode Title
Original air date
101 (2)
"The Evidence"
April 20, 2010
This episode suggests that aliens made contact with primitive humans, and cites as evidence, Indian Sanskrit texts from around 3000 BC that are suggested to describe flying machines called Vimanas; Egyptian megaliths that are said to show precision cutting work thought to be too advanced for the time; and Jewish Zohar writings that are said to describe a "manna machine" similar to chlorella algae processing of today.
102 (3)
"The Visitors"
April 27, 2010
The episode proposes that alien visitations have occurred around the globe, and cites as evidence, claims that the Dogon people were given galactic knowledge by a star god; the Hopi and Zuni celebrations of Kachinas (or "gods from the sky") that are symbolized with headdress that are said to resemble modern space helmets; and that the Chinese Huangdi was a Han leader who came to Earth on a yellow dragon which is suggested to have been a metaphor for a spaceship.
103 (4)
"The Mission"
May 4, 2010
This episode posits that extraterrestrials have a mission plan for Earth and mankind, and cites as evidence, Sumerian tablets that allegedly describe the Anunnaki as a race of creatures that came to Earth to mine gold; the purpose of cattle mutilations; the mile-long "band of holes" near Pisco, Peru; Egyptian hieroglyphs that are said to depict hybrid creatures that are part man/part animal; and crystal skulls and crop circles that are said to contain messages from aliens.
104 (5)
"Closer Encounters"
May 18, 2010
This episode suggests that alien encounters have been documented in various historical texts, citing as evidence, the 13th century book Otia Imperialia which describes an incident in Bristol, England ascribed to UFOs; the log entries of Christopher Columbus that report lights in the sky; stories of cigar-shaped craft allegedly seen over Europe during the Black Plague; and Medieval art that supposedly depicts disc-shaped objects floating in the heavens.
105 (6)
"The Return"
May 25, 2010
This episode proposes that aliens have contacted man as recently as the 20th century, citing examples such as the Battle of Los Angeles and the Roswell UFO Incident. It also looks at the modern SETI project and speculates what would happen if aliens answered back; what protocols exist to determine who would speak on behalf of mankind, and how we would communicate.

Season two (2010)
Episode Title
Original Air date
201 (7)
"Mysterious Places"
October 28, 2010
This episode examines locations around the Earth that are proposed "hot spots" of UFO activity; such as the Bermuda Triangle; Mexico's "Zone of Silence" an area of land said to naturally disrupt radio signals; the portal-like structure at Peru's Puerta de Hayu Marka; and the curious rock formations of the Markawasi Plateau.
202 (8)
"Gods & Aliens"
November 4, 2010
This episode looks at legends about powerful gods and fearsome monsters that have similarities between them even though these legends are found in different cultures separated by vast distances, and this episode also suggests that these legends may be eyewitness accounts of alien visitations. Also discussed are tales of gods interacting with humans, imparting wisdom and technology and impregnating women to create demigods who are supposedly the offspring of human/alien unions.
203 (9)
"Underwater Worlds"
November 11, 2010
This episode suggests that various underwater structures and ruins found around the globe may have been used by extraterrestrials; such as the temple ruins found under Lake Titicaca in Peru; the geometric structures of Yonaguni off the coast of Japan, and ancient Indian texts that allegedly describe other sunken cities yet to be discovered.
204 (10)
"Underground Aliens"
November 18, 2010
This episode theorizes that various underground places may have been extraterrestrial lairs; such as a lost cave in Ecuador said to hold metal tablets containing alien knowledge; the underground city of Derinkuyu in Turkey; Native American legends of "inner-earth" beings; and rumors of a secret U.S. Military-base supposedly built alongside aliens inside the Archuleta Mesa near Dulce, New Mexico.
205 (11)
"Aliens and the Third Reich"
November 25, 2010
This episode speculates that Nazi Germany had experimented with advanced alien technology and built flying machines; such as the Haunebu and the Die Glocke (The Bell); and rumors that some of this technology may have made its way to the United States and helped jump start the Apollo program.
206 (12)
"Alien Tech"
December 2, 2010
This episode proposes that some advanced weapon technologies currently in development, such as laser and sonic weapons, are rediscovered technologies used by advanced beings in the past. Also discussed are theories that aliens provided gravity manipulation devices to help man construct colossal stone structures around the world.
207 (13)
"Angels and Aliens"
December 9, 2010
This episode looks at various stories of angelic visitations that to some ancient astronaut theorists read more like alien encounters than divine appearances, and suggests they are not supernatural beings, but visitors from distant planets.
208 (14)
"Unexplained Structures"
December 16, 2010
This episode suggests that various sites around the world; such as Göbekli Tepe in Turkey; the Incan ruins of Sacsayhuamán in Peru; the Carnac stones of France; and Zorats Karer in Armenia, show construction techniques and mathematical concepts that were not believed to have been known at the time, and that this knowledge was gained from alien visitors.
209 (15)
"Alien Devastations"
December 23, 2010
This episode surmises that aliens may have caused various disasters, as depicted in the Bible and other texts, or even tried to warn man of them; such as Noah of the Great Flood. Also proposed is that some disasters ushered changes in human evolution and that our leaps in technology over the centuries were achieved with alien help.
210 (16)
"Alien Contacts"
December 30, 2010
This episode proposes that extraterrestrials may have contacted various humans throughout history, such as Moses and Joan of Arc, to help guide and inspire them to achieve great things; or to pass on important messages for humanity; such as a supposed binary message given to a UFO-contactee during the 1980 Rendlesham Forest incident who believes it is the coordinates to a mythical island called Hy-Brazil.
Season three (2011)
Season 3 is tentatively set to premiere Thursday July, 28.

Saturday, 16 July 2011

Painting the town red!

As the Tamils have a proverb for a situation like this, 'Like a bear attending Lord Shiva's prayer', I do not know what this retard of a  fan (aren't they all?) - and they call us "Live-a-fool" - was thinking he bulldozed into the sea of red worshipers of Liverpool team. The Kops fans are too level-headed to ridicule the mentally challenged.
Anyway, welcome Liverpudlians to Malaysia. The Liverpool team is made up everyone else but hardly any Liverpudlians anyway but they play in the Merseyside they become Liverpudlians, right?.
From The Star, 16th July 2011....
PETALING JAYA: A Manchester United fan pushed his luck a little too far when he showed up at the Liverpool training session at the National Stadium in Bukit Jalil wearing the Red Devils kit. 

Liverpool fans saw red and he was lucky to get away with only losing his shirt. Raging hell-raisers: (From top to bottom) The young man is spotted sporting the jersey, prompting Kopites to force him to strip. He then left, before returning in a Malaysian national team jersey. A video captured at the training session on Thursday and later uploaded on YouTube showed a young man clad in his Rooney No 10 jersey, surrounded by hordes of Liverpool fans, including women, seated directly in front of him. He resisted attempts to strip him, but his jersey was eventually lifted off in front of a crowd yelling “Buka! Buka!” (“Take it off!”). He refused to put on the Liverpool jersey, even as it was forcibly put over his head, and sat stone-faced and shirtless for a moment before he was led away from the jeering fans.

However, the Reds still failed to get him to wear their kit as he was later seen in the video wearing a yellow Malaysia jersey.
Liverpool fans who were nearby as the spectacle unfolded said he was asking for trouble.
“He can come to watch, but he should have known better with the rivalry between the two clubs,” said Zuliantie Dzul, 29. “He was showing off his jersey, making sure everybody saw him,” said Tommy Lim, 27.
The video can be seen at www.youtube.com/watch?v=s0dcdoU51rk.

When two tribes go to war...