Alfred Ho - Singer/Musician: Is It 200,000 or 20,000

Why I've taken an interest in politics

Dear Readers,

Allow me first to introduce myself. I am a blind individual in my 50's and a singer, guitarist by profession. I have been in this profession for more than 20 years now and my forte is singing the old western favourites. I also sing in several chinese dialects, including spanish and several languages. I mainly do the pub circuits and perform at company and wedding functions.

For your information, the reason why I am disenchanted with the government is because I have been discriminated against in years gone by. Apart from being a singer, my other interest lies in disc jockeying and as such some years ago, I applied to RTM for such a post. Of course the powers that be at RTM were reluctant to offer me the post but after writing numerous letters, they finally gave me the job but with a hidden agenda. They only gave me the job for 6 months after which they relieved me of the post. Subsequently, I wrote several letters to the then information minister, Khalil Yaacob but my pleas for him to intervene in the matter fell on deaf ears as he decided to ignore my letters. I also approached people such as Lee Lam Thye, Lim Keng Yaik and even the very popular complaints officer of MCA, Michael Chong with the same results. All the 3 people that I mentioned gave me the cold shoulder, inspite of the fact that we are supposed to be governed by a caring government. It may interest you to learn that I even went personally to the MCA complaints bureau to seek out the assistance of Michael Chong and believe it or not he refused to entertain my complaint and he even tried to drive me out of his office saying that he was the wrong person for me to approach and that I should bring my complaints to the blind association instead. I even tried to highlight this matter with the star newspaper but as the star newspaper is a MCA publication, I was told by the news editor that my news report was not newsworthy, even after I had given my account of the events to one of the star reporters. disgusted by this, I wrote several letters to certain top MCA officials such as Ong Ka Ting but to my dismay they chose to ignore my letters till this very day. I even had my letters to these inconsiderate officials published over Malaysiakini. Subsequently, Michael Chong tried to defend himself over Malaysiakini but I think that he failed miserably. Believe it or not , I even wrote to no less than the prime minister himself for his assistance but until today I have yet to get a reply from him. To ensure that the PM got my letter, I purposely attended his hari raya gathering at the PWTC where I handed the letter to him personally. As such he cannot deny not having received my letter for assistance. I even rang to speak to his political secretary, Vincent Lim but as expected, he was just as unhelpful. As a result of these problems that I have encountered, I have decided to take a great interest in politics.

You know, if given the opportunity I would like very much to campaign for the opposition as I strongly feel that the misdeeds of this very uncaring government should be exposed

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Oct 12, 2007

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Same old song, the spin doctors are at it again. Everything in that report sounds too far-fetched. Believe it or not, I have attended Badawi's first hari raya gathering with the purpose of handing him a letter requesting his intervention in a dispute that I was having with RTM. Unfortunately, nothing came out of it as he decided to ignore my letter altogether till this very day. Anyway, coming back to the food. There was nothing to shout about, for if I remember correctly, the beef rendang was so tough that it was no fun eating it.. the cakes that was served was not fresh, and in short, if I had to pay for the food, I would have regretted it. I am in total agreement with you that having 200 thousand people to attend Badawi's function is certainly an exaggeration, and for the reasons which you have given in your article, it is just cheap publicity and wishful-thinking on the part of the organizers of the function. When are these crooks going to stop taking Malaysians for fools?.

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Anonymous said...: Dear Mr. Ho,
Hello. You are successful in your singing career now. Sometimes the world can be very unfair and there is no answer for it. We think that humans can help us but they cannot because in the end they have to look out for themselves too. They think that by helping, they will destroy themselves. I am not sure if you have any beliefs. If you have, then believe that a higher force will cause justice to come your way. For now we just have to learn to forgive and to let go. It is difficult and mentally challenging. But we still have to let go because there is nothing else we can do. There is nothing like a boost to one's ego and one's status in life to see so many coming to one's gathering of some sort. I have never been to any VIP's gathering. May be I should try one of these days and see the sort of hospitality these VIPs extend to the common people. You should also be commenting on the amount of ringgits spent on our space mission programme. I think it is over half a million ringgit. Now for a developing nation like Malaysia, this sort of money should be used on more urgent problems. Are we telling the world that we are so rich that we can send a man to space ? Take care.; October 12, 2007 at 10:11 PM
Alfred Ho said...: Dear Anonymous,

Thank you for your philosophical advice. I do not allow all these problems to fester in my mind & it does not really affect me where my health is concerned. However, I feel that it is my duty to expose the government for the way it discriminates against certain group of citizens such as myself. Please continue to visit my site from time to time & do feel free to drop me a line & perhaps even reveal your identity. For your information, I will be joining the ranks of the opposition by becoming a member of the DAP & a press conference will be held at Teresa Kok's service centre tomorrow at 11am.

Cheers
Alfred; October 13, 2007 at 2:17 PM
Alfred Ho said...: Dear Anonymous,

I've already written about the space tourist scandal. Please read my blog again.

Thanks; October 13, 2007 at 8:03 PM

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