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#umcdel … just wondering if @mpkotabelud has any idea

Posted on by Helen Ang

On what basis & qualification was Saifuddin Abdullah appointed a UM “research fellow” & what academic work did he produce during his tenure?

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saifuddin
Half a dozen bottles of holy water in her bag; half-written research paper in his

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10 thoughts on “#umcdel … just wondering if @mpkotabelud has any idea”

  1. Just saw this via Astro Awani.

    Saifuddin is “SENIOR” research fellow.

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  2. I am a sarawakian. From the time saifuddin was made dep minister before this, i knew he was always thinking he was smart. He wants to play hero everytime. Sometime seen as anti establishment. Even helen ang herself is always seen as provocating the rational thinking malaysians who love peace and harmony. Always painting bad side of the goverment.

  3. ‘what academic work did he produce during his tenure?’

    semasa didalam kerajaan pun, apa dia buat? dah terkeluar ring baru nak pongpang2. kita tahu kemana halatuju mereka yang kecewa.

  4. Macam nasi basi, tak ELOK makan.. NANTI SAKIT perut.

    Don’t need him lah…….. SURUH main jauh jauh.

  5. Helen, you need to write more. I really do not understand what issues you want to raise.

    I recall that I was really having problems with Arab students when teaching MBA at a public university. I expected them to write a 2 page answer for a question but they only wrote a half page answer. How do you expect them to pass. Other lecturers also shared my experience.

    Similarly you need to write more in order to get your message across to us readers.

    1. re: “Helen, you need to write more.”

      We’ll reevaluate this bulan Syawal nanti.

      Writing less, i.e. setting a Twitter cap of 140 characters (20-25 words averagely), is my way of taking a rest this month. Also tukar angin because the presentation format is different. I’ll share more of my views on this matter of communication mode later but briefly, recall, Marshall McLuhan’s “the medium is the message”.

      re: “you need to write more in order to get your message across to us readers”

      I can see with my self-imposed 140-character limit how Twitter constrains communication but at the same time, confers certain advantages such as discipline to instill more precision in language use, more care (e.g. for my Gilad Shalit tweet I realise that “captured” would have been a better word than “kidnapped”) and also to be catchy esp in the headline.

      Pluses and minuses aside, at least for the moment my experiment still has the blog Comment Box option where you can ask and I can clarify.

    1. re: “GE13 clearly showed that Malaysians are becoming more colour-blind politically”

      Haven’t we become more polarized as a consequence of GE13?

      I mean at least last time, BN had perhaps 35% Chinese support in its best years (2008, 1999, 1990 or 1974).

      Now Chinese support for BN has dwindled to 10 percent. How can DAP having 90% or more Chinese support today be considered “colour blindness”?

  7. re: Now Chinese support for BN has dwindled to 10 percent. How can DAP having 90% or more Chinese support today be considered “colour blindness”?

    Is it DAP or PR that commands the 90% Chinese support?

    1. Pakatan commands around 85% as reflected in the ballot.

      DAP commands as much as 95% Chinese support in their longstanding urban strongholds such as Seputeh where Teresa Kok obtained a record majority of 51,552 votes.

      Pakatan in the form of PAS does not command the Chinese support on its own. With PKR, it depends on whether the candidate is Chinese but in GE13, unprecedented support was given to PKR non-Chinese candidates such as Rafizi who won his seat in the Pandan (traditionally MCA) constituency.

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