It is a small village in the kecamatan of Tambusai, Kabupaten Rokan Hulu in the Province of Riau, Sumatra. During the Padri Wars of 1830's , Tuanku Tambusai (aka known as Fakeh Hj Muhammad Salleh ) fought the Dutch forces together with Imam Bonjol and Tuanku Rao in West Sumatra and in Northern Sumatra .The last defence was in Benteng 7 Lapis,Daludalu which fell in 1838. He escaped capture and came to Malaya. He was buried in Rasah in 1882.
Tuesday, February 17, 2009
The Bare Truth
People seemed to be quite adept at using technology to bare the truth nowadays. One of the recent victim is Elizabeth Wong, who got voted with a thumping majority at the last GE. Despite our dark clouds over the horizon and the forecasted millions who would be jobless in this part of the world, our nation is immune to these gloom of doom, so to speak. No matter how much bare truth is being spewed by serious writers about our economic situation, an equally good number of spin writers are gleefully engrossed in circulating the bare truth of another kind. I don't think the people realise what's coming for them or what's going to happen to their ricebowl, for the denial syndrome seemed to have spread like a plague. According to the EC, it's going to cost them a total of RM 1 million for the two by-elections and no one bat an eyelid or cared very much. Perhaps the amount of money that would be thrown around would be multiplied by ten for all to savour. If the price of democracy is measured in terms of million ringgits, then we should call it "money democracy" to follow "money politics". That's the bare truth!
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