Im sorry just a quick amendment. My Great grandmother was married to Raja Ngah Mansur the eldest surviving sons of Sultan Abdullah who was banish to the Seychelles for his involvement on the murder of J.W.W. Birch. He was not the Raja Di Hilir, his son was Raja Kamarulzaman who was responsible for the tune of Terang Bulan being adopted as the National Athem of Perak. He was (Raja Mansur) apparently responsible for the lyrics to the tune.She was just one of the wives and is known as Teh Mansur.The other event remain true except Raja Kamarulzaman was the ADC to Sultan Idris the 28th Sultan of Perak who was visiting England at that time.My apologies to sort of my Aunt Raja Toh Puan Teh Zaitun Raja Kamarulzaman the wife of the late Governor of Malacca Tun Abdul Aziz's. A picture of Raja Mansur will be posted soon. Sorry for the blunder!!!!

* Picture of YM Raja Mansur with his dad Sultan Abdullah the husband of my Great grandmother.

I have been branded a Communist by my mates in school. Trouble was these people never knew history as I see it. Most of those who were branded as communist by the British were never really one. They were I maintain were merely nasionalist, many were unschool with very basic education. The appeal of a classsless society where everybody will work for the good of the community was very appealing especially after the stock market crash in 1927. The effect reveberates to our shore, many people were out of job just like the appeal of reformasi that envelop the country in 1997 it is easier to blame the ruling class for the deppresion. They don't know about Das Kapitas written by Engel and Karl Marx but those ideas forward in the book were very appealing. The Ulama at that time has no awnser to the basic problem that face the community as shown in the book The Malay Dillemma by Mahathir Mohammad. I believe none was mention in the book about God but religion as a whole,yes. Religion was regarded as the opium of the masses please do not confuse by believing in God it just that when one talk about religion one talk about codefied views unshakeble unbending thus defeating the purpose of mental evolution.
I believe if one is a hindu a christian a jew etc one does not have a monopoly of God. So a Muslim is not the chosen people as the jews are but just a disciple of God. The root of Islam is to surrender and the Muslim must learn to surrender themselve to God before he could judge others. Sorry to digress but I am not trying to defend those Malay Communist Leaders but trying to make people understand. It is wrong to label them as atheist although all along we were taught that all Communist were one. They are those Capitalist too who have become atheist but you don't label all of them as atheist do you? It was easier to label people the trouble is the world we live in is not made up of black and white they are grey areas that need our consideration. I do not condone the emergency period many live we lost. But than man has always been stupid and that is why war is stupid.My Grandfather was one of them who has more brawn than head. He was not in love with the person he married and he never took his marriage responsibly so just like Rashid Maidin he left his family with a baby still on the cradle to fight injustice as he saw it. Just like UMNO using the Chinese as the bogey man PKMM and MCP use the gwailos as the bogey man and any of their lackeys were regarded as traitors.Collobrators to the Japanese were also regarded as traitors.And so even up to now it is how UMNO retain her power. One thing about UMNO it is a chameleon, if it means to trumpet Islam to retain her power she would and that is why in recent times Islam has become important to UMNO. Her leaders at one time comfortable with wine and cards are now took comfort in sermons condemning evil. I pity the people for they do not know what they fighting for. To the Malays who now clamour for Justice think religion is the awnser yet they themselve are not for justice as required by Islam. Is it fair to have favouritism for the malays? Is it fair when the Chinese Muslim wishes to have her own Mosque continously being denied as publish in the local news recently? What gives? At least during the British time the Indian could built their own Mosque and one of their Mosque is the famous Kapitan Kling Mosque in Penang. Why the fuss? I am sorry this is my pent up frustration I will go back to my stories soon.See Ya!!!

Arghhh! it is the Chinese New Year again and we usher in a new year now the Year Of The Golden Pig or Fire Boar. For me hopefully this year will be good, touch wood. I am tiger so it is suppose to be a good year but then nothing should be taken for granted and there is no excuse for hard work although hard has never been in my vocabulary!!My Grandma was a dutiful daughter. She love her (adopted) mother to bits and after her studies to Juniour Cambridge level (the highest for a girl to attain to in school at that time) she was bethrohed. Before that she was ask to choose whether to be a Nurse or Teacher which was what was available to girls at that time. To futher their studies were still consider too odd at that time.So a beau was chosen for her, it was never love but duty. My Great grandma I suppose was trying to get the best for her daughter someone who comes from a religious family, tapi as I believe one family background doesn't make you a saint or a devil it is you who decides. This preoccupation with bloodline is a malady affecting the ruling class and the Mamak of Penang. Yes,that's why I find it a joy mixing with the Mamak of Penang.She married someone beneath her in terms of education.My Grandfather was a loafer, he would later on resign(dismiss I am not very sure of that) from his job as an orderly. It was my grandmother who toil for a living while her husband laze around. At least to my great gradmother's credit she make sure he got inspirited in politics. She install in him a spirit of nationalism and to channel all that energy into something productive but that doesn't mean he forget his penchant of ladies. My grandfather was a ladies man always have been.As the customs those days people of means like my Grandma we took in families who poor and sometime we adopt children as our own.It seems before the war one of her sister died and she took in her niece as her ward. This niece was already in the teens and she caught my grandfather's eyes. So when my grandma was at work the niece who was suppose to take care of the young ones would be having an amourous activity with my granddad in the room.I think for the niece this was her paramount amour and my grandfather did found her muse.It was a big scandal the niece was send to be married to Encik Yaakob (Pak Kok) from Teluk Anson and things were never the same after that.The love never ended for her as later after the war and when my Grandfather was captured and release from detention, she would seek my Grandfather and leave her husband. My Grandfather and her would cohabit together in Kampong Baru Kuala Lumpur until they got married in the early 60's and then they went to Haj together. They remain with each other until he dies in 1996.She is still alive and sadly alone. She has never has children but only memories. She is my Step Grandmother and also my Aunt.When I try to analyse I do not harbour any hatred, I do emphatise but I believe getting married for the sake of only duty is wrong and also to marry because of bloodline is wrong too. To marry only because of love is not the only one that is important because love do grow after a time if one is willing to let it grow.I cant blame my Grandfather he was spoilt brat. Always been taken care of hand and mouth by his parents and getting married to a woman who is working and much more intelligent than him is very difficult with a Mother in Law who is not a typical Malay Woman is unacceptable to him.It was from him that I know of the illicit affair of my Greatgrandmother with two farangs. He spoke about it with disdain although he himself committed that crime but he is the Man. At the end of the day he was the Man of that time where chauvinism were high.His wife hobby instead of cooking for him have servants to do that, she would spend her time reading especially she needs her paper everyday to read(not Malay, English). Even during my teens and when I took friends over they were amaze because she love doing crossword puzzle and jigsaw.I bought her books by Agatha Christie, Chandler etc. She devours them. No wonder they were not happy and if only one try to meet halfway the other won't it would never work. My Grandfather would never change and changing his view is anathema to him. I will continue soon!!!!!

* Above picture of my Grandfather confessing on the radio after he was caught by the British. He was appealing to his comrades to surrender. His political name is Wahi Anuar.