Lokman has made us reflect about the two ladies who are married to the two most powerful men in Malaysia today.
First is Wan Azizah, the wife of Opposition leader, Anwar Ibrahim. She is also the object of Lokman's fixation and her wardrobe - his fetish.
The other is Rosmah Mansor, wife of Prime minister Najib Abdul Razak. Her official title of First Lady always sparks furious debate.
Lokman claimed that Wan Azizah’s suits cost RM8,000 each. Like most ladies, Azizah has declined to divulge exactly how much - save to say that really, it's no nowhere near that figure. Of course, she is pleased that people think her clothes look so stylish and expensive but no, she is not telling yet.
Yet even if they did cost RM8,000 each, what are they compared with Rosmah’s alleged shopping trips when she is abroad?
There have been complaints by Malaysian High Commission and MAS staff who are given the task of transporting cargo-loads of her shopping home. They have asked to remain anonymous for fear of reprisals.
Wan Azizah is now a politician in her own right. Until her husband became Deputy Prime minister, she was a practicing doctor.
Perhaps Lokman finds it hard to believe that a working woman is financially independent and can afford suits of her choice.
Is Lokman aware of the furore with the specially created department within the Prime minister’s Department called F.L.O.M.? Many people believe that the acronym stands for First Lady of Malaysia. There are other, less complimentary versions of this.
We are not aware of Wan Azizah having such delusions of grandeur. As we said, she is a respected politician.
Rosmah however, does have ambition to enter politics but finds it easier to enter through the back door.
First she had to elbow poor Najib into allocating ample funds, the amount of which has yet to be publicly divulged, to form F.L.O.M.
However, with the unprecedented public outrage, and several thousand people jamming the phone lines wanting to enquire about F.L.O.M., it has now disappeared from Najib’s website.
Second. Rosmah honed her skills in politics by practicing on various people. First it was Deputy Prime minister Muhyiddin Yassin.
One feels sorry for him as he was edged out of the way when Hillary Clinton and Julie Gillard came to visit.
What could Najib say? He was in a spot of bother – not just from the chicken pox but from Muhyiddin demanding to know what was happening and a strong woman saying she would like to have a go at playing DPM. That is why Najib safely camped himself out of harm’s way at the Kuala Lumpur Hospital.
He was so pleased with his stay that he donated RM5mil from the public purse to the hospital.
But happiness comes with a price and he had to allocate RM 65 million to the wife to renovate the house. He would rather face the awkward questions in parliament about this extravagant amount and fob off the irritating opposition with some flimsy excuse (it always works), rather than refuse his wife. He knows which side his bread is buttered.
No one can hold down an ambitious woman and the next victim was the Foreign Minister Anifah Aman.
Rosmah apparently took over the evacuation of our students who had made their way to Jeddah. What could Anifah do but wait in the sidelines, wringing his hands?
Kohilan the Deputy Foreign Minister did a runner. He claimed he was lost in the confusion of Cairo and could not be reached. And for added effect, he did not take a bath for two days. It worked. He escaped the reprimand.
Najib gave his wife all the credit for the successful repatriation and managed to name-drop that she had the personal phone number of the House of Saud.
But now that the repressive regimes in the middle-east and north Africa are toppling, Najib must regret saying that he is buddies with autocratic and corrupt rulers.
On the other hand, Wan Azizah does not need added publicity. People are familiar with her and her work.
Perhaps Lokman should ask why ‘The First Lady’ needed to spend USD5 million for a glossy centrespread in an American newspaper?
Rosmah will do anything for publicity and must keep us informed about what she is doing – flying here and there, even to the extent of interrupting her foreign travel with trips back home to attend wedding receptions.
Poor Lokman. He must look for problems where there are none and avoids those that are staring him in the face.
But like they say, the “1Malaysia” spectacle isn’t over till the Fat Lady sings.
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Posted on April 15, 2009 by pemudasarawak
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never heard her speak nor is she known for her ideas. Is this another one of the public relations stunts that was paid to make her be bigger than she is? “We must stop waiting for opportunities to fall into our laps. We must seize opportunities with our own hard work, ideas and drive,” she asserted.".......sound familiar.
Speaking at the third Asean Women Leaders Forum in Singapore, Datin Seri Rosmah Mansor mused that the crisis might have been averted if women had been in charge.
The feisty speaker, known as a force to be reckoned with in Malaysian politics, made the statement to drive home her point: women should be seated at the tables of power, whether corporate or political.
This is because they possess “intrinsic” leadership qualities, such as the power to persuade and the willingness to rethink arcane rules, that men do not, she argued.
YES THIS IS HOW I DID IT READ THIS Was rosmah najib’s tealady when he was Pahang’s MB? Aditya Pancholi was also accussed having consensual sex with his maid, promising her a fruitful career.
The patriarchal institutions and culture of Southeast Asia have not stopped women from “infiltrating” male-dominated governments and corporate arenas, she noted, citing as examples Corazon Aquino and Megawati Sukarnoputri.
The former was president of the Philippines from 1986 to 1992, and the latter president of Indonesia from 2001 to 2004.
Even when men control the levers of power, “there will be a woman or two who play pivotal roles in making that male leader excel”, said Rosmah, to appreciative laughter.
Najib and his wife are known to work as a team.
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Rosmah also noted that while women's leadership abilities come from their role as caregivers, the same responsibilities can also prevent them from taking up the gauntlet of governance.
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This was a point emphasised by her fellow keynote speaker, Lim Hwee Hua, Singapore Minister in the Prime Minister's Office and Second Minister for Finance and Transport, who was the first woman to become a full Cabinet minister in Singapore.
Persuading women to enter politics is especially difficult, she said, because “women juggle a whole lot more than men”.
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The loss of privacy as a politician is hard to bear for women , she said, more so because the scrutiny women in power are subjected to is often worse than what their male counterparts face.
“You get people asking women leaders questions about (their) children and families that they will never ask the men,” she said.
This double standard was also decried by Rosmah.
“If a woman works hard to succeed, she is often said to be pushy and bossy. The same characteristic in a man is determination and drive,” she observed.
Both women emphasised the role of policy in smashing glass ceilings for women. Childcare facilities at the workplace and the flexibility to work from home are measures both the Malaysian and Singapore governments have encouraged companies to take up, they noted.
But the ultimate driver of change must be women themselves. Women must “cease and desist” to be one another's worst enemies, said Rosmah.
Instead of competing, women must show solidarity and support one another.
In this spirit, she called for a global summit of First Ladies to be held in Kuala Lumpur in the middle of next year.
No formal invitations have been issued yet, but when she brought up the idea to fellow First Ladies during last month's meeting of Commonwealth heads of government in Trinidad and Tobago, “they were very excited”, she said.
Asked if Ho Ching, the wife of Singapore's Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, would be attending, Rosmah said that she had not spoken to Ho at length about the event.
“But knowing her, I'm sure she would be very supportive.”
The one-day forum was organised by the Asean Business Forum and the Kuala Lumpur-based Asian Strategy and Leadership Institute.
Among the other speakers were Jannie Tay, executive vice-chairman of luxury watch retailer The Hour Glass, and Singapore's Minister of State for Community Development, Youth and Sports, Yu-Foo Yee Shoon.
Another speaker was Minister for Women, Family and Community Development, Datuk Seri Shahrizat Abdul Jalil, who is also head of Wanita Umno. — The Straits Times
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Look at these pics again. Everyone tells the truth about what is going on in the scandalous Malaysian bureaucrazy. How can anyone hide this truth?
Even without these pics, corruptions, murders and sex scandals are already accepted daily inconveniences that Malaysians have to put up with. So grow up, Najib!
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Great leaders make good speeches
“Great leaders make good speeches,” says Rosmah Mansor, Malaysia’s ‘First Lady’. I hope she was just pulling our leg although it is not yet 1st April. If she means what she says then her husband, Najib Tun Razak, is not a great leader because he makes awful speeches, as you can see below.
A great leader is not one who can talk or make wonderful speeches. It is one who is able to walk the talk or practice what he or she preaches. Talking is cheap. Anyone can talk. It is delivering what you say that really matters.
(The Star) - One of the qualities of a great leader is his skill in delivering speeches, said Datin Seri Rosmah Mansor.
“Napoleon Bonaparte could move his tired and injured army to keep fighting regardless of the pain,” she said in her speech at the Malaysian Children’s Speech Competition 2010 yesterday.
She said Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak hoped that the competition would produce Malaysians who were highly capable in leadership as well as public speaking.
“He understands the importance of public speaking in spreading effective messages or gathering the support of the community to shift society’s paradigm towards a dynamic way of thinking,’’ said Rosmah in her speech which was read by Yayasan Harapan Kanak-Kanak Malaysia (YHKM) media advisory board member Datuk Atiqah Adom.
Rosmah said multimedia presentations could be incorporated into traditional speech-giving methods for effectiveness.
Entering its sixth year, the competition was hosted by Universiti Putra Malaysia and organised by YHKM.
The winner of the Bahasa Malaysia category was Nurul Anis Amral, 12, who gave a speech about embracing independence in Malaysia.
Arathi Jeyaratnam, 12, from SK Marian Convent, Ipoh, was first in the English language category with her speech, “Our diversity, our strength”.
Source: www.GutterUncensored.com
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The lovely Ms. Shayk is actually Ms. Shaykhlislamova but shorten her name for obvious reasons. She has a sexy accent if the name wasn't enough of a tip-off, Irina is Russian. She hails from a small town near Chelyabinsk, Russia. But early in her career, she was often mistaken for South American, a fact she attributes to her coal miner dad: "My father was dark skinned, because he was Tarter. Sometimes Tartars can look Brazilian," she told the press. Yup, Irina is your 2011 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue covergirl. Enjoy! Click on pictures to enlarge.
Irina Shayk found out that she got the cover for the 2011
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