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25 Ogos 2026

Saturday, August 29, 2026

SATURDAY JOKES - 331

One day, Einstein had to speak at an important science conference.

On the way there, he tells his driver that he looks a bit like him: “I’m sick of all these conferences. I always say the same things over and over!” The driver agrees: “You’re right. As your driver, I have attended all of them and even though I don’t know anything about science, I could talk at the conference in your place.”“That’s a great idea!” says Einstein. “Let’s switch places then!”So they switch clothes and as soon as they arrive, the driver dressed as Einstein goes on stage and starts giving the usual speech, while the real Einstein, dressed as the car driver, attends it. But in the crowd, there is one scientist who wants to impress everyone and thinks of a very difficult question to ask Einstein, hoping he won’t be able to respond. So this guy stands up and interrupts the conference by posing his very difficult question. The whole room goes silent, holding their breath, waiting for the response.The driver looks at him, dead in the eye and says :“Sir, your question is so easy to answer that I’m going to let my driver reply to it for me!”

 

So there was this man in Bulgaria who drove trains for a living.He loved his job. Driving a train had been his dream ever since he was a child. He loved to make the train go as fast as possible. Unfortunately, one day he was a little too reckless and caused a crash. He made it out but a single person died. Well, needless to say, he went to court over this incident. He was found guilty and was sentenced to death by electrocution. When the day of the execution came, he requested a single banana as his last meal. After eating the banana, he was strapped into the electric chair. The switch was pulled, sparks flew and smoke filled the air – but nothing happened. The man was perfectly fine. Well, at the time, there was an old Bulgarian law that said a failed execution was a sign of divine intervention, so the man was allowed to go free. Somehow, he managed to get his old job back driving the train. Having not learned his lesson at all, he went right back to driving the train with reckless abandon. Once again, he caused a train to crash, this time killing two people. The trial went much the same as the first, resulting in a sentence of execution. For his final meal, the man requested two bananas.“You know what? No,” said the executioner. “I’ve had it with you and your stupid bananas and walking out of here unharmed. I’m not giving you a thing to eat; we’re strapping you in and doing this now.” Well, it was against protocol but the man was strapped in to the electric chair without a last meal. The switch was pulled, sparks flew, smoke filled the room – and the man was still unharmed. The executioner was speechless.The man looked at the executioner and said, “Oh, the bananas had nothing to do with it. I’m just a bad conductor!

 

A Mormon and an Irishman are on a plane. The Mormon was seated next to an Irishman on a flight from London to the US. After the plane was airborne, drink orders were taken. The Irishman asked for a whiskey, which was promptly brought and placed before him. The flight attendant then asked the Mormon if he would like a drink. He replied in disgust, “I’d rather be savagely raped by a dozen whores than let liquor touch my lips.” The Irishman then handed his drink back to the attendant and said, “Me, too, I didn’t know we had a choice!”


A Swiss man, looking for directions, pulls up at a bus stop where two Englishmen are waiting.
“Entschuldigung, koennen Sie Deutsch sprechen?” he says.

The two Englishmen just stared at him.

“Excusez-moi, parlez vous Francais?” The two continue to stare.
“Parlare Italiano?” No response.
“Hablan ustedes Espanol?” Still nothing.
The Swiss guy drives off, extremely disgusted.
The first Englishman turns to the second and says, “Maybe we should learn a foreign language….”

“Why?” says the other, “That bloke knew four languages and it didn’t do him any good!”

 

Oh God,” sighed the wife, one morning, “I’m convinced my mind is almost completely gone!”

Her husband looked up from the newspaper and commented, “I’m not surprised: You’ve been giving me a piece of it every day for twenty years!

 

Scientific research has become too consumer-driven.

Entire disciplines have been compromised.

Buyology is a good example!

 

Two old drunks are sitting in a bar when the first one says, “you know, when I was thirty and got an erection, I couldn’t bend it, even using both hands.
By the time I was forty, I could bend it about ten degrees if I tried really hard.
By the time I was fifty, I could bend it about forty-five degrees, no problem.

I’m going to be sixty next week and now I can bend it in half with just one hand.”

“So,” says the second drunk, “what’s your point?”

“Well, I’m just wondering how much stronger I’m going to get!”

 

Mommy, Mommy! I like my brother very much.

All right, you can take another slice!

 

Why did the frog take a bus to work today?”

His car got toad away!

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Rational Muslims ridicule pious brethren for blaming Nepalese natural disaster on Muslim persecution

 

FAIR-MINDED Muslims have picked up the guts to rebut their so-called narrow-minded brethren who flooded the social media attributing Wednesday’s (Aug 26) catastrophic flash floods and mudslides along the Nepal-Tibet border to “Nepalese Hindus burning down mosques and Muslim homes” a fortnight prior to the devastation.

A non-plussed Sunni Muslim Threader hit out at his Malay Muslim brethren for their inconsiderate sweeping remarks as if Nepal deserves the destruction that has befallen the nation situated right along the central and southern slopes of the Himalayan mountain range.

“The behavior of some Malay Muslims is extremely bad. How can one simply justify the mudslide tsunami disaster that hit Nepal that caused 500++ lives to be lost with an impromptu ‘You burn Quran and mosque, now Allah destroys you 🤦’ comment,” berated one Jaja bink (@jamil_tuan).

Added the self-proclaimed 48-year-old “Anti-Madanon/Walaun”:

How do you know that the dead person is the same person who burned down the mosque? It was Hindu extremists who burned it. There’re many peaceful Hindus around. Same goes to Muslims.

 

The (mental) cancer that has infected the Malay Muslim community in this country is very bad. Very bad!! 😢 RIP to the victims.

One non-Muslim applauded the poster for speaking up at a time when rightist Muslims would tick off the nons to stay away from Muslim affairs or “go read the Quran”.

“TBH (to be honest), it’s scary to know that many Malaysians have such low EQ (emotional intelligence) … Merdeka (independent) from the British but still colonised by their (narrow) thoughts and bad hearts,” she observed.

Fallacious divine retribution

Thus far, experts are linking the flooding devastation to glacier collapse and instability in the Himalayan mountain range with climate change also being considered as a factor.

If so, the question arises as to how it is possible that 51 Malaysians who have never been responsible in the so-called heinous act of persecuting Nepalese Muslims were among 51 of the 537 foreigners who were still missing after the flash flood disaster as per the figure released by the Nepalese tourism authority yesterday (Aug 28).

Editor’s Note: According to the country’s disaster relief agency cited by a BBC live reporting, at least 1,924 people were still missing in Nepal at the time of writing with death toll in Nepal having risen to 579 while at least five people have died in Himalayan neighbour Tibet with 558 reported missing there.

Elsewhere, Nancy Jane88 (@maizun_mastura) wondered if by the same weightage can the annual monsoon floods that devastated Kelantan be likened to divine wrath against the PAS-ruled state for having derailed from the teaching of Islam?

“Or how would you justify the bad floodings in Mecca (which is surrounded by deserts) last year,” jibed the self-proclaimed secularist and radical feminist.

“The country (Nepal) has already been hit by a terrible disaster and there’re Islamic fascists out there justifying the disaster as serve ’em right just because non-Muslims are rioting against Muslims there.

Interestingly, likeminded Muslins, too, mocked their conservative brethren for the double standards of attributing disasters that struck non-Muslims as “well-deserving” but “will regard the disasters as test (from God) when they’re at the receiving end”.

Another even clarified that the so-called sweeping statement is misplaced given that “the disaster-affected areas aren’t even close” to where Hindutva elements were accused of attacking, vandalising and setting fire to Muslim-owned properties and a historic mosque during communal unrest in southeastern Nepal in late July 2026.

Going by that argument, why did the catastrophe strike non-sinners? This is where another Muslim Eman (@amri_kiyema) chastised his brethren against becoming “the spokesman of God for once in your life”.

No need to dig up what happened three days or theee months ago just to declare, “See? This is God’s punishment”. 🙂‍↕️

 

God gave us a brain to think and a heart to empathise, not to judge people who live differently from us.

Disasters occur, people lose their homes, families, lives. … But you’re busy making your own divine conspiracy theory.

 

Maybe practise compassion first. God’s judgment isn’t your portfolio. 🤦🏻‍♂️ – Focus Malaysia

Putting history right

 


BOOK REVIEW | Malaysiakini’s regular contributor Ranjit Singh Malhi’s book titled “Forgotten Malaysian History - Restoring Voices, Reclaiming Truths” addresses the troubling trend of underplaying the contribution of other communities in Malaysia.

In a hard-cover publication of over 430 pages retailing for RM100 a piece, he enumerates numerous instances of misrepresentation and under-representation of the roles played by non-Malays in Malaysia, especially in school textbooks with previous entries altered or omitted altogether.

Malaysiakini readers would be well aware of his frequent articles on such misrepresentations, and a voice given to minorities whose roles are not sufficiently aired through numerous articles he contributed to the news portal.

The first 34 chapters are based on corresponding articles in Malaysiakini but widened and properly annotated as befits their inclusion in a book of this nature.

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One which is totally new is Chapter 35 on the May 13, 1969 racial riots.

Ranjit’s book acknowledgements include Malaysiakini founder and former editor-in-chief Steven Gan, who approved his request to run a history column in Malaysiakini.

Substantially reworked

As Ranjit said in the introduction to the book, each chapter has been “substantially reworked: expanded with richer detail, sharpened analysis, and supported by specific citations from authoritative sources.”

Ranjit Singh Malhi

The impetus for the book, in Ranjit’s words: “Since 1996, Malaysia’s secondary school history textbooks have presented a markedly one-sided narrative - overwhelmingly framed through Malay and Islamic perspectives - resulting in distortions, half-truths and the omission of important facts vital to nation-building.

“In effect, many young Malaysians are likely learning a government-sanctioned version of history framed largely through the perspective of one ethnic group and perceived by critics as aligned with the concept of ‘Ketuanan Melayu’ (Malay supremacy).”

He further goes on to outline what’s missing in the textbooks that merit attention.

First, the pivotal roles of non-Malays in tin-mining, rubber cultivation, commercial agriculture and infrastructure development are minimised or erased.

Rubber estate

Second, civilisational coverage emphasises Islam, minimising Indian and Chinese civilisation and sidelining the “profound Hindu-Buddhist influence on Malay language, literature, governance, and culture”.

Third, in terms of accuracy and attributions, there are occasional errors in dates, attributions, and the portrayal of historical figures such as Parameswara, which undermines credibility.

Finally, he takes issue with the poor representation of the position of the original inhabitants, the Orang Asli, who “are virtually invisible in the narratives of the Form 1 to 5 textbooks”.

Common distortions

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Chapter 1 kicks it off with a discussion of common distortions in Malaysia’s textbooks which centre around diminishing the contributions of non-Malays. This is expanded further in the next seven chapters.

Examples include diminishing the role of Yap Ah Loy’s contributions in founding Kuala Lumpur.

Yap Ah Loy

While a 1979 edition of the Form Four history textbook devoted three pages to this, it was reduced to a mention subsequently. “That such a rich account has been reduced to a perfunctory mention in the latest textbooks is not merely an oversight; it is an act of historical diminishment."

Another example is the minimisation of the treatment of Orang Asli, with the current series of textbooks providing only minimal coverage. They are no longer explicitly acknowledged as the first people.

Ranjit said the Form Four textbook (2019, page 225) explicitly states that the Malays are the “rakyat asal Tanah Melayu” (the original people of Malaya).

Such omissions matter, and risk obscuring the primacy of the Orang Asli and the peninsula’s deep indigenous heritage, he added.

Parameswara converted?

One more example is the diminishment of Indian influences on Malay language, culture and practices and the myth perpetuated in the 2017 Form 2 history book (page 82) that Parameswara (Malacca’s founding prince) converted to Islam in 1414 and adopted the name Megat Iskandar Shah.

Ranjit cites Ming Dynasty sources quoted in books to say that Parameswara and Megat Iskandar Shah were father and son. “This primary evidence not only debunks the textbook’s claim but also exposes a troubling disregard for well-established historical facts,” he added.

There are numerous other examples of misrepresentations in this chapter and the seven chapters that follow, including the following:

  • Quoting one author to say that the real home of the Malays is Sumatera, not the Malay Peninsula. Most Malays migrated to the Malay Peninsula in historical times and owe their origin to Sumatera.

  • In 1931, less than 60 percent of those recorded as “Malay” had resided in Malaya for more than 40 years.

  • In 2013, Ahmad Zahid Hamidi, then-home minister, declared that “over half of Malaysian ministers are of Indonesian descent”.

  • Indian presence in Malaya dates back 2,000 years, while Chinese presence is evident from the 15th century

There are many such snippets of information interspersed within the first eight chapters. Most of the rest of the chapters cover the minority communities - even those within the Chinese, Indian and Malay communities, those in Sabah and Sarawak and the indigenous communities.

They are all interesting, well-researched and give glimpses into their lives and history, bringing back echoes of a past era which is in dire danger of being forgotten altogether in the future.

Chapters 30 to 34 are devoted to five leaders - Social Front activist Karam Singh Veriah (not many youngsters will remember him), DAP leader Karpal Singh, PAS leader Nik Abdul Aziz Nik Mat, former deputy prime minister Dr Ismail Abdul Rahman and former prime minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad.

Karpal Singh

Only Mahathir is still around. There are interesting insights about each of them.

Setting history straight

The final Chapter 35 is a brief account of May 13, 1969, its origins and participants, and a discussion of the numerous theories surrounding its occurrence, the only large-scale outbreak of racial riots in the country.

It’s an excellent, balanced and informative starting point for those interested in knowing more about this sad, momentous episode which reshaped Malaysian history in startling ways.

It’s perhaps the most significant event in post-Merdeka Malaysia, changing its character forever.

This is a badly needed book for Malaysia simply because it helps to set the historical record straight and suggests ways and means that this can be achieved.

One hopes that our leaders pay attention. Distorting history is no way to build a nation.

The only major complaint I have is the price point of the book at RM100. But it is a hard-cover edition.

My hope is that it is produced in a soft-cover edition at perhaps half the price and is available in an e-book version too.

Along with this, a Malay edition will also improve accessibility and help foster what I hope is an informed debate about the real history of the country without the disturbance of politics, racial, religious and regional differences.

A nation must be built on truth. Ranjit has made an important contribution here, an attempt to help put history right by setting it straight. - Mkini


P GUNASEGARAM says truth, no matter how unpalatable, must be the basis for positive change.

The views expressed here are those of the author/contributor and do not necessarily represent the views of MMKtT.