The Kuala Lumpur Traveler

After spending quite sometime in front of Ijok police station, I finally made my way to Batang Berjuntai and reached there by 6.00pm. The town were still relatively quiet since the happenings were still at the various polling centers in Ijok, but the policemen were seen everywhere. After parking my car somewhere near the Public Hall, I immediately went for a walkabout around the center which will be used for votes counting and results announcement.

The supporters of the two rival parties are directed to two different areas around the Batang Berjuntai Public Hall.

PKR supporters started arriving at the votes counting …read more

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Videos I managed to capture at the Ijok police station where two buses bearing Penang registration numbers were suspecting of ferrying phantom voters to one of the election center in Ijok.

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I guess by now, you would have already known about the two buses that were allegedly ferrying phantom voters that were caught by PKR and PAS supporters. The highly intensed incident aparrently started in Bukit Badong at about 4pm (that explains why Ijok town was still relatively calm when I passed by at around 4.15pm). The two buses were spotted at a polling station in Sungai Darah earlier that afternoon on the polling day. see the video coverage of the incident by Malaysiakini.tv.
The following pictures show the two suspected buses being quarantined at the Ijok police station. There were …read more

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When I arrived in Ijok town on my way to Batang Berjuntai, I was greeted by a stand-still traffic at the main junction near the police station. I had passed this same junction about 30-40 minutes ago and the roads were not that bad then. I had tried to make left turn to Batang Berjuntai but the traffic cop directed me to the right signalling the road leading to Batang Berjuntai was closed. There must be something going on… I must check. I quickly parked my car at the Petronas station right at the junction and made my way into …read more

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I arrived in Ijok at about 4.30pm after some gruelling journey that took me almost 2 hours via Sungai Buloh. I definitely made the mistake by taking that route. I should have followed the Guthrie Highway to save some time and made some extra money for the toll concesionaire.
I didn’t stop at the Ijok town but rather drive passed the town to one of the polling centers at one of the school which is situated right in the mosque compound. Here are some of the photos I managed to shoot using my Nikon S9 digital camera that I bought at …read more

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With the majority of 1,850, BN had retained the Ijok constituency in what must be one of the fiercest by-election battle in Malaysian election history. BN’s MIC candidate K Parthiban bagged 5,884 votes while PKR’s Abdul Khalid Ibrahim, 4,034. With 83.08% voters cast their votes, the voters turn-out is said to be one of the highest in by-election history.
I went to Ijok after lunch today and just came back very exhausted. Nevertheless, I have loads of pictures and videos to share, however I will only be able to do that tomorrow. There have been many interesting happenings on the …read more

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So much had been said about Ijok by-election, which is believed to be the last by-election before the upcoming general election. Today, the people of Ijok will make their wish known. And what is at stake are of paramount importance to both contesting parties BN and PKR.
To BN, the Ijok by-election is not really about do-or-die mission (at least that is what I personally think) as BN, the coalition of various parties in Malaysia which is led by Malay-based UMNO, already have comfortable margin and control in both the State and Federal Government levels. Ijok by-election, in my humble opinion, …read more

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I was in Ijok on Sunday to see with my own eyes of what is happening in Ijok. This by-election is certainly the case of David vs Goliath…. the pictures tell all…

RM36 million worth of instant development projects

The developments that cause much traffic havoc to the once sleepy town of Ijok

This one should be a piece of cake to Goliath

Giving away hampers to old folks in Ijok…. was this planned and approved wayyy before by-election?

UMNO Melaka’s House in Ijok

UMNO Perlis’s House in Ijok

UMNO Ampang is the Foster Father (Bapa Angkat) for Bukit Badong Branch

UMNO Shah Alam also has a house …read more

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I read today’s Star newspaper with shock. Natural Resources and Environment Minister Datuk Seri Azmi Khalid had revealed that Indah Water Konsortium (IWK) is the biggest polluter in Peninsular Malaysia.
The following excerpt is from IWK’s website:
Indah Water Konsortium Sdn Bhd, a national sewerage company, wholly-owned by the Minister of Finance Incorporated, is responsible for providing sewerage services, operating and maintaining over 9,100 public sewage treatment plants, 16,000km networks of sewerage pipelines and providing scheduled desludging services to over 350,000 individual septic tanks in Malaysia since April 1994.
So here you go Malaysians. The main culprit is the Government-owned company itself. IWK …read more

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I have on three ocassions applied for withdrawals of my Employee Provident Fund (EPF) or Kumpulan Wang Simpanan Pekerja (KWSP). The first one was for the initial deposit towards the purchase of my house and the last two were to reduce the balance of my housing loan with the Bank.
In all three occasions, I am very happy with efficiency of KWSP’s services. The staff were very helpful and friendly and delivered what they promised. My first two applications were approved within 2-3 weeks and the last one approved within 3 weeks due to a lot applications after KWSP allows yearly …read more

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