I don’t mean to make two posts within an hour. But after I pinged the last post, I found something and cannot sit still and am wondering about it. My site is listed second to UMNO online. I have never bother much about what the acronym [tag]UMNO[/tag] stands for until just now when I saw it :
UNITED MALAY NATIONAL ORGANISATION
That’s a very British name, ain’t it?
Dang…their website takes ages to load. *tapping fingers, while waiting….* Eh, why got transfering data from irc malaysia wan? *still waiting for the page to download*
OK, I give up. Umno-Online webmaster, you ought to make your site load faster.
So, peoples, can someone enlighten me. If UMNO is a Malay only party, why are they still sticking to the word UMNO? Why are we changing all the names of cities, roads, ports and etc to Malay names when the single, one and only, Malay party never bothers to change to something else? Like Organisasi Nasional Melayu Bersekutu? ONMB….sounds like the Buddhist chants of OMMMM…plak.
Can you freaking believe I had finished writing this and the site is still loading. Heh, a reflection of the party?
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3:01 pm on November 20th, 2006 1
[...] [Credits to 5Xmom for spotted the obvious] [...]
3:44 pm on November 20th, 2006 2
Hehe Auntie Lilian
Then MCA , MIC all become what LoL.Which is why I believe race based politics, like any race based stuff won work.Malaysia belongs to Malaysians.Who are Malaysians? (…suddenly remember Lee Kuan Yew’s famous speech)
4:06 pm on November 20th, 2006 3
maybe that is y they wont change the name lor…hahaha.
6:21 pm on November 20th, 2006 4
don’t support the keris party, although parents are member, but they had no choice or something.. i’m free! not affiliated to anything. *wheeeeeeeeee*
7:41 pm on November 20th, 2006 5
imagine the amount of money they need to spend to change the name!! SHOCKS! HORRORS! Oh..wait..it’ll go into someone’s pocket very nicely ..ahem!
7:47 pm on November 20th, 2006 6
Actually their “official” Malay acronym is PEKEMBAR — Pertubuhan Kebangsaan Melayu Bersatu. Its just that they never used it.
- MENJ
8:08 pm on November 20th, 2006 7
Hey, good point! DBP should take action, shouldn’t they?
Btw, aunty Lilian, do you think we can blog about current issues freely? I mean, obviously the limits aren’t clear when it comes to online postings. Sometimes I’m scared, sometimes I click delete.
8:10 pm on November 20th, 2006 8
Sorry, aunty. I thought my comment got lost again -_-”
8:27 pm on November 20th, 2006 9
CY - I don’t know ler…but I’ve never been rude but giving constructive (hehehe) points for thoughts. So, I am not sked ler.
menj - Really? Pekembar sounds like a woman who tends to give birth to twins. LOL.
mott - Call for tenders!
azhan - Good for you.
jacy - They are so used to calling it UMNO there can be no change unless…they find a Malay version to it. Actually I have something in mind but won’t dare to say it. Shhhh….
Emmanuel - There has to be race but previously, they play by the rules, keep to their corners. Now, they taunt and then, turn around and point fingers that it is the other parties doing it.
9:07 pm on November 20th, 2006 10
Only after you point it out, I noticed irc-malaysia.com thingy
Obviously umno-online.com is a add-on domian to irc-malaysia.com
What a joke. To put such an important website as ‘underlings’ to a chat channel?
10:24 pm on November 20th, 2006 11
yenjai - Maybe this facilitates easy ‘checking’ on what goes on in the irc channels? I dunno lah, just tembak oni. Hehehe.
1:05 am on November 21st, 2006 12
Since their website needs such a long time to load, I think early early they have already decided to change the name in the 80s, probably 70s. Changing in progress mah.
Let’s see if they change it by 2020.
3:30 am on November 21st, 2006 13
pekembar??? that’s new to me! *pengsan*
11:38 am on November 21st, 2006 14
The abbreviation stand for “U Must NOt ask”. That’s why nobody asking why they still stick to a colonial name.
Talk about colonial influence
11:39 am on November 21st, 2006 15
Wait, I just recall the correct abbreviation : U Must Not Object
11:15 pm on November 21st, 2006 16
well Dato’ onn Jaafar did plan on changing the name to United Malaya National Organization in order non-malays can enter the organization, but noooooooooooo, other malay say cannot then blablablakbkabka.. why malaya? well it was still at a time before we gained our independence, so the name “MALAYSIA” wasn’t even around to be used yet. Oh and why the change wasn’t allowed it was either malays at that time were stubborn or ah to lazy to explain, go read some history books, memory serves me right, form5 text book should cut the chase.