Sejarah

"Keagungan sesuatu bangsa itu ditentukan oleh kepentingan yang diberikan kepada sejarah. Sejarah merupakan suatu khazanah yang amat bernilai. Sejarah adalah gedung pengalaman. Bangsa yang agung adalah bangsa yang menempuh sejarah dan yang mahu mempelajari dari sejarah. Sesuatu bangsa yang tidak mempelajari daripada sejarah akan terus melakukan kesalahan berkali-kali yang akan berakhir dengan keruntuhan bangsa itu. Daripada sejarah kita menghargai kehormatan diri kita." - Tun Mahathir Mohamad

Chedet's views on Coca-Cola

BOYCOTT (15 Jan 2009)

1. I would like to have the Malaysian Armed Forces attack the United States and Israel.

2. But I don’t think the Government and the MAF would agree with me.

3. So what do we do?

4. We could blockade the United States and deny it food and medicine.

5. The blockade would have to go on for a hundred years. A lot of innocent people would die. But as Madeleine Albright said when asked whether killing 500,000 Iraqi babies was worth it, she said it was difficult but it was worth it. So Malaysians should not mind killing a few million Americans including babies because although it will be difficult it would be worth it.

8. But on the other hand we need to drink Coca-Cola, use the Internet, fly Boeing jets, see Rambo movies etc etc. Can we sacrifice all these simply because babies are being decapitated by Israeli soldiers using highly sophisticated and costly weapons donated by the kind Americans? Of course we cannot.

9. What we can do is totally worthless. We can boycott US products.

10. But can we? Well not completely. Maybe partially. Like not drinking Coca-Cola, or not seeing the latest blockbuster.

11. It is not going to stop the United States from remaining the most powerful nation and continuing to kill people directly or indirectly.

12. But if 10 per cent of the people in the world who drink Coca-Cola stop drinking it there would be some impact. If Malaysians drink, say 50 per cent less Coca-Cola (because their lives depend on it) there would be some impact also. If nothing else it will demonstrate our displeasure with the Americans.

13. But what about the Malaysians working in factories producing coke? I don’t believe they produce only Coca-Cola. They produce other drinks as well. If people switch from Coca-Cola to another drink produced by the same company, then the company will have to produce more of this alternative drink and there would be no need to close down and sack the workers.

14. The idea is to do what we can to show displeasure at what the US is doing. We will not bring the US economy crashing down. It will continue to prosper. But the US and Americans must know how much the world dislike or even hate them.

Source: http://chedet.cc/?p=218

Proton Preve

Tahniah Proton!

SAF Display drinking glass

Gelas SAF Display (Singapore Air Force Display) ini ditaja oleh F&N sempena sambutan kemerdekaan Singapura yang ke 17 pada tahun 1982. Perayaan ini disertai 36 buah pesawat udara RSAF termasuk 9 buah jet F-5. Singapura pernah kehilangan 2 buah pesawat Northrop F-5 (F-5E) dalam 2 kemalangan berasingan pada tahun 1984 dan 1991. 

Tun Mahathir Mohamad dan Lee Kuan Yew berbincang mengenai rundingan Singapura-Malaysia ke atas bekalan air dan gas pada 23 Ogos 1982.

Melaka vs. Portuguese (1511)

Kita mudah lupa. Bala tentera Sultan Melaka jauh lebih besar daripada pasukan Portugis yang menyerang Melaka. Tetapi bala tentera Melaka kalah. Bukan jumlah yang besar yang penting. Yang penting ialah keupayaan pasukan. – Tun Dr. Mahathir Mohamad (18 June 2010)

Portugis berjaya menawan Melaka pada 24 Ogos 1511

40th Anniversary of Chung San School, Ipoh in 1979

Gambar ini diambil pada 28 Jun 1979 sempena Ulang Tahun yang ke 40 Sekolah Chung San 中山小学, Ipoh, Perak. Menteri Pelajaran pada masa itu ialah Dato' Seri Dr. Mahathir bin Mohamad. Apa yang menarik tentang gambar-gambar ini ialah kelibat botol hijau Kickapoo Joy Juice yang dihidangkan kepada para tetamu :)