飲水思源

清明時節雨紛紛，
路上行人欲斷魂。
借問酒家何處有？
牧童遙指杏花村

~~杜牧~~

赤子之心

上個星期的一個晚上和幾個要好的戰友聚首聊天，談到了我為何學醫、為何參政。我告訴了他們我的心聲與愿望。簡單地說那是出于赤子之心。
其中一位朋友聽了非常不相信，死硬挑戰我說這年頭還有什么赤子之心云云。硬說醫生行醫全是為了錢、政治人物參政全是為了謀個人利益。
對于類似的論調 或抹黑，我都不費口舌去爭辯，因為我相信我的行動能反映我的赤子之心（也只有行動能說明一切）。
但畢竟我心里有少許的納悶。納悶于為何就算別人行醫是為了金錢、參政是為了個人利益，而我便不可能因為赤子之心而去實踐我生命中的理想與執著?
這些人都有個通病，因為淫浸在這個病態與俗氣的圈子久了，自己喪失了赤子之心卻沒察覺，反倒質疑這時代還有的赤子之心。可悲呀！
無論如何，我深信我的周圍和這世界的每個角落，擁有赤子之心的人還多著呢。
你們說是嗎？

马英九的3个女人

马英九平时在私人生活问题上极为低调，很少将家人曝光于媒体，但大家都知道他有一个温馨的家庭，背后3个重要女人都在默默地支持他。
　　有台湾媒体曾经这样形容马英九一家四口：小马哥长得帅，马嫂个性生得酷，两个女儿长得俏。
　　妻子：率真、朴素
　　周美青和马英九在美国一起打工，期间，马英九一度没钱交学费，周美青毅然放弃自己的学业，到餐厅里去靠端盘子、洗碗挣钱供马英九上学。马英九读完博士后，两人于1977年结婚。
　　马英九返台后，官运亨通，他天生一副“明星脸”，经常受到女性倾慕者的“骚扰”，对此，周美青幽默回应：“他太有名，大家都认识他，他哪有机会乱来啊！全台湾的人都在帮我监视着他呢！”
　　说话率真，是周美青给人最深的印象。当有记者问周美青马英九有哪些缺点时，她会说：“所有做丈夫的缺点，他都有。”
　　马英九当台北市长期间，周美青从没踏进过市长办公室，她自己上下班也是搭公车。
　　马英九时常会下班时特意绕道去商场买她最爱吃的苹果卷；他在台湾中南部长住时也曾在电台点了周治平的《筝》送给周美青。马英九说，这是太太最喜欢的歌。
　　大女儿：贴心、脱俗
　　大女儿马唯中今年25岁，继承了父亲的语言才华，还很小的时候，就会完整背出《老残游记》。她的英文也很优秀，每次参加英文即席演讲，都获得第一名。
　　1998年，成绩优秀的她高中毕业后，原本被推荐到台大生物系念大学，但因为媒体传言说她进入台大是因为父亲的缘故，她毅然选择去美国哈佛大学念书。
　　马英九当时有公务在身，无暇送行，马唯中能理解父亲，一点也没有怪他。
　　马英九后来赴美访问，在哈佛大学演讲之后，便立即赶去看望女儿。当有美国官员称赞他的演讲很棒时，他说：“演讲不重要，女儿最重要！”
　　小女儿：古怪、超酷
　　小女儿马元中从小受到父母宠爱，养成了很重的“娇娇女”的性格。有一次，她陪父亲亮相记者招待会，当马英九做出要亲她的动作时，她故作恶心地说：“爸爸的脸太油，我拒绝你亲我。”还有一次，当马元中被问到如何看待很多女性把马英九当作偶像时，她装作一脸疑惑地说：“爸爸比我胖这么多，怎么会是偶像呢？”
（新加坡）联合晚报 (2008-03-24)

好漢

在接近整十年的政治路上，如果得做個小總結的話，有幾個好漢是我非提不可的。
大約十年前，黃瑞欣邀我加入民政黨。過后，胡棟強便安排我在他的分部，開始協助辦一些活動。隨后，吳竟誠這良師益友真正的把我帶到政治的舞臺。吳竟誠這人講義氣，豪爽又慷慨大方。他路見不平比拔刀相助。我相信吳竟誠這樣的人物，若活在古代，必定是江湖俠士。他，畢竟陪我一起走過一段政途上的小風雨。他有恩于我。
后期，李家全、汪天來與鄧章耀更是幫了我不少。這些好漢的熱忱與相助真的令我受寵若驚。從他們的身上我看到了年輕的從政者的誠心、豪情與魄力。
但愿這次的挫折沒把大伙擊倒。
但愿大伙能重新出發。
這一次，愿大伙能以更穩健的步伐前進、起飛。
好漢們，我們一起加油！

我支持你，但我反國陣！

大選過后，朋友給我一份電郵。電郵全文如下：

doc,

the PEOPLE only wanted to punish the ruling government, BN, for its lack lustre performance in managing the country. a lot of anger is actually focused on Pak La for his poor management style, weaknesses and that a lot of decisions were influenced by Khairy, his son-in-law. that fella has aspiration to become a PM by age 40. you should that too la ...

there was a power point slide showing the amount of corruption money tossed away to those politicians. if only i can get that material back, i will roll them to you.

in the slide, they talked about the purchase of the scorpene submarine being brokered for a fee of RM530M, crooked bridge pay off to the contractor for no work done, new lumut naval base costing RM59M which, upon completion, cannot be used as it was deemed unsafe.

and, of course, that zakaria deros incident did not help BN or pak la at all. to add salt to the wound, that selangor MB fella, toyo, supported the zakaria fella by saying 2 related councillors within the same council is alright. that is clear cut cronysm in the making. its staring at us in the eyeballs. such issues confirm the case of a corrupt and weak management, and condoned.

corruption has increased and increased unabated, gone overboard and unchecked. this zakaria deros incident is a fine example. things were not that bad under Dr. M' time. crime rate has gone up tremendously and with no real solutions in sight. the cost of living has gone up much as this country is rich in natural resource. lots of frustration.

none of us all realised that we have gone so far and had inadvertently moved the Opposition coalition into power. on that of election, there was a lot of talk with each other to just mark the 'X" on anything except BN. just deny them that vote, they say. on the night of the March 8th elections, we were all quite frightened, seeing the results rolling out one by one and victories over victories being claimed by the Opposition coalition.

over the past weeks, we are seeing development and the teething problems each party is going through, but it looks like we have all done a good thing in giving the Opposition more voice in parliament and in the state governments. Pak la and the BN team is humbled. they were so arrogant in the past and forgot to keep their ears on the ground. look at that samy vellu fella. still talking when he was booed so badly that he had no chance to handle his ceramah.

if you notice what they (BN) have all been saying lately - 'work hard work hard'. it looks like they have not been doing that for the past few years and had condoned corruption to the highest degree and Pak la plain lost control of everything. just look at the royalties today. they now have more voice than him as opposed to the Mahathir era where they were just puppets and towed his line, failing which, Dr. M will change the federal constitution not to their favor.

as mentioned in the papers many many times of late, BN should seriously rethink if the component parties of UMNO, MCA and MIC is necessary today. while PKR is a good mix of the races, DAP is not too far away either. it is in their manifesto to help all races.

we heard talk lately that anwar may want to form a 5 state government. another news - he is wooing BN candidates to jump over to the opposition. he openly mentioned this in today's papers.

we were all worried that there will be uprising following the outcome of the election results, but if we look at it from another aspect and previous trends, this is the first time where all three major races are pissed off with the BN goverment. no chaos la.

if they say they are being marginalised, it was the ruling government of the day that marginalised them, not the current Opposition government. so we just do not know what that UMNO march, after their friday prayers last week, to komtar was all about. we heard, the respond from guan eng saying 'its not me' . this change of events is simply ironic.

in today's paper, PKR has challenged UMNO for an open debate on malays being marginalised. they go in there, bet you, they (UMNO) will be screwed. don't go there, they will be labeled as cowards. they will be damned both ways.

mukhriz wrote in his letter to pak la asking that he steps down. hishamuddin has not taken action. wait see attitude. look la .. deep inside all of us, including you, we strongly believe he should step down. if you ask me, i am for the idea of anwar to become the new PM. this will be a ood change. no more weakling to head to the government. the situation just cannot get any worse. this might even spur investor interest and get the economy to move out of its slumber.

this new political scenerio has woken all of us up. its so interesting. such a change. we the PEOPLE finally had a good say. the ruling government suddenly have to learn to be an opposition. ironic. ironic.

doc, do not be offended by all the ranting, knowing where your stand is. i am just telling what i have been hearing from the streets. you are a good man. that 16,000 majority gap is not at you personally. it is who you stood for at that moment in time. nobody knows that opposition candidate or where he came from. heaven knows la...the people know you better, but like dr koh's case, the people simply voted for the opposition. you can rest assured you have our vote, but not to vote for BN.

its been nice talking to you. bring the whole bunch together and let us all have coffee. in fact, the bunch is waiting for you to show. take care.

兩袖清風

二月二十三日，因為大選的緣故，我辭去了擔任一年多的九品芝麻官。領導說：努力些，但愿大伙有幸能到京城去造福全國百姓吧！聽了后，當然興奮，但同時也深感責任的重大。
大選后，我沒能夠獲得人民的委托，于是進京無望。進京無望也非末日，也無需抱頭痛哭。此乃一個考驗。古人說：天欲降大任于斯人，必先勞其筋骨，苦其心志。那我就把它當作一種考驗，一種磨練吧！
感謝提名后的日子眾親朋戚友的關懷與鼓勵。本人感激不盡，來日必會一一回報。
落選后，對于鼓勵我再接再厲的親朋戚友，本人萬分的感激。至少，本人落敗了，親朋戚友對本人不棄不離，算得上有親情，豪情與義氣。然而，那些比我還強哀愁，仿佛哀鴻遍野，殘寰人絕的叫我別氣餒，節哀順變的我就不敢茍同了。本人只是落選，不是殤考妣，沒什么哀愁。本人也絕非高傲，只是坦誠的告訴大家本人的心情與感受。
無論如何，九品芝麻官辭了，京城去不成，于是乎，本人便無官一身輕了。
但愿，身輕了，心亦復如是。

日落洞17日游

21/2/08凌晨四時的手機簡訊通知我上陣日落洞。其實，那整夜都沒睡好。20/2/08晚上十時，黨領導來了通長途電話，問我是否準備好了能上陣？包括黨要我全職從事政治工作。我的答復很精簡： 如果黨認為我適合，我會全力以赴！
于是，21/2/08-8/3/08 我開始了日落洞17日游！這17日，感慨萬千、百感交集、酸甜苦辣、人心險惡、人情溫暖，可真讓我大開眼界。
原來所謂的民主，放在普羅大眾的手中一票可以被情緒與個人私利左右的。但這是這場游戲的規則，既然下注了便得等他開盤。
謝謝大伙的支持與愛護，讓我能義無反顧的全力以赴。雖然到底沒能成功，但也無怨無悔。
輸了選票，我贏得了自己。

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