Tourism Minister Ng Yen Yen is very upset with me for bringing up the issue about the defects of Malaysian Pavilion, and subsequently trying to refer her to the Privileges Panel of Parliament base on the two different figures on the construction cost of Malaysian Pavilion that given by her ministry.
Before she throws accusation against me, she should blame herself for not carrying out her duty as minister to check all the answers before they were given to MPs.
In the news report in today’s Chinese dailies, she challenged me to show proof that a VIP can get special treatment to enter a foreign pavilion if the pavilion of his/her own country make request by sending email or letter to another pavilion. Frankly speaking, the Selangor state government officers and I managed to go into about 20 pavilions through “back door” or special lane with the help of a Shanghai Expo officer and by showing my Member of Parliament name card.
Traffic jam: Not in Federal Highway but Malaysian Pavilion.
A number of these foreign pavilions’ officers told my officers and I that we can always get into their pavilions by special lane if Malaysian Pavilion can give us a letter or inform them earlier by fax or email. I challenge Ng Yen Yen to try to my method if she doesn’t believe my words .
She told the media that the Malaysian Pavilion has given four VIP Pass to MB of Selangor and his team when he visited Shanghai Expo in early May. Now only I know that there is such thing call “VIP Pass” which can be issued by Malaysian Pavilion. Why didn’t the Malaysian Pavilion officers gave me this pass when I was there, especially after we have requested assistance from the Manager of the Malaysian Pavilion?
The Malaysian Pavilion officers should be told that they are playing the role of “ambassadors” in the World Expo. They have the duty to assist Malaysians, particularly elected representatives who came all the way to the World Expo. She should have advised her Malaysian Pavilion officers on their role instead of blaming me who made this complain.
While Ng Yen Yen admitted the actual construction cost of the Malaysian Pavilion is RM20 mil and not RM35 mil, some developers and contractors told me that they are able to do a better job with RM20 mil. Why can’t the contractor build two staircases, so that people can walk up and down with different staircase, like what most other pavilions?
Raining on Yen Yen’s parade: rain seeps through the roof. Ouch
Besides, from the reply of the Ministry of Tourism to my adjournment speech, the ministry has sort of admitted about rain water leaks into roof of Malaysian Pavilion and blackouts that had happened in the pavilion. All these defects and shortcoming tell us that this shouldn’t be the work of RM20 millions.
I challenge Ng Yen Yen to set up a website or facebook to collect visitors’ comment
I have nothing personal against officers of Malaysian Pavilion and Ng Yen Yen. While Ng Yen Yen boast so much about the Malaysian Pavilion in the local media, I would like to urge Ng to set up a website or Facebook page to invite Malaysian visitors who have visited Shanghai Expo to give comments on the Pavilion so that she will know the views of the visitors, particularly the Malaysian visitors, so that she won’t be so emotional when I raise the various issues related to Malaysian Pavilion in Shanghai Expo.
Yo! That silly woman Ng Yen Yen. She is so blinded by her ego. Wonder how much of the payment leakage did she get.
Only 1 staircase! Damn stupid design!
1Malaysia Boleh!
I was there in Shanghai with my family and i am a housing developer.I can attest that the total cost for the pavilion is not even 10 million ringgit.Wish i was Ng Yen Yen…kaya man!
1 staircase? no wonder traffic jam! if emergency happen, then u step me i step you lah? what bad design!
YB Teresa
There is no need to wait for Ng Yen Yen to set up a facebook page for this purpose.
Instead anyone can simply set one easily including YB Teresa.
Ask any of your IT guys they could do it. Then ask for comments without having to wait for Ng Yen Yen.
After collating the responses from those who had visited the Shanghai Expo, forward the results to her & let her be embarrassed.
That would be a better solution.
shanghai does not need ng yen yen, raub needs ng yen yen!
Dear Teresa Kok,
I just drop-by our Pavilion, embarrassing to said it’s our Pavilion, same standard with Funfair at my home town Ulu Tiram, what the heck RM20 or Rm35 Million cost. I think Pacific pavilion by Tuvalu & Vanuatu may cost less than Rm1 Mill each successful deliver their country massage
Do you need to be reminded that Ng Yen Yen is from MCA ?
What good have MCA done for the Chinese in recent memory ?
Dear all,
Top ten things that went wrong with our 35 million pavilion (or more later as the story unfolds)
1. Two chinese nationals selling our koko tawau there. I asked them where is Tawau..answer is pu cher tau.
2. don’t know how much YY spent (waste) on two small lifts that can carry two people each time!) (and of course only to ONE floor!)
3. we sent on kelantanese malaysian that could not speak english there to draw some funny design that was neither batik nor cartoon!
4. Our mentality to participate in this expo thinking its a trade fair! (evidence: we go there to sell things!) Its not YY! its a “better city, better life” theme..sell malaysian lifestyle…have you forgotten SECOND HOME project?
5. Good bed and furniture huh? They have better ones in IKEA, Sweden Pavilion! Some funny company (related?) is selling rotan stuff there.
6. Is Diamnond Water filter our TECHNOLOGY? Why sell in our pavilion!
7. Two lovely Malaysian ladies mending our batik stall that cannot speak proper english!
8. We have forgotten our country treasures..i don’t see them selling any! malacca, scuba dive, etc…got also in small tvs. With 35 million we can buy many LCDs to match other countries
9. OK OK 15 million is for operating cost, lets say 10% is for VIP tickets, 10% for materials such as brochures, then the operating costs is 12 million which is equal to RM 65,000 per day. May I ask how many Malaysian you sent there per day? (I see only six, so it must be RM 10,000 per person a day…staying in 5 star Shanghai (Bund ) Hotel?
10. They allow me to enter with a malaysian passport but disallow an old lady on a wheelchair to skip the queue…anyway the queue is short vs other pavilions!)
Come on la… dont bull us. iTs not worth 35 million. I thought I can given some moral support there but alas, I lose my morale! I think the privilage committee must step in.
Thanks
and of course our PM is going there after merdeka day…don’t embarass ourselves.
If all Malaysians who have visited our Pavilion believe that the cost is definitely much much lower than RM20 millions, then our MACC or other relevant agencies should initiate an investigation to uncover all the hidden cost of this project immediately. If every project is overrun with huge cost, Malaysia will certainly become bankrupt long before 2019! We Malaysians are just observing how the Government is spending our Taxpayers’ money in the name of Development towards a Developed Nation in 2020.
This lady was probably thinking about how to make her second home in Australia. Do not expect dedicated, efficient and unselfish politicians from MCA. They just thrown out a hard working, courageous and straight forward guy from the helm and replace with a pornstar to run the party.