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Chua Soi Lek and the Cartoons

September 27, 2008 · 11 Comments

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  • tan888 // October 4, 2008 at 8:53 am | Reply

    Chua should just let the police handle it according to Section 499 of Penal Code Act 574.
    He should get on to do greater things for the nation.
    When I was studing in Primary One in a all boy’s school during the year of 1963 I loved to draw cartoons.One of the favorite subjects would be the 50 year old and single English teacher Mary the Glasses.I draw her as a fat, thick glasses,almost bald and almost blind woman having to read pupils’s exercise books next to her nose.One day somebody betrayed me and showed her all the cartoons…There was lightnings and thunders sky came down upon me…Also earthquakes and curse of eternal burning in hell.
    As I was only 7 years old Section 82 of Penal Code stated” Nothing is an offence which is done by a child under ten years of age”.I was protected by the spirit of the English Laws.Being a self procliamed Grand Lady of Highest English Moral Values I escaped the rod.But she cried for many days and my little heart broke every time I saw her wipe her thick glasses of streams of tears.
    They are more than 6.5 billions of people on this earth .Anybody can hurt us anytime.Let the Laws handle it and then just Let it be.Get on with the business of living a fruitful life…Read my blog… prisonwithoutwalls

  • yd // October 6, 2008 at 1:05 am | Reply

    Ong tee Keat is a schizophrenia mental illness patient.Do you all notice that everytime he speak he must repeat certain words three times,although he already got it right and clear the first timeHe is also a perfectionist,but not to important things,only to himself.Chua soi lek is a capable man.He contriubutes a lot in the health ministry.He is qualified to be the vice president of mcz.Although i am a woamn,i dont thinkhis sexscandal should stop him from serving in the government.He is a very quality human resouce.Ong Tee Keat has no capability at all,he cant be the president

  • mami lau // November 14, 2008 at 7:00 pm | Reply

    If you go to the 2 star love hotels around Malaysia in the weekends you will see many couples waiting to rent a room for 2 hours. The combination of age can be 16 Vs 20 to 56 Vs 65 to 16 Vs 66 and others.
    It is called ” short time ” service and no ICs or registrations are required.
    Most couples will ” Kaw Tim ” in less than 30 minutes. The bed sheets will be changed quickly and the next couple will be given 2 towels,2 pieces of soap and 1 condom.
    Everybody will cast their eyes down to look only at their feet.Even if you see your married MD waiting there with his married secretary who is not his wife you pretend you ” see nothing,hear nothing and will say nothing ” at all.
    If somebody tries to takes a video of the clients his teeth with be punched out immediately.
    If is because he will be trying to break their rice bowl.Each room can play love nest to as many as 10 cheating couples a day.
    Thus if you want to taste” stolen love ” go to a love hotel.They will have their standards to uphold and maintain for the privacy of their clients.
    CSL learn from me at the grass root level.

  • mami lau // November 15, 2008 at 7:20 am | Reply

    Using a woman to fall a great man is a strategy as old as the political plots in The Romance of the Three Kingdoms.CSL would be the character of big,strong,daring and handsome warrior Lu Bu.
    Diao Chan

    Diao Chan plays an important role in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms. Her story, which is still well-known today, tells how two allies were so blinded by a pretty woman that they became enemies, one intent on destroying the other.

    The events of this tale took place during Dong Zhuo’s monopolisation of power. One day, during a palace banquet, Dong Zhuo levelled false accusations against Situ Zhangwen, a official. All the eminent officials who had gathered for the feast watched in horror as Situ Zhangwen was dragged outside to be beheaded. Each man feared that the fate of the Han duke might well be his own.

    When Prime Minister Wangyun returned to his residence, he was so disturbed by what he had seen at the palace that he was unable to sleep. He went for a stroll in the garden. Suddenly, he heard someone praying. The sound seemed to have come from behind a clump of peony trees. Stepping over to investigate, Wangyun realised that it was Diao Chan, a singing girl from his own household

    Diao Chan had come to the Wang mansion as a young child and Wangyun had looked upon her almost as if she were his own daughter. He asked her: “What are you doing here in the middle of the night?”

    She answered him: “From early childhood, I have benefitted from your kindness and have often wondered how I may one day repay you. Recently you have been so sad and despondent; yet I do not know how to alleviate your suffering. That is why I am sighing. Please tell me how I can help you. I will do whatever I can while I still have the strength!”

    Wangyun led Diao Chan into an inner room and, having dismissed the servants, went down on his knees before her. Shocked and flustered, Diao Chan begged to know what was troubling him. Wangyun spoke to her earnestly: “Our country is in great peril. I think you may be our only salvation. The despot Dong Zhuo wants to see himself enthroned as the Son of Heaven while the court officials can only look on helplessly. I have a plan to end his scheming. With your wit and charm we may be able to drive a wedge between Dong Zhuo and his adopted son Lü Bu. If we can end their alliance, and cause them to fight against each other, we may be able to eliminate them both.”

    Diao Chan agreed at once to do her best. Wangyun took the earliest opportunity to betroth Diao Chan to Lü Bu; at the same time presenting her to Dong Zhuo as a concubine. Both Dong Zhuo and Lu Bu became fond of her and could not decide how to settle the matter. As the hostilities grew, Diao Chan took every opportunity to add fuel to the fire and the two men became fiercely jealous of each other. Eventually, Wangyun was able to gain Lü Bu’s assistance in assassinating Dong Zhuo.

    Unfortunately, soon after, both Wangyun and Diao Chan were put to death by surviving members of Dong Zhuo’s clique.

  • mami lau // November 15, 2008 at 11:22 am | Reply

    A story that has never been told i e Chinese “Girls selects Boys” in the1950s.
    ..CSL dilemma at that time.
    In the 1900s until todays when a Chinese bride is about enter ” The Door ” of the bridegroom she will be accompanied by her best girl friends who are all single and eligible.They will be appearing in their best as pretty maidens and ideal future wives.The bridegroom will invite all his bachelor friends and they will also be appearing in their best as ideal future husbands. On the night of the wedding in the bridal chambers there will be teasing games between the eligible bachelors and the eligible girls.The purpose is to find out their ideal future husbands or ideal future wives as soon as possible.The girls can ask her choice of men all kinds of questions.They may even ask him to do humiliating chores like hiding underneath the bridal bed or bark like a dog or lick dry a plate of milk like a cat in order to test his patience in managing the prospective future families.The men has to be 100% sporting on that night.They will be” booed ” if they were to show any sign of anger or resentment.It is practically a ” Ladies Night ”
    After the ” Boys meets Girls” games the match makers will be called to make the “match” that has already been decided on the teasing night.
    Like everything in this world these ” boy meets girl ” games will have many weakness.
    Many gangsters will put on long sleeves and trousers and appear in their best behaviors.
    They will gladly be caned as penalties by the girls for giving a wrong answers to her witty questions.
    The bridegroom has to introduce each and everyone of his bachelor friends by his NRIC or birth certificate names.
    Their nicknames will all come out in the heat and excitement of the games by all the other players while trying to outplay each other in order to win the hand of the most fair maiden of the night..Everything is fair in love and in war.
    If they said ” This is Ong Tiong Guan ” the only benefit is that the girls surnamed Ongs will not waste time talking to him.He has to say ” We call as him as………”
    1) Hoh Kia..means Good son..+++ for girls
    2) Pai Kia.means Bad son.. ???? for girls
    3) Durian Kia means Hooligan son..??? for girls
    4) Poon Tua Kia means Lazy son..??? for girls
    5) Teat Tho Kia means Play around son..??? for girls
    6) Gon Kia means foolish son..??? for girls
    7) Siawh Kia means crazy son..??? for girls
    8) Chap Chen Kia means son with unknown father.???? for girls…
    9) Boh Yong means useless and no future son ..???? for girls.
    10) Soi Kia means unluky and ill fated son ??? for girls..

    I have 3 unmarried sisters above 65 who told me this story.All of them are former Convent Girls who do not want to get marry just for the sake of having a family.They cannot find love and romance out of 90% of the men they met as above…

    But in Chinese society the moment you achieve fame,power and riches the nicknames will be discarded immediately…But nobody I know tries to change his NRIC names.It is because his marriage certificate and children’s birth certificate needs alteration as well.

    I want CSL to write about his romantic youth..

  • assampor // November 15, 2008 at 9:01 pm | Reply

    The MCA leaders always promised that the people’s welfare comes first in their hearts.
    The party elections are over and they should start working hard for the people.
    If they keep on fighting it shows that they are only interested in themselves.
    Everything including the first world war and second world war has a beginning and an end.
    When are they going to end the comparatively small war?

  • assampor // November 17, 2008 at 10:54 am | Reply

    Tan Koon Swan has set a precedent for all MCA leaders who have made the Malaysian Chinese loose “Face”.Apologize,retreat with your head bowed in sorrow and shame.Never open your mouth again in public to say anything on behalf of Chinese people.
    Read his case..
    Tan Koon Swan (born 24th September, 1940) is a controversial Malaysian political and corporate figure, who was president of the Malaysian Chinese Association from November 1985 to September 1986.

    Tan first entered the political fray in the late 1970s. A self-made millionaire largely touted as a financial wizard, he assisted Lim Goh Tong in establishing Genting Highlands Resort as a successful tourist destination, and was invited to take up the position of Managing Director of Multi-Purpose Holdings Berhad, the corporate structure through which the MCA hoped to encourage Chinese participation in all areas of economic development. He joined the party in 1977 and took up the position.

    In 1978 Tan made his political debut, winning a parliamentary seat in Raub, Pahang. The following year, he was elected to the party’s Central Committee and appointed Chairman of MCA Wilayah Persekutuan State Liaison Committee. In 1982 he cinched a landslide victory for the parliamentary seat in the opposition stronghold of Damansara. 1984 saw him appointed as vice-president of the MCA.

    In March 1984, Tan was sacked as vice-president from the MCA along with 13 other members for urging the party to investigate its member records for the presence of non-existent people, an issue that had sparked off factionalism and crisis within the party. However, he and the other 13 were all reinstated two months later with the support of 1,600 MCA members in an extraordinary general meeting. In November 1985, he was voted to be president of the MCA winning 76.9% of the votes cast, the largest majority in the party’s history, and the first challenger since 1954 to win national leadership.

    Tan remained a highly prominent member of the corporate sector, controlling numerous companies, including Sigma International, which had a 22.6% stake in Pan-Electric Industries, a Singaporean-based company. On 12 December 1985, he signed an agreement that gave the troubled company S$ 20 million of funds through an interest-free loan and allowed it to resume trading.

    In 1986 he was charged in Singapore with abetting criminal breach of trust relating to the collapse of Pan-El. He was sentenced to two years imprisonment by Singapore High Court Justice Lai Kew Chai. In Lai’s judgment, Lai said Tan’s offences had “struck at the very heart, integrity, reputation and confidence of Singapore as a commercial city and financial centre”. After his sentencing, Tan resigned as MCA President. In 1988 Tan was also sentenced and imprisoned in Malaysia, declared a bankrupt, and reportedly owed over RM400 million, at the time roughly equivalent to more than 100 million US dollars. He was ordered to pay RM1000 a month to the Official Assignee and the New Straits Times estimated it would take him 35,316 years to pay off his outstanding claims. In the mid-1990s, after full repayment, Tan was discharged from bankruptcy.

    Tan, still a respected member of society, is a born-again Christian who likes to maintain a low profile.

  • fei mui // May 28, 2009 at 9:59 am | Reply

    Last month I saw Chua SL.He had a very unhappy,very sad,very dejected and forlorn look on his face.In fact he looks exactly like the long faced Pink Panther scratching his head asking himself.
    ” I wonder why? I wonder how ?..I am in this position of being disliked by so many people “.What am I going to do for people to love me again?
    I suggest he goes to see his former political foe Lee Lam Thye for guidance and advice.Lee was not in the good books of Dr.M before when he was in politics.But now Dr.M and everybody loves him for the good works that he had done for the society.Nobody will ever say a bad word against him anymore.
    Chua can take some of the work load from Lee.He can champion the AIDS movement. He can also give counseling to men and women who have sex with people who are not their spouses.He can also counsel people against having premarital sex.He can counsel people about the dangers of sexually transmitted diseases and the use of condoms.
    He will gain back the love and respect from the public soon.

  • fei mui // June 7, 2009 at 10:28 pm | Reply

    Great politicians who gave up everything for sex,
    1) Julius Ceasar,Mark Anthony of Rome for Cleopatra,
    2) Chua SL of MCA…for Beauty Who?…
    3)Emperor Xuanzong for Yang Gui Fei
    The Famous Queen Cleopatra…

    If your wife leaves you because you have no money to buy her make up…I bet you are not a great politician….

    Cleopatra is by far one of the most ever famous queens of all times in ancient Egypt. Her story of love and death is very famous and she ruled Egypt and made it quite powerful at the time.

    Cleopatra was born in 69 B.C. in Alexandria. She was the third daughter in line to her father Ptolemy XII; she later had another sister and two younger brothers. Her younger brother Ptolemy XIII later reigned with her.

    Cleopatra’s story is one of the most famous ever.

    Not only because of her great love, but because she was deeply in love of Egypt and she is classified by historians to be the last Pharoah of Egypt.

    Cleopatra came to the throne after death of her two elder sisters and after death of her father whom was much hated by the Egyptian and had fled to Rome several years before.

    During the two centuries that preceded Ptolemy XII death, the Ptolemies were allied with the Romans. The Ptolemies’ strength was failing and the Roman Empire was rising. During the later rule of the Ptolemies, the Romans gained more and more control over Egypt. Tributes had to be paid to the Romans to keep them away from Egypt.

    She came to reign in 51B.C.and was of 17 years of age. She was the only Ptolemic Pharoah to speak the Egyptian language. She also took on the Egyptian religion. She was very intelligent and was a shrewd politician with an extraordinary charisma. However, she was not beautiful and had a much masculine features.

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    She was very will-powered; her struggle began after being exiled to Syria with her sister by her brother, husband and Co-regent Ptolemy XIII. When Cleopatra became co-regent, her world was crumbling down around her. Cyprus, Syria and other capitals were gone. There was anarchy abroad and famine at home.

    Between 51 and 49 BC, Egypt was suffering from bad harvests and famine because of a drought which stopped the much needed Nile flooding. Regardless, she started an army from the Arab tribes which were east of Pelusium. During this time, she and her sister Arsinoe moved to Syria. They returned by way of Ascalon which may have been Cleopatra’s temporary base.

    In the meantime, Pompey had been defeated at Pharsalus in August of 48 BC. He headed for Alexandria hoping to find refuge with Ptolemy XIII, of whom Pompey was a senate-appointed guardian. Pompey did not realize how much his reputation had been destroyed by Pharsalus until it was too late.

    She started to go to war with her brother. This occurred after the death of Pompey, who had sought refuge from Caesar to Egypt but was stabbed to death once he came ashore to Alexandria by Ptolemy’s advisors.

    Caesar who was on Pompey’s tail, arrived in Alexandria 4 days later. There he acclaimed to be the ruler of Egypt bringing with him thirty-two hundred legionaries and eight hundred cavalry. He also brought twelve other soldiers who bore the insignia of the Roman government who carried a bundle of rods with an ax with a blade that projected out. This was considered a badge of authority that gave a clear hint of his intentions.

    There were riots that followed in Alexandria. Ptolemy XIII was gone to Pelusium and Caesar placed himself in the royal palace and started giving out orders to make Ptolemy XIII return again.

    Cleopatra’s cleverness led her to invite herself at Caesar’s palace. Wrapped up in a carpet she was delivered to him and as the carpet was unwrapped she appeared to him.

    Being rather seductive, she lured Ceasar before Ptolemy,s arrival who upon seeing that they were in love, Screamed out Betrayal to all the Alexandrians.

    The Alexandrian War was started when Pothinus called for Ptolemy XIII’s soldiers in November and surrounded Caesar in Alexandria with twenty thousand men. During the war, parts of the Alexandrian Library and some of the warehouses were burned. However, Caesar did manage to capture the Pharos lighthouse, which kept his control of the harbor. Cleopatra’s sister, Arsinoe, escaped from the palace and ran to Achillas. She was proclaimed the queen by the Macedonian mob and the army.

    During the fighting, Caesar executed Pothinus and Achillas was murdered by Ganymede. Ptolemy XIII drowned in the Nile while he was trying to flee.

    Alexandria surrendered to Caesar, who captured Arsinoe and restored Cleopatra on the throne.

    Egyptian law did not allow a queen to rule without a king, so Cleopatra married another brother, Ptolemy XIV, but she was in love with Caesar. Caesar and Cleopatra spent

    the next several months traveling along the Nile, where Caesar saw how the Egyptian people worshipped Cleopatra.

    It was at that time that Cleopatra became pregnant with Caesars son. She later gave birth to a son, Ptolemy XV, called Caesarion or “Little Caesar.”

    Caesar returned to Rome in 46 BCE with Cleopatra and their newborn son, Caesarion. Caesar had only one other child.

    Caesar was very popular with the Roman people. They named him dictator. A dictator is a ruler with complete power. Cleopatra was less popular with the Romans. She had called herself the “new Isis.” Many Romans were unhappy that Caesar was planning to marry a foreigner.

    On March 15, 44 BC a crowd of conspirators surrounded Caesar at a Senate meeting and stabbed him to death. Knowing that she too was in danger, Cleopatra quickly left Rome. Later her brother died and Cleopatra made her four-year-old son rule as the new king. She found Egypt suffering from plagues and famine. The Nile canals had been neglected during her absence which caused the harvests to be bad and the inundations low. The bad harvests continued from 43 until 41 BC.

    Rome was in turmoil after Caesar’s murder. Several armies competed for control. The two greatest were those of Mark Antony and Octavian. Octavian was the adopted son of Julius Caesar, but Mark Antony was believed to have led a larger army. When Antony asked Cleopatra to meet with him, Cleopatra decided that she had another opportunity to return to power both in Egypt, and in Rome.

    Another episode of Cleopatra’s story of love is revealed in her story with Mark Anthony. Their story began when mark Antony asked Cleopatra to come to see him in turkey. She knew that he could be easily dazzled by her glamour and her marvelously- tailored seductive arrival.

    He became immediately in love, an affair that led to the birth of his twins, Cleopatra Selene and Alexander Helios. Four years later, mark antonym came back to Cleopatra. In 37 BC, while on his way to invade Parthia, Antony returned to Cleopatra’s arms. He now stayed in Alexandria which was his home.

    Cleopatra then gave birth to another son; Ptolemy Philadelphus Mark Anthony gave her much land which was very essential to Egypt. He gave her Cyprus, the Cilician coast, Phoenicia, Coele-Syria, Judea and Arabia. This allowed Egypt to be able to build ships from the lumber from Cilician coast. Egypt then built a large fleet. Antony had planned a campaign against the Parthians. He obviously needed Cleopatra’s support for this and in 36 BC, he was defeated. He became more indebted to her than ever.

    Much of the later coming tragedy was now being plotted in Rome. Mark antonym’s wife, Octavia was too much frustrated and angry by the very bad treatment of mark to her. Octavian, decided that Mark Anthony was going too far especially after starting to give his illegitimate children royal titles.

    Ptolemy XV (Caesarion) was made the co-ruler with his mother and was called the King of Kings. Cleopatra was called the Queen of Kings, which was a higher position than that of Caesarion’s. Alexander Helios, which meant the sun, was named Great King of the Seleucid Empire when it was at its highest. Cleopatra Selene, which meant the moon, was called Queen of Cyrenaica and Crete. Cleopatra and Antony’s son, Ptolemy Philadelphos was named King of Syria and Asia Minor at the age of two. Cleopatra had dreams of becoming the Empress of the world.

    In 32 to 31 BC, Antony finally divorced Octavia. This forced the Western part of the world to recognize his relationship with Cleopatra. He had already put her name and face on a Roman coin, the silver denarii. The denarii was widely circulated throughout the Mediterranean. By doing this, Antony’s relationship with the Roman allegiance was ended and Octavian decided to publish Antony’s will. Octavian then formally declared war against Cleopatra.

    Octavian’s navy severely defeated Antony in Actium, which is in Greece, on September 2, 31 BC. Octavian’s admiral, Agrippa, planned and carried out the defeat. In less than a year, Antony half-heartedly defended Alexandria against the advancing army of Octavian. After the defeat, Antony committed suicide by falling on his own sword in 30 BC.
    CLEOPATRA’S death is one of the most famous ever. After arranging Antony’s funeral, she and her children were taken prisoners but were treated in a good way. Cleopatra afraid of being humiliated decided to take her life.
    She would not live this way, so she had an asp, which was an Egyptian cobra, brought to her hidden in a basket of figs. She arranged a big delicious meal and asked for figs.
    When the guards entered to see Cleopatra she was already dead. They found the 39-year old queen dead on her golden bed, with her maid Iras dying at her feet. Her other maid, Charmion, was weakly adjusting Cleopatra’s crown, and she too fell over dead. Two pricks were found on Cleopatra’s arm, and it was believed that she had allowed herself to be bitten by an asp (a kind of poisonous snake). As she had wished, she was buried beside Antony.

    She died on August 12, 30 BC at the age of 39. The Egyptian religion declared that death by snakebite would secure immortality. With this, she achieved her dying wish, to not be forgotten. The only other ruler to cast a shadow on the fascination with Cleopatra was Alexander who was another Macedonian. After Cleopatra’s death, Caesarion was strangled and the other children of Cleopatra were raised by Antony’s wife, Octavia.

    Her death was the mark of the end of the Egyptian Monarchs. The Roman Emperors came into to rule in Egypt. The Ptolemies were Macedonian in decent, but ruled as Egyptians, as Pharaohs. Cleopatra was the last pharaoh; after her death Egypt became a Roman province. Because Caesarion was Julius Caesar’s son and might pose a threat to Octavian’s power, Octavian had the boy strangled by his tutor. Cleopatra’s other children were sent to Rome to be raised by Octavia. Cleopatra Selene married King Juba II of Mauretania and had two children, Ptolemy and Drusilla. No one knows what happened to Alexander Helios and Ptolemy Philadelphus.

    Cleopatra was quite remarkable, she had great brilliance and her devotion to her country was utmost. She was a quick-witted woman who was fluent in nine languages, however, Latin was not one of them. She was a mathematician and a very good businesswoman she fought for her country.

    She had a charismatic personality, was a born leader and an ambitious monarch who deserved better than suicide.

    Xuanzong and Yang Gui Fei..
    Yang Guifei

    “Appreciating feminine charms,
    The Han emperor sought a great beauty.
    Throughout his empire he searched
    For many years without success.
    Then a daughter of the Yang family
    Matured to womanhood.
    Since she was secluded in her chamber,
    None outside had seen her.”

    Yang Yuhuan, later to become Yang Guifei (AD 713-756), was the daughter of Yang Xuanyan, a census official in Sichuan.

    An only child who lost her father early in life, Yang Yuhuan was raised in the household of her uncle, Yang Xuangui. She grew up to be one of the few women whose beauty has caused the downfall of monarchs and nations.

    “Yet with such beauty bestowed by fate, how could she remain unknown!
    One day she was chosen to attend to the emperor.
    Glancing back and smiling, she revealed a hundred charms.
    All the powdered ladies of the six palaces at once seemed dull and colourless.
    One cold spring day she was ordered to bathe in the Huaqing Palace baths.
    The warm water slipped down her glistening jade-like body.
    When her maids helped her rise, she looked so frail and lovely,
    Immediately winning the emperor’s favour.”

    In the twenty-second year of the Kaiyuan reign, Yang Yuhuan was chosen to enter the imperial harem. In the twenty-eighth year, the Tang Emperor Xuanzong summoned her to the Huaqing Palace where she first rose to imperial favour.

    “Her hair like a cloud, her face like a flower,
    A gold hair-pin adorning her tresses.
    Behind the warm lotus-flower curtain,
    They took their pleasures in the spring night.
    Regretting only the spring nights were too short;
    Rising only when the sun was high;
    He stopped attending court sessions
    In the early morning.
    Constantly she amused and feasted with him,
    Accompanying him on his spring outings,
    Spending all the nights with him.
    Though many beauties were in the palace,
    More than three thousand of them,
    All his favours were centered on her.”

    Her relatives gained unprecedented influence: her uncle, Xuangui, was made a senior official in the capital; her cousin Yang Guozhong was appointed prime minister; her elder brother, Yangxian became an official of the second rank while her younger brother, Yangqi was given an imperial consort as his wife. Her sisters were all appointed to nobility.

    “The Rainbow and Feather Garments Dance
    Was stopped by the sounds of war.
    Dust filled the high-towered capital,
    As thousands of carriages and horsemen
    Fled to the south-west.”

    Emperor Xuanzong, wallowing in the pleasures of the flesh, neglected his court and politics. In AD 755, An Lushan, a powerful general, seized the opportunity to stage a rebellion and marched into the capital. Emperor Xuanzong fled towards the south-west, taking Yang Guifei with him.

    “The emperor’s green-canopied carriage
    Was forced to halt,
    Having left the west city gate
    More than a hundred li.
    There was nothing the emperor could do,
    At the army’s refusal to proceed.
    So she with the moth-like eyebrows
    Was killed before his horses.
    Her floral-patterned gilded box
    Fell to the ground, abandoned and unwanted,
    Like her jade hair-pin
    With the gold sparrow and green feathers.”

    They had not gone far from the capital when the soldiers refused to go on, demanding the death of Yang Guifei. Emperor Xuanzong had no choice but to watch Yang Guifei kill herself at the slopes of Mawei village.

    Like the soldiers, the common people hated Yang Guifei, believing that she had brought harm to their country. In reality, she was no more than the plaything of a fatuous monarch, used as an excuse by treacherous subjects to justify sedition. Perhaps those who truly deserve to be despised are the self-indulgent emperor, his traitorous subjects, and fair-weather friends who used claims of kinship to gain power. Beyond that, the blame must lie with the backward system of feudal autocracy under which Yang Guifei lived.

    “Heaven and earth may not last for ever,
    But this sorrow is eternal.”

    courtesy of
    http://www.span.com.au/100women

    Yang Guifei Hong Kong movie version (1962)
    http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XMjAzNDY3MzI=.html

    Yang Guifei China TV series
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EexWo3A-iwY&feature=related
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8XX9p-NJek&feature=related
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdy0_P98tfc&feature=related
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1-qQnJt3CY&feature=related
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NcTZeQ0_q8s&feature=related
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJutEfqXuJc

    Yang Guifei Hong Kong TV series
    http://tv.mofile.com/MNF4F1UM
    http://v.blog.sohu.com/u/vw/1190169

    “Tune of Rainbow Cloud” guzheng performance
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cctwUsknGhs&feature=PlayList&p=9FDD4A2A93DF6379&index=1

    Yang Guifei music video
    http://www.56.com/u46/v_MjM5NTYxODc.html

    Popular song of the Tang Dynasty
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o45-43mSwZA

    entertainment in the Tang court
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fEuph2DEJy0&feature=related#

    The story of Yang Guifei is also well-known in Japan, as the Tang Dynasty greatly influenced Japanese culture and arts. According to Japanese myth, Yang was rescued and lived her remaining life in Japan where she is known as Yokihi. A poem, “Song of the Everlasting Sorrow”, was written by the Tang poet Bai Juyi describing the Emperor’s love and perpetual grief at her loss; it became an instant classic, memorized by Chinese schoolchildren far into posterity. The story of Yang Guifei and the poem “Song of Everlasting Sorrow” also became highly popular in Japan and served as sources of inspiration for the classical novel “The Tale of Genji” which begins with the doomed loved between an emperor and a consort, Kiritsubo, who is likened to Yang Guifei.

    A 1955 Japanese film about Yang Guifei ( Yõkihi in Japanese )
    http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0048820/

    Chinese musical Yang Guifei escapes to Japan
    http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_cz00XMjM1MTc1NzI=.html

  • fei mui // June 8, 2009 at 6:38 am | Reply

    I believe Chua is Emperor Xuanzong reborn into our 2009 society.
    A man of talents and profound wisdom sacrificing anything and everything for a woman who is not his wife.

  • John Chan // June 9, 2009 at 7:35 am | Reply

    Yes,I believe he could be Julius Caesar reborn into our society year 2009 too.
    Julius Caesar betrayed the Roman Empire for love and sex with Cleopatra.He was stabbed by the Roman Senate lead by Marcus Junius Brutus, a very “bad” man according to Julius Caesar party.
    In MCA who is playing Julius Ceasar?
    Who is playing Brutus?
    Why are they using a sex video instead of a pen to stab him?
    Maybe we are in modern times.We do not know.

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