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Wednesday April 27, 2011

Shahrir chides blogger over sin city JB

By MOHD FARHAAN SHAH and YEE XIANG YUN
newsdesk@thestar.com.my


JOHOR BARU: A poem on the Net that derided Johor Baru as a sin city has ruffled the feathers of its MP Datuk Shahrir Samad and the state government.
Shahrir accused United States-based blogger Dr Azly Rahman of degrading and tarnishing the city through Sin City, Jay Bee a Tribute to Johor Baru that has appeared in several anti-establishment portals, including DAP stalwart Lim Kit Siang's blog.
He dared Dr Azly to return home and see how the city had progressed.
Johor Baru is not trying to emulate New York. The crime rate there is much higher than it is here, he told The Star, when asked to comment on the poem.
Shahrir chided the blogger for living in the past.
Sorry to disappoint him, but Johor Baru is not like what he had in mind when he wrote the poem, he said.
Johor Tourism and Environment committee chairman Hoo Seong Chang said such negative poems would not affect the state's tourism.
We have proven ourselves with attractive packages that pull in visitors all-year long, he said.
I understand the state's cleanliness has been an issue but we are working on it.
Hoo said about 16.5 million tourists visited the state last year.
For the first three months of this year alone we have already attracted 3.9 million tourists an increase of 455,672 when compared with the same period last year, he said.
Dr Azly, who lives in New Jersey, said he was born in Singapore but grew up in Kampung Melayu Majidee here. H! e studie d at a boarding school in Kuantan and continued his studies in New York.
In his poem, he portrayed Johor Baru as a drug-ridden, corrupted and eco-unfriendly city with a poor economy.
One of the stanzas in the long poem, reads:
Jay Bee
You may be called a city of filth
Of gang wars and transvestite galore
Of rock kapak geniuses conceived immaculately
From the womb of Papa Rock
Ahhh New Johor New York you may want to be
Thou shall never attain that notoriety.
In the final stanza, Dr Azly wrote: You were once mine, you will no longer be.

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