Tender loving care

Remember this:

'The tender process
will be open
and transparent.'

- Works Minister Samy Vellu,
announcing on Sunday that tenders for 378 infrastructure projects under the 9MP will be called in phases beginning next month. The total estimated sum involved is RM18.6 billion. Yes, billion. (http://www.bernama.com/bernama/v3/news.php?id=190901)

Let's play Honour your Word.
But first, some Revision Notes:

Transparent (adj)
1. Capable of transmitting light so that objects or images can be seen as if there were no intervening material. See synonyms at clear.
2. Permeable to electromagnetic radiation of specified frequencies, as to visible light or radio waves.
3. So fine in texture that it can be seen through; sheer. See synonyms at airy.
4. Easily seen through or detected; obvious: transparent lies.
Free from guile; candid or open: transparent sincerity.
5. Obsolete. Shining through; luminous.

[Middle English, from Old French, from Medieval Latin trānspārēns, trānspārent-, present participle of trānspārēre, to show through : Latin trāns-, trans- + Latin pārēre, to show.]

("transparent." The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Houghton Mifflin Company, 2004. Answers.com 10 Apr. 2006. http://www.answers.com/topic/transparent)


Open (adj)
1.
a) Affording unobstructed entrance and exit; not shut or closed.
b) Affording unobstructed passage or view: open waters; the open countryside.
2.
a) Having no protecting or concealing cover: an open wound; an open sports car.
b) Completely obvious; blatant: open disregard of the law.
c) Carried on in full view: open warfare; open family strife.
d) Sports. Not closely defended by an opponent: an open receiver.
3.
a) Not sealed or tied: an open package.
b) Spread out; unfolded: an open book.
4. Having interspersed gaps, spaces, or intervals: open ranks; an open weave.
5.
a) Accessible to all; unrestricted as to participants: an open competition.
b) Free from limitations, boundaries, or restrictions: open registration.
c) Enterable by registered voters regardless of political affiliation: an open primary.
d) Computer Science. Of or relating to a file that can be accessed.

("open." The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Houghton Mifflin Company, 2004. Answers.com 10 Apr. 2006. http://www.answers.com/topic/open)


Stay peeled. In some ways, this is better than the World Cup; it comes once every five years.