once upon a fairy tale

now i have extra activity at work. in between the servers crunching my commands, i peeked through various online news sites about the forming of new states government in malaysia.

this is so like jumping into the latest trend bandwagon. everybody suddenly is very interested in malaysian politics. even more than the current american idol top 12.

especially now that the dust has settled, came a few after-shocks that kept us talking. or swearing in my case.

man i was very disappointed in what happened in perak's chief minister's selection. for awhile, it made me wonder if i had woken up from this fairy tale win dream.

don't get me wrong, i still detest BN but BN or not, it's never wise to play the race card.

have they forgotten who voted them in the first place? the convoy riders that escorted their candidates while campaigning include those in greens too. plus, 30% population in the state won't magically gives you 18 seats.

my point is, we should move away from these racial oriented sentiments. the rockets should not be overly wary of the moon. the moon should never impose itself onto the rockets. it's time to look beyond our colours.

the good news is, the last i heard is that they have settled the dispute. thank god. i whole-heartedly hope it was just a blip. one tiny blip that one hundred percent settled. after all, what's the point of getting the chief minister position for 4 years and then lost it forever?

remember the power of people put them there. they can always take it back. be it after the next election, or even right now. statistically, BN just need 2 more seats to get perak back.

they should learn from penang. ok penang might be a different case since the winning party is obvious. but the fact that they made effort to stress that no particular race would be left behind is truly a good start.

and about that hot NEP issue, i'm all for that to be corrected, and i'm from the side that supposedly got the benefit from it. from my eyes, NEP has become a tool for certain well-connected people to get all the tenders and build up their over-the-top wealth.

i'm wondering, has protecting and gently caressing a certain group of people made the community too dependant and lost competitiveness? i mean, try put your beloved pet fish in the open sea and see how many of them survive the wild.

i'm thinking, not a lot.

i found it amusing that the mainstream news are still reporting these current opposition-led states developments from the negative angle. i thought now that former i-can-speak-english information minister has lost in the election, the media would be all revamped and be a bit more less biased.

but no, they kept on focusing on the opposition's perak news and penang NEP news with zero coverage on that terengganu chief minister's selection hassle. we heard nothing about the king's multiple rejection of the nominee from the ruling party until the istana had to cancel the oath ceremony.

how embarassing is that? even one party state could not form a government properly.

it's interesting that utusan malaysia on march 10 reported that the cancellation was due to the nominated candidate was in kl. i mean, this guy must be darn powerful until he could make the terengganu king wait for him. plus, how far is it kl from terengganu? like 5 minutes away in their world of private jets.

all i want to say is, we must be wary of negative propaganda, be it on our face or hidden.

i'm not trying to prove any point here and get all political. god knows how many political oriented websites out there now. i'd just like to merely putting my views and hope that this election win is just the first step to strive towards one malaysia for malaysian community that abandon all racial barriers to be able to solely focus to improve all aspect of our lives.

sound a bit lame but that would be my fairy tale ending.




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