Saturday, April 5, 2008

Hello,world.

 5 April 2008.

It's never too late,eh. So here I am, sitting in front of my pc, figuring what to write, this my very first posting. 

Aspan Alias called me several times to start blogging, in fact he even set up a blog for me two days ago, but I thought I'd better use my own identifications. So Sungai Ujung is an old name for Seremban, thus we have the Undang Luak Sungai Ujung, and my house is only about 400 m. away. To this day the Chinese still call Seremban " Fu yong" - the shortened and mispronounced sininised Sungai Ujong, like "Pa sang" for Kelang. 

Let's see, the current topic in Malaysia is the post-election trauma for BN. The spin given out by NST is that Dollah and his supporters in the cabinet have no reason, and are in no hurry, to leave the corridors of power. Today their main target is of course Mahathir since his has consistently been the most acerbic.  

They are clearly missing the whole point. What is at issue is not Mahathir. His is the past. What is at issue is the present government. Clearly, this is a BN goverment that has been brought down to it's knees by the last GE. If the present leadership is in denial of this fact, than it cannot move from this condition. How can you even consider the remedial action required, if you were a BN man, if you deny the existence of the affliction in the first place ? As they say, it's the song, not the singer. 

The clear message is the fact that BN has fallen from grace. Why ? So what do you (BN) do now ? BA (for want of a more suitable monicker) may have won all those seats not so much for their acceptance by the voters as for the rejection of BN. If the BN leaders want to regain their past dominance, they better get some straight answers, not some spin about this "evil decrepit ex PM"who is causing trouble. 

As an addendum, I'm told that 80 Ketua Bahagian UMNO were left out of GE12, and this out of about 170 divisions in total. So, go figure out.


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