On Christmas night Dato' Mail asked me to accompany him to MUBARAK Melaka's Family Day in PD. So, after Magrib prayers I went to fetch him. It was when we were already at Telok Kemang that he said he doesn't know the exact location of Pusat Latihan FAMA ! With excellent timing Sainy called on Dato' Mail's handphone which he passed to me. He said that the place is just beyond his house in Rantau Panjang (PD, not Kelantan).
The speeches had already started when we arrived, though not the food, so it was OK. While driving up I had mentioned to Dato' Mail about Tengku Rithauddin getting mad at MUBARAK for saying that the Disciplinary Committee is too slow. I said I'd posted a comment in Tunkuaisha blogside defending MUBARAK. Dato' Mail said MUBARAK's statement was made by Datuk Aziz Rahman with the agreement of the Supreme Council. Rithauddin probably didn't read the full statement. Anyway I said I can't imagine Zahar making that statement because he's in the Disciplinary Committee and I've seen him bow down and kissing Rithauddin's hand. Now here in PD when Tan Sri Nordin spoke, he mentioned the case and corroborated Dato' Mail's story. Basically MUBARAK is saying the DC should wrap up before March so that the Isa Samad episode is not repeated. As I commented in the blog, Rithauddin should not be so thin-skinned and trigger-happy. MUBARAK has no axe to grind. The members are not trying to make a come-back, just trying to be useful. The truth of the matter is the DC is bogged down. It's no help that its modus operandi is like a court of law, which it's not. The DC is just an internal party mechanism and shouldn't try to be artificially high-nosed in seeking evidence in the money-politics cases. The Monitoring Committee that used to function at the NS Liaison Committe could be a practical model in speeding up the investigations. In fact Tan Sri Nordin was right in suggesting that MUBARAK old hands could be summoned to help clear the congestion.
It's most heartening to see the obvious intimacy of the MUBARAK of Melaka with their serving ADUNs, including the sitting Speaker. And to hear about the financial support given by the CM for this gathering made the seven of us from NS present jealous. Sadly, the NS chapter gets little notice from the MB and the serving ADUNs.
Nordin made a humourous remark about holding this Family Day in PD - "because it's near Tanjung Tuan, which belongs to Melaka !" So I said to Sainy, that's just a quirk of Colonial history, but it's just a light-house there. I went up the light-house when still in school and remember a "Hang Tuah's footprint" on a wave-washed boulder. Another "footprint" is supposed to have been found in Melaka, so that shows how big Hang Tuah's stride was ! Ha Ha. That's like saying if Dollah Badawi can push through three Bills in Parliament in three months, he can push through 60 in five years !
Driving back, Dato' Mail asked why MUBARAK NS can't do what Melaka has done ? I replied "who's to move it ? You see how close they are ? Some of our members won't even talk to other members !" It's the spirit of Hang Tuah ! Ours is the spirit Hang Bedebah !
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