This & that.

28.4.2009.

To-day, 28th. April, is No. 3 Son's birthday, but the wife, Dekna and I, with Acad in tow, went to Shah Alam yesterday evening and asked him to join us at the UiTM Hotel for a quiet celebration. He was supposed to come at 6 but turned up one whole hour late, as usual.

Azman the UMNO NS Liason Secretary last Friday finally confirmed he's resigning, after several days of rumours that Najib wants him out. That means one state less with two MBs. Azman gave the stale excuse of health reasons, ha ha ! 

Now it's Terengganu, Wilayah Persekutuan, Pulau Pinang, and Kedah where the top local UMNO guy doesn't get to be the Chairman of the State Liason Committee, officially the one who decides the candidacies of all elections. Of the four, only Terengganu is a sitting MB denied this honour. If he's got "face" he should have resigned as MB.

So, Najib is on the walkabout in KL again. I hope he doesn't think he's PM of KL only. Or, only KL has problems. Mat Hassan used to ride around on his big bike at nights, incognito. 

Mahathir is right to hate Nazri for being nasty to him. Just listen to him insulting the old man. I thought Najib wants UMNO to be more sensitive and respectful ? I mean to say Mahathir is old and irrelevent is uncouth and uneducated (kurang ajar) and reflects on his own upbringing, the worst insult a Malay can give to another Malay. Never mind that Najib help Nazri land the Minister's job in Mahathir's time and Nazri might just say thank you. Mahathir's blog and his activities in his retirement still attract support, probably more than Nazri can garner while, as he so vainly said, he's still a Minister. Who listens to Nazri internationally, and how many books has he written ? And being a Minister in the PM's Department is probably the closest he'll ever be to occupying the PM's office. Najib can do all of us a service if he can tell this little napoleon to watch it.

STP is kind to Dollah , a couple of times publishing pictures of him fondling some fruits and leaves, and looking resplendent in a scout uniform. I think he's found his true calling, I mean gardening and being a chief scout. Planting vegetables doesn't require too much stamina, and being the chief scout doesn't require too much energy, though I suppose you have to "Be Prepared". But Dollah can do without the snide remarks about "people should know their proper places" which are thinly disguised daggers aimed at Mahathir. Because people might want to continue to compare the two, and Dollah probabaly will look worse than he already is, being ousted from office and all that. Of course some people get screwed up and still grin stupidly. 

Thursday is decision day for UMNO on Penanti. We'll see what Muhyiddin is made up of. 

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