pre-script - Again, I must point you to delCapo’s photos of Bkt Gantang, and Viveg (via Haris) of Bkt Selambau. Here are some I liked:
Bkt Gantang -
Bukit Selambau -
Crowd to my left
Crowd to my right
Crowd in the secondary forest right in front of me
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So, when will Dollah really hand over power? Sooner, ala Bernama’s “Abdullah Guarantees That Transition Will Happen“, or later, ala Malaysiakini’s “Pak Lah: Stop pestering me on handover date”
“Just wait. Don’t ask me to say anything. All will happen when the time is right. The transition will take place,” he was quoted as saying by Bernama.
Many of us may have given up thinking of some last minute upset on Abdullah’s part as mere wet dreams.
I’m not intending to create false hope, but one really must wonder what Abdullah’s purpose is in making such vague (alarming I’m sure, to the Najib camp) statements.
If you’ll pardon the continued vulgarity (I blame theSilo), is he just being a cock-tease? It seems unlikely, given what is at stake.
If he really was planning to go quietly into the night, why doesn’t he just say so? What would be in it for him, should he truly be looking to retire, for being so cloudy about such an important matter?
Perhaps he just wants to give some false hope to his supporters who are pestering him to stay, knowing they’re as good as beheaded in a few weeks.
OR. Maybe between him and DYMM YDP Agong, they’ll perhaps wait until after the by-elections, and use the three defeats as some sort of excuse to find some alternative to a straightforward and run of the mill transition to Najib.
Oooooooh. Well, a man can hope no? And we would need 3 thumping Pakatan victories to see such a scenario (kah yau! - tekan minyak!)
How’s it looking on that front anyway? Well, Muhyiddin is the latest to play obedient kiss-ass to his boss:
Newly minted Umno deputy president Muhyiddin Yassin has called on the people not to turn the upcoming by-elections on April 7 into a referendum on the leadership of incoming premier Najib Abdul Razak.
He said the by-elections at Bukit Gantang in Perak, Bukit Selambau in Kedah and Batang Ai in Sarawak were significant as coincidentally, they would be held soon after the transition of power.
“I like to remind voters that they are by-elections, not a referendum on Najib’s leadership,” he was quoted as saying by Bernama.
Once again, I must ask the simple question: If the omniscient government anticipated a victory, or even a close fight, why on earth would Muhyiddin burn his bridges and declare it pre-emptively as non-reflective of what people thought of Najib? (Unless he anticipates victory and wants it to be reflective of himself and not Najib, ahaha)
If these jokers win any of the 3 seats, and then turn around and say “Aha! You see! People loooooove Najib,” be sure that this blogger will give them a tight cyber-slap!
In continuation of my arguments yesterday, I must also take exception to these blabberings about how by-elections simply do not reflect the national mood, and that only general elections can.
Firstly I said, by all means HAVE general elections then! Secondly, in absence of general elections, one would have to be pretty blur not to see that by-elections are the next closest thing to a barometer, what more 3 by-elections in different parts of the country.
Yes, they are not nation-wide, but short of a general election itself, how better to test the political mood of the country?! By reading Utusan Malaysia or The Star perhaps? Shyeahhhh….
It appears Muhyiddin has made a new friend in Kalainavar though.
Sigh, these guys.
You want to express discontent, expresslah. Maybe you feel your reasons are legitimate, and that you have been wrongly neglected - that’s your right, and all fine and well.
But hmm. Let’s see. Last week you were fighting tooth and nail to represent PKR. This week:
“I am very unhappy with Anwar and PKR. The party has not done anything for the Indian community,” (Kalainavar) told a press conference at a golf club in Sungai Petani.
Moreover, he said Pakatan had “deceived and used the people especially the Indian community like curry leaves but did nothing beneficial for them.”
My, my. I guess Pakatan must have changed a lot eh, in the space of that week? Either Pakatan or Kalainavarlah, I suppose.
I must agree with Sivarasa:
“Voters are sophisticated nowadays. They know what in this case, it is nothing more than Kalainavar being disgruntled over not getting picked as the candidate to contest.
“Kalaivanar is only saying all this after he has been denied from contesting. He would have had more credibility should he had say all these things before knowing his wish to contest had been turned down,” he said.
He added that it was important for party members to stick with the party for “its beliefs and principles and not only to get seats.”
Yep. I think the kind of people Pakatan needs are those who are dedicated to justice, equality and compassion. Everyone else, the door is that way.
(ps- the last guy who pulled a stunt like this also after not being picked to contest in a by-election against MIC.. didn’t he go off and start some monoethnic party of his own? Wonder how they are doing…. :P )
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