I just blogged a few days back referring to the Petronas Raya commercial, thinking that young Malaysians these days don’t know how to handle old folks (with Alzheimer in particular).
UMNO youth leaders have just proven me right in some sense, with their comments and criticism that retaliates on Dr Mahathir attacks on Prime Minister Abdullah Badawi.
National UMNO Youth Leader Hishammuddin Tun Hussein had earlier mentioned that he’s sick and bored of Mahathir’s attack; while Terengganu UMNO Youth leader Mohd. Sabri Alwi decided to join in the bandwagon asking for Dr M to resign as an UMNO party member.
Dr Mahathir is an 81-year-old man, and old folks say funny things; what Dr M said are peanuts compared to the curses from my grandma after she got into Alzheimer.
Ok it’s unfair at all to compare Dr M with my grandma. Fact is some of his ruthless attack on Abdullah Badawi are making sense and raising some critical issues that the government cannot provide answers.
What the government and some UMNO leaders are trying to push Dr Mahathir aside because they couldn’t handle him; the situation is very much alike to the Petronas commercial handling their old man by isolating him, which is just so wrong.
The best way to handle Dr Mahathir’s situation is to create communication; and so far the government (or Pak Lah to be precise) had just spoke to Dr M once, they can do much better than that.
It would be nice if the government can provides the answers to Dr M allegations, but thinking of how corrupted the government currently is… I bet Dr M will not have his wishes granted.
As Dr Mahathir continues his attack, the least the young UMNO leaders can do is shut their mouth up. Fine if they are not able to create communications, but do show some respect to an old folk…
Someday everyone will get old, and the UMNO leaders won’t know what they are going to become when they get old, and they won’t want the youngsters to throw shit on them.
October 29th, 2006 at 8:15 pm
I just could not agree with you more with what you wrote about Tun Mahathir and the comparison you made to the Petronas Raya commercial. It is just too sad that some of us purposely miss the facts laid in front of us but choose to beat around the bush hoping to divert people’s attention. The truth is, the whole world is watching. Who is right and who is wrong, is not for the person involved to say, but the world to judge.
October 30th, 2006 at 12:39 pm
Actually not the whole world is watching… I mean in Malaysia there’s still large group of people that are not highly educated and can be easily manipulated.
That’s probably why the politicians are still happily diverting attention and hiding facts, because in the end they will still win the election nonetheless and Mahathir was right when he said that there’s no one in Malaysia that can challenge Pak Lah and the government.
It’s just the irony that what Pak Lah is doing are so identical to what Mahathir was when he was in charge.
October 31st, 2006 at 1:16 pm
well at least it’s confine to within UMNO but still it’s reflect badly on the govn. and it’s stability which will or has already affected the economy on foreign investment.
Why can’t Mahathir [since he retired] leave Pak Lah to run the show.
should step down then, Mah!.
hope they resovle the issues asap.
October 31st, 2006 at 2:57 pm
It does look bad on the government, and the irony thing is that Mahathir was not really a ‘clean’ leader during his reign… and now criticizing his successor that he selected.
It’s true that the best for Mahathir was to keep quiet at the first place, but damage has already been done… that’s no turning back unless someone can provide some good answers to Mahathir’s allegations.
The story still reflects in our family value, we all hope that our old folks will be nice and respectable when they get old. Fact is some will turn nasty and irrational… and as said the least we can do is to show respect and take good care of them.
I am more concern of the young leaders’ attitude and the moral value involved in this situation than the actual allegations… not only do the issues need to be resolved, but it needs to be resolved PROPERLY.
October 31st, 2006 at 7:00 pm
If only we know the whole story behind it.
I have heard several version but mostly i believe the Tun could see our current PM does not have a vision like he did. Regardless how unclean aleader is, the most important thing is to have a vision for the country and where he is leading the country to.
Everyone in the scene is going towards the last few years, they are more eager to grab while they can than to think for our country.
Why are APs issued to certain exclusive closed family members and friends and not being investigated? They try to distract us and Tun is trying to remind us not to go off track.
November 1st, 2006 at 2:11 am
Wee.. some of my friends actually accepted the fact that the government is corrupted since Mahathir’s time, and it’s still happening.
For them as long as Malaysia continues to prosper in economics and stable in racial harmony, they are happy.
Here comes your point.. Badawi has yet to show the vision like Mahathir, and is not showing enough charisma in leading the nation.
The AP issue is just one of the many corrupted examples. It probably involves too many interest among the government leaders that nobody dare to investigate.
November 1st, 2006 at 9:31 am
Guys…Mahathir has served as PM for so many terms of course the results are there,,give current PM a chance it’s only his 1st term. not easy to exceed the benchmark set…but i think he’s doing something ,probably not to some with high expectations.
as for family values, what goes round ,comes around…any young person with disrespect will get it back when their time comes. still Asian family values are much better compare to the ‘Western’ where they are more of ‘friend’ on 1st name basis even with older folks and Old Folks Home are common with them.
November 1st, 2006 at 11:13 am
I understand that, I am not totally against Badawi.
In fact I wrote a post sometime ago stating that Badawi is probably still the better option for PM instead of other current cabinet members we have.
Time is not on his side though, it has been 3 years since Badawi took charge, and I can’t remember the right thing that he has done… pardon me for not being as optimistic as you do.
Western people have a different set of values, the kids don’t stay with parents when they turn adults, and the old folks in general have to plan for their own retirement.
November 1st, 2006 at 2:17 pm
I asked in a forum and would like to ask again:
Can somebody please list down the things that our current PM had done for us:
1. … i still can’t think of any.
As many mistakes as Tun Mahathir made, as much credit we can list down. I don’t care too if the government is corrupted, as long as they do think of our country.
If there is no money in politic, there will be no politicians.
November 2nd, 2006 at 3:26 am
I think Badawi tried too hard to jump out of Mahathir’s shadow. Example is MSC, which Badawi can continue to develop instead of proposing a new Johor SC of some sort.
Badawi can look on revising other delayed projects like Bakun dam and the 2nd railroad project, which I think are something that’s worth working on.
His Archilles heel is probably on fighting corruption, which he vowed to be his top priority; turn out that the corruption that’s exposed under his reign is worse than during Mahathir.