Dawn of A New Era

March 8, 2008...mark tis date for it's the most significant & eventful day in the history of M'sian elections. It would have been known by now (unless ur staying in a jungle far far deep inside Taman Negara) that BN was denied 2/3 majority in Parliament & lost 5 states to the Opposition coalition parties at that.

Never in my lifetime I've seen newspapers were selling like hot cakes. I can't even got a copy of my favourite Malay Mail & Sun newspaper (probably the most bias-free newspapers in the market) for one week !!!! Been reading the Malaysiakini.com news website for it's been made freely accessible for public for one week. Floods of mails/columns/posts awakened me to the fact that people's thoughts has indeed change & this time around, they made their votes count. Political tsunami, waves of changes or whatever they call it, the elections this time will bound to be the benchmark of many future election campaigns to come. Vox populi (means voices of people in French) caused the rakyat to show Makkal Sakthi (means people power in Tamil) & many other factors prompted people to give the vote of their lifetime. Not goin to dwell on analysing how & why it happens since there are countless people out there giving great concise, bias-free analysis. Check out http://www.malaysiakini.com/

Talked to many people (my peers) before elections & most of them includes me did not register to vote. Reason is we're way too disillusioned with the state of politics all over. People might change in different office terms but things remains the same. Public money are wasted on extravagant so-called study trips & buildings of many "white elephants" (especially in the local council level). Voices of the people was heard went unheeded. Corrupted officials went unpunished or rather punished lightly (think of a certain Klang man, now DEAD). One minister frankly spoke of the existence of many little Napoleons in local governments. Many other issues were ignored & authorities closed their one eye on it. So why the heck we need to queue up for hours just to cross the blank box in a small piece of paper when rakyat $$$ will still be squandered by those Napoleons?? And we're partly at faults for choosing these people. The results of the elections has clearly showed that democracy is indeed alive here & changed my thoughts (I'm sure to most of us as well) on the power of people to decide the political outcome of the country.

M'sian political landscape is no longer the same & it's the fact everyone (that's u and me) need to accept & adapt to it. Seems like some losers were still unable to accept their losts, acting like crybabies & blaming everyone else but themselves. Even the winners shouldn't be spared too, now that everyone want a piece of cake for themselves & caused infighting over positions. This is my message to all: CUT ALL THE CRAPS & GET DOWN TO WORK !!!!

To the winners: Now that u've been voted into office, stop the infighting & re-adjust ur
ideologies if u need to, now that ur governing the multi-racial states. Do your best to fulfill ur promises to us, the rakyat who will decide on ur performance next election.
To the losers: It's not the end of the world & stop acting like sore losers.Do your own self
reflections & read Billi Lim's book "Dare to Fail" if u still dun understand. Get back to grassroots & find the root causes on your failures. Work to regain our trust in you.

Okay, I shall now go to the nearest post office to register my name for next elections. Dammit...should have done this many donkey years back when I reached 21.