Tun M turns 93

Birthday greetings to an extra-ordinary leader

At a time when the opposition was in disarray and unable to mount any meaningful challenge against the mighty and ruthless Barisan National(BN) in the GE14 and we were losing all hopes of getting rid of a kleptocrat bleeding our nation, you were sent as though God was answering our prayers for His divine intervention. You were called a dictator and recalcitrant but today you are called the saviour of the country and the people.

At your advanced age of 93 years, it was not an easy decision to take up the task of uniting a badly divided opposition coalition and mounting a challenge to topple the BN. The fact that you accepted the challenge, humbled yourself to apologise for your mistakes and reconciled with your once fierce enemies of the past showed your patriotism and love for the country. Not many at your age would be willing to make that sacrifice and that alone makes you an extra-ordinary leader. 

The people saw the sincerity in your actions and decided to give full support to you and the new opposition coalition, Pakatan Harapan(PH). At your age, you are the most experienced and wisest to lead the nation out of the mess we are in today. There is nobody else who could match you stamina, intellect and courage to deliver the fatal blow to the BN. You not only succeed to overthrow the BN but courageously stood up to force a peaceful transfer of power that most of us thought was impossible. 

Now we know why God gave you a long life. The nation and the people still need you to lead in reforming a country that is torn apart by racial and religious intolerance, massive corruption and its economy in chaos. We need your steadfast leadership and experience a little longer to reorganise your inexperienced team to manage the nation in a democratic, professional and lawful means.

May God bless continue to bless you with good health and vitality to save us and our country and lift us up to our past glory as a dignified, united multiracial, multi-religious and progressive nation. The people of all race and creed have placed their full trust in you and they know you will not let them down.

Tun Mahathir you are our hope, our legend.  

HAPPY BIRTHDAY Tun

The Umno elections 2018

  

Major defeat but no need for change

After decades of no contests for the top posts in Umno, the party polls were finally held after the   GE14 where Umno-BN lost the elections for the very first time after 60 years.The leaders left behind after the resignation of its president must be commended for finally agreeing not to just have the elections for all the top posts but also for agreeing to have a debate among the 3 major candidates for president.

However the same old people who the people rejected in the GE were re-elected back as president and other top posts in Umno. It is indeed a sad turning point in Umno's history. Despite the major losses in the general election on 9 May 2018, returning in the same old people back to helm the former ruling party implies that there is no need for change in Umno as it has done no wrong.The results reflects that Umno is still in denial. It is still in denial.

Umno of today is not what it is used to before founding. Today it doesn't defend the ordinary Malays, who continue to remain poor, but it promotes the rich and powerful among them. Umno today doesn't defend the true virtuous Islam but abuses the religion to remain in power.

Umno today, by refusing to admit its shortcomings and make positive changes to overcome them,is only working towards its premature demise as the rural Malays will not remain 'rural' and ignorant forever. They will continue to rise and make Umno irrelevant as the GE14 had proven.

If the new president and his new team refuse to read this clear message of the people including the Malays in the GE14,I don't t know if anything else ever will.

Father's Day 2018

As we celebrate father’s Day let us recall the good our fathers have done for us.

Let us recall the values he stood for as the head of our family

Let’s recall the legacy he left us

Let’s take some time to show our appreciation to this hero in our lives

Let’s pause to say “Thank You Dad”

Happy Father’s Day