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Change?

Yes, we can. Maybe next election? But for now we need to keep counting it to make sure we don't get short-changed.

Change and short-changed?

Over here, the reunification of Umno seems to be the key message to the voters.

But money politics has gotten in the way. The campaigners will therefore, as has happened in elections before, be beholden to their funders, and if elected, cuffed to express gratitude by future contracts.

Pump-priming contracts are small, and open tenders for them already decided by how the tenderers are classified.

It's the other contracts above those which will remain a question mark.

Therefore, how can the rakyat discern what is changed and what is not changed when everything is not made transparent, open and accountable for integrity to entrench itself so that future generations of politicians can be guided by its principle to defend the interests of this nation?

Yet, to unite the hoi-polloi by circling the wagon, fear is again struck by tarring imagined threats seen and unseen.

Even so, a Malay blogger has already asked - if there's a contract, why the need to assert supremacy, and for that matter, if there is already inborn supremacy, why the need for a contract? These are hard questions to answer.

So at the end of the road, it is the need for some to ascend to power using fear as the instrument to galvanize the masses over the matters of contract and supremacy, neither of which seem to advantage anyone in this open world where even an ex-kenyan can be president of the USA, one of whose states being already helmed by an ex-austrian (aka Terminator).

Is it in the weather or food of the US that is so different from that here? Or, maybe some special traits here not found there?

If you want a good marriage, say for the sake of the lady 'may the best man win.'

Otherwise, weak offsprings and indifferent futures for all.

minority as the prime minister of Malaysia? ... what are the chances of an Iban, Kadazan, Dayak, Penan of christian faith becoming the Chief Minister in their very own land - Sabah and Sarawak?

I believe the answer is 0%... sad...

Maybe another 500 years M'sia can achieve what USA has achieved.

Their mouth say minority can, but will Malays really give way to the minorities?

How about the PKNS case? Isn't it clear? Even within Pakatan, this is so obvious. Even if PR win the next GE, nothing will be changed.

To change the mentality of M'sians will be very hard, especially younger generations now seldom read books! (read more blogs than books, i think!). We have to start educating our younger generations right from the start (when they are young) otherwise, too late.

The Unthinkable Happened: America Elects a Black President
Wednesday, November 05, 2008

We ask:

Will Malaysians ever see in their life time a Chinese/Indian/Iban/ Dayak Malaysian Prime Minister or even a Deputy Prime Minister?

Unlikely, as long as we choose to continue to elect UMNO to win government.
- Malaysian Unplug

URL - http://mybaru.blogspot.com/

We might say impossible now, but many would have thought Obama's win impossible just a year ago. There were even suggestions that Hillary would have been a better choice. But the present has proven them wrong; imagine if Obama had not been given the chance to contest, simply because of negative perceptions towards the political mindset of the American public. Obama emerged a clear winner!

This is what we are looking at now in Malaysia. We can't give anything less than our commitment to values we believe in! Then Malaysia has a chance to put BN away once and for all!

It's a joke, says Ms Foong. And I agree with her. But 500 years? Someone else will come around to pick up the pieces if there's anything left after us if we can't change in the next 50 years.