Recap : February 2009

TANTO NOMINI NULLUM PAR ELOGIUM

(For so great a name, no praise is adequate and No elegy is equal to such a name)
- as stated at the Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli (1469 – 1527) cenotaph, Church of Santa Croce, France.

Yet another month has passed-by. February is not just remembered as the month of love (valentine isn't it?) but for Malaysians, this year it had added more spice to it. Here were some that happened in February 2009 as far as I remembered.

Constitutional crisis in Perak with a BACK-DOOR government were formed.

So, now an 11-month Pakatan Rakyat had been forced to dissociate as 3 of their members declared independence and one returned to UMNO making the BN has the majority to form the government. However, due to some court issues involving the 3 members make this government not a strong-one. Both Pakatan Rakyat and Barisan Nasional claimed that they're the legal government based on the majority 28 - 28 each with 3 pending-independence declared they're fully support the BN. Hmm - sounds suspicious as 2 of them still waiting the result from the bribery case in court. I won't make any comment on that. But, the most important things that the power to elect the representative in the government should be given back to the people and let them choose whoever they confident to serve them. At the end, peoples of Perak has suffered from these 'catastrophe' made by politician who us thinking on how to get power for themselves.People now have three by-elections - that can show out wether they're agree with the BN or PR representatives - Bukit Gantang (Perak), Bukit Selambau (Kedah) and Batang Ai (Sarawak).

Selangor MB Wars
Well this another state that has been held by Pakatan Rakyat from March 2008 General Election, under fire by the former MB with the charges of bribery and misused of state's money. However, it had back-fired as the former MB 'not that cleaned' as he had alleged being doing the same when he was in-power last time. It seems people can resist in taking chance when they have given so much power. Lucky, I'm just an ordinary citizen that haven't had that kind of 'power'. Yes, many accused others being abuse of power - but they too doing the same when they've given one. God forbid, and may Allah gave me strength not to behave like them.

Privacy and death threat

It looks like being member of parliament or state assembly doesn't guarantee you to be safe. This month we have been exposed on a story where one State Councilor and the member of state assembly of Kedah had resigned from his post due to death threats to him and his family member. Even our fame 'Lion of Jelutong' was given the same threat when he received used bullets from unknown. It looks like our politician has really adopted Machiavelli's style for their political needs. Another sad things that when one of the exco member of Selangor has her private picture circulated in the net - allegedly said to discredit the Selangor's Pakatan Rakyat government. Again, when we look deeply into this matter - its all happen as result from the March 2008 General Election. It looks that some are struggle to stay in power, and some will do anything that possible being it moral or unmoral to get the power back. What will happen to Malaysia? Who knows and again I pray that the country will survive.

Economy Recession
Being a government worker in the critical area (well, doctors still in high demand), I didn't feel much of the problem. But for the others, especially those working in production area has been offered either unpaid leaves, option for resignation or worst - stopped by the employee. Some have speculated that the recession worst than the 1997 crisis. Guess we do really need to prepare umbrella for the upcoming storm. And I do hope our leaders either from BN or PR will really lead us successfully through this unfortunate event.