Never thought that this day would come but to sum up the feelings about it in one word: relieved. It was never a good idea to put up a career civil servant with a perchance for sleeping during meetings as Prime Minister anyway. I’ll bet that even my dad can do a better job as PM if that were the case. I wonder how am I going to answer if, twenty years from now, my children were to ask me what was the single greatest achievement of Tun Abdullah Badawi?
The Star has an hourly coverage as events unfold.
02 Apr
Even the thought of that happening would probably make many people bristle, including yours truly. A very long time ago, that is, back when the idea of MELAYU = ISLAM is synonymous with my identity. Things, of course, have changed since then and even more dramatically so after the recent General Elections. Frankly race was never an issue for me and I can accept an ethnic Chinese Malaysian as my Prime Minister but there is only one criteria: he must be a Muslim in order to uphold Article 3 of the Federal Constitution.
No exceptions and no further argument is necessary. And oh, in case you are wondering, that picture above is not a Chinese temple. It is a minaret of a mosque.
25 Apr
