Hulu Selangor By-Election Eve
3:18 PM
Saturday, April 24, 2010
Disclaimer: below is the author's opinion on political issue.
Okay, I know I am not eligible to vote yet and I will not make my stand on any parties but political fights are alway interesting: you can see how the candidates and parties go around having their campaigns to boast about their "goodness", brag about how they are going to change the place if they mandate and stab the back of the other parties and candidates. They can be so free to visit the whole Hulu Selangor before the election, pretending to care about the people's welfare to pull votes for themselves. However, after the election, their visits will usually be once in a blue moon or sometimes, none at all. Oh yeah, you can say they might be very busy but occasional visits are necessary to understand what people need. Papers don't talk, humans do. A few years back from now, I was perplexed when they said our country consists of political clowns. Now, I finally understood what they meant.
So much with asking the citizens to go green, save the environment, stop global warming so on and so forth, when the parties just go around and paste the picture of their candidates, logos of their parties at almost every where. You can spot their "advertisements" at every corner, wall, street lamps, wires and any place that they can put on to publicise themselves. Did they think they are that handsome to post their pictures every where to remind others about it? Or did they thought we came out from jungles to vote? Its not that we are foreigners that don't read newspaper or don't know what is the white-scale-with-blue-background logo belongs to which party. After the election, do they collect back those papers to recycle them? Hell yeah if I would not believe them, not even the slightest bit, even if they say they will because they are famous for their empty promises.
What do I like about having an election? Well, we can ask for money. And when I said ask for money, I meant a prodigious amount of money. The parties are very kind and generous during these times. You can hear them saying hundreds of thousands for this project, another hundreds of thousands for primary and secondary schools. How can we not admit they are generous? Every project will have extra budget, schools can be renovated, and you can have a chance to meet with all the Menteri Besar, and in this case, our Prime Minister. Oh yeah, our Prime Minister, Datuk Seri Najib visited Tanjong Malim today. Tomorrow, I might appear on the newspaper headline, so check it out! I don't mean to be so sarcastic but thats the truth. Everyone knows it and I am sure you have your own thought for this matter.
Well, thats all for now. Who do you think will win: the BN with Najib as its leader together with his so-called-1Malaysia or the PR with their we-will-do-what-BN-failed-to-do? We will see when the time comes. Cheers. =D
Well, Mr.1Malaysia from BN won by a majority of 1,725 votes. I'm normally pro-opposition but I don't exactly know why I'm glad that Pakatan suffered a defeat. maybe its time to restructure their priorities, revamp their leaders who don't care two hoots on switching parties and move forward instead of bickering on useless issues like APCO. As usual, the majority of young people (I'm still not old enough to vote, arghh!!) threw their support behind Pakatan and that is a sense of hope we can rely on too.
@Sapphire Dragon:
Yeah, I saw the news too just now. I was a little shocked with this news. However, with all their campaigns around Hulu Selangor in the presence of our PM (which shows how serious he is towards this by-election), no doubt BN can win. They did promise to improve the area. So, for now, every Malaysian will watch how BN work their promises. If its just another empty promises from them, people will not trust them ever again, at least the youngsters won't. We learn from experiences. =)
Occasional defeats in political field is good. It gives chance to PR to rearrange their strategies and as you mentioned, revamp their leaders. Amongst all the important and serious issues to be raised and debated, Anwar chose to raise the petty issue of APCO. To me, that just shows how pathetic and desperate Anwar is. Hopefully it will not happen again because people are seriously getting sicked of it.
P.S. I never thought someone as awesome as you will be here at my blog! This is my first post regarding politics, so thanks for commenting. Eh, how did you find my blog link?
just a small majoriti win by BN and i dont think BN will be stable on it place...in the next by-election the pakatan will sure get back the place....cause BN dump a lot of money as a promise if BN itself won the election ....trillion billion of money contribute many people vote on BN if not BN will eventually lose...
@sense:
Since BN is a damn rich party, it will be normal for them to use money to pull votes for themselves and as I mentioned in my blog sarcastically, they are being "generous". In my opinion, PR loses because of Datuk Zaid Ibrahim's bad history and the conservative Malays were all against him which causes him to lose many votes from them. On the other hand, people voted BN due to our PM, also the BN leader, being invited to America to attend the Nuclear Security Summit recently, had bilateral meeting with US President Barack Obama, so on and so forth. This is a good move from BN and it made the condition unfavorable for PR. Nevertheless, chances like this will never stay with our PM. If they(BN) don't keep their promise and start get their job done, I foresee their downfall in the upcoming election.
I think that sensitive issues like "corruption" shouldn't be brought up here out of all places you can write...don't you think so?
But I think that BN can keep their promise this time. They would not like the past to renew itself again..
@Gan:
Politics are sensitive issues themselves. I never meant to say anything regarding corruption or is it you that misunderstood what I wrote? BN do spend a lot in their campaigns and promised to give more money if they win. I take that as buying votes. This is rather similar to corruption but I don't think its one. Our PM Datuk Seri Najib himself did clarify that they are just tending to projects that were not addressed in the last few years and refused to admit that they are buying votes. Even if they didn't mean to buy, their action did otherwise.
Today, I read an article written by a couple living at KKB and they said BN had done almost nothing great in improving the place for the last few decades, which was why people started to turn to PR. Now that BN got back the place, time will proof whether people's decision is correct or not. Once bitten, twice shy. Hopefully they learn from their previous mistakes.
P.S. Seems that I should not touch about politic issues yet. I better stick to my teenage world of animes and mangas before my college life starts! =)
BN after 50 year ruling Hulu Selangor only dont their sweet promise in this recent hulu selangor election....it seem like acting in drama....lols
(Ini adalah pemikiran saya terhadap isu-isu tersebut jika ada tersinggung sesiapa pihak saya memohon maaf)
@sense:
Don't worry. Nobody is offended. We all know what BN did in the past 50 years and they should know what they did. Hahaha!
Anyway, thanks guys, for voicing out your precious comments. =)
mmmm...I meant literally.
Not in a straight-forward manner...
But, no matter the result, I hope we will not suffer though =.="