I chanced upon this strange exhortation by MCA national organizing secretary and Pulau Sebatang assemblyman Tee Siew Kiong in The Star yesterday (p 06). In his speech at his Chinese New Year open house in Pontian, Johor on Tuesday, when he said that there were three practices that people could follow during the Year of the Dragon. He identified them as listening to soothing music, wearing bright clothes and avoiding Opposition-organized talks!
The first two suggestions were rather generic and they are not worth commenting. But the third demonstrated the MCA leader’s serious misgivings about his own party’s ability to convince voters to stick with MCA and BN. I think there’s a voice inside his head that was asking the same question over and over again: Who is still stupid enough to vote for BN? And I am sure that deep down inside him, he knew that MCA had lost all credibility with the Chinese. He could try to reach out and seize the fast disappearing hope that people would be blind and deaf to a changing political landscape, but his hands were heavy and he would not be able to capture it. He could try to hoodwink the people but they could only see the corruption, cronyism and cheating that is occurring almost daily in the government, and he too would despair. Even now, he must surely have seen the demise of MCA and other UMNO-affiliated parties and I know he is filled with a genuine sense of hopelessness.
One thing he forgot – people don’t take kindly to this sort of advice because they already know that when GE13 comes, their vote will be “Anything But UMNO”! That includes MCA and the others as well.
An Olympic sport where the stands are certain to be filled to the brim is a little-played physical activity in Britain. Yet, it is expected to attract a lot of androcentric attention. It’s beach volleyball and it is a great spectator sport.
UK’s The Sun yesterday carried the British Government’s explanation that it was pure ‘coincidence’ that ministers had bought double the number of tickets for beach volleyball as they had for track events. Former Labour sports minister Gerry Sutcliffe asked if it was just an ‘oddity’ that ministers bought 410 tickets, worth £26,000, compared with 246 for athletics.
I LOL when I read this! I do not need to speculate. I shouldn’t even be surprised. I suspect that the said ministers are all male! As I look at the photos below, I am already getting hot under the collar! [Or maybe, it’s because somebody had switched off the air-conditioning?].
An Olympic sport where the stands are certain to be filled to the brim is a little-played physical activity in Britain. Yet, it is expected to attract a lot of androcentric attention. It’s beach volleyball and it is a great spectator sport.
UK’s The Sun yesterday carried the British Government’s explanation that it was pure ‘coincidence’ that ministers had bought double the number of tickets for beach volleyball as they had for track events. Former Labour sports minister Gerry Sutcliffe asked if it was just an ‘oddity’ that ministers bought 410 tickets, worth £26,000, compared with 246 for athletics.
I LOL when I read this! I do not need to speculate. I shouldn’t even be surprised. I suspect that the said ministers are all male! As I look at the photos below, I am already getting hot under the collar! [Or maybe, it’s because somebody had switched off the air-conditioning?].
Image credit: http://english.sina.com/sports/p/2008/0807/176760.html
Image credit: http://myrealitytelevision.com/2008/08/usa-misty-may-treanorkerri-walsh-olympic-beach-volleyball-gold-over-1-chinese/
Anyway, beach volleyball was one of the fastest events to sell out – a phenomenon partly attributed to the athletes’ skimpy attire. Women players must wear a top ‘closely fitted to the body’ and briefs with ‘a side width no greater than 3in’. Men can wear vests and shorts. Certainly, a nice sport to “cuci mata” (Malay for “eye candy”)!
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