Archive for April, 2008
I spent the final days leading to the elections traversing the nation. There was a real energy swamping the country, as I drove Judy down her familiar terrains to the north, traversing Selangor, Perak, Kedah and Penang, which ironically became states lost by BN.
Let me comment on them days.
There are things you can learn from soap operas. No matter how trite the script is, and how amazing over-acted the scenes are, just like a fender bender on the Federal Highway you cannot look away. Try as you may. We are all suckers for climax, or more importantly the promise of a climax.
This [...]
The truth is, other than a few trusted people in the inner sanctum of the Anwar Ibrahim Universe, no one knows how the play is going to play out. Quite literally the whole country, its people are at the edge of their seats looking away at times, but never casting their eyes away from the [...]
3pm on the 22nd floor of the Menteri Besar’s Suite in the Bangunan Sultan Abdul Aziz, in staid Shah Alam. The room was luminous with yellow aching from the wood paneling, designed someone surely raised in a french monastery without windows.
The setting was ominous to say the least.