Today, the 5th of May,2013. Yes Malaysia decides on its future. My wife wanted to go early in the morning but than we only reach the polling station at about 9-35 am. Its a five minute walk from our house to the polling station and we started out at 9-30 am. There was already a long queue. We were on the line for about one hour before we get our voting slips and me and my wife are in channel 2 and my children in channel 4. Another hour in the queue and we are done. The children finished their duties in about another 30 minutes because their queue is longer (many young voters).
During the two hours there, my mind wonders. The people in the queue, they are good citizens. We live in harmony and the BU community is comfortable with the facilities and their security. We live OK and our State Representative never visited us once, I think I know her because of her poster and stories about her other things. Yes the famous Elizabeth Wong. I do not know what she has done for the community these past five years. I dont think she bothers that our main street are without lights at night. Anyway for the Bandar Utama Community, whether we have a wakil rakyat or not it makes no difference. We never met Sivarasa the Member of Parliament and Ms Elizabeth the Bukit Lanjan representative (They represent PKR). The BURA community had worked well to solve most of our problems and makes living there wonderful and cheerful.
For urbanites, I guess its different from our semi rural and rural friends where even though about 98% have already enjoyed first class infrastructure, provided with utilities and other amenities, the wakil rakyat is still playing a prominent role. So is it why the voters in cities and towns are anti establishment, vote the opposition and can be irresponsible because they have already everything? And semi rural and rural voters are pro establishment because they still require the 2% to be delivered. Will they changed if they have 100%? My mind wonders and in a flash ethnic composition slides appeared, towns and cities are predominantly Chinese, whilst the Malays and Indians are kampong folks or in the estates. The Ibans and Kadazans who are supposedly the establishment strong supporters are mainly rural. The towns and cities in Sabah and Sarawak goes the opposition way. Why play these racial cards? Isnt it dangerous? Isnt it a time bomb?
Then my mind wonders again, 1 Malaysia, the way forward to solving the diversity and to create a strong foundation for unity. Will they give Dato Sri Najib a chance? Four years is a short time to tranform a lot of things. Will they give him another five years? Tun Mahathir had 22 years to prove in many things that he is right. If he had been given 5 years, I dont think anything that he has done will bear fruit. And what he has done remarkably well can also be undermined by financial roques and also weak leadership to whom he pass the baton to.
My mind wonders, will all my neighbours give Najib a chance to propel the country to a dynamic economic Tiger or Lion so that the citizens earned higher incomes and release themselves from this middle income trap? Or will they prefer the likes of Anwar Ibrahim, Lim Kit Siang and Hadi Awang or Nik Aziz? I personally got nothing against them because they are all my good friends. Then again, friends are friends but I will not allow them together to run down the country. Whether its the Hudud and the hair saloon issue, whether to use or not to use ALLAH as GOD, or who should rightly be the Prime Minister. Why would they vote for change when there are so much uncertainties? Why do we want to escape this comfort zone of continued Peace, Stability and Progress? Corruption? Knowing Anwar and even Nik Aziz or even Lim Guan Eng for that matter, are they clean? Anwar I know for sure is never clean, being a one time crony of his, yes I have benefitted and my supporters benefitted because he did not want a certain someone to gain a political position. Nik Aziz will have a few State Land grants to show for himself and his wife. Guan Eng did a lot of favours for Ahmad Sabu which is public knowledge. Where is the angel when we only know of devils. Its a bit scary when the vibes from the channel 4 queues looks they do not know who actually the people they are voting for really are? Their cyber troopers work smart and all these time had sown hatred and vengeance. It is definitely so, because the Parti Keadilian Rakyat is formed because to seek justice for Anwar for his alleged misbehaviour. Its not for religion, the people and the country. The DAP is after the PAP left Malaysia and played a lot on chauvinist Chinese emotions and sentiments. It makes little difference even though there are now English Educated Chinese as compared to Chinese educated Chinese. PAS for that matter split from UMNO because of positions and also about differences in implementing Islamic values for multi religious/ethnic Malaysia. Even with UMNO they split, can they be sure that they can progress with DAP?
My mind keeps wondering, the voters at this polling station is predominantly Malaysian Chinese. There are Malays and Indians also. A few candidates in the Parliamentary list. Mr Rao for BN and Mr Sivarasa for PKR and other independents. For the Bukit Lanjan constituency there is Elizabeth Wong from PKR and Francis Chong of BN . What matters, the Parliamentarian candidate will be an Indian and the State Constituency will be a Chinese. Who will the Malays vote? PAS claimed that Muslims who support BN are infidels and will go to hell. Do we actually spend two hours here to decide whether we want to go to heaven or hell? We are here for our own reasons to elect a Government which can rule us properly, to bring peace, stability and prosperity.
My mind stop wondering and registers that we are here to elect our representative in Parliament and State Legislative Assembly. A person who will best represent us for our own good. A person who is willing to be our servant and at the same time lead us to a better life. Not only to debate on Policy matters that is for our future but also to serve the community's needs. To carry out short term, medium term and long term initiatives for the constituents. When we prosper, the country automatically prospers.
I start wondering again. When given the mandate, will Dato Sri Najib agree to change the reps title from Yang Berhormat to Yang Berkhidmat. I dont mind slaving my time here for two hours but in return I must ensure that the person chosen will be our slave for 5 years. They wanted it so much to be the wakil rakyat, yes, its an honourable position, but we do not have to address you as Your Honourable so and so. Your loyal servant will be very apporpriate.
And I wonder again, with a strong mandate for Dato Sri Najib, will he transform UMNO into a more vibrant and dynamic organisation reflective of the 1 Malaysia aspirations. Will UMNO, the United Malay National Organization be brave and bold enough to transform itself into UMNO, the United Malaysia National Organization.
yours truly,
Naim bin Mohamad/
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