Future talks

Long time since my last posting, too many things to do and so many stuffs to read, but today I've got to write something… to hell with grammar, I don’t have time to check every bit… what is important, people understand my point…. Yes I am angry.

Imagine a conversation 20 years from now, a daddy and his son (or make it Danial and ayah), my hero by then will be 25.

Year 2028
Location : Kedai Makan sekitar Teluk Intan

Danial : Ayah, what was UMNO all about? I don’t see them anymore, just in my history book.

Ayah: UMNO is a Malay party established in 1946; they were ruling Malaysia for more than 50 years until the populace woke up and fight for their rights in 2008. Back then the hero was Anwar Ibrahim from the opposition, although he was no angel and pretty much associated with the devil before, he’s the best politician available at that time.

Danial : Is it the same Anwar that was toppled in 2017?
Ayah : Yeah, yeah… He was a clean man, until power and money destroy every bit of kindness in his heart.

Danial : Anyway, you said something about Malay just now, why was is it so important to have a party to be base on race? Isn’t that racist?
Ayah : Hmm…. My son, back then it was different, the colonial ruled before independent with simple method, divide and rule. After the independent the old leaders took the easy way out and continue with the same policy. Only this time they call themselves the National Front(BN). They made and agreement, the Malay becomes priority, the Chinese continue with their business while the Indians pretty much carry on with their old things. It works well for 45 years, but the racial tension was just too much. It was still ok during Mahathir tenure but under Pak Lah it was entirely lost during transition.

Danial : How did it all went wrong Ayah?
Ayah : Well, Mahathir was controlling the populace under a system that pretty much resemblance to communist where the premier is something like a king. Everyone listen to him, and therefore there is no real resistance to whatever planning he had for the country. In the 90’s Mahathir did a very good job catapulting our economy to become one of the dragons of Asia, but it was all too fast, the general public were not ready. They worked in semiconductors factories but don’t really understand the science behind it. Subconsciously, they were machines, the same like what they were working with. Knowledge was not acquired fast enough for Malaysian to build factory so by the time China and Vietnam emerged everything was too late. Malaysia was no longer the heaven for cheap labour hunting imperialist.
When Pak Lah came to power, he inherited big projects with not much funding available. To make matter worse his son in-law was too greedy, sucking the blood out of whatever left. The economy was bad both internally and globally. By the time he went to the general election in 2008, the cumulated un-resolved issues were beyond repair.


The conversation continue tomorrow…..