A laughing stock

The time to board the plane to US draws nearer and nearer day by day, its less than a month now.
Everything still seems so yesterday, yet its almost time to leave my country after 18 years.

18 years, Malaysia has provided me with shelter, love and care. But i sympathize of it's current condition.

Politicians are bickering every second. and our leader sits by the side, enjoying all these drama as he tries to re-fortify his position as the country's leader.
The people wants him to leave the throne, not satisfied with his leadership. In return, he blames bloggers for contributing to this country's downfall as he runs out of reasons.
He sets the year 2010 for his aide to take over. If it happens, i dread to think of what shall befall our nation.

Corruption is wide spread in the country, the Anti Corruption Agency(ACA) takes no action. When people start scrutinizing them, suddenly out of no where, they successfully nab 2 high ranked immigration officers.
Poor immigration officers, of all the corrupted politicians, they are sought as the scapegoats of the whole political system.

Talking bout the ACA, i remember seeing 'The Sun's front page, showing statistics of how the ACA has performed over the years. i kinda forgot the exact statistics, but its awful i tell you.
Its kinda like of thousands of alleged cases reported, only a few hundred are looked into, 10% of the hundreds detained, and another 1% of the 10% detained was prosecuted.
But then i flipped The Star, and i couldn't even find the same article in it. surprising?
Yes, this has been the case. Much of our media does not report what supposedly will 'tarnish' the image of our government.



I tuned out to TV3's midnight news yesterday, after the Anwar Shabery debate.

Guess what i saw. There were highlights of the debate, highlights of questions being asked to both Anwar and Shabery, and also highlights of Shabery answering the questions. And nothing on anwar. Was Anwar a bad speaker? i felt he pummeled his opponent in the debate though. But why aren't the news reporting it? Are they trying to protect our information minister, Shabery? freedom of press konon.

All this worries me. Our politicians have recently also issued some sorta warning to US stating our sovereignty asking them to keep their hands off our matters. ouch. Why can't our politicians keep a low profile huh, our country's politics are already a laughing stock, and they still try to make matters worst by doing all these.

Imagine if this happens to me when i reach Iowa.

Ang Moh : hi!
Eu-Roy : hi.
Ang Moh : nice to meet you, where you from?
Eu -Roy : nice meeting you too, I'm from Malaysia.
Ang Moh : oh! i know Malaysia! it is one of the countries in the world with the highest corruption rate right?
Eu-Roy : ...............................................