Alamak(eris)!!
State of mind: semi-bitter
Current soundtrack: Gintama - Yuki no Tsubasa (redballoon)
Astute world citizens may recall, two years ago, Datuk Seri Hishamuddin Hussein took a keris into the United Malays National Organisation GM. He waved it around a lot during his speech(es).
Last year, someone thought it would be a good idea to have a live telecast of the UMNO assembly. It wasn't, because we got to see exactly how asinine some MPs happened to be, and how much they liked the taste of their feet. AGAIN the keris came in with Hishamuddin, and he waaaaved it, and braaandished it, and I think he even kiiiiissed it. Someone asked him if he was going to actually use it.
...Adoi.
This year...well, this is what our lovely Education Minister has to say. Thanks NST! The emphasis is mine, though.
Um, yeah, you tried explaining sanely and intelligently LAST year, remember? And some of us still think it was insane and unintelligent. Or, as Nazri likes to put it: "Stupid! Stupid! Stupid!" Sigh. Well, there's one way to solve this.Hishamuddin said the kissing and waving of the kris would be a standard feature at UMNO general assemblies.
"If we discuss this in a sane, intelligent way and explain what kissing and waving the kris means to Malays, people of other races will accept this."
Since Hishamuddin says keris = Malay culture, MCA, you take thiiiiis...and MIC, you take thiiiiis...I'd find y'all something shorter and easier to flail around, but this is the best Wikipedia could show me on short notice. Something closer to the far-off motherland--yeah, that far off "motherland" some of us haven't even smelt, because Malaysia's the only country we've damn well GOT. One used to contemplate going to Japan, but stories of xenophobia, ugh. Besides, look how it goes with immigration now.
Obviously if we ALL start waving weapons around, it's a sign we're fighting for our respective races. [/sarcasm]
1 comment:
Ooh, I remember that nauseating episode. And to think, I once looked to Hishamuddin with hope. Thanks, man, thanks.
Anyway, I found this line really, um, what's the word... idiosyncratic? An oxymoron?
"If we discuss this in a sane, intelligent way and explain what kissing and waving the kris means to Malays, people of other races will accept this."
Yeah, sure, waste our time and money kissing a keris. Oh, and alarming a huge part of your population at the same time! Wonderfully sane politics, there!
(BTW, MIC and MCA should bring longer weapons of their own. Then they can compare lengths and we can make (likely pretty corny) phallic jokes! xD)
Stupid moments like this + the recent riot = most of my friends have already mentally and emotionally packed for Australia. Of course, perhaps they don't realise that every country markets its own unique brand of Stupid Politics and they'll face a whole new set of problems there. But I'm one of those without the economic advantages, and Malaysia really one of the only places I've got. -_-
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