Kawan Tak Pernah Hilang..

Ada seorang sahabat menulis dalam salah satu ruang yang selalu kawan klik untuk melihat catatannya.  Walaupun ringkas tetapi ianya penuh dengan kepuasan kepada kawan.  Hasil tulisannya penuh makna dan memberikan kawan semangat untuk menjadi kawan yang dulu.  Barangkali sahabat kawan tak tahu apa yang kawan fikirkan kerana sahabat dan kawan terlalu jauh, bagaikan berada dalam dua dunia yang berbeza, walaupun sebenarnya sahabat kawan sentiasa dalam ingatan.

Conspiracy

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1. There has been much talk by certain people of a conspiracy to overthrow Dato Sri Najib as Prime Minister.

2. Is there a conspiracy? Is there someone or some group conspiring i.e moving in secret in the underground to overthrow Najib. There could have been before but apart from people complaining privately about their dissatisfaction with Najib’s administration, no one was planning his overthrow. That is not to say that they did welcome the idea of his resigning or vacating his post. But active underground planning and action there was none.

3. What we do know now is that I had openly called for his stepping down. No conspiracy. Just open declaration to the whole nation that I would like to see Najib cease to be Prime Minister.

4 So if any investigation is to be made, there is no need for detectives or special agents. That there is a move or push for Dato Sri Najib to step down is known to everyone.

5. So again where is the conspiracy!! It is all in the open. There is no need to conspire. There is open campaigning for his ceasing to be Prime Minister.

6. Lately we are seeing many funny statements. The Utusan loudly proclaimed that the Prime Minister had taken action against the Wall Street Journal.

7. Actually it was not legal action or suing for defamation. Just politely asking the Wall Street Journal why do they publish the article.

8. Is there a need to ask that silly question? Isn’t it obvious that as a newspaper the information obtained by Wall Street Journal was sensational. Any newspaper, convinced of the authenticity of the information would have printed it. Of course the local mainstream papers will not for obvious reasons.

9. To ingratiate themselves with the Prime Minister they would rather mislead people. The sub-editors are good at writing misleading headlines. For example when a statement is made to let the task force of four do their work this is headlined as support for the Prime Minister.

10. Then there was a minister who, after saying that the interim report shows nothing wrong with 1MDB, then went on to advise people not to say anything about 1MDB until the report is out. But he himself had made a premature statement.

11. To all comments made against 1MDB, the standard answer is to deny, to say “No it is not true.” It is like somebody upon being asked whether he had stolen the money as alleged, simply denies that he had stolen, expecting the judge to acquit him simply because he denied.

12. There is no denial that money was deposited in the private account. The explanation to UMNO is that it was for the elections. UMNO seems satisfied. Don’t they know that Government money cannot be used to help a political party to win elections? But the money was from donation. Who donated 2 billion Ringgit? No answer.

13. But what about BR1M? Isn’t it Government money, all 7 billion Ringgit and more. That was clever. It is not for elections but given before any election, with the promise of more if the party wins, isn’t it about using Government money to win elections?

14. Truly cash is king!!

15. Then there is this insistence that since Najib was elected, no one has any right to demand he should step down.

16. How short is their memory. Don’t they remember Abdullah who was also elected being asked by Najib to step down. And he did.

17. And I myself, also an elected PM, did step down in 2003.

18. All over the world elected Presidents and Prime Ministers have been asked or forced to step down and they all did. In fact in some countries, if something untoward happens, Ministers, Prime Ministers step down.

19. So don’t be silly and demand that since Najib was elected, no one has a right to ask him to step down. Abdullah won more seats in 2008 than Najib in 2013. If Abdullah was prepared to step down, Najib after his poor performance in the general election should not even offer to be the PM. He should resign from being President of UMNO and head of BN and let somebody else lead and become PM.

20. There is this suggestion that the amendment to the election rules in UMNO was meant to make it more democratic. Very many more members would vote in the UMNO elections than the 2,000 or so delegates to the UMNO General Assembly.

21. Actually the intention is to limit the number of entities involved in the election. The winners would be those getting the biggest number of divisions voting for. Effectively this means the real electors have been reduced from 2,000 to about 190 UMNO divisions. The number of members voting for a candidate is nullified. Far from making UMNO elections more democratic, Najib has actually restricted the right to vote from ordinary members to just the divisions. And Najib has a strangle-hold over most of the division heads.

22. So much for more democracy in UMNO

Dulu-Dulu

Semasa kawan berumur masih dalam umur budak-budak, 5 hingga 8 tahun, rumah kawan jauh di kawasan kampung, kira-kira 5 batu dari kawasan pekan yang merupakan laluan utama antara bandar ke bandar. Kawan ke sekolah dengan berjalan kaki, dari tahun satu sehinggalah kawan dalam darjah 3, sebelum ayah membelikan sebuah basikal untuk kawan menunggangnya ke sekolah.  Perjalanan kawan ke sekolah akan menempuh beberapa buah mukim dan jalan kampung yang masih tidak bertar.  Kawan tiada masalah dengan semua itu, maklum sahajalah, pengalaman semasa kanak-kanak sangat menyeronokan.

Nak kata kawan dari keluarga yang susah atau miskin, tidak juga kerana ayah kawan seorang cikgu sekolah, cuma kawan tidak bersekolah di sekolah ayah kerana ayah mengajar di sekolah menengah.  Mak kawan pula seorang guru AlQuran di kampung.  So hidup kawan macam biasa-biasa sahaja.  Mungkin ayah sengaja nak mendidik kawan supaya kawan boleh alami sendiri pengalaman dan menjadi budak kampung yang sederhana. Ketika ini, tidak banyak aktiviti dibuat di sekolah, penglibatan murid pun hanyalah semasa waktu bersekolah sahaja. Tiada aktiviti selepas sekolah yang melibatkan murid-murid untuk hadir seperti sekarang, kalau adapun hanya sedikit sahaja dan seperti acara tahunan sahaja.  Jauh bezanya.

Aktiviti hujung minggu dan musim cuti sekolah dipenuhi dengan aktiviti budak kampung seperti mandi sungai, menangguk ikan di sawah padi, menangkap ikan di sungai dan di lubuk, mencari buluh untuk membuat meriam buluh semasa bulan puasa, mengutip biji pokok getah dan menjualnya..dapatle 50sen seguni...,main tanah liat, main perang-perang combat, membuat senjata buluh dengan peluru biji cermai, main layang-layang kertas, kadang-kadang melihat dikir barat di kampung lain, wayang gambar di tengah padang sekolah dan macam-macam lagi..

Kenangan dulu-dulu akan membuatkan kita tersenyum atau menangis sendiri.  Kawan lebih banyak senyum kerana kawan telah melalui pengalaman yang sangat manis walaupun kadang-kadang ada pahitnya.  Biasalah..kita akan melupakan semuanya tetapi bagi sesetengah perkara yang masih jelas dalam fikiran, akan tetap kita tidak lupa.