a gulf tragedy perhaps?

Who ever that hasn't been ignorant, watching the TV or browsing online, must know that there is a bit of a crisis in Egypt and Tunisia. What happened you?

People's revolution they call it, a bit of what a party in Malaysia wanted to achieve but failed miserably, but hey, at least there where no riots. (but jalan jem lah)

People's revolution isn't a new term, Thailand recently used it to oust the ruling government (and failed), most African countries tried (yet again failed because new leaders are more corrupted). The fact it, to find a sincere 'Rakyat' leader with no hidden agenda is like finding a needle in a hay stack.

But look, having said that, I do employ that the people have certain rights that they need to voice out. If I was in a major oil producing country that get 1.6B of American aid and at the same time my daily income is less that $2, I would question some people.

Then again, how can it be justified to unleash prisoners? I mean, 'cmon! Prisoners? Rapist and murderers of your family, are you just plain or playing stupid? The sadistically justification may be that they need the monstrous aggression to clash with the cops. Hmm...you'd never know.

Another point of contention is that, why America hasn't reacted yet? I mean, a People's Revolution is meant for a fair and free elections which provide democracy, in which is America's proxy. Obama for one, should have seized the opportunity to intervene rather than staying put. Or maybe, big uncle sam is just afraid to take the wrong side?

Face it, Hosni Mubarak was a puppet for Uncle Sam and when their puppet is broken, they're trying to find a new one, but not just yet, their gonna wait until the very last minute and see whether their puppet has still any use. If the deem not, then here comes the hero to save the day. (like, if they come in now, everything would come to an end)

Hail People's Revolution

(the real one I mean, not the overly flambuyount - wanting to rule the government in 21 days kind)

of sino-malay relations

Some people may recall the incident that altered the way our country has been governed. The so-called unspeakable date in which racial hatred washed its heed upon our streets. You know what I mean.

The fact that, it is 2011, and Malaysia has been prospering for more over 50 years, show that there are still a sense of racial harmony in our state, but to what extent can we gauge our compromise for the other race, or is it only an outer fabrication?

The problem that Mr. Najib has bestowed upon us is to find a medium ground for all the races in Malaysia to correlate and coexist with each other. As a matter of fact, that isn't something new, as Tun Abd Rahman and Tun Mahathir all aspire the same things, albeit with different taglines. Nonetheless, the phrase 1Malaysia is still catchy. Back to the problem, the government want us to be tolerant and understanding. We get that.

But, the thing is, up to certain point, there are still resentments in society that quietly linger amongst Malaysians of different race towards the other. Why? It's only human nature.

Human nature seeds to the fact that there must be a preferential treatment towards someone/something that has the same racial/religious/social background as we do. It's a proven fact. It doesn't mean that someone is a racist.

Example 1, a Malay would rather buy a halal food from a Malay than from a Chinese, this is because, even though they acknowledge that the food is halal, there's a biased judgement that supersedes the quality of the food available, likewise for Chinese and Indians.

In order for Mr. Najib to break the cycle, he has to start from the roots, not only promoting the concept superficially, and selling the slogan so 24-hour retail shops can use it and have a dig at the Selangor State Assembly, but utilize it to generate TRUSTS from each other.

Rather than forgetting East Malaysia (or West?), lets embrace them, and use them as an example on racial relations are partaked in their daily lives. They don't have any discriminatory feelings towards one another, because they are plural society that respects one another beliefs and create no prejudice towards one another. This is because their culture is inter-mixed, Sarawak for example, has Ibans that marry Chinese, or Malays that marry Melanau creating another sub-culture of people that intertwine in both worlds.

Not saying that mix marriage is an essential tool for better understanding. Just earmarking that an intertwined culture and the possibility of a Malay wanting to celebrate Chinese New Year the way a traditional Chinese family would do is scarce, because they are afraid it's un-Malay like (and most probably afraid of Bah Kut Teh).

Happy Chinese New Year my Chinese friends!

(I would love to join a Chinese New Year celebration)