Just wondering why do feel like living in an "election country". Flipping thru' newspapers and blimey most of the headlines are all about the upcoming by-election (s). I remember when we recently had two by-elections at the same time (Batu Sapi & Galas) and all the mainstream media (TV & papers) had succesfully ran detail coverage on both by-elections. What saddened me was that not very far from Malaysia, a small state named KEDAH was badly hit by flood and seems that NO ONE CARE. What was even amusing was when one senior minister from the federal govt. stated that the flood victims should be under the "jurisdiction" of the state government and argued why federal govt should be there first to help?!
Due to the limited media coverage, some of my friends from KL even asked me how bad was the flood. HOW BAD? It seems that elections is far more important than urgently helping the flood victims. The funny thing was by the time the by-elections finish, all Malaysian have finally shifted their attention towards Kedah. Finally.
I think it's about time that we change our paradigm, shifting our 'obsession' from daily political nuisance to far more critical issues such as how to halt the price increment of the fuel, how to minimize the inflation rate, how to maintain (if not reducing) current househod groceries costs, and how to help the needy.
IMPROVE OUR ECONOMY, NOT POLITICING OUR ECONOMY :-)
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