Friday, February 6, 2009

Funny day.

Long day today. Many happenings occurred today, especially the political landscape in Perak. It was a dawn of a total new era for Malaysian politics again. The support is now directly shine towards Pakatan Rakyat. Without a doubt, the recent political turmoil or so-called master-minded strategy adopted by Barisan Nasional was a suicide mission. Three assemblyman quite PKR and insist of becoming independents, despite several calls for them to reconsider their ouster. Regardless, Barisan National now commands the majority of the State Assembly. Legitimately adhering to the Constitution, Barisan Nasional is indeed the ruling state government of Perak, however the forced resignation of Mr. Nizar as Mentri Besar wasn't included in the Constitution, therefore amount to illegitimacy by an objective view. Yet, it is of no reason for me to go against the royal decree, because Sultan Azlan Shah had made the move which he was bounded to make. Am I insulting the Sultan by addressing him, "he". Sorry, this is a democratic country, and we're just practicing Constitutional Monarchy which support the Westminster Parliament ways of administrating this country. What I meant was, even though the people of Perak (also known as Perakians) requested dissolution of the State Government to trigger a state election to re-elect Pakatan Rakyat with a much larger majority, it would be futile with the current condition. Obviously, Barisan Nasional commands the majority, therefore one of them must be the Mentri Besar. The State Assembly can't be dissolve without a proper and legitimate reason. The Sultan can't dissolve the State Assembly just because the people wants it. No where in the Constitution was stated anything about switching political parties while being elected, therefore amounted to void if simply accusing it to be illegal. There was precedence of this matter many years back and the Sultan was just taking the same equal steps. Pakatan Rakyat can't amend the Constitution unless it commands two-third of the majority of the Parliament. The only method to confront this problem is by hoping the two defected state assemblyman will be acquitted with corruption charges, therefore forcing them to resign instantaneously, ultimately requiring a by-election for the two places. No doubt Pakatan will win hands down. Making the numbers to rise to 30 against Barisan's 28 and one independent that supports Barisan. With that, the newly installed Mentri Besar, Mr Nizar (presumably) could request a dissolution of the State Government for a state election which guarantees a wholesome victory for the Pakatan Rakyat, thus finishing Barisan of from Perak.



Anyway, it was a great day today. Went to Adrian's house at 9.30 a.m. to gamble. Among those attend: Hsiao Yinn (for obvious reason), Ross, Ji Yung and Eve Lyn. Overall winner, Ji Yung reaping RM20 and Eve Lyn, not sure amount. I loss nearly RM12. I think Hsiao Yinn loss the most. After that we went to USJ9, Restaurant Nirvana to have some banana leaf rice. Here the picture is below:




After lunch, Hsiao Yinn headed to work, Eve back home, Ji Yung class, Ross didn't join us for lunch, while me and Adrian headed to Pyramid for a movie: The Pink Panther 2. Worth watching.

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