Nasi sudah jadi bubur
Saturday, August 27th, 2005 | 12:48 am @ SK
Via Malaysiakini:
A gloomy-looking Gerakan President Lim Keng Yaik told a press conference that he was sad and regretted that the image of the 37-year-old party had been tarnished over the party election.
It took me 25 years (his tenure) to build up the image of the party but it just took one week to shatter it," he said.
For a very short moment, he repented but you know, human nature hardly evolve in a spilt of seconds and he started to blame, again.
"It all started before the nomination with the poison-pen letter and after nomination day, they started to label me ‘dictator, Lim’s dynasty, Mao Zedong’ and nepotism," he said.
Asked why he did not use his power to stop the mudslinging, he replied: "You want me to be branded a dictator further? What power do I have? How can I stop people from criticising me?"
Well said, Keng Yaik! What power do you have? How can you stop people from critisizing you?
Come on man, don’t play me a fool. For me, this appears to be extremely obvious that he has the answers within himself, however he chose to ignore his gut feeling and instead went on to hurl against each other.
Ironically, until the Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi decide to intervene and instructed the duo to shut up, vice-president candidate Rhina Bhar’s advice gone defiant.
By crying foul over the cooked rice won’t bring back the glory days, no matter how hard effort and how much sweats you’ve contributed back then. Human is very realistic, the damage was already done and he knew it truthfully.
First, it was shame on personalities. Now even worse, it is shame on the party itself and the aftermath is severe. Real expensive price to pay for being degil, not really?
Now, my question is: If leaders can’t even withstand personality issue rationally, how are we going to entrust people like you to represent bangsa Malaysia, dear Keng Yaik & Choo Ting?
No, please don’t tell me its the vice-president Koh Tsu Koon, thats not an answer anyway.