Shahrir to Pak Lah: Think well and plan ahead!
Thursday, April 13th, 2006 | 12:23 am @ SK
Now, the bridge has been scrapped. By looking into past events until the BIG U-Turn, I can’t help but to highlight things that I seriously, can’t understand.
Let’s take a walk-through with one of the key player, which is Foreign Minister Syed Hamid Albar.
"No one is giving in to anybody at their expense. I think we are looking for a win-win situation."
"I am lost for words when people talk to each other, it is (seen as) a sign of weakness or lack of resolve. We negotiate because we care for Malaysia, we care for Johor."
"Should we fail to reach an agreement on the construction of the bridge, other existing ties should not be affected."
Once, he tried so damn hard to protect the "pride and dignity" factor, just to make sure the bridge plan will go through as proposed. But, out of sudden, out of nowhere, we heard otherwise.
There has been "so much feeling over giving airspace and digging our sand".
"We have been going around and listening to feedback, we think the best way is for us to stop the project. We still have the causeway, we have the second link, the second link is still being used.
"We hope all these things will bring a new dimension to the story of our bilateral relationship with Singapore, so we don’t need to go on having this thing hanging over our heads. We leave it as it is. Singapore said it will be difficult for it to justify to its public to have a new bridge as a replacement, so now we have decided not to do it," he said.
So now, what we’ve left ongoing? A RM1.2 billion customs, immigration and quarantine (CIQ) complex a white elephant!
Not enough? We need a MP to teach Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi one simple lesson.
"Plan well and think ahead"
I remember there is a say: We don’t do different things, but we do things differently.
Welcome, to the Malaysia’s way of doing things!
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