Former MCA vice-president Chua Soi Lek, who resigned after the sex-video clip, has secretly started blogging since last month, offering himself to help rebuild MCA while seeking for public opinions via his blog.

Like all concerned MCA members, I am lending my hand to help the party towards the process of rebuilding and repositioning the party.

Therefore, I welcome party members and members of public to post your constructive suggestions and opinions on my blog on how to rebuild and reform the party, eventually enable MCA to regain support from all party members and the community.

Thank you for your suggestions.

It’s a multilingual blog in English and Chinese (Mandarin).

Interestingly, he links back to DAP supremo Lim Kit Siang and Malaysia Today Raja Petra Kamaruddin’s blogs too.

But more importantly, would others among his rank follow suit and join the fray soon?

Here’s a great tip for our Information Minister Ahmad Shabery Cheek.

It’s free-of-charge, courtesy of our Jakarta-based Malaysian blogger Unspun, as part of his national service call.

Nuh (Indonesia’s Information Minister) also consulted bloggers about what the Government should do with the controversial Dutch documentary Fitna.

It’s more than about putting up the "feel good" perception, it’s more than that and it’s about walking the talk.

More importantly, we’re talking about Indonesia which doesn’t sound that liberal but a lot more liberal that what we thought.

The ex-PM Mahathir Mohamad said the PM Abdullah Ahmad Badawi wasn’t meant for more than one term and expecting the DPM Najib Tun Razak to take over sooner than later.

However, lately, he appears to have second doubt about his choice of successor, trying to be coy and apparently pulling Najib’s leg when he said the next PM can be somebody else besides him.

Then, the PM Abdullah Ahmad Badawi said he won’t overstay as PM and publicly naming DPM as his successor.

In return, the DPM said he is thankful and touched by the PM’s trust and confidence in him.

Dramatical but I don’t feel good about this.

It’s such a high profile political game trying to outdo each other, fulfilling one’s egoism to achieve their personal agendas while the country’s future is at stake.

Unprecedented, that’s when history unveiled by itself, as matter of fact or otherwise.

Surprisingly, today is the first time the PM Abdullah Ahmad Badawi retaliated and stood against all criticism thrown against him, ever since BN lost 2/3 majority in the Parliament and lost control of 4+1 states.

Firstly, he says he holds his predecessor Tun Mahathir responsible for the poor state of the judiciary and lack of press freedom in the country.

Although he didn’t elaborate the details and roles played by Tun in judiciary matter, nevertheless, it’s a known fact that Tun is one of the key witness in the The Royal Commission of Inquiry into the V.K. Lingam tape, in which he was evasive and forgetful about certain crucial events which led to the appointment of the then Chief Justice Ahmad Fairuz Sheikh Abdul Halim in 2002.

Hence, Pak Lah was trying to be coy by suggesting that judiciary problems doesn’t start during his administration, which to be fair, is true.

However, as much as the allegation might hold water, the problem doesn’t end during his administration either, more so when the PM was seen attempting to extend Ahmad Fairuz tenure as the CJ even when he is implicated in the VK Lingam video?

At least, he should have shown sincerity in reforming the judiciary system before the recent GE, not after the heaviest defeat suffered by BN by merely appointing Zaid Ibrahim as one of the Minister in Prime Minister Deparment to carry out the reform.

So yes, he is right not to be held accountable for the problem, what has he done to put an end to the problem? It’s definitely not via the "Sounds like me, looks like me, but it’s not me" type of Royal Commission of Inquiry.

Second, the PM said Gua Musang Umno Division chief Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah is responsible for BN’s loss in Kelantan.

Nevertheless, it’s also a known fact that Kelantan has been under PAS control for more than a decade and definitely not the first time BN failed to recapture the state.

Besides, in addition to Kelantan, BN lost 4 other states to the Opposition too and as far as I’m concern, none of the BN leaders in the respective states are being held accountable.

Hence, it’s a myth why Pak Lah is putting the blame on Ku Li instead of Kelantan Umno Liaison Committee chairman Annuar Musa?

Is it because it’s as simple as he was doing nothing to win over the state as what Pak Lah said or due to his open challenge for the Umno presidential post, together with the call for an EGM to discuss on the party’s unprecedented electoral setback faced on March 8, hence posing a strong threat towards his president post or due to certain underlying reasons that can’t be revealed?

Either way, I think observers must be taking this as a desperate move by Pak Lah to fend off various accusations and calls for his resignation, hence giving a perception that he shouldn’t be held responsible for the heavy defeat suffered in the recent GE.

But really, putting aside the abovementioned reasons, 2 factors stand out obviously.

One is about the incapable leadership.

Another one is no less than the KJ factor.

Doesn’t matter the existence of any saboteur as claimed.

While the other side of me is feeling uneasy with the latest proposal to prosecute non-Muslims for khalwat (close proximity), the other side of me is feeling the ridiculousness of the religious-obsessed group political culture we now live in.

To cut it short, here’s a few critical points from human rights lawyer Malik Imtiaz and human rights activist Farish A. Noor.

First, the Constitutional framework envisaged Islamic law being relevant only to the personal law of persons professing the religion of Islam to the extent that the same did not conflict with the fundamental liberties of these individuals.

Second, what would happen to the image of Malaysia as the so-called bastion of moderate Islam when the international media gets a glimpse of this non-so-moderate Islam at work? Is Islam Hadhari to be enforced by the whip today?

If it take ages to build up an empire, it’s taking a mere split second to come out with a dumb idea to provoke the making of disaster.

Unfortunately, that’s quite what’s happening in our backyard now.

I must admit that, I just love the aftermath of the recently concluded 12th General Election.

Basically, I’m amazed by the "level of effectiveness" shown by Pak Lah’s cabinet members, as well as his ex-colleagues.

Look at S Samy Vellu, at least he goes extra-miles by putting in extra effort to show how much he has changed since he lost his parliamentary seat.

Abrupt revolution, but why not?

Look at the new Information Minister Ahmad Shabery Cheek.

Not only he was quick to embrace bloggers (probably due to instruction from above?), live telecast of the question-and-answer session in the Dewan Rakyat finally materialized, after thousand excuses over the years.

I may not be in the position to gauge how sincere he is in embracing bloggers, but I think we’re more than willing to give him the benefit of doubt as so far, it looks promising, given that ex-Selangor MB Mohd Khir Toyol and Melaka CM Mohd Ali Rustam are now bloggers.

It would be great if blog readers like the SIL Khairy Jamaluddin will join the fray soon.

The way I look at it, tsunami is expected to be a common occurrence in our domestic front, ever since the GE on March 8.

It’s going to be here with us for quite some times before it moves away.

First, it was tsunami in 4+1 states, as well as the Parliament too.

Shortly afterwards, tsunami in the Cabinet.

Then, tsunami in Umno.

Next, tsunami in Gerakan.

Now, it’s followed by tsunami in MCA too.

What about MIC? Maybe soon after.

But, frankly speaking, if the tsunami is not strong enough to initiate a reform within the BN’s component parties, as in to arouse them from the ending reality of racial politics in this country, then so be it.

I thought after the post-mortem conducted respectively, they should cross-check and compare notes among themselves to find out the reasons of why the unprecedented lost.

Unfortunately, from what we’ve seen so far, together with implosion within the respective component parties, it seems apparent to me they don’t even realize they’ve turned irrelevant, which is pretty obvious based on the recent poll.

If the Opposition pact consists of PKR, DAP and PAS are ready to form Pakatan Rakyat to uphold the rights and interests of all Malaysians, what if I suggest that it’s time for BN to move up the chain too?

Let us have better choices as competition among them is good for democracy, as well as for the sake of the stakeholder of this country - the raykat.