On An Interesting Political Development…
I have this friend in JB called X. X’s father is a businessman, and it had always been agreed that he would help with that business once he finishes studying.
Yesterday night, I met this X on MSN. He sent me a curious message, asking me on my opinions about the Opposition in Malaysia. Now this is curious for 2 reasons. The first is that X here has never been interested in politics, what with him living in a BN deadhole of Johor. The second thing he even mentioned it himself. He said that as a business-minded person, he usually doesn’t give a damn about what the Opposition says and will vote BN so long as it doesn’t take Malaysia’s economy down to Zimbabwe’s level. BUT he said this time he feels differently. He said that he feels the winds of change and thinks BN had been very arrogant in the las 4 years. Even without my ‘vote for Opposition’ rail to him, he actually has already made his mind to vote for PKR. I found that amazing.
Consider the facts: A 20-something politically apathetic Chinese-Malaysian living in a BN stronghold state of Johor has made up his mind to vote for PKR. The rarity of this event is almost akin to a young Asian-Aussie who votes for the aging xenophobic John Howard’s Liberals in Australia.
Living out of Malaysia, I cannot get a feel of the political sentiments of other Malaysians there. Before I didn’t want to buy into the hype that the Opposition will win big. I’m still gonna remain realistic, but my Opposition seat count predictions has been raised somewhat after this.
This is a very heartening development indeed.
Now let’s all look at March 8th with anticipation, guys.
