Circus Coming To Town

And so the clowns have been unleashed. Parliament has been dissolved, as expected, in spite of the blatant lie by our beloved Prime Minister—that it won't happen on the 13th [The Star]. Over the next 2 weeks or so, we will get to see these clowns performing their respective acts. The circus is coming to town, and I am sure we will all be greatly entertained.

We are all so used to begging from those people sitting in high office all the time. So it's a lot of fun when once in every couple of years, these people come begging from us for a change. A few days ago, some of these clowns actually took the trouble to come to my office to wish us "Happy Chinese New Year". Each of us received a free desk calendar too, mind! To be quite honest, I am not really that happy this Chinese New Year, having lost RM326 at mahjong so far. I know it's not a very big amount, but if I were paying for my fuel, that would be the amount I need to fork out for the entire month. Anyway, that is a different story.

Dr Yee was just in time to announce the 30%-reduction in parking rates for Kota Kinabalu City as reported here. Not to mention the total abolishment of parking fee altogether for Menggatal (yes, my West Malaysian friends, this is really a name of a town here in Sabah) and Telipok. But of course this announcement has absolutely nothing to do with the election. No—it's just that the good doctor suddenly realised that it could lessen the financial burden of the KK City folks.

Before that, Brother Bung announced that he's surprised by the "rumour" that he had received, of which he has apparently been dropped from the election candidates' list. It's quite an irony that he should be surprised with that rumour. After all, he has been making the headlines for behaving like anything but an MP in Parliament.

The most beautiful statement from Brother Bung: If for some reason I’m not chosen, I will abide by that decision and will support whoever is selected.

Why did he say so; why say it at all? I think there is a phychological significance to his statement. I think either he knew that his name was on the candidates' list; or if not, he was 90% certain that his name was there. The announcement was therefore meant to demonstrate his loyalty to the BN leadership. BUT! I hope I am wrong— that his name is not in the candidates' list. Then we will get to see if he will eat his words up! I long to see him "abide by that decision".

Then of course prior to this, Pak Lah has been assessing the performance of his administration. He arrived at a favourable "report card" and expressed his satisfaction. Let's not kid ourselves, folks; I'm sure all of us had expected the beloved PM to arrive at such assessment anyway. See, this is the beauty about self-assessment—there is only one possible outcome!

In the weeks that follow, we will get to see much more from the clowns...

Oh how I love the circus.