Imagine that you are a political party; and although you claim that you are a "multi-racial" party, you are also known to represent a specific race in Malaysia.
A festive celebration for that race is coming up soon; you plan to celebrate by throwing a party and inviting your supporters. However, because of the expected crowd, you need a sizeable venue to accommodate your guests. So you apply to the City Hall to use one of their halls for the event. The City Hall replies with an approval; you are happy and proceed with all the necessary chores—you print circulars and go down to the ground to meet the people and invite them personally; you make the announcements through the papers; you put up billboards by the roadsides too. Everything is going fine; people are anticipating the event.
Then imagine that at the eleventh hour the approval is cancelled by the City Hall. The billboards you put up, which are paid for, are also taken down. There is hardly any time to rearrange for an alternative venue for the celebration. All the invitations are out; announcements made. Your celebration party is screwed! Obviously, it doesn't look good on your reputation.
And what is the reason for the cancellation of the approval? Well, according to the Mayor, it's because of "unintentional but due to a technicality of the matter".
Now imagine that you are a component party of the ruling Barisan Nasional; and that you're hosting the celebration for Hari Raya. Just imagine what kind of trouble the City Hall folks would be in. Some people would probably shit in their pants.
But thankfully, you are just an insignificant DAP trying to celebrate the Chinese New Year with your supporters. So the City Hall folks need not lose sleep over the matter. We are after all just human, we unintentionally make mistakes on technical grounds.
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In an unrelated article, the Mayor's term has been extended for all the good work he has done.
Congratulations to the Mayor of Kota Kinabalu City. Keep up to good work!
Watch what you comment on DBKK. They might just decide to make you roll 100 coconuts in the coming KK City Tourism Hunt.
Ah! yes, there's that, lateral line!
Of course we can't forget that it's also human to be vengeful sometimes. And perhaps one can say that rolling 100 coconuts would be too kind of them. It's likelier that I will be required to roll my nuts instead. And that'll surely be the first of its kind in any treasure hunt, no?
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