Crown and Cyberspace

Daulat Tuanku.

Like, we have a new King of Malaysia today, or rather a just-installed Supreme Head, as His Majesty is described if one, like, reads the writing on the inside cover of the Malaysian Passport.

Oh.My.God. The coronation was totally tripendicular, dudes! Did you, like, get to catch it on the idiot box? Did you see me? Did you see me? Did you see me?

Like, just a few rows behind the baldwin crown prince Al-Muhtadee Billah from Brunei! He is just sooooooooooooooooooo cute!

Enough with the crown and the coronation!

Like, I have been away from the cyberspace for a bit now, busy with parliamentary work, travelling around though not as much as some legislators. As if!

Barf me out! Cyberspace has been totally radical in my absence. Fer shur!

But I totally agree with this dude Tim Dowling on the levels that those cyber citizens have descended over time.

Like, let me quote him.

In the course of that research I branched out, seeking out the online detractors of journalists with higher profiles than myself. This was my introduction to the blogosphere: a seemingly intemperate, foul-mouthed, grotesquely misogynistic community where no one can spell and everyone is blessed with a surfeit of time.

For a journalist with an unwholesome interest in his own online profile, however, the most shocking thing about the blogosphere is its obsession with itself. They blog about the blogosphere a lot. Most of the abuse is blogger-on-blogger: how dare you stop me blogging about how blog-censorship is preventing me from blogging on the future of blogging! I'm going to burn down your house!

Dowling is just totally sluggin, dudes!

As for the bloggers.... figure it out, darlings!

Surreal Sureties

Today Jeff Ooi wrote that he "relish(es) the distinct stature as an individual who have the ears of leaders from the Other Side of the the present day political divide. Not many bloggers could have done that, perhaps. So, I should take all the rumours as a compliment, even a chip on the shoulder."

Chewah.

"Not many could have done that, perhaps"

Confused?

"So, I should take all the rumours as a compliment, even a chip on the shoulder."

Chip on his shoulder - Having a harboured grievance or sense of inferiority and being quick to take offence.

So Jeff is taking it as a compliment but he'll be quick to take offence.

I'm more confused than earlier.

Maybe I should have not drank too much last night.

Perhaps his title of "Ijok, I-joke" is apt.

Jeff Ooi is a joke.

Then we have this from Bernama:

Zainuddin Protests To BBC Over Air Time For Rejected Leaders

So what.

So what if the BBC airs Anwar. Like the many people that do watch the BBC will vote in Ijok anyway.

Maybe ZAM is jealous that he himself didn't get interviewed.

Such protests are a waste of public funds.

ZAM should put the money to good use and maybe spend it to beautify RTM's toilets.

Sometimes I wake up, I wonder if I woke up in the middle of the twilight zone.

With all these news and Alanis Morissette's new music video of her song "My Humps", maybe I am in the twilight zone.

Too do too doooooo too doo tooo dooooooooo......



UPDATE: For the ultimate surreal effect, play both videos at the same time! =)

Rock the Vote, errrr.. Boat!

Funny. Take one sleepy town called Ijok.
Add one dead lawmaker.
Equals a by-election that is the centre of attraction in Malaysia.

And shitloads of tax-payers' money to shoddily resurface roads and other "development" projects that are the hallmarks of third-rate third-world politics. Its our tax money and I hope they enjoy it before the general elections are called.

Oh, I forgot! Its raining water-bottles in the constituency now known for voting geriatrics and those barely-circumcised, as the case may be!

Lucky bastards! Its normal acid rain over in Kuala Lumpur and suburbs.

While the parties-at-war slug it out for the votes of the 12,000-odd that make up the Ijok state seat, thousands of others are encouraging them to continue putting in a ruling coalition candidate or make a stand against the powers-that-be.

Seems like a kind of guilt complex to me! Should the Ijok-ians salve our conscience of continuously sticking with the devils that we know rather than those we don't or don't ever want to know?

Should they vote for development - shoddy roads and such - or take it and vote for a man who was once part of the establishment but now sidelined and hankering to reform Malaysia through an alliance that have seen better days not once but twice?

Maybe!

Well, that's the conundrum, isn't it? Should Ijok do for us what we cannot do for ourselves? Or should we - the citizens of Malaysia and those who can vote - do it ourselves in the next general elections?

Is Ijok our one small step for man to rock the vote, err.. boat that is the ruling coalition?

And what would be our giant leap for mankind?

You tell me!