Chocolate by Yasmin Ahmad

One of the last films by Yasmin Ahmad, presented as one of the short films in www.15malaysia.com Project.

Sunday. Afternoon. Latte.

Finally revisiting my blog.
It's been a while since I got connected, with my laptop, at my leisure.
Finally, spending a Sunday afternoon, out at a coffee place, taking a breather.
So many has happened, things are changing, the world is still spinning, yet I'm still here; stagnant.
After having to live in my own world for the last couple of months, finally I step out of my cocoon, observing the bustling city life, basking in the liveliness that surrounds me.

Creative juices exchanged over coffee table;
Plans formulated on napkins for the next trip;
Mommy playing her daughter's hair, wondering when she will grow up;
Old friends reminiscing their jolly old times;
Lone ranger chatting furiously over MSN, hoping to end singlehood in the shortest time possible;
Glances exchanged over coffee cups, yearning for cupid's arrow to strike them;
In-house magazines being flipped frivolously, wondering when this boring afternoon going to end;
Gossips flying over shopping bags, oblivious to the sounds of crying toddlers;
Jazzy music playing in the background, overpowered by the sounds of grinding machine;
Such a small coffee joint, yet bustling with life. More than I have experienced for the couple of days.

I shall do this more often, while awaiting your homecoming.

Political Grasshoppers

What is the hottest drama in the local political scene these days? Party-hopping leading to a state-governmental change! How else could it be more dramatic?

What a way to grace my blog after a 2-month hiatus. I guess my personal life will never get that dramatic to motivate myself penning it down. That's simply because my home state Perak has never gotten such grandiour media attention for decades (or even for centuries I bet!) Imagine, the work Perak appearing on the cover page headlines of ALL the national newspapers, for consecutively one week! As a Perakian, should I be proud of all these sudden attention that my home state is receiving? Certainly NOT!

I shall not pain myself by writing down the dreadful details of the process of this political shift in the state government of Perak, even though it is not materialised just yet at the time of my blog entry. In a matter of hours, a new Menteri Besar will be sworn in, representing the new formed Barisan National-led state government, replacing the previous Pakatan Rakyat formation. But believe me, the matter will not be put at rest as the previous state government will retaliate till their last breath. Who would give up so easily when they are just warming up their state assembly seats and the leather seats of their Toyota Camry cars are still new!

We must thank the creators of the drama for enabling us to witness such historical joke in our politic scene, i.e. the 4 grasshoppers who hopped on to the weighing scale that is anything BUT balanced! (They claimed that they would remain independent of any alliances for the time being but had expressed their support to BN)

This "Grasshopper Strategy" is nothing new as Pakatan Rakyat had explicitly expressed that they would implement this strategy to trash the current government time and again since last September, although their attempts proved futile. I guess they could not have imagined this ingenious strategy of theirs would work against them, causing them to lose a quarter of their foothold in Malaysia.

So to the geniuses who are planning to put their legal know-how into practice and weaving their way through the judicial system, good luck thrashing the royal ruler's decision and getting your dissolution of state assembly. I'm sure the voters will be faithful still in the next state election, if there would be any. Funny thing that the most popular profession in DAP is likely to be lawyer!

To those who managed to convince the grasshoppers to hop by, your actions are deemed "highly moral" because there is no law exists to go against that. But I am already hearing voices to suggest passing an Anti-Hopping Law.

For those who are just simply enjoying all these antics by our highly intelligent politicians, please sit back and relax as I'm sure there are more to come!