Grammy award for Cilipadi?

I was shocked and disappointed when I read Malaysiakini's ‘Po Kuan’s quit decision an elaborate ploy’.

If it were true, then I would nominate Po Kuan as the greatest actress in Malaysia, Lim Kit Siang as greatest director and Thomas Su and others, as best supporting actors.

I am surprised some people cannot empathise how she would have found her life as an MP very taxing and she is losing her private space and time, especially now that she is married to someone working in Johore. It is even worse being an opposition MP as there is always the lack of funds, yet she has to oblige whenever there are occasions she is being invited, as what Chong Eng had explained.

While some BN politicians are well provided by the party and they have avenues to make money through businesses connected with the government, opposition politicians are at their wits’ end to make ends meet. I could see how she suffered financially when she was suspended for 6 months without pay.

At the rate the opposition MPs and ADUNs travelled around to support each other’s ceramah, I used to wonder whether they are in fact working for petrol companies or PLUS.

The BN’s party machinery gets support from crony beneficiaries, from Ministers and so on who are well provided by the government by virtue of their positions; and even as caretaker government, no expense is spared to take advantage of the national media and other facilities.

To me, the fact that she did not even consider who should be her supporter on Nomination day shows that she was truly rushed back into action after her initial, and what she personally would have thought to be her final, decision not to re-contest. I can vouch for the fact that she contacted me on Saturday afternoon (Feb 23), asking me if I could be with her on Nomination day (Feb 24).