a new sport called leap frogging, etc etc and etc......

after a sumptious dinner at my good friend ts wae ming's under stated elegant pondok perched way up on a small hillock somewhere in taman melawati, ru, another old classmate of mine asked me cheekily to look into my 'crystal ball' at the future of local politics back home.
we by then were all high on nasi kerabu , laksa kelantan and an east coast delicacy called kueh akod that is guranteed to give one instant diabetes.....

ru, a veteran oil man,  who hails from the back water of melur, kelantan, but now commute between his offices in paris and bangkok,  has been an ardent fan of thai politics lately. so impressed was he about the progress of development in land south of singgoro, he thought we malaysians , especially our politicians, should take a leaf or two from them.

" nik howk, you should come over to singgoro....the thais , despite the brutal days of old during thaksin's time, has built a brand new large airport at narathiwat, even pilgrims can now fly to makkah even without setting foot to hadyai's international airport!
we back home, the kelantanese still need to fly to kl to do just that!...it is all about plying back the oil money  from the south back to the  south......we back home in kb still have dirty beaches and  crowded roads and zero wang ehsang petronas yet!....all going to your new home state,teganung....so rich that i heard from the grapevine the state  is going to build another brand new istana on pulau duyung,despite the recent new one  that cost 1.2 b of taxpayers money near chendering!...i hope this is just a rumour.....if this is a state project, certainly not good for the royalties at this point in time to be seen with excessive extravagance....state politician thinks only on a five year basis.....pea brain thinking", he opined.

" well ru, petronas wang ehsan is a long story and let us not open old wounds. 
i was not a big fan of tun m years back and you know that. 

now ru, i am a new tdm convert and why not..... anyone who can put that principal national clown and all his dirty associates all behind bars earn my respect......5 billion usd is not small change mind you... "
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" but ru, back to your request about me looking into my crystal ball, i think our host here, wae ming, could read balls better than me...we should ask him

after years of doing tafseer blog, i dont go crystal ball gazing anymore....i do not think it is sharie compliant!...... i have graduated to something higher... a much higher plane.....i read minds now!.....though i have to check with local ustaz whether it is ok  "

' ok nik howk, let us see what you read.....and i will check and tell you whether it concurs with what my  balls tells me..  i think i am more liberal than you...gazing at balls is still my passion.", wae ming interjecting , rather teasingly.

"ok ts ming.
let us start with the most principal of all players...the ultimate chess player as i call him today, our tdm.

rightfully or wrongfully, i know for a fact. and i feel it is 'soheeh' now that the old man cannot see dsai as his successor. otherwise dsai would have by now  some form of position.
bodoh bodoh he would be heading a committee of parliementarians looking at parliment reform or something.

dont ask me why, but i think tdm thinks malaysia is not yet liberal enough to accept a character such as dsai as the next pm!
tdm is also not yet liberal enough !

he is rocking the pakatan's boat by admitting the seven clowns from the old amenu including the one from jeli. ...shall we call them leaping frogs, though ibrahim ali is less complimentary recently in the cameroon highland bye election. he opined there is now no frogs in jeli , just jumping monkeys..'.beruk melompat '......i say monkeys here just to be civil and polite.!

tdm thinks he can get more 'jumping monkeys'  to his side, but for the present , 7 is enough.  
the old man is playing his future moves close to his chest. he is a consumate chess player, i am sure you guys can agree with me on that...

unlike what you guys think about doctors having all plans a, b and c, well scrutinized and thought off well ahead...actually a lot of our work involved ad hocking along the way, adjusting and adapting to the ongoing ball game and tempo of play. we as a specie, like to play god more than the rest!

tun m is just doing that even though he has a general plan, he also ad hoc a lot and only when it is necesary.....the exquisite and exact timing of when to adhoc...that separates the master from the rest of the boys!.

any evidence of an implosion occuring in pakatan from the joint partners, dap and pkr, will set things in motion. the old man is an expert at both controlled and organized implosion and uncontrolled,disorganized implosion. 

his training starts way back in langkawi when you,  ts ming and ru  and myself, were still running around in our kain lamping........diapers was still unknown then!


i got words that one of the 'jumping monkeys' right now are even nursing an ambition to be the economics minister. he is already assuming the  present one will move one step up!..omg! that is presumptious of him.
but that is politics...but on the positive side, that reflect however his professionalism. the present economics minister is still not on the ball.....still fighting shadows.

my contacts within the grapevine tell me yesterday this jumping monkey is trying to garner in some 'economic' brains to be in his think tank already! 
so very ambitious this 'jumping monkey'.....and so sure.

down the scale we have dsai, the man who wanted to be pm even ages ago while in mckk.
i reckon if  an implosion within pakatan harapan does not happen as expected due to the dap wanting to stay in the cabinet at whatever cost, and we certainly cannot rule this out as they have been waiting for this opportunity to be on this side of governance for over 50 years!.
their marraige with pkr is just a marriage of convenience.
if this happened, our man  dsai here will be very much left in the cold!..
an implosion will happen in pkr itself, weakening it by half!

the ultimate chess player has this consideration in his mind....remember you ask me to read minds.
he is also prepared for a totally disorganised implosion ie dap join force with pkr and go against him .

he would go for the rest of the 'jumping monkeys' and at worst may even call on the ugama party with the headless chicken running it to join force!

with azmin and his band of followers..... dap and whatever left of pkr can go and fly kites!

here tdm will be  in slightly deep water, ru and ts ming.
will the rest of the jumping monkey from amenu join him?

this is where the semenyeh factor comes in. 
this is a wee bit sakit perut for the old man.
bng may win semenyeh and will have a new found confidence.
no more jumping monkeys or leaping frog! bng with PAS may be the next gomen..come ge15

if bng lose semenyeh, tdm can tell dap can go and fly kite if they do not want to play the game his way....he can still govern. "

"ok nik howk, so far i can agree with you....and that is what i see things are unfolding...the only sadness would be after all these, institiutional reforms will never come to fruition...but  then tdm is tdm, ..leopard never cxhange its spots.",
our gracious host interjected. " 

ru, who has been quiet all this while finally added his brilliance.
"reform will finally come ts,  i think, with the proviso future governments do not have the two third majority..give them time...the catharsis is not yet over. "

" on that count i do agree with you ru......the common man on the street will continue to complain  and make loud animal noise since that roti canai and tea tarik still cost more than 3 ringgit and toll has not come down and petrol is going up and up........but how can these come down.?......your man in the economics ministry still so busy with his personal problems playing politics, he has not even met all of his inner team yet to devise schemes. 

lge and tony pua are  still in a 'digging mode' and both still suspicious of their wholly bumiputra treasury top dogs , things are not moving....and the rest of the ministries are run by still wet in between the ears ministers who cannot differentiate between the wood and the trees! ", ts ming opined..

" frankly ts and ru, i hope bng wins semenyeh....that would put ph into panic station.
frankly i dont care whether in 4 years time azmin or anwar become pm or hishamuddin become his deputy or rafizi goes up in the cabinet........we the raayat deserve instituitional changes and reform and that will come with time and a lot of catharsis... we have to bersabr.
what we do know is that a repeat may 13th is an impossibility in this new malaysia.
the raayat don't care who become pm.

we want a corruption free government and if  along the way we have royalties behaving well and spending within their limits, this is tantamount to a bonus for the raayat.

in 2019, post ge14 ......it is not about the elites anymore...if you guys want to stay in power you better look after pak mat nyadaps and ah lee and muthusamy very well....otherwise ship out"

with that we conclude the evening on a high note.....






another article in an earlier blog: 'let us roast all of these clowns by the balls! '

http://drnikisahak.blogspot.com/2018/09/let-us-roast-them-all-by-balls.html