before i cabut to singapore…

Posted at July 5, 2007

I didn’t know this until a friend brought it up to me earlier. Apparently, traffic management at the M’sia FA Cup Final last Saturday was insanely terrible, that the Sultan of Kedah had to leave his car and walk 2 km to reach the stadium. It was a good 45 minutes walk. The crown prince was better off — he hitched a ride with a police on bike.

My first two thoughts were:

1) Eh, this is darn cool, because royalty being royalty, you’d expect them to be pampered and spoilt and stuff, right? But the Sultan was willing to walk all the way in order to show up at the football match. He could have just skipped the whole deal and went home, pleading old age and not feeling well and all that jizz, kan? So the 2-km walk was a great investment because I now think of him in a much nicer light. The Sultan is for and with his people and all that.

2) Bad traffic management should not have happened at all, because it was a big event and everything should have been well-prepared.

Then on Monday, the 79-year old Sultan was warded at the hospital for flu. The Kedah state secretary said he believed that the two incidents were unrelated, i.e. the Sultan falling ill after the 2-km walk. According to him, the Sultan was already not feeling well before the match. Kesian.

So on TV last night, they were showing bits and pieces from an earlier parliament session. Apparently some backbenchers got themselves all worked up over the issue, that it was outrageous that the Sultan had to walk, that it was Penang’s fault, that adat was broken, that Penang should formally apologise, bla bla bla.

Hence I loved it when the Sultan’s secretary went on to say, “The people are trying to associate the Sultan’s hospitalisation with the long walk. But we do not think Tuanku fell sick because of all that walking.”

My friend observed, “wong tai mm kap , tai kam kap.”

But looks like Penang will lead a delegation to visit the Sultan and to formally apologise to him. I guess the tai kams will get their way after all. My question is, don’t we have more important things to get upset about? Don’t sweat the small stuff, dudes.

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Hey look, I’m Nuffnang’s featured blogger for July ;)

It’s pretty easy to get featured, I guess. Just bug Tim everyday about it until he ignores all your calls and blocks you on MSN. You can do it too! :D

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For some unexplainable reasons, I damn want to write an emo post. But I am not emo at all. But I feel like I want to be emo. How ar? Here goes anyway…

Night time. Sky so dark. Got stars. But the brightest star is not mine. Elusiveness. Pangs of loneliness envelops my being. Lucid dreams of seventh heaven but trapped in the stark reality of eighteenth hell…

Cannot make it lah. Maybe when I am really emo…

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More short takes:

1) What to do on the bus to Singapore that will take 5+ hours ar?
2) Tiesto’s 2003 Nyana is a superior album. I hate his latest crap
3) No updates until next week :)
4) I wonder if I could bug someone to recover from an illness. DrB is my first experiment.
5) I am going to miss Ryan.

Oh. And you too :)

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