The Wind Of Change ...

'Take me to the magic of the moment
On a glory night
Where the children of tomorrow share their dreams
With you and me
Take me to the magic of the moment
On a glory night
Where the children of tomorrow dream away
in the wind of change'

That was from the chorus of that famous Scorpions song entitled 'Wind Of Change' and that exactly sums up the atmosphere here after the General Elections.

I've never been into politics and I never will be. In fact I've never really written anything here about politics but today will be a slight exception. I did my part yesterday (Saturday) in selecting whom I thought would be best to be my voice in the Parliament. I'll be blunt. I voted for the opposition and the candidate I voted for won, so I'm glad my vote did indeed make a difference :D In fact the state in which I live in was also won by the opposition for the first time ever. I was utterly surprised by that but I'm glad they did win.

Now comes the hard part, I hope that the faith I put in the opposition party this time around would be justified. Let's face it, all politicians, be it the ruling coalition or the opposition party are no different as far as I'm concerned. The both have their own agendas. For me, it was the case of choosing the lesser of two evils. And hell, it's only 5 years. If they don't actually do half of what they promised in their campaign run up, I'll just not vote them in the next elections. I thought they deserved a chance to prove themselves after the Government I voted for in the previous elections screwed up the ordinary people every which way this side of Sunday!

I'm not going to even go into the dissatisfaction I have with the Government and judging by how badly the ruling coalition was mauled in the recently concluded elections, I wasn't the only one. Every single race in this country, well we basically only have 3 main races in this country plus one categorized under 'others' which I fall into being a Eurasian and all that. And for once, nearly the entire country was on the same wavelength on their views about the Government. This time around the people were not helpless and not stupid enough to believe everything they were fed with in the very 'biased' government controlled media out there. With the internet and with all the bloggers out there, the real truth about what was happening was easy to follow. No longer could we be fed with propaganda and lies.

Some very learned ministers even went to the extent of calling bloggers stupid monkeys who spread lies or something along those lines and I am utterly ecstatic that that particular learned minister or rather ex-minister lost his seat. That should tell him a thing or two about those stupid monkey bloggers who spread lies. Hey, you guys know I'm addicted to blogging and anyone who insults any blogger insults me too, so he deserved being booted out by the people. Well, I hope that with this trouncing the Government had, they will at least sit up, take stock, and listen to what the people has to say once in a while. It's not about the price of things going up. That will always go up no matter what. That's life, things go up and down. It's about giving us ordinary citizens a little credit and some respect. Be honest with us, show some accountability in life and most importantly, be a little more humble and a lot less arrogant.

So, with that said, I hope the Opposition party will at least make a little difference for me and not make me regret my decision to give them a chance to see what they can do. I do after all love this country. I mean where else can a bunch of people from different races and various cultures and religions live in peace and harmony together? That's what makes this country unique. That's what makes us all Malaysians and not just Malays, Chinese, Indian and Others! And besides it's the only country I have. So, here's to a much better Malaysia. Sorry for deviating totally from what I would normally write but I just had to voice out my thoughts.

Oh and remember I wrote something a few postings ago about replica Rolex watches? Well, I was kinda curious about just how much a genuine Rolex would cost, so I check out a Rolex Datejust watch just for the heck of it and my eyes nearly pooped right out of it's sockets! The blooming things cost in the range of RM26,000.00 and for that price I could get a car over here! I knew they were expensive and all, I just didn't know they were that expensive! I'll just stick to my old tried and tested cheap Casio watch for now ... LOL!