I overheard..

March 30th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized

I was in my favourite coffee shop the other day. I overheard this conversation between two friends behind me.

-So, how?

-Politics? A bit boring lah. Everyone is an expert now..

- Boring? Many possible scenarios to think about what, interesting bah. It keeps you connected to everyone, everywhere. Strangers become friends now.

-True also. what else is happening?

- If you read the blogs, you know the country has undergone some kind of revolution without bloodshed…

-Huh! anything else in the blogs worth knowing?

-Ya, there is this campaign to boycott the mainstream media( MSM) and also companies connected to BN.

-Yea? Why are they doing that for?

-Some of the bloggers are saying the MSM are too biased and they have lost their credibility.

-Why boycott? Get the other side to buy over and see if they can be neutral in their spin.

-Also, you know the Sultan of Blogs, Raja Petra? In his latest posting he said he’d changed his Maxis phone number because the owner, Ananda Krishna ,gave the BN millions of ringgits for the elections. As a form of protest, Petra decided not to patronise Maxis anymore.

-Huh?

-Petra’s argument is that tycoons like Ananda condone corruption, arrogance of power of the BN government. So, boycott their companies lah..

-Wah, these people are really self righteous.They are blaming the BN side for being arrogant and all that, to me they are the same.They are getting carried away with their own self-importance, what is the difference? Think many people will want to cancel their ASTRO subscriptions?

-You’ve got a point there, bro.

-If their campaign is successful, you think the tycoons will suffer with their millions stashed away overseas? The little people who work in these companies will get hurt. I am sure lots of these people voted for the opposition bah. If these companies cannot pay their salaries, how are they going to feed their families?

-Ya lah, it’s always the small people who get hurt.

-What’s new? All these smart bloggers should be telling the opposition held state governments to get cracking, instead of trying to destroy people’s livelihood. You want to keep the economy going, right?

-What was Bill Clinton’s tag line? It’s the economy, stupid? Something like that…

-Ya bah, get to work and prove you can do better, everybody is watching. All this revenge business is a waste of time and counter productive. It’s just one big ego trip for some people. If the opposition state governments can deliver, Sabah will go that way too.It’s a matter of time, bah..

My hand phone rang and I didn’t hear the rest of the conversation.