Pretty Maids All Having A Row

BADMINTON had never seen its game played with such fervor and anxiety. Even the Chinese players were confused at the unsolicited support from the fans at Indonesian Badminton Open yesterday. One wouldn't believe, unless seeing it with its own eyes, how the Indonesians had booed and seriously hampered the confidence of our Malaysian players. It seems that the recent political and social conflict between Malaysia and Indonesia have reached another record high.

Everything points towards the upcoming Indonesian presidential election on July 8. The candidates are on turbo-search regarding issues and sentiments that will help to infuriate voters and thus aligning themselves on a nationalistic platform. And our beloved nation is kind enough to provide the necessary ingredient to make their ends meet.

Taking the headstart is the royal scandal between a venerated Kelantanese prince and a young and rebellious teenage beauty queen. All over the Indonesian archipelago now sympathizes the unfortunate marriage of the teenager. Tabloids are being overran with stories of how she had been victimized and how helpless she was then within the walls of Kelantanese royal court. Never had I seen such boldness and courageous so completely possessed by a rape victim who had chosen to go high-profile in turning things against the perps.

Then again we have resurrected the idealism of a common Malay territory- Melayu Raya. After losing Batu Putih to the Singaporeans, the Malaysian waters is once being contested of its rightfulness by foreign aggressors. This time around is the Ambalat sea block which is located between Sabah and Indonesia. One should not be entirely concerned about losing our territories, not especially during the presidential campaign. It is widely believed that once the president is chosen, then the issue will subside accordingly since the elected leader will then need to maintain common prosperity with Malaysia.

With peasants from both countries cracking their heads out in the face of economic meltdown, the modern bourgeois in Malaysia had decided to prove Marxism right, at the wrong time, by exploiting and abusing the working class of the Indonesians. It is of utmost despicable mindset for somebody to abuse the maids with such brutality. How much more could we tolerate such reprehensible act like putting on iron onto the maid? There has to be a serious crackdown on the lunatics in Malaysia!

Nonetheless, the Malaysian government shoud not give in into the demands of the republic. The compulsory one day off for domestic maid is a total absurd way to appease the Indonesians. Where do you expect those maids to go during the day? Are we so naive to believe that they will come knocking on our doors the next day? Or should I ask, are our interests as a Malaysian, in the eyes of the government, being superceded by the demands of alien countries? Is our government a Malaysian government for all Malaysians? We will know that in the next general election.

Kudos to our national badminton players who had silenced the crowd by bringing home two championships under such terrible condition. Not so good a job for our government, yet again.