‘elegant silence’ from pak lah
Post on Jun.10, 2006
for some updates to the criticisms of dr m at pak lah, take a look here. here, and here. so it seems that our present PM had decided to remain silent (‘elegant silent’ so according to musa hitam) towards criticisms from the ex PM. hmm…. just like he remain silent on the issue of the PDRM opposing the IPCMC with its most out-of-the-world reasons?
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June 10th, 2006 on 7:04 AM
hahaha
Lucia. I guess there is no opinion like no opinion at all.
June 10th, 2006 on 11:04 AM
Sophistry and Stonewalling face-off, both laying claim to “da people’s best interests”. The papers sell better (following the cues for their own best interests), still pretending to be on the level and that the Net is inconsequential. Like a Bemuse-r Triangle in season.
June 10th, 2006 on 6:29 PM
Ha, ha …Tun M is tailed by his own shadow -a Frankenstein system created by no one other than himself ! Despite all the `differences’ Pak Lah can pull off Mahathirite antics like beating day light out of anti-oil hike protestors, shutting down papers, throwing citizens into jail without trials, fixing campus and off-campus elections etc. He kept Mahathir’ cherished ISA, OSA, Police Act, UUCA, Emergency Ordinance, POPO (another detention without trial law), Sedition Act etc etc -like his own family inheritances. He give contracts to his family members and cronies -just like Mahathir did. He let corruption flourish like nobody’s business. Citizen Mahathir’s frustration prove the point : who among right thinking citizens would not feel frustrated under such a suffocating big bro regime -as perfected by Tun M? Citizen Mahathir certainly can tell from personal experience now. So Tun M is tasting the bitter fruit of his own uncontrollable invention : his Frankenstein ! A shadow who stick to him —silently and `elegantly’ according to some victims of the same Frankenstein. It is the silence of one’s own shadow ….which lurk around like blood thirsty ghost in a dark place!
lucia: true, true. good obeservation.Â
June 11th, 2006 on 11:23 AM
Maybe its because what Chinese says, “huan heng” already lah.
lucia: you mean dr m? well…. maybe just a little but he still talks sense.Â
June 11th, 2006 on 7:04 PM
Pak Lah is silent on everything.
He takes no decisions and let it all hang due to lack of guts.
He for sure will go into history as the worst PM Malaysia ever had.
You dont have to agree with dr M, but at least he has guts!
lucia: ya i agree dr m has guts… but i don’t agree that pak lah will be the worst PM in malaysian history. he’s not going to be PM forever and ever, right. who knows others after him, might be worst than him! anyway as i mentioned in wits’ comments, pak lah may look clean, quiet, no guts… but… who knows beneath all that… lurks something else…. it’s like the saying ‘better know the devil in disguise (in this case dr m) than the angel in disguise (in this case pak lah). gosh! methink something wrong with my saying again. oh dear i lost touch with sayings.
June 11th, 2006 on 10:16 PM
On technicalities, Musa H is rather wrong(although he spoke often with more sense than the rest). Silence is not really elegant if that includes a less than clean slate in toto. Ong is correct to point that out, implicitly.
A clean slate would also have to mean that a person has displayed, e.g., no such thing as nepotism in his entire public service(in different roles) in his entire career. So, if a man in politics was called, “Mr Clean”, is merely a worldly accolate of the moment, not an exacting term. What subtlety ordinary people may have missed also was that if one is “Mr Clean”, the other simply is therefore inplicitly Unclean.
lucia: “What subtlety ordinary people may have missed also was that if one is “Mr Clean”, the other simply is therefore inplicitly Unclean”
nah. i’m sure many people realised that. in fact even before pak lah become PM, i heard this from lim kit siang at a DAP/keadilan forum in penang.
but i do agree of course that the label ‘mr clean’ is not an exacting term.
btw, i just read in malaysia today’s blog about how ‘unclean’ pak lah is. well i suppose he might be like er… how does that saying goes… about someone who looks very quiet and clean but actually he is not at all. a lion in a mouse’s suit or what? haha. there’s no such saying as the mouse and lion lah. i just made it up.
June 12th, 2006 on 2:07 AM
>nah. i’m sure many people realised that. in fact even before pak lah >become PM, i heard this from lim kit siang at a DAP/keadilan forum in >penang.
Perhaps so but the BN/MCA ppl were likening him to the ancient legendary Chinese judge of impeccable integrity, Pow Kung via radio waves before the last GE.
June 12th, 2006 on 3:36 PM
Silence mean `no answer’ ! If a notoriously corrupt person accuse another corrupt person of `uncleanliness’ certainly it is very difficult for the accused to defend himself ! If he answers `yes’ it proved the point to 3rd parties. If he try to say `no’ then the accuser will say `you see, they are like that!’ Either way the accused would lose. If Pak Lah is clean he can just haul up a big fish and prosecute the person -this is the best reply. If he is not he is left with what he has now : silence!
lucia: usually people will say silence means consent or means yes. haha. aware of this after attending too many seminars when the speakers asked something, all the audiences remained silent, the speaker fed-up of us participants non responsive attitude so they will say ok lah silent means yes.Â
June 12th, 2006 on 8:32 PM
When AI was charged with corruption, discerning ppl would have noticed that there was no reference to monetary corruption but totally focussed merely on ‘abuse of power’ , something which was cherry picked to completely obfuscate any reference whatsoever to the more prevalent and serious form of corruption.
The person living in a glass house and does not throw stone may not necessarily be clean or above board, just cleverly pragmatic and under the restraint out of sheer slyness. He dare not shake the Pandora Box to much because of the tons of skeletons they all have within it.
Best leave “elegance” out of it ; we are not dealing with bards or poetry here.
lucia: haha. i suppose ‘elegant silence’ is meant for those VIPs ministers only. if ordinary people remain silent, it would be ’stupid silence’??Â