bloggers MP and ADUN

drum roll please!………… presenting to you bloggers who just became MP (members of parliament) and ADUN (dewan undangan negeri – state assembly-man)…… and all whom i had met before.

1. JEFF OOI – MP for jelutong, penang

i had known jeff for a long long time… long before he became a blogger, before the birth of blogging in fact. it was from the sangkancil and later on, beritamalaysia newsgroup that i got to know him (around 1998 time). i remember once a small group of us from beritamalaysia planned a meeting and he was one of those who turned up. i was surprise when he told me he was formerly a penangite. yes, he stayed in the mainland, he said and he seemed proud of the fact that he was once from penang. he asked me a lot of questions about penang. then later we met at the 2nd anniversary of project petaling street (that was i think 5 years ago or so). the last time we met was at the bloggers united malaysia gathering in may last year, of which i was one of the organiser.

2.   TONY PUA – MP for petaling jaya utara, selangor

i met him only once when he attended the aliran round-table discussion in penang. at that time, i noticed that this young man was such a good speaker. he was a friendly person. we got to talking during break time and surprisingly he said he knew my name as he was also in beritamalaysia. he said he always see my name in beritamalaysia and now at last he met me in person. however, he thought that the name ‘lucia lai’ was a man’s name! that’s why he said he was surprise when he met the person behind the name ‘lucia lai’.

3.  NIK NAZMI – MP ADUN for seri setia, selangor

i met nik twice. the first time it was at the same aliran round-table discussion that tony attended. at that time though i did not talk to him at all. the second time i met him was at the bloggers united malaysia gathering, and no i didn’t talked to him too during the gathering. it was after the gathering that a few of us went to the mamak stall to lepak, that i happened to sit opposite him so get to talk to him.

4.  ELIZABETH WONG – ADUN for bukit lanjan, selangor

met elizabeth at the bloggers united malaysia gathering but didn’t get to talk to her at all. in fact, she might not know i was there too! the first impression i got from seeing her was "wow! such a mod (bergaya) lady!". her dressing was very stylo-mylo. haha.

congratulations to all 4 of them! wish them all the best in their new roles/duties.

ok, now i’m going to introduce to you the MP and ADUN in my area. both from PKR… of course whom both i voted for.

my MP is under bayan baru and he is the penang PKR’s chief, ZAHRAIN MOHAMED HASHIM

my ADUN is under pantai jerjak and he is SIM TZE TZIN, former (or still is?) political secretary of anwar.

congrats to them! hope they will work hard serving us residents in bayan baru, penang.

note: to check election result, either than going to malaysiakini, which is very difficult to access these days, you can go to the bernama site to check.