The delay...

Sorry for the delay. I've been quite busy lately....and also....lazy. lol. Ok this time I'm gonna talk about my personal life and work for the past few weeks. I'm gonna write in kinda informal English this time. So for those who are not interested or those who are not open to criticism, you may skip this post. :)

Well basically I've joined the DAP internship programme. What they do is they place each of us under a MP or ADUN (state assembly man) and we'll be following them around. I'm attached under Serdang MP, Teo Nie Ching. Sadly, my boss (MP) went oversea this week and things were pretty boring recently.

I've been to the Parliament for quite a number of times, and I actually sat in the special observer room which is right behind the MPs (not the public gallery). And I've noticed how uncivilised MPs can be, how they actually transform a Parliament into a Pasar Borong (market). The thing is that these uncivilised MPs are not only from BN, but as well as from Pakatan (kind of a shame if you ask me).

There was this occasion whereby they are debating on a merging of ministries which includes some sort of mini-budget. I've read through the Order Paper (a paper listing out the questions and Bills to be debated that day along with contents) and it's pretty much ordinary. Yet somehow they can drag the debate from the issue itself until Port Klang Free Zone (PKFZ) Scandal, and of cos, by Lim Kit Siang mainly.

I admit, I don't think the chinese will fare as we are now without him. And what he says is true most of the time, with evidences. And I like his style, calm and steady, he got 'gangbanged' by 2 to 3 BN MPs and he can still smile and fend them off. But if you take a 3rd person perspective and view the occasion, it's quite awkward to see an issue been dragged off so far and irrelevant to the issue at hand. It just doesn't sound right, to me.

*But of course, Parliament is the best place to 'make noise' since the medias are watching it live in the Parliament. So, i'm 'neutral' with his action that day.*

There's something else that I've noticed. The speakers are outright biased. When BN MPs are making hell lots of noise and shouting like some savage beasts, the speaker did nothing about it. Meanwhile, when the Pakatan MPs said something slightly offensive, they are ordered to 'tarik-balik' (take back) their words. And not to mention, Tony Pua's case (suspended from Parliament for no apparent reason) was totally outrageous. You can check his case in his blog. (http://tonypua.blogspot.com)

I've also noticed that the BN MPs are keen to disagree with anything the opposition got to say, be it right or wrong, necessary or unnecessary. There was this time, they were debating about the DNA Bill. And I had the bill notes, something like parliamentary speech notes. And I think it is necessary for them to amend the bill. (It was proposed by my boss I think, but I am not taking sides now) Despite the necessity of it, they just reject the amendments, which I think they don't even know nor care what did my boss talk about.

Of course, you might refute me by saying that I am drawing inference from specific cases. But well, I won't deny that, but based on what I've seen so far, that seems to be the case.