Post blogging sydrome

I NOW REALISE THAT HAVING MY OWN BLOG IS EXCITING AND THERE IS NO EXCUSE FOR NOT UPDATING IT SINCE MY LAST POSTINGS IN JULY 2008. TIME FLIES ALTHOUGH I HAVE NOT BEEN JOTTING MY OWN THOUGHTS. IN FACT, THERE WERE SO MANY ISSUES THAT WOULD HAVE PROMPTED ME TO POST THEM IN MASAGUNGKL D' SCRIBE. HOWEVER, IT WAS NOT TOTAL HIBERNATION BECAUSE I HAD FREQUENTLY BLOGGED UNDER THE COURTESY OF ROCKY'S BRU, DATUK ABDUL KADIR JASIN SCRIBE AND OCCASIONALLY IN MALAYSIAN INSIDER.

LOOKING BACK, I DID NOT GO INTO HIBERNATION OR NEITHER JUST IGNORED WHAT'S GOING ON IN THIS MAD MAD WORLD. MY OWN COUNTRY MALAYSIA TOO IS NOT LACKING IN SENSATIONAL NEWS FOR THE LAST TWO YEARS, ESPECIALLY PRE AND POST MARCH GENERAL ELECTION OF 2008. IN POLITICAL TERM, IT WAS A DISASTER FOR BARISAN NASIONAL DURING THE REIGN OF FORMER PREMIER TUN ABDULLAH AHMAD BADAWI, THE NATION'S 5TH PRIME MINISTER.

PAK LAH WAS A NICE GUY AND A KIND MAN TOO SO TO SPEAK. HIS DOWNFALL WAS NOT ONLY DUE TO THE OVER EXPOSED KHAIRY JAMALUDDIN, HIS SON-IN-LAW BUT HE HAD FAILED IN HIS ATTEMPTS TO MANAGE THE COUNTRY ON AN UPWARD SWING. MANY THINGS WENT WRONG AND CERTAIN ISSUES BECAME HOT POTATOES WHICH HAD ACCELERATED HIS DOWNFALL THAT HAD CAUSED HIS PREMIERSHIP. HIS PREDECESSOR TUN MAHATHIR WAS CONSTANTLY EXPOSING HIS WEAKNESS AND CONTINUE TO LASH AT HIM FOR ALL HIS FAULTS IN POLITICS, ECONOMICS AND FINANCIAL ISSUES.

FINALLY, PAK LAH COULD NOT WITHSTAND THE PRESSURE FOR HIM TO STEP DOWN FROM HIS COVETED POSITION AS THE FLIP-FLOP PRIME MINISTER IN APRIL 2009. HE HAD NO CHOICE BUT TO FINALLY HANDED OVER THE HOT SEAT TO HIS DPM DATO' SRI NAJIB TUN RAZAK.

IT WAS A NEW MALAYSIAN CHAPTER FOR THE NATION.EVERYONE HAD HIGH HOPES TO WELCOME NAJIB AS THE NATION'S 6TH PRIME MINISTER. THIS CHANGE OF POLITICAL AND GOVERNMENT LEADERSHIP HAD BEEN LONG OVERDUE AND THE PEOPLE'S EXPECTATION FOR NAJIB TO PERFORM WELL WITH MIRACLES WAS ON EVERYONE'S ASPIRATION.

LET ME STOP AT THIS POINT AS NAJIB STEPPED PROUDLY INTO THE PRIME MINISTER'S WEST WING OFFICE IN PUTRAJAYA ON 3RD APRIL 2009. I WILL CONTINUE WITH THE POLITICAL JOURNEY OF NAJIB AND HIS TEAM TO LEAD THE NATION INTO THE SECOND CHAPTER OF THE UNFINISHED TERM OF BARISAN NASIONAL ADMINISTRATION IN MID TERM AFTER THE DISMAY PERFORMANCE OF BN IN THE MARCH 2008 GENERAL ELECTION. MORE TO BLOG IN MY NEXT EPISODE ON NAJIB'S AGENDA TO TURN THE COUNTRY AROUND WITH HIS NEW IDEALS AS PROMISED IN HIS 1MALAYSIA SLOGAN.