The Malaysian Insider

MARCH 17 — So it has been two years on. Where do we go from here?

What will happen in the next two years before the coming of the 13th General Election?

I was 23 when I registered as a voter at the voter registration counter set up by the Election Commission (EC) in front of the KFC back in 2007.

MARCH 14 — As an English teacher, I could not help but be in awe of our 6th Prime Minister’s spoken English. I was watching Dato’ Seri Najib’s inaugural speech as Prime Minister recently and I noticed he speaks English well. He articulated his thoughts well and he enunciates when he speaks, something which I can learn since I talk as fast as a bullet train and end up confusing everyone.

As a leader, he seems to be rather unperturbed about the many controversies surrounding him and is always seen with a smiling face. My friend, Mud, told me that perhaps this is because our PM is not trying to be the class president. He is not trying to be popular, he is just trying to do his job the best he could; a view which I have to agree with. He is after all, the prime minister of Malaysia.

To me, he seems like everyone’s favourite grandfather. Always smiling, and ever the patient man, he seems to be rather laidback and yet, active and involved at the same time.

MARCH 10 — Do you have a Facebook account? If you don’t, then I’m sorry, you’re just not that cool. Facebook to the current society is like the air that we breathe, the water that we drink and the food that we consume.

Not having a Facebook account is similar to admitting you have no friends because if you have friends, then they would have Facebook accounts.

They would have you on their “Friends List” but you’re not there so you must not have any friends.

MARCH 3 — So my sister is getting married in a few months. Yes, my younger sister. And no, I am not jealous at all about it.

For some reason though, some of the people I had told of about her wedding seemed to think that because I am still single with no plans of marriage in the near future, I would be upset about her wedding.

They even asked me outright whether I felt jealous or embarrassed that she was getting married before me.

FEB 17 — I used to live in a low-cost flat alone before I moved to live with friends earlier this year. I had been living alone since I moved to the city I’m in now, and I thought I could make do without the trouble of living with a person I barely knew. Sure, living with friends can be quite fun but not when you get a housemate who makes home seems like hell for you.

If you are familiar with flats, you know that whatever goes on at your neighbour’s or outside, you are bound to hear it. So I have heard mothers screaming their heads off yelling at their kids, guys trying out their new car stereo at ten in the night, and couples fighting in the wee hours of the morning.