Closing of the Year 2007

The last couple of weeks saw various holidays for most of us - the schools are shut till the new year, the Eid Adha was celebrated albeit one day later than the Saudis, and today was X'mas day for the Christians. Since everyone was in holiday mood or winding down to the end of the year, there was no point in raking up any controversial issues or fanning any fire that was about to burn out. Not to worry, there's plenty of firewood and kerosene around after the new year holiday if there was a need to rekindle any fire about almost anything that we find important or necessary.

Of course, our hearts go out to those who are in detention either of their own renderings or from the instigation of others. A year will have passed with yet again nothing to show in terms of actual fruits that all can savour. Instead, we had a lot, in fact billions of ringgits, of promises upon earlier promises.

I recently stumbled upon a blog by an adventurer writer who visited Malaysia so many years ago and I thought I'd share it with all of you. The musings of an outsider I guess is the nearest honest opinion you can get from a foreign layman who has no interest or agenda other than stating what he saw and understood.

http://www.moxon.net/malaysia/malaysian_politics.html

I shan't be rambling on for too long this time other than to wish all of you

a belated EID MUBARAK, MERRY CHRISTMAS and A HAPPY NEW YEAR!