Bay-Chay-Tian.
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my 'throne' - wakakaka |
Yes, the phrase above is in Penang Hokkien which means literally ta'mampu-duduk-takhta (singgasana) [couldn't sit or more correctly, couldn't ascend to the throne (of power, eg, as a PM)].
The 'throne' in this post has nothing to do with royal thrones but more with 'holding the top political power'.
It's a popular but sad phrase among Chinese who use it to describe people who were NOT DESTINED to become Emperor (in olden days) or PM in today's political world [or alternatively President in a presidential political system as in the USA, France, South Korea, Taiwan].
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Another Chinese phrase would be 'Without the Mandate of Heaven'.
Recently, we witnessed a case of bay-chay-tian in the USA where Hillary Rodham Clinton was just not fated to become President of the USA, though she possessed(s) all the qualifications, experience, competency, pedigree and personality, and was expected to have won hands down against a political clown. Instead, the Americans voted in the dungu, wakakaka.
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An Australia case would have been the sad failure of Kim Beazley (Labor), one of the most capable Labor minister, to become PM. He was DPM to Paul Keating but after Keating left the party to his stewardship, Labor lost out to the Coalition.
A Rhodes scholar and an expert on American affairs, he was very likeable but never did become what he wanted to be, PM of Australia. Instead Labor jokers like Mark Latham including ultra-narcissist Kevin Rudd succeeded. Fate dealt a cruel joke on Australian politics in the same way as it did recently to the USA.
Another Chinese phrase would be 'Without the Mandate of Heaven'.
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Hillary Rodham Clinton |
Recently, we witnessed a case of bay-chay-tian in the USA where Hillary Rodham Clinton was just not fated to become President of the USA, though she possessed(s) all the qualifications, experience, competency, pedigree and personality, and was expected to have won hands down against a political clown. Instead, the Americans voted in the dungu, wakakaka.
An Australia case would have been the sad failure of Kim Beazley (Labor), one of the most capable Labor minister, to become PM. He was DPM to Paul Keating but after Keating left the party to his stewardship, Labor lost out to the Coalition.
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Kim Beazley |
A Rhodes scholar and an expert on American affairs, he was very likeable but never did become what he wanted to be, PM of Australia. Instead Labor jokers like Mark Latham including ultra-narcissist Kevin Rudd succeeded. Fate dealt a cruel joke on Australian politics in the same way as it did recently to the USA.
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loose cannon Mark Latham |
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ultra-narcissist Mandarin-speaking Kevin Rudd |
In Malaysia of course the most famous person suffering from the curse of bay-chay-tian would be Ku Li. I needn't go into his sad political life to inform you how he was played out left, right and centre. Others you could add to Ku Li's tragic category would be Musa Hitam and the late Tun Dr Ismail, probably the BEST PM we never had but who was called by his Maker too soon. Where they all failed, Abdullah Ahmad Badawi (AAB) succeeded, wakakaka.
All the above brings us to Anwar Ibrahim, the man who missed out and missed out and missed out over the years since 1997.
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His seeming impatience might have riled Mahathir-adorers and Azmin-worshippers, but how is he to be PM in two years time, as mandated by Pakatan, if he doesn't warm up a bit on power politics (having been out of touch for 21 years including 11 years of imprisonment), and probably replace his incompetent wife as DPM and then be prepared to take over from Mahathir who is fast changing his promise to leave in two years time as he has just changed his promise to dissolve the CEP in 100 days.
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Mahathir is a man you cannot trust. He is extremely slithery with his words and a master Machiavellian. To top all these sinister doubts about the Old Man, it's known and proven he hates, abhors and detests Anwar with a vengeance.
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Then, in the shadowy wing, Azmin Ali waits patiently like a reticulated python, all coiled up and ready to strike and swallow up the Anwar legacy. His loyalist Zuraida Kamaruddin has even brazenly demanded that Anwar states his stand regarding the way in which the Port Dickson (PD) parliamentary seat was vacated for him, while another of Azmin's dwarfs Tian Chua has expressed his anger at Rafizi very-hush-hush move to enthrone Anwar next to the PM's position.
It's all very oppressing, intimidating and forbidding for Anwar whose situational awareness tells him that now must be the time to move.
But Anwar will find his once-popularity with especially the youth is no more - those youths have grown up and a new generation of voters are now in place and who (not realising who Mahathir had been in his 4th Reich) adulate Mahathir and even believe Anwar to be a stumbling block to the Old Man's continuing tenure as PM, preferably (in their moronic minds) for the next 1,000 years. They now are unlikely to support or even vote for Anwar.
National Patriots Association, the military veteran group, has warned Anwar against causing a by-election in PD as they favour the continuation of former-Admiral Danyal Balagopal Abdullah as the local MP, but the bloke himself has insisted on resigning and willingly giving up his PD seat for Anwar to contest.
Nonetheless, it's not nice for Anwar to hear retired Brig-Gen Raja Arshad warning him of a military 'backlash' in PD if he were to stand there in a by-election.
Even Siti Kasim, renowned activist has urged PD voters to vote against Anwar, saying:
PKR dan keluarga Anwar mesti diberi pengajaran kerana ini kali ketiga mereka mengadakan pilihan raya untuk memberi laluan kepada pemimpin utama PKR itu.
Mereka fikir mereka boleh melakukan apa sahaja yang mereka suka sehingga menjejaskan kami? Tidak!
Siti is pissed off that just for the sake of bringing in cultist personality like Anwar, by-elections after by-elections have been unnecessarily happening.
Thus, with several supposedly friendly forces (including Azmin's Dökkálfar Dwarfs) now being extremely unfriendly to him, Anwar MUST win this time or he'll be another bay-chay-tian.
I am not politically clued on PD but I am sure the Rafizi's Pandan Cats would have done their mathematics to confidently stand Anwar there.
Ironically, PD has been the location that Anwar had once threatened to reveal happenings of sordid tales about an allegedly amorous (then-DPM) Najib.
That's when I first came to hear of his manmanlai teasing to tell all about Najib's alleged amorous activities during an Ijok by-election campaign. Since then, I have named Anwar as Mr Manmanlai, wakakaka. But I hope PD won't be Najib's last laugh at Anwar.
Demographics tell us that PD voters comprise 43% Malays, 33% Chinese and 22% Indian. It's the sort of ethnic mix that Mahathir once liked (during his 4th Reich).
When he was PM during the period 1981 to 2003, Mahathir didn't trust the Malays to take him and his party across the finishing line but depended on the nons to do so out of fear of Islamic PAS, thus he liked 'mixed constituencies' along the ratio of 60 to 65% Malays to 35 to 40% nons. Indeed it was Mahathir himself who made the Chinese and Indians into 'King-makers' - he should stop blaming the Chinese for what he did in his personal political interests.
In GE14, Danyal garnered 36,225 votes to defeat V Mogan of BN-MIC (18,515 votes) and PAS' Mahfuz Roslan (6,594 votes). Thus there is a pro-PH base of around 59%. But this will be a by-election and things may work out differently. If the pro-PH Chinese and Indians don't play Anwar out he will be in parliament soon. Thus PKR and the DAP must work harder for Anwar (unless they don't want to).
Or, will he enter Malaysian history alongside Ku Li, Musa Hitam and Tun Dr Ismail as footnotes?
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Ku Li |
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Musa Hitam |
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late Tun Dr Ismail |
All the above brings us to Anwar Ibrahim, the man who missed out and missed out and missed out over the years since 1997.
His seeming impatience might have riled Mahathir-adorers and Azmin-worshippers, but how is he to be PM in two years time, as mandated by Pakatan, if he doesn't warm up a bit on power politics (having been out of touch for 21 years including 11 years of imprisonment), and probably replace his incompetent wife as DPM and then be prepared to take over from Mahathir who is fast changing his promise to leave in two years time as he has just changed his promise to dissolve the CEP in 100 days.
Mahathir is a man you cannot trust. He is extremely slithery with his words and a master Machiavellian. To top all these sinister doubts about the Old Man, it's known and proven he hates, abhors and detests Anwar with a vengeance.
Then, in the shadowy wing, Azmin Ali waits patiently like a reticulated python, all coiled up and ready to strike and swallow up the Anwar legacy. His loyalist Zuraida Kamaruddin has even brazenly demanded that Anwar states his stand regarding the way in which the Port Dickson (PD) parliamentary seat was vacated for him, while another of Azmin's dwarfs Tian Chua has expressed his anger at Rafizi very-hush-hush move to enthrone Anwar next to the PM's position.
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hmmm, now who shall I fCk up next? |
It's all very oppressing, intimidating and forbidding for Anwar whose situational awareness tells him that now must be the time to move.
But Anwar will find his once-popularity with especially the youth is no more - those youths have grown up and a new generation of voters are now in place and who (not realising who Mahathir had been in his 4th Reich) adulate Mahathir and even believe Anwar to be a stumbling block to the Old Man's continuing tenure as PM, preferably (in their moronic minds) for the next 1,000 years. They now are unlikely to support or even vote for Anwar.
National Patriots Association, the military veteran group, has warned Anwar against causing a by-election in PD as they favour the continuation of former-Admiral Danyal Balagopal Abdullah as the local MP, but the bloke himself has insisted on resigning and willingly giving up his PD seat for Anwar to contest.
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Danyal Balagopal Abdullah |
Nonetheless, it's not nice for Anwar to hear retired Brig-Gen Raja Arshad warning him of a military 'backlash' in PD if he were to stand there in a by-election.
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Brig-Jen (rtd) Raja Arshad |
Even Siti Kasim, renowned activist has urged PD voters to vote against Anwar, saying:
PKR dan keluarga Anwar mesti diberi pengajaran kerana ini kali ketiga mereka mengadakan pilihan raya untuk memberi laluan kepada pemimpin utama PKR itu.
Mereka fikir mereka boleh melakukan apa sahaja yang mereka suka sehingga menjejaskan kami? Tidak!
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Siti Kasim |
Siti is pissed off that just for the sake of bringing in cultist personality like Anwar, by-elections after by-elections have been unnecessarily happening.
Thus, with several supposedly friendly forces (including Azmin's Dökkálfar Dwarfs) now being extremely unfriendly to him, Anwar MUST win this time or he'll be another bay-chay-tian.
I am not politically clued on PD but I am sure the Rafizi's Pandan Cats would have done their mathematics to confidently stand Anwar there.
Ironically, PD has been the location that Anwar had once threatened to reveal happenings of sordid tales about an allegedly amorous (then-DPM) Najib.
That's when I first came to hear of his manmanlai teasing to tell all about Najib's alleged amorous activities during an Ijok by-election campaign. Since then, I have named Anwar as Mr Manmanlai, wakakaka. But I hope PD won't be Najib's last laugh at Anwar.
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(above) Dökkálfar Dwarfs [Latheefa Koya not in photo] (below) Pandan Cats |
Demographics tell us that PD voters comprise 43% Malays, 33% Chinese and 22% Indian. It's the sort of ethnic mix that Mahathir once liked (during his 4th Reich).
When he was PM during the period 1981 to 2003, Mahathir didn't trust the Malays to take him and his party across the finishing line but depended on the nons to do so out of fear of Islamic PAS, thus he liked 'mixed constituencies' along the ratio of 60 to 65% Malays to 35 to 40% nons. Indeed it was Mahathir himself who made the Chinese and Indians into 'King-makers' - he should stop blaming the Chinese for what he did in his personal political interests.
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when he boasted of that in 1969, it cost him a seat in parliament and 5 years out in the cold - since then he was more circumspect though deep in his heart he still detests the nons |
In GE14, Danyal garnered 36,225 votes to defeat V Mogan of BN-MIC (18,515 votes) and PAS' Mahfuz Roslan (6,594 votes). Thus there is a pro-PH base of around 59%. But this will be a by-election and things may work out differently. If the pro-PH Chinese and Indians don't play Anwar out he will be in parliament soon. Thus PKR and the DAP must work harder for Anwar (unless they don't want to).
Or, will he enter Malaysian history alongside Ku Li, Musa Hitam and Tun Dr Ismail as footnotes?