1 World, 1 Malaysia…different planet
Art Harun
Imagine you are an alien being from some planet far far away in the globular star clusters M80, 23,000 light years away from Earth.
You have just arrived on Earth after traveling in a space craft called Pro-Ton, your premier national space craft manufacturer. You have traveled 23,000 light years to be here.
You are tired, hungry and may be sleepy. But you are excited at the same time. You have read so much about this blue planet filled with strange gasses, minerals, matters and of course, strange and wild creatures of various forms. You can't wait to meet them. Interact with them. Probably even mate with some of them.
As fate would have it, you have landed somewhere in what your inter-stellar google map calls Kuala Lumpur. While landing, you have caused a bit of a landslide along the KL-Rawang road causing the road to be closed. You have also caused cracks to reappear all over the MRR2 prompting the former Minister of Works to shout at his wife "it's an act of God!!!!" out of sheer habit, forgetting that he is no more a Minister. But you are not worried. You and your craft are invisible of course.
You have come here prepared. You have studied the Earth and its entire history from day one, right from the day the Big Bang caused some dust, gasses and various matters to form Earth to the day Alexander the Great arrived in India and wished he had never been there and to the day Hitler was locked in a dungeon by an angry Jewish midget and the key thrown away. You have seen it all.
You have seen the Mayans drawing up their calendar up to 2012 before they committed mass suicide for no apparent reason leaving later generations to think that the Earth will come to an end in 2012. You have also known about Nostradamus, a guy who loved puzzles and riddles and whose entire goal in life was to ensure that the whole Earth population would be puzzled and riddled till Armageddon. And of course, you know all about Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Abraham, Isa, Mohammad, Mandela, Idi Amin, Robert Mugabe, Mahathir Mohammad, Clinton, Obama, Osama and others (in random order, not association or affinity).
