MCA Likened to an Aggrieved Woman
As I See It
I went to the IEM Toastmasters meeting yesterday, and Meng Tze was kind enough to thrust me a role, i.e. evaluator for their member delivering an advanced speech. I was one of four evaluators that evening and club president Robert Ram did my PR for me when he told the audience that I was a champion evaluator. And so, he didn’t bat an eyelid when I was voted Best Evaluator. The meeting was alright and my only gripe was that it was kinda low-key – probably due to a restrained Toastmaster-of-the-Evening.
The MCA are up in arms over Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department Nazri Abdul Aziz’s bluntness – he had candidly likened that political party to an “aggrieved woman”. It seems that Nanyang Siang Pau had quoted Nazri yesterday, as comparing the MCA’s current situation to “a wife who complains all day long that she was being abused, raped and not given enough food, but yet does not want to divorce her husband”. I thought the ‘aggrieved’ label is already insulting enough, but when I read his full remarks – I know I would be in a tizzy, even humiliated, if I were the MCA!
As expected, MCA Youth chief Wee Ka Siong was justifiably insulted and he let loose his furious tongue declaring that Nazri’s arrogance was unbecoming and he’d better be aware that without the Chinese-based party, BN could not form the government. Of course, in his anger, Wee was just expelling hot air – the fact remains that UMNO doesn’t really need the MCA to win elections, full-stop.
