Knowing my place in the world

A friend yesterday sent a message telling me to know my place in the world because of my not so nice opinion about what happened in Johor over these past few days.

He insisted that the appointment of the new Johor MB was good.

Well, I can actually argue on that but decided not to do so because he is a dear friend.

I hate quarrelling with a friend.

Also, I know who he is working for and therefore it would be a waste of my time and energy to try make him understand my point of view.

By the way, I actually know exactly my place in the world. 

I am not rich and have no important position.

Basically, I'm just a nobody....with not much to lose. 

Really, that's what I am.

Sorry to disappoint especially the loyal pro-Pakatan readers of this blog. I'm really not paid by Umno to write my nonsense.

As I wrote before, this blog is just a journal of my thoughts. It just so happened that I know a bit of politics, and that's what turned this blog into a political one.

Honestly, I don't even really care whether people read this blog. 

I have no desire to be either rich or famous and that's why I don't even have any active Facebook or Twitter account.

I'm also actually quite aware that I can't really write. My English is bad and Bahasa even worse.

Why would anyone want to pay me for by bad writings, right?

Ok, ok, I know, even the newly minted Johor MB had admitted in court that he once handled hundreds of thousands of ringgit to run a party propaganda portal. But really guys, I'm not like that at all.

I'm not even an Umno member, okay.

As for my writings about Johor politics, if you all go through the archive of this blog, you would probably realise that I actually criticised the BN state administration under Khaled Nordin more than I did against the two Pakatan MBs after him.

Honestly, Khaled was not worse as an MB if compared to the Pakatan guys but I criticised him more because I hold him at a higher level of expectation as he represented Umno.

I actually believe that Khaled would have been a much better MB if not for the interferences that he had to deal with throughout his unfortunate one term in Kota Iskandar.

As for the new MB, he will definitely have it worse. I'm quite sure of this.

At least Khaled was an Umno division chief and later on the party's state chief when he assumed the post, 

He even hold a federal ministerial post before that and therefore have quite some experience in managing an administration.

The current MB is none of that.

But then again I guess all he needs to do is just sit there in the office and do as he's told.

I heard the currently all powerful state secretary can handle everything for him.

As for the political side of things, I did ask my senior Johor Umno friends whether Hasni would be forced to also give his state Umno chief post to the upstart and they said that would be unthinkable.

They insisted that the guy needs to at least be a division chief first before thinking about becoming the state party chief.

Well, I think his uncle in Semberong can fix that one. 

I know one or two division chiefs who are aligned with him that could be persuaded to give up their posts for that purpose in exchange of maybe a candidacy for a parliamentary seat in GE15.

I know, this is all sounding very sordid, but that's how it is in politics.

Can't really blame them, actually. This involves power, money....lots of money and other more than just nice perks.

Sigh.

The price we rakyat have to pay for democracy....and in Johor, it's not even real democracy anymore.