CHANGE is POSSIBLE

Even as Springtime is a possibility in Malaysians' hearts after experiencing some wintry colds.

And yesterday I woke up to whiffs of springtime air. I looked out the window and smiling danzing and fenzing primroses greeted me. (Okay, the last part was hyperbole induced by a mGf in a supreme gardnern who is aweways Ceras and her GIB is so elusive. Maybe I'll getit on Bummers' Day cometh First of May

when I was small
and Christmas trees were tall...

And why is Desi writing poetics on a Fridae?
You don't need a reason for thy writes. Madpenners just put words to paper/screen on inspiration. Well, a Fridae's childe is also fool of love and gifting.

Okay, this lifted my spirits and contributed a li'l to my soaring browser:)

From the Star online ~~
Thursday March 20, 2008

Information Minister talks about bloggers, politics and the middle-class

NEW Information Minister Datuk Ahmad Shabery Cheek shares a few quick thoughts on his appointment and the general election results.

Q: The Information Minister post is a contentious position. (Former information minister) Datuk Zainuddin Maidin had his hands full?

A: I take it as a serious challenge that I have to bear. Information is always very important. Everybody wants to know what's happening in the country and what are the government policies, or how we are going to manage things that could easily be misunderstood by people. That is a challenge for me.

Q: The new media has exploded. Are you going to engage the bloggers at all?

A: Well, I wish I could see them. But I don't know how many there are. Bloggers can be local and global. They can be everywhere and they emerge every day. They are important. In this explosion of information technology, everywhere is the centre of information. And people are free to express what they think. There is the good and bad about that. I wish we can sit down and talk to them and think openly what's best for the country. That's the bottom line.

Q: Your jump from parliamentary secretary to minister has been phenomenal.

A: Politics is not like you need to sit for STPM or before that SPM, PMR or UPSR. It doesn't work that way.

In politics, somebody can emerge from nothing. And somebody can almost become prime minister and then they are nothing after that. That's politics. Everything is temporary. What remains is your integrity and your good name. And that's the thing I think that our team is trying to promote this time.

Q: Are you nervous at all about your appointment?

A: Yesterday, yes I was. But today, I look around and there are people around me who share the same vision, the same ideas of what the Government and country should become.

Q: Will the new Cabinet line-up inject new spirit into the Government?

A: There are new faces and young faces. The new faces might not be all that young. But, I hope the people accept this as something that is fresh – a new approach brought about by the Prime Minister. Surely it will bring new inspiration especially to those who want to see current developments truly fulfil the aspirations of the new generation in our country.

Q: Why do you think Barisan Nasional did not do well in the elections this time?

A: My thinking is that it is the middle-class urban voters who shape the ideas and the outcome throughout the country. This also happens in other South-East Asian countries. In Indonesia for example, we see it in Jakarta. In the Philippines, we see it in Manila, in Thailand it's Bangkok. In Malaysia, we feel it in the Klang Valley.
The thinking of the young people in the Klang Valley – their doubts, uneasiness, new ideas – these are what they bring with them. If I go to a kampung in Terengganu, for example, there is not one household there where they do not have a child or a cousin who is living in the Klang Valley.
It is the thinking of the middle-class people or the urban voters that is very much going to shape the outcome of the election as a whole. We have to look at this. We have to tackle this. We may be a good constituent worker, take care of our voters and meet them; but if we are out of touch with the thinking of the people here, we may get some results which are out of expectations. That's the thing.

DESIDERATA: Of prime interest is his thought on the new media and Bloggers. See that BOLD/ed section upstairs (HIGHLIGHTED THUS)? I believe he's referring to me. Okay, to my clan, herd, or tribe, whatever! VVee do have time for FUN-d!

Seriously, I am assured by his cheeky " Well, I wish I could see them. But I don't know how many there are.... I wish we can sit down and talk to them and think openly what's best for the country. That's the bottom line. " Okay, not-cheeky, mayhaps he's come across "sincere" enough to catch my quikkie breath, or prying -- roving? nah! -- eyes. Sometimes I get my metaphors quite mixed up.

Put that down to CHANGED atmosphere.
Ah, ZAM has been swept away by the wintry winds.
I see my fellow Bloggers smiling. Some are smirking. Me?
I raise a procelain cuplet of Pu-erh, my dear, to Thee.


now we are tall
and Christmas trees are small
you don't ask the time of day...


~~ Desi @6.56am waking up to the chirping of birds -- not Jeff's Little -- and some stubbron insects interrupting the sweet refrain. But I am happy. Now waiting for myGOoDfriend moo-t to make me Amore than ap AP ap!:):):)

PS @7.25AM:

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Public demands change in the government. I say change the media too. - Bullets of Quills and Ink March 21, 2008 04:27 AM

I say here you wanna hear Robert Fisk speak, independent Voice of the fourth estate I often salute though not agreeing all the time. I wsih I could hear2 at bum2008, wonder if VVee have the budget... Maybe moo_t2 would come back with that 20million!:) HOPE springs eternal in the Springtime in the Rockies. ~~ Desi