COMMENTARIES ON SOME TOPICS IN 'AWAKENING'
1. I was in Mecca, during the last ten days of Ramadhan and subsequently a few more days in Medinah, when I heard that the book entitled 'Awakening' was coming into the market. My sources said that it was written by Tun Abdullah Ahmad Badawi.
2. Later on I read somewhere in the press that Tun Abdullah said that Tun Mahathir would not like anybody else to have a vision other than his. This could of course be the media's misunderstanding of Tun Abdullah's statement.
1. I was in Mecca, during the last ten days of Ramadhan and subsequently a few more days in Medinah, when I heard that the book entitled 'Awakening' was coming into the market. My sources said that it was written by Tun Abdullah Ahmad Badawi.
2. Later on I read somewhere in the press that Tun Abdullah said that Tun Mahathir would not like anybody else to have a vision other than his. This could of course be the media's misunderstanding of Tun Abdullah's statement.
3. I have not read the book as I am still waiting for a friend who wants to give me a free copy of it. I was told by this friend that it is not written by Tun Abdullah but by others who are probably agreeable to him. Only 36 pages of the 606 pages were written by him. That sounds more like it because I cannot remember him either as a writer nor a lengthy speaker. He was known as a 'nice guy'.
4. You may wish to read what I wrote about Tun Abdullah before his succession as a Prime Minister in my welcoming speech when he launched the Mahathir Encyclopaedia published by an Egyptian printer in Cairo. My speech was posted in this blog on April, 21, 2010 entitled 'Menjadi Seorang Perdana Menteri' or 'Becoming a Prime Minister'.
5. I did however ask my friend further as to what he thought was the motive for bringing out such a book at that particular time.
6. I was informed that the book could be an attempt to blame Tun Abdullah's bad performance, in the 2008 General Election, on Tun Mahathir, instead of the 4th floor boys being blamed for it; especially when the UMNO election was near. The 4th floor boys need a lot of white-washing to improve their image, among those who know their follies, but was lucky that the UMNO election, this time around, was decided by the less knowledgeable multitude of 146,500 voters from all over the country in what an opposition thinker told me as a 'monetized, pyramidial network of wholesalers in votes for rental, guided and feudal pseudo-democratic process'. The results were as expected. I was informed by analysts the 'strategy of retaining all the incumbent office-holders was meant to rationalize the inclusion, in the list of victors, the most unpopular likely loser'.
7. When further asked whether there is any mention of 'Islam Hadhari' in the book the answer was positive.
4. You may wish to read what I wrote about Tun Abdullah before his succession as a Prime Minister in my welcoming speech when he launched the Mahathir Encyclopaedia published by an Egyptian printer in Cairo. My speech was posted in this blog on April, 21, 2010 entitled 'Menjadi Seorang Perdana Menteri' or 'Becoming a Prime Minister'.
5. I did however ask my friend further as to what he thought was the motive for bringing out such a book at that particular time.
6. I was informed that the book could be an attempt to blame Tun Abdullah's bad performance, in the 2008 General Election, on Tun Mahathir, instead of the 4th floor boys being blamed for it; especially when the UMNO election was near. The 4th floor boys need a lot of white-washing to improve their image, among those who know their follies, but was lucky that the UMNO election, this time around, was decided by the less knowledgeable multitude of 146,500 voters from all over the country in what an opposition thinker told me as a 'monetized, pyramidial network of wholesalers in votes for rental, guided and feudal pseudo-democratic process'. The results were as expected. I was informed by analysts the 'strategy of retaining all the incumbent office-holders was meant to rationalize the inclusion, in the list of victors, the most unpopular likely loser'.
7. When further asked whether there is any mention of 'Islam Hadhari' in the book the answer was positive.
