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A Life-time of Shopping

One Poll, a British research firm has come out with a revelation of sort. The finding indicates that  the average woman spends at least three years of her life shopping. 

It based its finding on a survey of 2,000 women who took an average of 301 shopping trips of an average of 399 hours and 46 minutes each year.

Considering that these women will shop for about 63 years of their lives, this equates to two years and 10 months of shopping in their lifetime.

However, this finding is not as accurate as we want it to be. Not all such shopping trips are devoted to personal  needs. They do  include shopping trips to provide clothing, food, and other essentials for their entire family.

This does not include online shopping .

Storm in a Tea-cup: Chew Mei Fun Resigns

Well, the MCA saga took another turn today.

Citing displeasure of having to serve a sex-tainted President, Chew Mei Fun, the Wanita Wing Chairman has tendered in her resignations for the wanita top post, her senatorship as well as the Deputy Minister's post.

Well, say what you will, but this lady must be highly principled to let go of all that power, glory and fame.

Do we salute her?

MCA: Can Liow Rough it up?

At today's long extended CC meeting at  the Corus Hotel, Liow found himself sitting on a hot stove. Except for Ong Ka Chuan and him who protested the duties given to them, all the President's men were at sea.

What I found rather strange was that Liow refused at first to accept the State Chairmanship of Pahang where his constituency lies and is the home state of the Prime Minister. Did he make a tactical mistake?

As for Ka Chuan, to turn down the portfolio of  Religious Affairs is also difficult to fathom because the Chinese are beholden to religion. Politically it is an unwise move to turn down such a post of reverence. Did he also made a boo-boo here? If he feels that the portfolio is beneath his station, he should not have come for the meeting just to exhibit his displeasure.

At the way things are going, Dr. Chua Soi Lek is not going to have a great 18 months at the helm of MCA.

What is he going to do with the likes of his uncooperative Deputy and the recalcitrant Ong Ka Chuan?

I think the Chinese Wayang is going into the next season.

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MCA: The Era of the Pretenders

"To err is human,to forgive divine?"

After a tumultuous fight for the top posts where barbs and dirty linens were flung into the open through the media,do you think that the winners can forget easily?

Dr. Chua today holds the upper hand. He will decide on the spoils which are the Cabinet positions, the deputy minister-ships, parliamentary secretaries and senatorships.

Whether Dr. Chua becomes a Cabinet minister or not will not become an issue .If he is given, he should not turn it down as PM has faith in him as a BN component party head. If he should turn it down, it would not reflect well on him as it will definitely make him ineffective not being a member of the Cabinet.

My guess is he will accept the Cabinet position if offered. And I think Najib will offer him that since it looks like the VCD issue did not feature at all in the countdown of this MCA election and Dr. Chua taking over as  the MCA president.

Also, there is no way he can allow that limelight in the Cabinet to be given to Liow Tiong Lai,a likely pretender to the throne the next time around.

As for Ong Tee Kiat, I think he can start getting the packers to come by to collect his personal effects. Kong will likely stay on as The Minister of Local Government and Housing in an appointed party post and Dr. Ng Yen Yen will remain  in Tourism. As for Liow Tiong Lai, he will be shunted to the Transport ministry to face the PKFTZ scandal while Dr. Chua reclaim his Health Ministry. With that, all the Cabinet positions available will be nicely filled up.

Let us look at the lower positions available.

Qualitatively, those who supported Dr. Chua in the elections wil be elevated into more important Deputy Minister's posts. Senatorships will be offered to some of them. Chew Mei Fun and Dr. Wee Ka Siong may be in trouble. For Chew Mei Fun, it is best she resigns from the Wanita's top position to save herself the embarrassment as well as Dr. Chua the trouble to remove her as a Deputy Minister and subsequently as a senator as well. As for Wee Ka Siong,it depends on whether he wants to stick to Liow's style of open confrontation or not. If so, he may have to go too especially with the Kuala Dimensi issue still haunting him.

As for the running of the MCA and politics from now on , expect Dato' Liow and his group to pretend to work with the Presidents' men. Behind all the smiling,head nodding  and hand-shaking,the shadow tells.

It will definitely going to be a dog and cat fight all the way until the 13th General election.

Where can the MCA Go From Here?

Just as I predicted, Dr. Chua Soi Lek, psychiatrist doctor and politician is the new MCA President. He trounced has been come-back kid, Ong Ka Ting and  railroader  ex-President Ong Tee Kiat.

Following in tow as Deputy President is Liow Tiong Lai, a B-grade politician and a bevy of retro and recycled politicians led by Donald Lim and Chor Chee  Heong.

Dr. Chua will have  a hard time to keep these nuts in place much less crack them.

Except for the return of Dr. Chua, I see nothing great about this election.

I think MCA will go to another new low comes the 13th General Election.

Can Dr. Chua unite so divisive a party? Or can we all pretend?