Saturday Talk at OPA Penthouse

Last Saturday 14 February I attended a talk organised by the Old Putra's Association on the theme " Where to Malaysia " and the panel speakers were OP Abdul Rahman Embong and OP Nasir Hashim.

The number of OP's attending was rather small and it was expected, because people are always committed to some chores on weekends, I mean personal errands. But it's not the crowd that matters, but the substance which should be on the people's mind.

After listening to the panelists who were moderated by OP Gurdial Singh Nijhar and also the comments from the floor, I took the opportunity to speak my mind.

From what I gathered, OP Rahman was focussing on the Rukunegara which was inadvertantly referred to as Rukun Tetangga by OP Rozaly Rahman and OP Nasir was focussing on more mundane matters related to the masses who are presumably the oppressed poor workers and squatters who have less in life and who should have more in law. One of the floor speaker, OP Rahman Daud commented on his experience in trying to energise the Trengganu civil servants to no avail.

My point was made known that whatever way we looked at the future, the most pertinent thing to focus is the system operators who get things done for the people. They must be on their toes and they should have the right mind-set and not be easily politicised. It's a tall order, but nonetheless essential to make our future generations uphold the good governance and ensure justice and fairness to all.