Sibu - The wake up call for Change

The Rejang River, the longest river in the country, meanders like a dragon descending from the heaven with its four legs carrying messages to the people of Sibu with significant inspirational call for change. The waters from Ulu Rejang passing through the Sibu town that empties the umpteen years of murky water into the south China Sea This was due to the greedy cronies in search of the incessant foraging timber in the once rich timber haven.

The Change is for the improvement of the people of Sibu and the betterment for the people of the country. Sibu - The Fuchow of China - has a highest Fuchow population in the country. Dogged by the constant flooding even with a few drops rain. The people have got used to its phenomenon, but when talk about this subject the Siburen can only sigh and take a long breath.

For 48 years after joining Malaya with Sabah as the Federation of Malaysia, there has not been much changes in the Swan city whose population is touching 280000 made up of different ethnic groups, except a few extra high rise buildings and some new shopping outlets where the citizens of Sibu can pass their free time.

The great changes that can be seen are the jungle where vast lands of jungle forests have dwindled into the barren land of negligence in the native own lands. The change from the dicotyledon trees into the monoctyledon palms! The bustling sound of palm oil mills fill the air rather than the chirping sounds of morning birds sing to their favourite tunes to wake you up.

Politically the change has emerged with the recent tsunami of by election where the recent alibi of infamous call of 'you help me, I help you' that put the leadership into a laughing stock and citizens of Sibu are in the vacuum uncertainty! But this was short lived and the whole scenario was changed when the result of the by-election was announced at 2230 on 16 May 2010. The Opposition party has won with a meagre 389 votes majority.

With a marginal loss by the ruling party it was seen as a greatest blow to the present government plagued by a varieties of statutory mismanagement such as cronyism, corruption, prejudice, political vandalism etc. 'You name it Sarawak has it' as mentioned by an elderly man of Sibu.

1。Does this act as a wake up call for the ruling party to reconsider its strategy and revamp its policy of nepotism and totalitarian?

2. Does it allow further erosion of democracy in the hands of a few greedy leaders?

3. Does it remind the citizens of this country to emulate the decisions made by the Siburen to get the change in the next general election?

4. Does the present government Central or State think of fair play and justice to all?

5. Does it remind the Peninsula moron heads who harp on racial supremacy is out of date and primitive?

6. Does it make sense after nearly half a century these nincompoops still have to live on crutches?

7. Does the peninsula leaders realise that the petroleum siphoned from Sarawak to build the highways and their suckers stting on the toll booths to suck on the citizens hard earned money while the children of the oil producing state is suffreing in agony and cry for development?

8. Doe the government in KL understand the simple measure of give and take?

9. Does it remind us to think as a whole big family in this multi racial country as the Opposition leader says 'wo men too shi yi jia ren'? 我们都是一家人。

Sibu has awaken and do the brothers and sisters in Peninsula?