Stocktake in tangents

It’s stocktake time – and it seems this is the best way to come up with a clear agenda of what needs to be done. It’s also good training seeing as it were here how much everyone loves the sound of their own voice.

There are still outstanding things in Primaya, and funds are running dry. It’s time to prioritise the key issues and then complete it.
I also need to prioritise the relations issue – Mak, kids school. Raya plan is a good lightning rod to integrate most of these issues and overcome it at one go.
Work-wise – I’m prepared for a busy week this week..
Personal-wise – scheduling still lousy, and uncertain of the key deliverables a major hindrance towards being effective. Managing own time has become so much much more important now. Perhaps allocating chunks would be better. I also need to focus on my own resources 0 the stuff I need to get things going – planning-wise and also the stuff I need to get going til next month at least.

Overall, the external situation isn’t getting any better. Politically, DSAI is making his final push to get into Parliament, but his chances of taking over the PM-ship is receding daily. And the power of the media should never be underestimated in influencing rural voters, especially in a by-election. It looks like a strategic error – instead of consolidating the Pakatan – having a strong pact, forming a shadow cabinet to focus on Malaysian issues, by pushing for the PM-ship he has shown that he’s power-mad and just another alternative to BN. What this does is increase cynicism and where previously undecideds gave their vote to him, they will now be back as undecideds, and the undecideds before will now go back to the status quo of backing BN. I predict a smaller majority btw 6,000 – 10,000– though I hope to be proven wrong. This outcome reinforces BN and will further weaken the PR pact, though DSAI’s presence in Parliament will give them a bigger boost. Perhaps, this has been the calculation after all – strategic error? Perhaps, but I do acknowledge DSAI has now overtaken TDM’s mantle of politician supreme. He did have the best mentor.

Also thought of the implications of the definition of Malay-Muslim. What if the Malays do not exhibit Islamic behaviour, though not renouncing Islam – and is not the best model or the best supporter of Islam. Is the decoupling of the definition an option? What are the outcomes of the decoupling? Whats in the best interest of Islam and its ummah?