The Instant Cafe Theatre Company's political satire shows he coined the saying that Malaysia was at least ..."better than Ghana" when rebutting all the stories of Malaysian silliness that he was telling. And the phrase became the standard answer whenever anybody said something bad or pointed out some shortcoming about Bolehland. Then Ghana made it into the World Cup of football while Malaysian soccer became the butt of jokes among local fans of the sport and was totally ignored by everybody else. So we became NOT AS GOOD AS GHANA instead.
Then a few days ago a United Nations survey told us that our GDP per capita was lower than that of Botswana!
And yesterday, at the 1e-Government Conference 2009 at Putrajaya (yes everything is "1" these days. And yes while we're at it, will someone tell me what the fuck e-Government means?) it was announced that Malaysia's ranking worldwide in the implementation of e-government is below that of the Dominican Republic and Brazil!
That announcement was made by none other than the Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department, Koh Tsu Koon. Otherwise known as the-guy-who-lost-so-now-we-have-to-find-someplace-to-put-him.
And to think that our country was at one time one of the Asian Tigers. Those days are long gone. And while some of the other tigers are now on their way to recovering and morphing into at least Tabby Cats if not Tigers we seem to be bent on achieving the title of top Asian pussy.
Oh well, at least we still have the monicker "1Malaysia". We can hang on to that for some time I guess because I don't see any other country in a hurry to attach a number to their name just yet.