Hiyah! Mo mun tai! MCA will kao tim for you.
The Chinese flers in Petaling Street are pissed! The government recently announced that they were going to acquire properties in the area for the MRT project. In fact, they have already served compulsory acquisition notices on 34 shops. Wah! How can? Destroying our heritage! Breaking our rice bowls! Phwaaar! A lot of unhappiness down there in Chee Chong Kai man! And who can blame them. Some of those flers have been doing business there for decades and like it or not the whole area is like a big tourist draw which Ng Yen Yen has used on her numerous promotions trips around the world especially now to one of Malaysia's biggest tourism markets, China. And if business in Chinatown is adversely affected where are all the Bangladeshi's, Nepalese, Pakistani's, Africans going to find work? So the traders and owners in Chinatown are up in arms. The PR flers are also there to support and call on the government to re-draw the MRT lines so that Kuala Lumpur's cultural map is not affected.
But just the other evening a friend told me, "Hiyah! No need to shout so much la. It's just a show only. It's part of Umno/BN strategy to regain some Chinese votes ma." Huh? How? Simple what. You just wait a few weeks and see. This is how it will happen.
The Chinese flers in Petaling Street will continue to get pissed about things. The PR flers will make more statements condemning the Umno/BN government for not being sensitive to this, that and the other. And then............
Chua Soi Lek and the "knights" of the MCA will ride in and announce that they have petitioned the government, on behalf of the Chinese community, to re-think the MRT and Chinatown acquisition plans. Then, Najib or Nazri or one of those flers who happens to be not on holiday at the time, will say OK! Then CSL will tell the Petaling St. flers, "See? Only MCA can give Chinese flers good representation in Parliament ma. So vote for us lor. By the way, can give more discount on that gold Lolex ah?"
That's the latest conspiracy theory in Malaysian politics. Can one ah? What you think?