I was on my way out from Bongaya Forest Reserve on yesterday evening along with a young businessman after visiting his newly opened plantation. The place is about 200 km plus from Sandakan, quite remote and there was no phone line over there. The moment we reached the Sapi-Nangon road where there was mobile phone services, the mobile phone of this young businessman started ringing continuously. It seemed that his staff/friends/business partners and so on kept calling to update him with the announcement on the new cabinet line-up. He seemed to be very excited as his “boss” was moving up to take over a more powerful ministry in-charge of national security, ISA and blah-blah-blah. I asked him what happened to KJ, he said nothing for him. He then started calling his so-called “boss” aides to offer congratulations.
The journey was long to Sandakan from Bongaya. It takes about 4 hours not because of the distance but rather the poor and winding road especially the jungle track that do not allow speeding. After making almost 20 over 30 calls plus many SMSes, our friend said that he felt dizzy. I jokingly told him that he might as well shut down the mobile phone so that he could have some rests. He told me that he couldn’t do so as he must congratulate his big bosses as quickly as possible.
Common people like you and me concern on the new cabinet line-up as what we want is a clean and efficient government to steer us out from the economic turmoil. The businessmen are nonetheless more concerned on whether their “Bosses” are moving to which ministry and whether they can benefit anything from the positions hold by the politicians they supported. Just accept it, there is the presence of nepotism and cronyism no matter how the big shots in the government try to deny it.
The journey was long to Sandakan from Bongaya. It takes about 4 hours not because of the distance but rather the poor and winding road especially the jungle track that do not allow speeding. After making almost 20 over 30 calls plus many SMSes, our friend said that he felt dizzy. I jokingly told him that he might as well shut down the mobile phone so that he could have some rests. He told me that he couldn’t do so as he must congratulate his big bosses as quickly as possible.
Common people like you and me concern on the new cabinet line-up as what we want is a clean and efficient government to steer us out from the economic turmoil. The businessmen are nonetheless more concerned on whether their “Bosses” are moving to which ministry and whether they can benefit anything from the positions hold by the politicians they supported. Just accept it, there is the presence of nepotism and cronyism no matter how the big shots in the government try to deny it.
P/S I took this photo while I was in a plantation in Telupid, don't you think the trees growing side by side look like a couple?
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