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War Looms, A Battle Is Underway And A Monkey Called In Sick
By Mihar Dias
(C) Copyright February 2022
With tension running high at the Russian-Ukrainian border, a contact on Facebook forwarded a poster announcing war was coming and urged us to “adopt an Ukrainian before it’s too late”.
It was illustrated with a suggestive photo of a blonde in torn jeans, her midriff clearly visible, one hand to her head, hardly appealing to your kindness and generosity.
Looking at the blonde in the poster reminded me of similar appeals during the Bosnian crisis that caught the attention of local Malay men who answered the call by our thoughtful leaders, stepping forward enthusiastically to marry orphaned and widowed blue-eyed Muslim women from the Balkan state.
So too was tension in Johor, running equally high mostly between UMNO and BERSATU. The latter’s partner posted a photo of its party leader announcing that Johor was heading towards one true Islam.
That started a flurry of activities on Facebook by some of the more religious among us wondering what had happened to the Islam we knew in Johor. It was certainly not fake by any means.
But copywriting, if not done well could very well imply the true form of Islam was finally on its way to Johor raising the ire of netizens on social media who contended that the religion had always been there, in its original form for centuries.
Why then did this political party imply that it was bringing true Islam to the state?
You keep guessing. To keep me going another Facebook posting flashed seemingly to suggest what was on my mind all along. “At my age, I’ve seen it all, heard it all, done it all, and I just can’t remember it all”.
Just when I thought I have heard and seen everything a friend on Whatsapp lamented his frustration about a visit to his regular coconut supplier which disappointed him to no end. His favourite retailer at the wet market, went missing, nowhere to be found, leaving behind only a note, announcing all coconuts were gone and the monkey was sick.
What had coconuts got to do with monkeys? A lot these days. With the labour shortage in the country, not many are willing to climb coconut trees. They trained monkeys like robots to harvest coconuts. But if you had only one monkey that is growing old and called in sick, just for a day, your business is doomed!
That reminds me of the battle that is underway in Johor. Except for a sprinkling of young candidates, the rest are dinosaurs that need to be retired soon enough.
However, back in Ukraine, they told me there is an endless supply of pretty ladies waiting for you. You’d better hurry to avoid being caught in the crossfire!
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