Pilihan Raya - Choices of celebration
It had been a lot of speculation on when is the next general election will be. It was initially said to be in May, then it was in June. As no news of it yet, peoples are speculating it to be by September or so. How much different it makes? To be honest, for people like me who tend to be an "observer" without much prejudice, I am getting a bit numb. The parties flags had been around since every time for the last 6 months, and numerous open speech are like a norm nowadays.
When I was young, I only realised of election at the late of my primary school age, and it was only during that every 4 years when it was held. Even then, it was more of a brief transient period of coloured flags with picture faces along the road with words like "UNDILAH" or "PILIHLAH". It was a simple affair that was temporary without much of happenings.
Things definitely changed nowadays. The elements of politics changed, as well as morality and the principals the politic holds. The peoples in it, gathered together but none really with a united reason. All equipped with different personal, and secret agendas. Honesty and sincerity is rare. Young children are cultivated with those political elements even when they are not able to understand on a simple life basic reasons.
Back to my point- despite whatever your political view are, try to keep it within yourself and keep your children out of it. Naiveness is a beauty in children, and we like to keep it that way.
It was last week, when Ariff- my nephew, who are currently 8 years old was watching Buletin Utama with me and Atok. The news was blurting on some facts, while on the screen was written the topic regarding it. Aliff who had started reading and enjoying the knowledge of the skills, started reading the topic of the presented news. " Jen..te..ra ..Pi..li..han ..Ra ..ya ..akan di per..giatkan..pa..da..bulan..Julai" he read.
He suddenly stopped and was thinking. Soon after, he blurted out to me.."Bulan Julai...ehh dah dekat nih..Sekarang Bulan Jun". He continued to be excited with blinking his eyes,,"tinggal lagi sebulan..."..and he continued..."Papali...kita dah nak RAYA". I, who was initially amazed with his enthuathism of his possible knowledge on the election, was stunned and could not stop from running out of the AV room and laughing, conveying the stories to other family members. Realizing his papali was laughing and so do the others, Ariff knew he was wrong about the Raya and the Pilihan Raya.
Yet, despite he knows it was wrong and Ummi Ijah briefly explained the differences- I personally feel, Ariff still do not understand much of the differences. As far as he knows-Pilihan Raya, and the Raya he knows are to very different entity. I again.....I like to keep that way, and I guess everybody will agree on that,
Saying that, Ariff is still partially right...Raya is not really that far away....
When I was young, I only realised of election at the late of my primary school age, and it was only during that every 4 years when it was held. Even then, it was more of a brief transient period of coloured flags with picture faces along the road with words like "UNDILAH" or "PILIHLAH". It was a simple affair that was temporary without much of happenings.
Things definitely changed nowadays. The elements of politics changed, as well as morality and the principals the politic holds. The peoples in it, gathered together but none really with a united reason. All equipped with different personal, and secret agendas. Honesty and sincerity is rare. Young children are cultivated with those political elements even when they are not able to understand on a simple life basic reasons.
Back to my point- despite whatever your political view are, try to keep it within yourself and keep your children out of it. Naiveness is a beauty in children, and we like to keep it that way.
It was last week, when Ariff- my nephew, who are currently 8 years old was watching Buletin Utama with me and Atok. The news was blurting on some facts, while on the screen was written the topic regarding it. Aliff who had started reading and enjoying the knowledge of the skills, started reading the topic of the presented news. " Jen..te..ra ..Pi..li..han ..Ra ..ya ..akan di per..giatkan..pa..da..bulan..Julai" he read.
He suddenly stopped and was thinking. Soon after, he blurted out to me.."Bulan Julai...ehh dah dekat nih..Sekarang Bulan Jun". He continued to be excited with blinking his eyes,,"tinggal lagi sebulan..."..and he continued..."Papali...kita dah nak RAYA". I, who was initially amazed with his enthuathism of his possible knowledge on the election, was stunned and could not stop from running out of the AV room and laughing, conveying the stories to other family members. Realizing his papali was laughing and so do the others, Ariff knew he was wrong about the Raya and the Pilihan Raya.Yet, despite he knows it was wrong and Ummi Ijah briefly explained the differences- I personally feel, Ariff still do not understand much of the differences. As far as he knows-Pilihan Raya, and the Raya he knows are to very different entity. I again.....I like to keep that way, and I guess everybody will agree on that,
Saying that, Ariff is still partially right...Raya is not really that far away....
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