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The 130,000 guests who had the sponsored 'energy drink' must have had a jolly good time during and after the wedding – especially after the wedding.
COMMENT
How many of you go into debt to
fund the wedding of your anak tersayang?
All those people who are calling
for the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) to investigate how Malacca
Chief Minister Mohamad Ali Rustam could afford to invite 130,000 guests to his
son’s wedding are just suffering from the sour grapes syndrome!
Now tell me, how else can Ali
Rustam make the people of Malacca forget his stupidity in bringing the Eye on
Malaysia from Tasik Titiwangsa to Kota Laksamana in 2008.
That Eye of Malaysia had to be
dismantled in October 2010 – there was that slight oversight to pay the Belgian
based owner, Fitraco NV, 60% of the estimated ticket sales estimated at RM5
million a year.
Ali Rustam said in February 2010
that:
“We respect the decision of the court
and Fitraco’s right to do whatever it wants with the ferris wheel. If it does
decide to remove it from Malacca, the state will get another one to replace
it.”
I do not know if Fitraco was paid
anything but I do not think Malacca got another ferris wheel to replace the Eye
on Malaysia
The problem that Ali Rustam has
now is that while we may have forgotten about the Eye of Malaysia fiasco, now
however it is time for Eye on Ali Rustam!
But fair is fair. I think you all
are being very mischievous to highlight that while Najib Tun Razak could only
attract 100,000 guests to his recent Aidilfitri celebration in Putrajaya, Ali
Rustam had 130,000 people at his son’s wedding.
We must still commend Najib for
even being able to get 100,000 people to come to a celebration where our FLOM,
Rosmah Mansor, is the co-host! It is still a grand achievement for Najib to get
so many people to come. So please give credit where credit is due!
As far as I am concerned, if Ali
Rustam said that it only costs RM600,000 to feed the 130,000 guests, then so be
it. I am sure you all know that from time to time even McDonalds have got great
deals for meals and these great deals are on offer for anyone that walks in.
Here in Australia, McDonalds have
a Loose Change menu where you can buy a complete meal for a couple of dollars
(coins you can find between the cushions on your couch!).
Now Ali Rustam is Chief Minister
of Malacca. I am sure he can find more than coins between the cushion of his
couch and if he asks McDonalds to cater for his son’s wedding, he could surely
negotiate one hell of a deal.
The same goes for Mamee Sdn Bhd
and Orang Kampong Drinks Sdn Bhd – any food manufacturer and caterer would
throw in even their grandmother for free to cater for 130,000 people.
Giving a tight squeeze
How good a deal Ali Rustam can
squeeze out of this people will depend on whether he is negotiating with them
while holding their (ahem!) in his hands.
When you are squeezing somebody so
tightly – their hearts and mind will follow anywhere you want them to go. I
just hope that after the ‘negotiating’, Ali Rustam did not forget to wash his
hands with dettol.
I am proud that Ali Rustam had
insisted on having a “Malay wedding with kampung-style cooking” with Kacip
Fatimah drinks (whatever this drink is!).
I put it to you that this is
better than what Najib served at the engagement of his daughter where the menu
included “an array of lavish Wagyu beef, smoked salmon, lobster bisque and
scallops”.
Good one Ali! Kita orang Malaysia!
But I would like to respectfully
inquire of Ali Rustam why Kacip Fatimah gave 50,000 cans of their drinks for
advertising casts? Were they advertising by having their logo on the wedding
invitations? Were their drinks advertised on banners and buntings on the
wedding day itself? Camna?
I am told that these Kacip Fatimah
drinks are not only Herbal Power Energy Drinks, but also “this superb and
excellent Kacip Fatimah Herbal Power energy drink is to boost women energy
levels and as aphrodisiac supplements”.
If this is true, then those
130,000 guests must have had a jolly good time during and after the wedding –
especially after the wedding. Let us hope that nine months from now, after the
erection is over…errr I mean after the election is over, the hospitals in
Malacca are ready for a population explosion.
As for using equipments from state
government agencies for the wedding festivities, come on lah, let us not be
trivial! If DBKL can send a bill to S Ambiga for the costs they incurred during
the Bersih 3 festivities, I am sure when push comes to shove, Ali Rustam will
say that he is waiting for the state government agencies to bill him for use of
same.
And who can say that these state
agencies are not contemplating on doing just that?
So let us not worry too much about
whose money was used to pay for Ali Rustam’s son’s wedding. I am sure Ali
Rustam’s cousin, Ali Baba did contribute to the costs of the wedding – with or
without the help of his 40 thieves.
CT Ali is a reformist who
believes in Pakatan Rakyat’s ideologies. He is a FMT columnist.