Parliament Seminar @ Royale Chulan Hotel

it was a one day seminar on ways to strengthen the parliament institution in conjunction with it's 50th year celebration.

the seminar was held on the 6th of December.

the panels were interesting enough that i didn't fall asleep.

the panels were Datuk Dr. Shad Saleem Faruqi, Emeritus Professor of Law UiTM

Professor Dr. Ahmad Atory Bin Hussain from School of Social Sciences, USM (my school of course)

Associate Professor Dr. Joseph M. Fernando from Faculty of Arts and Sciences, UM

Members of the Parliament(MP)

YB Tuan Hj. Fadillah Yusof, Dep. Min. of MOSTI

Speaker of The House of Representatives

and the list goes on

the seminar was on sunday

the only reason i could think of why in the name of God the did it on that day is so that 

the MPs can come down since it's an off day

but it didn't exactly turn out that way

we were wishing for all the 222 MPs would participate that day..

or at least many of them

but no,

they didn't

wth right ?

they were soo little of them that we students from various universities outnumbered them

forget it..

the speaker said some things about certain MPs that instead of motioning their agenda to the conference, they put it on their blogs.

he recalled an article 'another black day in the parliament'

well, i know nothing of this of course

i like it when he said a phrase that goes like this:

"kalau boleh tembak satu bullet, knp perlu tembak satu magazine"

  and the entire hall burst out laughing

there's also a topic on the safety of the parliament and gender inequality

how there are so little women that served in the parliament

haha

maybe women do not like to dwell in the world of politics

other things i get out of this seminars

there are still MPs that invoked racial and religious issues just to get attention

it's because they are bankrupt of ideas and knowledge according to a very important figure in our country. haha

we observe our politicians through the media streams.

we have been given much entertainment by them through the way they behave.

to most people they're entertainment!

how disturbing!

the goal is to make Malaysian Parliament a world-class parliament

well, it still is a long way to go

you've seen it in the news

how simple topics can turn the parliament conference into a complete chaos

how they could fight over issues and seemed childish in national television

maybe they should work on that first and act like mature people

but we're lucky that our parliament 

don't have people shooting at each other or throwing things at one another

haha!