Chen: I feel so upset seeing the mess MCA is in now!

Wong: What's so upsetting? They say more exciting developments are on the way!

Chen: Outsiders enjoy watching the show while insiders are scanning through the avenues. Mid-level leaders like us might just have to trail behind whoever that takes the helm.

Wong: Anything different now?

Chen: My headache now is: everyone seems to be the head, but if we try to curry favour with all of them, we may offend one just to please the other!

Wong: At least there should be one we can trust?

Chen: Trust? This guy says your best friend could be your most heinous enemy, and that guy says no one but you yourself have betrayed your own principles. As for the other, goodness, he could be a foe-turned-friend any moment! I'm really confused!

Wong: Why the mess? Gu-Long was never sobre when he wrote his stuff. And when he got back his senses, even he himself got amused by what he wrote. Those outlandish theories were meant to fool the high school students. Unbelievable that people actually believe in them!

Chen: Gu-Long aside, even the Internal Affairs now comes into play. If things go on this way, we'll all soon become underworld thugs.

Wong: Things can't get too bad if that's just a replay of Internal Affairs. All we need is a pitched battle to square it off.

Chen: Right! But the situation in MCA now is not to square things off but to play the kids' dodgeball game!

Wong: The delegates made the decisions in EGM. And now we want a second one. Are we going to have EGM 3 or 4 soon?

Chen: This is what we call bogging down the rival, and bogging down MCA.

Wong: Instead of bogging down one another, why not disband the party and each goes his way?

Chen: No way! There are lots of government bounties to be had. Who would want to let go of them?

Wong: Well, then form a few more MCAs so that they don't have to fight for the one and only!

Chen: Like what?

Wong: Say, the New MCA, the Real MCA, Love MCA, the Original MCA, blah blah blah...

Chen: Beautiful idea!

Wong: This is also the future trend. While the Indians can have a score of political parties, the Chinese must not take the backseat.

Chen: This should be a kind of manifestation of the new BN spirit. The more the merrier! We should all come under the PM's One Malaysia banner! (By TAY TIAN YAN/Translated by DOMINIC LOH/Sin Chew Daily)