The 2010 Budget has made it very clear that the country aspires to be a high-income country. Perhaps, Malaysians can look forward to more comfortable life henceforth.

MCA leaders have recently cited quotations from numerous well-known Chinese language fiction writers. For you and me who are not familiar with literature, we have been deeply impressed to hear their words filled with morality, justice and sentiments.

A suspension bridge completed about a month ago suddenly collapsed and caused a tragedy. Once again, it sounded the alarm for Malaysian professional standards and perfunctory attitude. How could the anchor pulled out?

22 primary school students participating in the 1Malaysia motivation camp met an accident at about 10 p.m. Monday night when a newly built suspension bridge they were crossing suddenly collapsed, and they were swept away by the swift current.

Perhaps we should congratulate Thai Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva. His guests were not sieged by a sea of red-shirts and did not have to make hurried escapes in choppers this time!

Datuk Seri Dr Chua Soi Lek, who looks like MCA Deputy President but has failed to reinstate his position, said: “Half of them support me and half of them support him (Ong Tee Keat).”

Kerk Kim Hock, the coordinator for the family of Teoh Beng Hock, said the family refused to let Thai pathologist Dr Pornthip Rojanasunand carry out a second post-mortem this July because they were not pyschologically prepared for it at that time, and also because of the time-consuming procedure of claiming Teoh's body.

MCA deputy president Datuk Seri Liow Tiong Lai and some of the central committee members will hold a media conference Tuesday afternoon to clearly state their stands on the party's recent EGM held on 10 October as well as developments after the EGM.

We thought that the MCA crisis would be over after they came out with the “greater unity plan” which was blessed by the Prime Minister. But we have in fact once again “underestimated” the leaders' capacity for going back on their words. The infighting starts again.