UMNO in the cyber world

Salam all~

It had been quite a while since I last write about this prominent party in Malaysia. Needless to say, it needs no introduction. There is no doubt what they had done to the history of the country, be it good or bad, I must say, personally I have a very high respect to the party. That is only my personal view; one may or may not agree with me out of 1001 reasons. However, some chain of events that happened lately triggered me to pen down my thoughts on the party, about being in the cyber world.

Honestly, I do not know where to start. A quotation from ‘Tunggu Apa Lagi’ by Nobisha might be a good point to ponder especially for those who are really excited to be in the social media, “Di dalam media sosial, menteri dan aktivis NGO menjadi setaraf. Apa yang membezakan mereka ialah kekuatan ilmu dan hujah”. In short,how you converse your thoughts in this medium, speaks a lot about you. Putting UMNO as a subject, what the leaders, members and supporters thoughts published reflect A LOT on the party.

This is nothing personal, only my observations. NOT ALL, but SOME of the UMNO members on the cyber world can get overly excited to react over an issue. Be it court case, political dispute or current issues, there are certainly no problems on being current. However, during the death of the Hulu Selangor MP two days ago was in news, a worrying stream of FB status updates, updated by SOME. There was no grief period given, you do not need a week, but at least give it till the body is buried, as a sign of respect. Slogan of readiness to go for the by-election war started to stream status and comments. Oh well, we ,the readers, know, or at least I know all of you are VERY dedicated to the party that you would want to contribute for the coming by-election. Everyone knows it is coming, you know it is coming but it will not cost you much to be compassionate for awhile, just a grief period to mourn. It might not be your family member or party member, but please, it is still another human lost that we are regarding about. It is a lost of a husband, father and a grandfather. Is it too hard to ask? Just to show some sympathy...? hmm...

That is just a simple recent case but I feel, there are many more weaknesses that can be improved in the cyber world. Here are some points that I wish to share:

1. Defensive

- Sad to say, that there are SOME of the party members are very prone to play the defensive card.

- Why be too defensive? Can’t we actually discuss issues properly?

- Even worst, SOME even thought they are the know-it-all and Mr i-am-the-only-one-who-is-very-spirited-with-perjuangan-UMNO. Oh, thanks...those are the super annoying ones.

- Do SOME of those realise that they are shooing people away..? I don’t think so ;) So why not, stop using the defensive card. J

Outlook

- Look at the language and image that you carry. ‘Bahasa jiwa bangsa’. Why dare calling yourself a ‘pejuang bangsa’ when you cannot even portray a good ‘budi bahasa’. Statement as simple as FB status could help to explain my point.

- You want to character assassinate your opponent (though it is the dinosaur era politics), fine but please, mind your language! Don’t swear, don’t name call, it does not make you sound any better! Honestly, it is very immature.

- Learn and show respects. “Respect is earned and never through fear”. Nothing to fear about the party, maybe that is why some people can be very disrespectful towards it.

3. Language

- Again I am touching on language. The usage of language. There is a strong need to actually converse well in both BM and English. Why? From my observation, lack of proficiency in English will actually cause a communication breakdown. I had seen this happened so many times online. Not that SOME party leaders and members did not have enough knowledge to rebut an issue, BUT the language barrier made it hard to for the receiver to comprehend. Thus, will cause misinformation, lack of interest, worst still, the feeling of how out-dated SOME active members could be. One must be able to reach out well to the audience in both languages. J

4. Gratitude

- Maybe it is about time, SOME, sit down and just think how much they can actually stand the criticisms and attacks and how to actually handle praises by the potential voters out there. Personally, comments and feedbacks are supposed to be respected, especially the ones that are intended for the betterment, praises and well wishes. Again, SOME ignored the little voices. A little word of ‘thank you’, ’noted’ or at least ‘TQ’ seemed so hard to be expressed by SOME.

- Simple equation is that, how do you expect people to actually appreciate your efforts, struggle and what-ever-what-not when you cannot even learn to appreciate others? It had not been a balance equation, so why bother thinking why a lot do not seem to appreciate the government...?

- To SOME, haven’t you all heard of “What you give, you’ll get back”??

5. Togetherness

- This is the ugliest view to look on. I do not need to elaborate more but all I have to say is that, no matter how bad the inner politicking is going on , please.... please... at least APPEAR to be together. It is ugly to look at members are fighting among each other.

- Another note is that, no matter how much you cannot agree with your other, especially elder party members, DO NOT bitch on social media. That will make a perfect example of a B*TCH! Even if you are a guy :P hahaha

If you happened to be a party member, reading this post.. I wish that you are not within the SOME that I am highlighting. If you somehow feel that you are among the SOME, you might not turn to try and change everything from the beginning.. BUT you can always change now and create another ending ;)

“In politics, stupidity is not a handicap” – Napoleon

It may be or may not be true... but exposing it, can be a real handicap and believe me, I strongly feel that people out there are smart enough to judge ;) Read more, debate and discuss better... I am very sure UMNO can make a class of its own, that little minds will not be able to manipulate and take the strength of the party away~ oh, that will be classic! It is time tp carry the emblem on chest well and carry on the efforts of our forefathers J

Just my 2 cents~

Xoxo,

eyem3.

How inclusive can puteri be after the general assembly

Transformation in UMNO? Puteri badly needs it.

To make it straight to the point, I will say that the point of discussion will be on UMNO's pink themed wing, the Puteri UMNO.

First and foremost, by default, to be able to understand, let alone love an organization requires one to at least know who are the people behind it . Given the blessing of internet, it is almost understood by each organization that existed in this planet earth the importance of an official website. As for Puteri, the website had been absent for months..
So I waited for the website to be up and running, maybe Puteri is having something really great that required them to shut the website down for awhile. Sad to say that, even till the minute I wrote this piece, the website is still not running. As initially thought that it was just a small glitch, I then came to realize that, it is a sign of a bigger disappointment on Puteri UMNO.

So, the official website is down, are you all just going to sit around and frown?

It is known a, understood and agreed upon the importance of letting the world know what had been done in this current political era of the country. The young ones are mostly the ones that are very much engaged with the internet. The power of internet? I think everyone knows it! So why push it aside?

Honestly, I do not know where it went wrong. For someone new, looking for an opening or a way to communicate or at least get to know the Puteri UMNO, I cannnot see it as a friendly organisation that should be part of. Search on facebook will result into two Puteri UMNO group, which 167 and 215 member each. Even a class in a lecture can have more members than that? Where are the members? are they so not on the current track that they do not think facebook is a good medium to communicate with the rest of the world..?

Here are some bitter facts that I would like to share...

Ketua Puteri Umno : Datuk Rosnah Abdul Rashid Shirlin
- no profile pic on facebook, I am not sure that it is even an active aacount
- blog? the last updated post dated 2008
- twitter? We couldn't find anyone named Rosnah Abdul Rashid Shirlin

Naib Ketua Puteri UMNO : Shahanim Mohamad Yusoff
- profile pic on facebook is there but profile set to private. Well. no prob with that.. up to your descretion.
- blog? there is a blogger profile with the name but no personal blog. Her blog is Pergerakan Puteri UMNO Kedah.
- twitter? could not find in first search.. may out there somewhere.

A similiar search were done on Azlieza Azizan,Hasspalela Mohammed Hassan and some of the Puteri Excos members.

So main Puteri website is down, but a sneak on the mother wing, Wanita UMNO, it is running and updated.
A peek on the Muslimat PAS? Puteri UMNO is no where!

The issue is almost the same.. the question is, will this UMNO assembly will draw change to the party's wing?

Like it or not, Puteri has to catch up with the current era. If IT literacy is an issue,it is not an excuse. Do not lay lame excuses when all these can be learnt and all it needed is a lilttle effort and the will to improve oneself. why not resolve the issue by helping each other and organizing classes and such. Why not..?

There are plenty of Puteri bahagian blogs out there. fair enough, but does the contributions only stop at bahagian level? Or are there any more contributions other than bahagian level to begin with?? How , how, how, how, how the others out there should know and evaluate the performance of Puteri? If Puteri were to go on like this, it will appear to be more of a liability to the party than an asset for UMNO's future.

Puteri should be more aggresive than what I had been. It is one good medium to bridge the gap with the youth. Bearing in mind that there are more female students in the higher learning intuitions, the more Puteri should grab the opportunity to promote and seize these 'think tanks' to be part of the party as well as active contributors to the nation also UMNO's future. It is never too late for the big guns in Puteri to change and bring change to the entire organization.. for a change to start and happen it must be from the top, and the TPM had voiced his concerned and hope for change in his speech.. it is about time for Puteri embrace the challenge, change and move forward.

xoxo
eyem3