Indeed who will be the Agatha Christie of Malaysia? Looking at the frantic and spasmodic turn of events gripped in murders, financial dealings and sex-sagas in the country, a good author will easily spot the pot of gold.
Indeed too if Agatha Christie was here, she probably would have written a world’s number one runaway best seller by just relating her story on all that is happening here in Malaysia.
To begin with, the murder of the Mongolian national just refuses to go away. The longer it takes, the more persistently the questions emerge time and time again. Writing a novel on this grisly, grotesque and extremely mysterious surroundings to the murder and its subsequent court case will certainly make ‘Mousetrap’ seem like a children’s fairy tale.
Even Sherlok Holmes’ collections will be no match to Malaysia’s infamous wheeler-dealer murder involving military grade explosives – not just a knife, a bullet or a hand grenade! The whole of the Enid Blighton mystery series would fade away in a whiff compared to the Malaysia-Mongolian epic story of the century.
And if that is not enough, we have the sex drama unfolding every each other day. And each leaf exposed leads to yet another mysterious puzzle. It was Sodomy I. Then came Sodomy II which is still extremely gripping and mysterious with no end to the dramatic court cases.
And now, another best seller the Omega Watch & Porn episode has emerged. Mind you, it is also truly international with a foreign star too. Jeffrey Archer should be here. There is good money to be made with such powerful plots of sex, power, international linkages, killings, political manoeuvres – in fact all the spicy details to make U.S. Best sellers of over a million copies sold in a day.
Unfortunately, we do not have local talent that could take advantage of all these great mysteries in real time and real life. Even if you did, watch it you will have ISA dangling before your nose.
Malaysia oh Malaysia! Indeed we must have been reading too much of Sherlock Holmes and Agata Christy when training to be a politician. Or is it that some of our politicians have been to the schools of ‘spy verses spy’ holed up somewhere in the Siberian cold or the Mosaad desert.
Why are we in such a pathetic crater of evil, killing each other’s opponents like this? Can our politicians not win the hearts and minds of the rakyat by telling us what better things they have done compared to their opponent so that we get converted? Why must it always be ‘see what terrible thing that fellow has done’.
Or is it that indeed we are full of evil politicians and the rakyat are but mere pawns by the wayside?
Is there anyone out there among the 28 million people in Malaysia who can help shed some light please on what is happenning in the country? Or is it 'semuanya okey lah' and 'tutup satu mata'.
- J. D. Lovrenciear is a well-known commentator and reader of Malaysia Chronicle
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