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A calm before the storm?

It was quiet in the political scene yesterday.

But, with the release of press statement and statutory declaration by Mr. P. Balasubramaniam today on relationship between Najib and Altantuya, a massive rally to be held in PJ this Sunday and other political uncertainties in Malaysia, the local political scene has turned murkier…

Even today, Bursa suffered an unexpected technical glitch. At first, it was announced that the trading for morning session will be suspended. Later Bursa informed that the trading will resume at 2.30pm. When that time came, the technical glitch had yet to be fixed and resumption of trading was postponed to 3.30pm.

At 3.30pm, the trading finally resumed. Somehow, there was still some problems to be fixed in the system and the trading was again suspended with only 153,000 shares been traded. (It was announced that the transacted done earlier on 3 July 2008 will be null and void…

(This has caused investors to lose confidence in our bource and created inconvenience to the trades and investors. Somehow, Bursa did not apologise at all in any of the media releases.)

Back to the topic… Are you a believer of Murphy’s Law?

Maybe it can be applied here to the government…

From Wikipedia:

Murphy’s law is an adage in Western culture that broadly states that if anything can go wrong, it will. “If there’s more than one possible outcome of a job or task, and one of those outcomes will result in disaster or an undesirable consequence, then somebody will do it that way.” It is most often cited as “Whatever can go wrong, will go wrong” (or, alternately, “Whatever can go wrong will go wrong, and at the worst possible time, in the worst possible way”)