“The Young … your children, your grandchildren [… me]”

I think she did very well. The raised mic later on helped a lot. I can see why she twitted ‘screechy’. I guess from the comment above she might have felt a bit cowed by the aunties and uncles in the audience. There’s no guarantee that age brings wisdom – I think it could be difficult for meritocracy to be fully adopted while people look up to their elders and down to the youth by default.

I get the feeling politics is for old people in Malaysia. It must be difficult for the youth, with such an unusually high Voting Age, to feel properly involved in politics. Perhaps a public body could run a straw poll sometime to try to establish what effect the high Voting Age has on young people’s motivation to get involved in politics.

The point about a roadmap was incisive. Product labelling in Malaysia is terrible. I’m sure most of what is marked “Milk” in the supermarkets here could only be sold as “consumable pale liquid” outside of Malaysia. The triumph of marketing over content is complete in Malaysia – everything is a pig in a poke. Malaysians are right to distrust unmarked packages. Everybody in their right mind wants to know exactly what they’re going to get and when. I hope Tricia Yeoh’s request gets some serious consideration from those who are asking for voters to trust them with their futures. It would be easier to trust the package if the ingredients were clearly marked.