[Quote]“The real threat to the Muslim community is not from the non-Muslims.”
- Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
Asked what his advice was for Malaysians facing adversity, he replied that Malaysians should work hard and have faith in their ability to survive.
“I myself was thrown out of the cabinet for three years and nine months,” he recalled.
“I called it my sabbatical. And I still made it to the top. We have survived so many crises because we have faith in our abilities and ourselves.”
When asked what he plans to do next, Pak Lah replied: “Gardening, planting fruit trees and melons. A kampung boy returning to his old ways.”
When the moderator – noted regional news presenter Lorraine Hahn – pressed him on what he will miss the most about being prime minister, he said he would not know “until I am out of office.”
Source: The Malaysian Insider
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13 comments:
Kampung Boy? Right....
:)
Bye PL.
aiyo... only gardening and fruit meh??? what about the wife??? Hahahaha....
This article actually gave me a little hope in my music skills. :)
Thank You for posting this. .
Raison D'etre,
I am also Kampung boy.
June W,
Ya, Pak Lah and Jeanne both likes gardening, planting and fishing.
Clarisse Teagen,
Does it actually help your music skill?
Thrown out of Cabinet ? He asked for it.
Getting to the top by his own ability ? Let him believe what he wants to believe.
Let him leave office to know what he'll miss most ? He knows it now.
Gardening ? In Perth ?
Zainal Mokhtar,
I think he didn't asked for it; he was penalized by his own.
Mave,
I still remember what Tun Mahathir replied when asked about his retirement plan... "I'll be like any good old man at home and spend time at the mosque"
...And Mahathir spent more than 20 years at the top..
When Khalid Ibn Walid, the greatest Muslim General who ever lived, during the Prophet's time, Caliph Abu Bakr's time and Caliph Umar's time was retired by Umar because the great Caliph feared that the Muslims were obsessed by the Great General and that the general himself might got it in his head that all those victories were attributed to him, Khalid went back to his village and resumed his earlier trade of making armours, a poor man materially but rich of heart. He remained a humble kampung man..
Pak Lah, Should be happy w/ what u have rather than what u want, then u would miss a thing. e.g gardening, planting fruits & melons. What abt selling jeans!- Mmudahlupa
wow! we are going back to the primitive era.. lets all resign and become gardeners too..
Wisdom understood....
you can take the prime minister out of the kampung but you can never take the kampung out of the prime minister.
pak lah is the best pm in malaysia. i'm sure gonna miss him.
thank you tun for yr service :)
Aiyo! Ini macam boleh panggil wisdom ka? Sounds more like quotations from "biography-in-the making" lah! No wonder Malaysia got into trouble with this kind of leadership!?
Gukita,
I understand the events of Khalid Ibn Walid and truly he was a man with great wisdom.
Mmudahlupa,
He can't sell jeans; he is a consumer.
HuntressMoon,
It's not primitive; it's back to nature.
Denzook,
Many people will miss him while some may rejoice too.
Dhahran Sea,
No trouble lah; this is also leadership.
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