MalaysiaKini reported yesterday at 8pm (and it's in today's mainstream media i.e. the Star and The Sun newspaper) that the CLP is to be abolished and law graduates will now have to sit for something called the Common Bar Course and the Common Bar Exam.

(Unfortunately I still have to take the CLP, because it will take them a year or two to implement it, furthermore, as the CLP exams are in July, they can't do anything for/to us... meaning my juniors graduating this year or next will benefit from this... woe is me... unless i fail this year.. which.. i hope, i won't.. but with the quota, & at the rate i'm going.... it's hard to say...)

Apparently it is in the works now, and full details in the form of a report will be given 2 months later....

but oh well.. the call for the abolishment of the CLP and for it to be replaced by a more transparent exam have been going on for years, but steps have only been taken after the 12th General Elections... (Get this! they admitted to the damned quota in the Star!! -- at least it felt like they did to me...)

It's a real huge change to everything, it's good that there are two political parties. As i've studied in economics before.. Monopoly isn't always a good thing, and it's always better to have competition.. or there would be no improvement..

i'm sure we are all sick with BN's/UMNO's calls for step down and their soul searching, when everything is as obvious as day... so i'm not going to touch on that....

on another note the live telecasts from parliament.. never have i seen parliament so full.. haha.. and now all of the parliament members have to be alert, instead of just sitting there and sleeping.. it gets more exciting.. although i personally feel that the name calling is undignified..

there was quite a lot of discontent going on during the first parliament sitting... what with Karpal Singh bringing up, what was called technical and minor issues..

I don't blame Karpal Singh... as a lawyer, every small little details count. if parliament can't follow these little procedures to the book, what is the point of having those procedures? some may see it as a small issue, but a small thing can be enlarged into something big..

For us in law.. if we make a minor mistake, the other party can enlarge our small mistake and get our case struck out from the court, and we will have to spend time and money to apply to court and do all other applications again..

it doesn't matter that it is a small issue, the rules where put there to be followed.. if you don't want to follow it, then look for a loophole.. that's your best bet.. so picking on the nitty bitty issues isn't a bad thing, yes it wastes time... but it's not bad... besides you only need to pick on them once or twice, and once everyone follows the rules, then it's fine.. it also gives the MPs the sense of responsibility... that they have to set an example and follow the rules.

if you don't fix the problems from the small things, how on earth do you expect to fix the big things?

i've already foreseen that PKR will start slow, and pick up speed, they are new.. i've already anticipated that parliament proceedings will start out slow... and that it would be more of a circus than it was in the past...

And i'm right, what with the big foot and big monkey (the amusing version of it all, with links provided to the serious versions..), and now Khairy calling PKR a very rude name, when it was actually BN that approved the pig farming, yet they keep blaming PKR..

UMNO really needs to know how to play a game of Bridge, an English card game (it's a game of cunning and wit) but i'm not going to teach them, because i don't want them to be in power any more... we need a change... and PKR is our answer... for now....

yet, how many people share my views? just because PKR is the new government for the 5 states (it's actually 6 by the way!!) now, everybody expects them to PERFORM NOW!

That is very unfair, (though others will disagree, and say that there is no such thing as fairness in love and war..) they have never taken office before, they need time to familiarise themselves with the accounts and businesses left behind by BN.... they need some time to adjust. they need to go through all the documents (which are, by the way mostly missing, thanks to BN. Giving them more work) you can't expect them to read, repair, find etc all these documents in a night?

It's a mountain load of them, they need time to read it.. and it's not that they haven't done anything.. they are doing things.. the pace is slow now, but they will pick it up, if we stop pressuring them, and give them time.. They know what is important, and what we want...

Pressuring them to perform in such a short time, will get us no where, they need time to adjust and find their footing.. give them a reasonable amount of time.. it doesn't help with BN's so called sabotaging strategy saying that PKR hasn't done anything to date...

Well it's true, that tactic may help them, but i trust that Malaysians are a rational bunch who can think for themselves and do realise that PKR is new, and they need some time....

They can't do very well, if we keep pressuring them.. think about it... they are in a tough state... they have to fight against the sabotaging, and due to BN the people are giving PKR pressure... who would like to be stuck in that situation? so to deliver they will do rushed jobs, as they fear losing our votes in the next election.. what comes out from a rushed job? we all know..

though so far PKR has been setting a good example in trying to help save costs and not spend unnecessarily, i commend them on that act. like for example taking a bus to the parliament.. not only does it save money, and petrol it is also environmental friendly & it reduces traffic...

even if they want to help us the Malaysians to fight corruption.. it won't be an easy job, furthermore, i believe that BN will think of other ways to sabotage. besides on the night where the votes were being tallied, when it was obvious they were losing... a lot of documents were removed, and presumably destroyed...

where our judicial system goes by the theory of "innocent till proven guilty" it's going to be real hard to convict anyone of anything without any evidence or witnesses...

I see where PKR is coming from, when they don't mind working with any BN officials, but BN making it a huge fuss, and calling its members traitors.. it's an old and crude thinking, that doesn't go along with modern times... no wonder they lost the elections, and at the rate they are going.. they are spiralling even more downhill...

-Oracl3-