Dyana Tsunami batters UMNO

Earlier, Dr Mahathir saw fit to lecture Umno members that if they did/do not educate their children on UMNO’s history and contributions, those kids would go their own ways.

Obviously Dr M was annoyed and perhaps worried - probably more worried that annoyed - that Dyana Sofya Mohd Daud, a daughter of an UMNO Wanita member, Yammy Samat, has joined DAP and became its candidate for the coming Teluk Itan by-election. 

The Dyana Tsunami

It would not be amiss to say that Dyana's nomination as DAP's candidate has sent shock waves through UMNO, a mini political tsunami that has battered the once-invincible Malay fortress that's called UMNO.

The watershed political event has been so shocking that Pak Kadir Yasin, a former editor-in-chief of the NST group and a known supporter/ally of Dr Mahathir, saw fit to write in his blog a post on Dyana A New Political Phenomena [extracts follows]:

Although I am 9989.2 km away from home on my annual extraterritorial grandfather duty and will be missing the Bukit Gelugor and Telok Intan parliamentary by-elections, it is hard for me to escape Dyana Sofya craze.

When I woke up this morning, I saw five messages from a former Umno divisional secretary on my cellular telephone.

One reads: “Dyana is said to be the latest state of the art Samsung 5s (sic) while Mah is Nokia. Sigh!” [...]

In the Internet age where images can be a powerful tool, Dyana Sofya youthfulness and look, is advantage. Even an old timer Umno activist like my friend is fascinated by her.

In another SMS, he wrote: “But can we blame the papers & the people for their interest in Dyana? She’s young pretty thing. She’s news.”

UMNO's real problem

But it has to be something deeper than her look. The fact that she is a young Malay woman representing a Chinese-dominated opposition party is, to me, the real fascination.

Just days ago, a former female deputy minister from Umno noted with alarm that the DAP’s internship programmes were attracting many young Malay participants, most of whom are well educated.

There be must something particularly strong by way of push and pull factors to encourage a young Malay like Dyana Sofya, who hailed from an Umno family, to join the DAP and be an active member.

While the BN campaigners and their cyber troopers are having a field day maligning her, they should perhaps spare some time to understand why this sort of things are happening. Why young educated Malays are joining the DAP?

Instead of blaming others for their woes, leaders of the GOC parties should look at themselves and not treat the rakyat with disdain.

Now, Dyana's mum Yammy Samat wasn't going to let Dr Mahathir get away with his perhaps-patronizing perhaps-worried lecture to UMNO parents.

Where Dyana got her chili padi 'smarts' from

Yammy riposted so wickedly sweet to Dr M's admonition that we now know where Dyana has inherited her chili padi 'smarts' from. Yammy no doubt with tongue-in-cheek said:

“I tried my very best to bring up Dyana to be like Mukhriz, but when she grew up, she turned out to be like Marina.”

Wakakaka, see what I mean when I said 'we now know where Dyana has inherited her chili padi 'smarts' from'.

Then she delivered the verbal coup de grâce to Dr Mahathir with the sweetest and deadliest remarks I have heard hurled like a ninja's shuriken at the Grand Olde Man of Malaysian politics, and a PM for 22 years:

“So it doesn't matter. She became like one of Tun’s children anyway.”

Wakakaka.

What Yammy did so wickedly delicious was to reverse the table on Dr Mahathir by reminding him that for all his own UMNO parent's ways, he has Marina Mahathir [mind you, a wonderful lady], whose social activist work, as reported by the Malay Mail Online, has put her on a collision course with her father on a number of issues.

It's not just a stunning rebuttal to Dr Mahathir but I'm sure a compliment to Marina and a back-handed compliment to her own Dyana. Good onya, Mum!

So it seems that Dyana's mum is a bit of a chili padi like her daughter, or more correctly, Dyana is a chili padi like her mum, wakakaka.

Dyana praised by Marina Mahathir

And the day ended so nicely for sweetie Dyana when sweetie Marina (one of my heroes) said of the budding new DAP politician and candidate for the Teluk Intan by-election: She can think, she can write, she can articulate.

The Malay Mail Online reported Marina praising Dyana for her rebuttal piece against Umno supreme council member Razali Ibrahim on the pro-Bumiputera policies of UiTM, calling her a 'smart' individual who was well ahead of 'most politicians'.

Marina posted on her Facebook account: “Very smart girl this ... she can think, she can articulate, she can write. That’s three up from most politicians already.”

“But very few of the top gun politicians write their own speeches, let alone any articles.”

“In any case, why are people so against her because she is young? Najib Razak was 26 when he first became a Minister. Dyana’s 27 and only vieing for a Parliamentary seat. We should have more young people for the fresh young ideas they bring.”

Indeed, sweetie Marina, and I am so glad you did not compare Dyana with Ahmad Maslan, UMNO's Information Chief because the contrast gap would have been too Grand Canyon-ish, wakakaka.

By contrast to Dyana, the idiots on other side

Yes, that 'remarkable' Ahmad Maslan has so unimpressed RPK into calling him 'idiotic', wakakaka, and who then urged:

Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak should titah Ahmad Maslan to mengadap (summon Ahmad Maslan for an audience) and give him a real tongue-lashing.

I mean Najib does not have to scold Ahmad Maslan with words like ‘mother-fucker’ and all that — like how I would do.

Wakakaka.

Just a ‘Melayu bodoh’ would probably do just fine. And then Najib may have to consider appointing a new Umno information chief after this because clearly Ahmad Maslan has the mind of a country bumpkin.

Wakakaka again.

But we have been delighted by the sweet wits of both Dyana and her mother', Yammy Samat.