clever huh...eh?

I always wonder about the going-ons in Cabinet or Ministerial meetings. Be it for a sensitive issue or just to meet for the sake of meeting. Do those who attend the meeting come prepared? With research data and possible scenarios of what-ifs.

Reckon with what had transpired these past few months, most likely than not Cabinet Ministers or Ministerial officers just flocked to these meetings with just their crotches and nothing else. Yes, they wore expensive suits and elegant silk scarves but nothing much else. The PM would then tell them the issues at hand and ask if anybody had any idea of what to do. The quorum would look at each other, look at the walls, look at the ceiling and start whispering, "you cakap lah, I tak tau apa2pun dalam hal ni", or maybe "apa yang orang tua tu merepek kali ni" to the ones next to them. One of the seniors would then raise his hand and give his suggestions. More often than not, his suggestion would be something nonsensical and funny, given in jest. A few others will follow. Should the knowledgeable among them begin to put forward something constructive and beneficial to people and country but not to them or their cronies, the rest would start banging tables and making those monkey noises we by now are quite familiar from those live telecasts on TV. A junior would probably be jotting these suggestions down. Then the heckling and cackling began before the PM suddenly woke up from his rapid eye movement daze and put a halt to all the nonsense and tell the junior to cut each suggestion into strips and roll them into something of equal size. He would then pick one and announce the Cabinet decision.

Image of Drunna by Paolo Eleuteri Serpieri.