While we’re waiting on tenterhooks for the MB announcement, here’s some light relief.
Mat Sabu photo credit to superblog MyMassa and his contributor seorang Pemerhati PAS Terengganu di muktamar Batu Pahat. Many thanks!
2011
Selekeh, perut kurang buncit, pipi sedikit cengkung
2012
Selekeh semakin kurang, perut masih kurang buncit, pipi naik sedikit
2013
Semakin rapi, menutup perut buncit, pipi semakin kembang
2014
Rambut semakin kemas, perut semakin terboroi buncit, mata semakin sepet
UBAH
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And there you have it – the change!
Urban legend attributes to Mat Sabu the famous saying, “Saya lebih rela makan babi dengan Lim Guan Eng dari makan ayam dengan Najib”.
There is a reference to the meme by Ustaz Fathul Bari Mat Jahya (video here) which indicates that the Mat Sabu story – possibly apocryphal – has been making the rounds although its origin is not able to be pinpointed.
(Meme is “an image, video, piece of text, etc., typically humorous in nature, that is copied and spread rapidly by Internet users, often with slight variations”.)
How to explain Mat Sabu’s transformation?
Urm, osmosis?
The chubbiness rubbed off from the Chinese politician – including the proverbial stereotype of sepet eyes – and is absorbed by the Malay politician from too much close proximity…
For that matter, Dyana Sofya also appeared suspiciously mata sepet in her by-election posters put up in Teluk Intan Chinese areas but strangely not so sepet in her Malay garb (wearing baju kurung and selendang) posters displayed in Malay areas.
You judge for yourself – see HERE – whether the DAP candidate was deliberately Sinocized in her image in order to appeal to the Chinese electorate.
I wouldn’t put it past the DAP’s sleek branding and marketing tactic of suiting their product – the Malay Dyana – to the taste of the Chinese consumer.
After all, one of their icons used to hold a job as Event Manager before entering politics. And speaking of the Prada wearer … Hannah Yeoh, like Mat Sabu, has also UBAH-ed tremendously.
Below is a svelte photo of the Jerusubang Adun when she first entered politics.
Then came the Bak Kut Teh and all the buka puasa in the surau-surau dan masjid-masjid.
And along with all that came the chins below.
And as with Mat Sabu’s “pipi semakin kembang”, likewise Hannah’s guppy cheeks.
The yellow costumed phase followed where the Daspsters lorded it over Bersih 2.0 and 3.0.
Similar to Mat Sabu, some politicians in the DAP (I’m referring to the evangelistas, of course) showed Leadership by Example in effecting CHANGE on their body shape.
BELOW: The spare tyre from Bak Kut Teh evidently
Look what power did to the DAP!
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Helen Ang 
Helen.. If you to understand Melayu Penang that support DAP.. they have long accepted Ketuanan Cina.. May be out of necessity… Chinese majority in Penang.
There is no such thing as Ketuanan Melayu. DAP has been fighting for Ketuanan Cina since Chin Peng. How Melayu to be Tuan in their own country if they majority of them can’t even own a house, rumah mampu milk maybe. Simply rubbish.
re: “There is no such thing as Ketuanan Melayu.”
The Dapsters believe that they’re being oppressed by Umno’s Ketuanan Melayu and it’s a belief they hold with vehemence, vengeance and venom.
Cross them in this, try to burst their bubble, and see what their handlers (the DAP evangelistas) will do to you.
Keep calm and eat at OldTown.
Hurray. Azmin is MB.
Need to stock up dried BKT. This soap opera surely is hotter than Desparate Housewives, Scandals, Dallas and Once Upon A Time in Wonderland combined starring Azwan Ali.
I wonder how the season will end.
Diharapkan Madame Speaker yang bijak lagi jelita akan membodek dengan sedaya upaya bos baru beliau demi kesejahteraan rakyat jelata.
How do you think the DAP supporters are reacting to this?
I know a PKR guy in Penang who is so angry that Mem Kipas is not the first female MB in the world.
Mem kipas should keep calm and eat at Oldtown. Mem speaker box should keep calm and bodek boss hamsem.
What kind of a person is he?
Nice Chinese man until you mention the letters U, M, N and O. You will see he will turn like the American Werewolf in London.
Can you describe what is a “nice Chinese man” and in what way the letters U, M, N and O can set him off?
He’s a purebred Penangite?
sungai petani
Helpful, polite, soft spoken until you mention the 4 letters.
Good grief. From your description, it sounds like Umno is a trigger word.
That is how Pakatan rally up the troops. Pakatoons hate UMNO. Remember the seditious speech by my dark skin Malaysian ADUN.
re: “Pakatoons hate UMNO” and “That is how Pakatan rally the troops”
True, and correct.
The followers of all three Pakatan parties hate Umno.
Namun Politik Benci yang dibawa DAP adalah senjata yang akan makan tuan dan bakal menjahanamkan masyarakat Tionghua.
PKR dan Umno saling bermusuhan tetapi ahli kedua-dua parti sama-sama Melayu.
PAS dan Umno saling bermusuhan tetapi ahli kedua-dua parti sama-sama Islam.
Pabila DAP dan Umno bermusuhan, ia adalah pertembungan ahli-ahli parti yang berlainan bangsa dan berbeza agama – Cina lwn Melayu, kafir harbi lwn Muslim. Alamatnya malapetaka yang sengaja diduga.
Remember your reader Seagate. Seagate is the only new investment in Tokong Penang – after all the drop in FDI.
He needs Tokong like oxygen. Seagate is the only success story of Tokong FDI.
PS. Seagate has closed plants in Penang and Ipoh in 2002. They were Malaysia’s largest private employer after Tenaga before 2000.
Azmin is just another PKR man. Big deal. Ideals will not change