When I arrived at the Dewan Rakyat (Community Hall) at about 9.30pm, Si Pin was speaking to about 50 people in the half-filled hall. Under the dull glow of the flourescent lights, the already bland son of former Gerakan president Lim Kheng Yaik just added to the despair that permeated the air. Lim is 38 but is youthful looking, to put it politely. He looks like a small boy to me and speaks like one. It’s the curse of privileged children, I think, to be softies compared to their parents. After boy-boy finished speaking, residents took turns to scold him and the previous MP’s alleged non-performance. Boy-boy was lost. Kheng Yaik would have charmed and handled the situation well.
Lim Si Pin is no Lim Guan Eng. Guan Eng can hold press conferences on his own. In the one that I attended, Si Pin is still very raw and is much removed from the needs of the Sentul poor. I also really don’t know what he has done for the rakyat or in politics to deserve a parliamentary seat.
Anyway, after being verbally abused by the residents, boy-boy rushed off without even asking the residents to vote for him. He was escorted by a team of about five and looked annoyed. And this is nothing. It’s was like a brief swim in a storm in a teacup and hardly a baptism of fire.
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