Rakyat didahulukan! Prestasi diutamakan!
Sometime in the first brand new days of June, I received a phone call.
"Could you attend an interview for the post of Member of the Film Censorship Board on such and such a day?"
No formal letter. They want to save the jungle and prevent global warming!
Yes, I did remember downloading the forms from the Website of the Home Affairs Ministry to apply for this post.
" Boleh....." I replied.
" Lamakah interview ini?"
" Biasnya 2 jam". Hum, mighty long time for an interview....I thought.
So, on the fateful day, I found myself in the ever majestic Putrajaya.
There were about half a dozen of us milling about the interview area.Mostly senior citizens; mostly with X generation values!
The Secretariat then invited us in. We were given specific chairs to sit on.
The Secretariat Chief then informed us that this was not going to be an ordinary interview but more of a discussion. We were there to share our views.
Everything was hunky dory until......
I was then told to do a translation of a short text from Bahasa Malaysia to Chinese.
I was definitely a non-starter!
So, I translated in English. Whatever they wanted to do with my translation, its theirs to decide. As far as I was concerned, I was never ever gonna be a Chinese based Censorship member. Just won't cut! Not at the Censorship Board.
Heard that of 5 Chinese candidates, four of them could not do the translation. For the two candidates whom they called for Indian Censorship membership, only one spoke Tamil,' like drinking water'. Sure, he gonna get the job!
So, there goes another bit of my life spent in the pursuit of humble irrelevance.
Anyway, you would never know. As a Christian, I do believe this.
"If God is for you, who can be against you?"
So, maybe once of those current serving members may just quit and they could just called me to take over pronto!
Life can be full of surprises, don't you agree?
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