SHAH ALAM: The Sultan of Selangor has imposed stricter conditions – including a minimum age of 45 – on eligibility for the state’s Datukship, in another move to limit the number of recipients and to protect the image and dignity of the awards ahead of his birthday next month.
Assuming the two Malaysians astronauts, who are in their early thirties, eventually go up to the space and pull off some teh tarik stunt, the Sultan of Selangor would have a dilemma : They are doing something unprecedented, and they invoke a strong sense of national pride, they are heroes, but since they are not 45, they cannot be granted a "datuk".
Sultan could argue that, exceptions can be made, but what's the point of making a new rule that cannot be enforced entirely?
So by the time these two astronauts finally reach 45 and be granted the datuk, they are long detached from the space industry, and in fact, they are really opening a Mamak shop to sell Teh Tarik. It would seem rather odd for two greasy fellows with Roti Planta ordor to go into the palace to get their datuk certificate. The certificate immediately gets oily.
No offence. All I'm saying is, award the right people at the right time.
2 comments:
"...image and dignity of the awards..."
Come on, there is absolutely no dignity in datukship, in fact, it's more like surrendering your dignity. The moment you apply for datukship, I'm sorry, you no longer have it.
For me, Datuk is big fat guys that has nothing to do at home (sorry, maybe I am very unreasonable).
I won't cry if the 2 astranauts are not Datuk. Anyway, what's the difference?
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