The Motivational Tee Hui Yee

From now onwards, whatever the eventualities, as far as Hui Yee¡¯s transplants were concerned, we Malaysians have indeed been motivated and inspired; never before ¡®live¡¯ in front of our very eyes.

When our local media showed a desperate Hui Yee with a 9kg ¡°Bionic¡± heart pleading ¡°How long do I have to wait?¡± Everyone was very touched and compassionate but what could have been done then?

It was not for us to decide as ¡®God¡¯, or nature has its way! Fate has it during these ¡®turbulent times¡¯, in particular the controversies surrounding the Melaka Paya Mengkuang pig framers, which required the ¡®enlightened¡¯ interventions from our Honorable Deputy Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak, came a Malay boy¡¯s heart, with both fantastic parents to Hui Yee¡¯s rescue. Together, the hugh team of medical professionals, most of whom were Muslims of IJN performed the transplant during the Holy fasting month of Rahmadan. The 12 hrs operation could hardly be declared success when signs of Hui Yee¡¯s body rejecting the ¡®new¡¯ hearts began to surface. Just as everything seemed doomed, another heart was ¡®made¡¯ readily available for harvest in Johor, and the rest is history; until this very point of time¡­¡­¡­

The whole nation awoke to share the joy of Hui Yee¡¯s success and pay tributes to both donors¡¯ parents and family members for cheating Hui Yee¡¯s death. Congratulatory messages to Hui Yee, the associated medical team, not forgetting these ¡®proud¡¯ donors parents; stormed from top guns to local men on the streets. Donors increased over night at drive as if everybody wants to ¡®enjoy¡¯ the privilege of passing over of some organs to needy ones, ¡®soonest possible¡¯.

Religious clerics, politicians and social activists seemed to have found the motivations to encourage organs donations with our Education Minister and possible future Prime Minister-intend, Datuk Seri Hisshamuddin Tun Hussein claiming to have pledged his ¡°political¡± organs 8 years ago! So convincing! Not forgetting for once, our politicians were blessed with something truly uncommon, positive and constructive to share with our fellow citizens, irrespective of color, creed, ethnic, and religion.

All Malaysians have confident with divine compassions and prayers, irrespective of prayers¡¯ nature; together our joint strengths should see Hui Yee through. Not forgetting these prayers should also ensure divine afterlives for the two youth donors.

We are just days away to celebrating the Hari Raya Adil Fitri; where traditionally the Malay-Muslim juniors asked for forgiveness from their elders. Friends, relatives and foes rejoice visiting each other at open houses and temporarily all misunderstandings, prejudice, hatred, condemnations have no place to be.

This Hui Yee¡¯s miraculous fight for survival was made possible when our whole notion joined force as one; as if we were facing enemy from without at the brink of war. For a moment, many humble Malaysians wanted to be organ donors, willing to be sacrificed amid ¡°kamakazi¡±.

How wonderful of us Malaysians, if we utilized this joyful Hari Raaya to visit each others Muslims friends, top up with this so-called Hui Yee¡¯s spirits of motivation to further strengthen our cordial relationships thus far. The topic relating to Hui Yee¡¯s transplants can certainly be a way to break the ice for strangers and foes too.

We, the common people have shown our togetherness during Hui Yee¡¯s plight, now is the time, the right time for our fellow policy makers to show us further that being politicians in Malaysian is only serving the Rakyat; that is all. Politicians should not take things too personally as to defy the New Year celebrations in exchange for the personal political differences. After all, it was just a job; by the people for the people; right?

This coming Hari Raya, follow by Deepavali, Christmas, and CNY, may we Malaysian grassroots see opposition heavyweights like Datuk Seri Annuar Ibrahim, Opposition Leader Lim Kit Siang, Pas Cleric Datuk Nik Aziz etc leading their men, putting behind their political differences and visit Barisan Nasional¡¯s open houses the least, if not their individual assemblymen¡¯s homes; and vice versa. Moreover, senior mentors like Tun Dr. Mahathir ( with due respect to still having recuperating in coincidental, the aforesaid IJN), Tun Musa Hitam, Tengku Razali Hamzah and probrabably Datuk Seri Annuar joined by our Prime Minister Datuk Seri Abdullah Badawi, for a ¡®reunion¡¯ treat; which I presume surely would increase our Rakyat¡¯s appetite by multifold during the open house. These leadership by example gestures of patience, tolerance, ¡®forgetting¡¯ and forgiving, putting public interest before self were what the Rakyats have been longing for a long long time.

The eventual shaking hands between Datuk Seri Ong Kah Teng, Retired Datuk Seri Lim Keng Yik and Lim Kit Siang; the possible kiss and make up of Datuk Seri S. Samy Vellu, Datuk M Kayveas, and Kalpal Singh should not be misconstrued as something fishy up their sleeves by our UMNO and PAS parliament counterparts. One day each political curtain shall be lowered and all would be back to square one again, ask Tun Lim Cheong Eu; ex-President of Gerakan and Tun Ling Liong Sik ex-President of MCA, their meaningful lives after political life.

If North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il and South Korean President Roh Moo-hyun could put aside their bitter differences and meet in Pyongyang where prior to this war seemed nothing short of imminent, tell me otherwise that being in Malaysia¡¯s political arenas forbid visiting each other to foster better ties; more so during ¡®specific¡¯ occasions like new year celebrations.

Our father of Independence YM Tengku Abdul Rahman once said ¡°Unity in Diversity¡± where the degree of diversities could range from origin, ethnic, religion but not limited to political believes; right? Ex-Kepong MP the late Tan Sri Dr. Tan Chee Khoon was a much respected opposition MP by ruling Barisan Nasional then.

One of our anchormen during the 80s 2M administration Tun Musa Hitam¡¯s famous quote:

- Politic is the art of making impossible things possible! -

Shall be a living testimony for current and oncoming generations of Malaysians; for it must have been these seemingly impossible, unthinkable undertakings incepted through a Malay boy from Perak, donating his living heart to Tee Hui Yee, that had shown that with us humble Malaysians, down to earth Malaysians; together with God¡¯s blessings, all things are possible!