Top Ten Suggestions To Make The Annual Budget More Exciting
Budget speech is usually quite dreary and long. Especially the first half an hour when they talk about general economic conditions in the country. Most people get bored even before they reach the important bits. Here’s a few ‘suggestions‘ to make it livelier and draw in more people to watch. Wouldn’t you love for them to implement it?
Top Ten Suggestions To Make The Annual Budget More Exciting
- In between the speech, they should tell some jokes to liven up the proceeding.
- SMS voting by the Malaysian public to support or oppose the announcements in the budget.
- Before, starting the budget speech, maybe the speaker can exchange humourous pantuns (Malay poems) with the members of the Opposition.
- Serve kuaci(sunflower seeds) to the MPs while they listen. Just like in those old wooden cinemas.
- Have the camera zoom in on MPs who fall asleep during the presentation. Especially those that snore and drool. Trust me, there will be a few, especially if the presentation starts at 4pm.
- Just give us the good news. Don’t read out the bad news. That would really make us all happy.
- Get the backbenchers to hold up banners showing their support just like they do during the Malaysian Idol / Akademi Fantasia concerts.
- During the slow parts of the budget, stop the telecast to show advertisements of cigarettes and hard liquor (”Siaran langsung Budget ini, dibawakan khas kepada anda oleh Dunhill. Gaya, mutu, keunggulan”).
- Add a laugh track every time the presenter reads out bad news.
- Let us all go home early so that we can “watch and analyze the Budget” on telly. But in actual fact we all go home and sleep.
September 30th, 2005 at 6:25 am
i sokong number#10!!! hehe…
*cross fingers* nomore petrol hike pleaseeeeeeeee
September 30th, 2005 at 6:47 am
macam sandiwara saje… i like the list, like imagining the budget speech to be an entertainment show.
the lazybum’s easy way out, only read the highlights and summary in tomorrow’s paper, hehe.
September 30th, 2005 at 6:57 am
hand out rotten eggs and tomatoes to throw at speakers who announce the bad news.
the whole budget thingy is a bloody farce/slapstick comedy already anyway.
September 30th, 2005 at 7:01 am
OMG..this is hilarious! Seriously, why didn’t they thikn of making money through SMS ha?
September 30th, 2005 at 8:40 am
kuaci!!! bwahahaha! ROTFLMAO! simon, this one i must ketuk you. i laughed out so spontaneously that my staff looked at me “satu jenis”! your blog needs to come with a hazard sign, kekeke
September 30th, 2005 at 9:54 am
fashion asia - more money to spend! cut import tax on clothes!!!!
totoro - most malaysians do that. but i’m sure ppl like belacans will be watching ‘live’!
hedonistic - i wanna see WHO throws the first egg!
s-kay - one day they will. trust me… :O
belacans - you should also eat kuaci in the opis la, then throw all the husk on the floor like in cinema!
September 30th, 2005 at 9:56 am
i got one more to add,
have the presentation done by Blue Hyppo.
September 30th, 2005 at 11:19 am
Yes, pantun should be good. Maybe there should be a theme for each year -dangdut, dondang sayang, dikir barat…
And maybe during the break, Mawi and Vince can sing some new compositions. Hee.
September 30th, 2005 at 12:44 pm
they should also have host like those on m’sian idol, and they will kutuk the ministers in between budget layouts..
September 30th, 2005 at 2:33 pm
In between session, all mps have to sing “We will rock you” and bang (non sexual thought pls) in tune on table.
Yeah! Malaysia parliment rocks!! :))
September 30th, 2005 at 6:18 pm
And they should send Simon there so that he can get even more ideas on what to blog.
September 30th, 2005 at 8:09 pm
Have more statements like:
“Now you see it…. now you don’t”
p/s: “it” in this case are those burdens to us the citizens.
October 1st, 2005 at 12:24 pm
And add a car to the lucky draw for the SMS sent in.
October 2nd, 2005 at 11:30 am
Allow all the MPs to bring in their pillows & bolsters would be nice.
October 2nd, 2005 at 7:30 pm
sharl62 - “One perodua kenari must be won! SMS now! Budget hotline!”
jocelyn - then the snoring might drown out the speaker!
October 2nd, 2005 at 7:34 pm
din - blue hyppo! why did i forget about him?!
anjali - after the kelantan concert, i doubt mr. mawi will appear in parliament…
mahagurusia - speaking of queen, i once watched the tory MPs sing “we are the champions” in a rally. most of them didn’t know the words!
lilian - if i’m there i’ll be there one eating kuaci!
keng - yeah, one year have, next year no…