What else can be more disappointing than to see such a negative response from WMSA regarding the sketch. I would have expected the MSA executive to have considered seriously the damage they have done to hawkers, rather than having accused others of being politically excited. By pointing out their humiliation and insultation from the hawkers is a political commentary on its own, tell me what else is not political?

Throughout their reply they make no attempt to clarify the four points that I raised. Instead they childishly hope for sympathy from fellow Malaysian and Singaporean students. Have they not got the guts to face what they have done? It is pointless to tell me what the structure of MSA is and how it functions, after all I did not challenge its existence. All I am interested in is why WMSA staged such a provocative sketch that humiliates my parents, relatives and the majority of my country men.

Do you realise that my people have to start work at around 6a.m. to finish at mid-night, everyone in the family works flat-out. And all they get in return is a meagre income, just enough to keep their families going.

On top of that, rocketing inflation hits the hawkers and workers the hardest. With rapid increase in prices of ingredients, it is hardly profitable to produce, even at a higher price. But there again, higher prices are bound to meet with inevitable complaints from customers who then will stop buying eventually. In addition, policies and gangsters come regularly for money. On a number of occasions, my parents were at the point of giving up the business but where! Where to go from there??

As intellectuals and future decision makers, we should sympathise and help to Improve their living standard, and certainly not turn them into a laughing stock. You may call it a light-hearted sketch, but inside it are the blood and tears of hundred and thousands of our fellow country men.