Ooi Chuan Aun.

The Star today carried an interview with Jeff Ooi, under its My MP column. i have been following this column since it started right after the GE. i have to congratulate The Star on this initiative. a good way to 'humanise' our YBs. otherwise we only know our YBs as people who 'reside' in a house on Jalan Parlimen.

so who doesnt know Jeff Ooi. from blogger to politician. he is now an MP, representing DAP. and also the Chief of Staff to the Chief Minister of Penang. he should be credited for promoting blogging in malaysia. i would say, his blog, together with malaysiakini and malaysia today are the top three sites in the country. these are the sites where people would turn to to get 'inside info', or latest news. he has built such a credibility that people would quote his writings. even my friends would say - but Jeff Ooi said that..or Jeff Ooi said this. so it is not a suprise that in 2005, Paris-based Reporters Without Boundaries (RSF) voted his blog the 'Freedom Blog Asia', out of 60 blogs worldwide.

i read through the interview. questions ranged from type of music to what car he drives. interesting to know that Jeff Ooi plays the guitar. his fav song is Hotel California. he loves Indiana Jones series. and he hates golf.

and to the last question, he answered: Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad. He is 70% a good man. he has fired the imagination of malaysians to excel.

what was the question?! "Name an idol (dead or alive) whom you look up to and why."

imagine that. coming from a DAP MP, i was shocked. pleasantly shocked of course. at a time when UMNO leaders (some of them anyway) are running down Tun M. and here is a man from a party that fought Tun M for more than 20 years, admitting publicly that he idolises Tun M. cool.