The other day my family and I sat down to watch TV.
There was this commercial on unity about a Malay lady visiting her daughter together with her friend, a Chinese nyonya. As the daughter welcomed them to their house and sat down, her son rudely ran around them without acknowledging their presence. The mother reprimanded the boy but the grandmother tried to protect him. However, the mother told the grandmother that if you do not teach them from young, they will become hard-headed.
The mother then requested the boy to be more thoughtful and be respectful of the elders around him. Hence, the boy apologised to his grandmother as well as the Chinese nyonya. How simple it seemed. The age of innocence.
At once my thoughts flew to our young friend, Umno Youth deputy chief Khairy Jamaluddin - if only if he was well-brought up, he would have listen to the call of his elders to apologise for his less-than-thoughtful remarks. If he is allowed to get away scot-free, and if he is to become so hard-headed, then this country will be in serious trouble if he was to be a leader.