First of all, I want to make it clear to all that the only reason why Barisan Nasional (BN) lost in many seats in parliament and the state assemblies throughout the country is not because it offered better candidates. There are only a few of them who had been tested time and time again, but the others are just lucky to be voted in and even now not many of those who had voted for them know who they are and if they are able to speak properly in public.

The only reason is because the voters hated those that BN had offered, many of whom had proven time and again to be people whom the public could not trust, yet the party insisted on fielding them all.

I am sure it makes sense for BN to be hated; for they have been around for fifty years, and it is a very long time for them not to have created animosity and enemies out of ordinary people. This is sadly, overshadowed by the fact that they, had also done wonderful things during that time. But unfortunately, too, the voters were asking for more from them.

It is also a case of their influence getting to wide and thin, that the center still holds while the sides collapse and complacency sets in to give them the fatal blow for which they would take a very long period of time before they can recover, and it may not be sufficient for them to expect this to happen by the time the next general election is held four years from now.

If they can do wonders, BN can still call for a new general election and see if they can change their fortunes and win more seats this time. And they can do it in two years' time, without waiting any longer.

The new generation of Umno leaders in Puteri and Putera are useless; they do not have credibility; they only wish to offer the perpetuation of a system which is old and useless, without trying to shape and change it altogether to suit the needs of the present time.

They were too busy doing social work trying to get in the limelight for jumping to the North Pole and trekking to the Two Poles, getting some people to climb Mount Everest and getting over-excited over the first Malay to go to outer space, until they, too, had become spaced-out with all these distractions all of which are useless ones.

It is not because voters liked the opposition more, but it is because they hated BN more. In fact, even if the opposition had put a monkey as its candidate it could still have won.

Now, only time will tell, if there are monkeys that had been sent to parliament and the state assemblies from both sides. The first parliamentary seating will see who will replace those that had been removed.

The opposition, therefore, has to thank profusely, the few BN parliamentarians such as Mohd Said of Jasin, Bung Mokhtar, and the few other BN 'clowns' for giving them more votes. If all of the BN members of parliament had behaved well and their cabinet members had worked hard to serve the people, surely, it would have been virtually difficult for the opposition to replace them.

Lazy, noisy and stupid BN elected officials are also the reason for the BN loss. Even the new candidates put by BN are not impressive; yet they were supposed to be their next generation of leaders, and this includes Noraini Ahmad, the Puteri Umno candidate who won a seat in Johor. If she had run in any of the five states won by the opposition, she would have lost. The Malays, especially, do not like a Muslim woman like her who switches from wearing the 'tudung' to nothing on her hair, as what Sharizat Jalil had done because they were seen by the Malay voters as trying to ridicule Islam this way. If Rafidah was a 'tudung' wearing woman and who often removed them, she, too, would have suffered the same fate.

So, Nurul Izzah Anwar, who upset Sharizat in the Lembah Pantai parliamentary constituency, was aided by her 'tudung' as it endeared her to the Malay voters who also appreciated the fact that she had a master's degree from an American university.

Sharizat thought by roping in Nazir Razak and Tony Fernandes, she could get more votes. How wrong was she. These two corporate personalities are not without controversies of their own with Nazir being the younger of Najib and Tony as someone closely linked to some other colorful corporate personalities. So they had in fact, brought them to the fore by appearing in Sharizat's tent.

Many of the opposition candidates, especially those in Parti Keadilan Rakyat (PKR) are unknown and young. It did not make sense for anyone to vote them because of who they are; they were voted because the voters did not like the BN candidates.

There is even one PKR candidate who is now a member of parliament and who shot the Lingam Video, who does not speak good Malay. So how on earth is he going to relate to the people and speak in Parliament? Since he had lived for many years in Shanghai, he will now have to adjust himself to living in Malaysia which may not be an easy thing to do. His only claim to fame was as a video maker of some repute in a case that has not been fully resolved.

To the voters in Kelana Jaya where he won the election, it did not matter because all they wanted was to replace BN in this area, as in the other areas.

Voters also hated the police, judiciary, Rela, town and city councils and mostly the arrogant BN parliamentarians who preferred to turn our parliament into a circus.

And they all want to seek justice and accountability, all of which can now be ensured. And judging from what had happened at Khir Toyo's former office in Shah Alam where many documents what had been stamped 'sulit' were shredded, they surely know that they had a lot of things to hide.

I did not buy the statement made by one of the former Selangor state official who said that the documents were copies and the originals were kept in safes. No document must be destroyed for whatever reason there is, less if they record incriminating evidence against the former officials and agencies.

One of the reasons why Khir Toyo lost Selangor was because people thought he was a liar for not being brave enough to admit that he had had a nose job and eyelid procedures to change the shape of his face and appearance to make him look like an artificial person.

So it is good that these are being checked. The Inspector General of Police (IGP) too, has started to speak in lower tones, unlike before, when he preferred to speak in harsh and a condescending tone. He, too, can be brought to justice and it is just a matter of time before this happens.

Attorney-General Abdul Gani Patail's fate, too, can be in the balance now, as his fortunes are linked with those of Musa Hassan.

It's got nothing to do with Hindraf; their leaders knew when to strike - when the iron is hot - after everything was done. Now they are seen as leaders and champions of the dispossessed. But alas, they only wanted to champion the cause of the Hindus. Then they say, Indians. Which is which? Not all Indians in Malaysia support them; it is only the small group of Tamils who are in the lower rung of society do and not those who are wealthy.

Theoretically, Anwar Ibrahim can easily become the new prime minister of Malaysia. This is despite Mahathir Mohammed's views that the cats would have to grow horns first before this can happen.

Anwar can become prime minister and BN trounced out of parliament if Sabah chances loyalty and joins the Barisan Rakyat. But chances of this happening may be remote. So for the moment, Anwar and his coalition of three parties must have to wait for four more years before they can form the new government. It is now five down, and seven more to go.

In fact, the Anwar Team, (as I want to call it rather than 'opposition' or 'government in waiting') only needs to get forty more parliamentary seats to form a government with a simple majority.

For a group of leaders who are bound by their oath to protect justice and wants to conduct everything in public under their scrutiny, there is no reason for them to not want to form a government with such a simple majority as it offers them better protection. Only parties that crave to get a two-thirds majority will be able to do unreasonable things and push aside whatever laws that may stand in its way.

Malaysia has become America, where many of the states in America are in the hands of the different parties, the Democratic and Republican Parties. Yet the US is still able to develop by meeting the needs of the people in the different states, whose vision may not be similar as the others. And this is what we are seeing now in Malaysia.

I also read that some politicians in Singapore are anxious as to what had happened in the last election in Malaysia. They feared that the tide will overspill on the island causing the People's Action Party (PAP) to collapse in their next general election. Although they may scoff as such a prospect, anything can happen. If a Jemaah Islamiyah (JI) leader could escape detention in Singapore, surely, something of a lesser magnitude as PAP falling can also happen.

We are living in an exciting time, of the young and restless becoming more and more eager to remove anything even when it is not broken. The adage why replace something that is not broken, is not appropriate anymore, as there are many people who are willing to replace their cars, cellphones, computers and laptops and so on, even though they are not broken or faulty.

The voters, like the consumers, are always eager to try out new things and this includes politicians and political parties as well as governments.

My advise to BN and Pak Lah is to do away with all the think-tanks that they have now. Find new ones. The think-tankers have proven themselves to be useless; they are also a cause for the BN's loss recently other than the factors that were described above. And if they want to have a post-mortem, don't bring the think-tankers in; find new ones, especially those who were trained in America and forget about those who had studied at Oxford or Cambridge.

BN's fortune can change for the better in the next round of elections, once the opposition has showed their true colors. Even the new chief minister of Pulau Pinang, Lim Guan Eng has done some changing and adjusting himself, when he started to wear a 'batik' shirt. This is something he had not done before.