As the BN chief gets set to announce the party's candidates list, several politicians in the twilight of their lives are hoping, secretly or otherwise, that they will have the opportunity for "one last kopek" before riding off into the sunset.

One such person seems to be S Samy Vellu, the former MIC president.

Spending the morning with the Malaysian special envoy of infrastructure to India and southern Asia in his former constituency of Sungai Siput last weekend, one gets the feeling that the former stage actor and news reader wants one last shot at the prize - pretty much like in Rocky III where the champion, defeated after a bout of arrogance and complacency, cleans up his act to recapture the championship belt he had lost to Clubber Lang...