PENANG’S caretaker chief minister looked a little flushed with excitement as he lowered his car window for a wefie with journalists on the day the Penang state assembly was dissolved.

IT has been a heady seven months in the hotseat for Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim. The charismatic leader is living the dream except that it would have been a less stressful dream if not for the looming six-state election.

KHAIRY Jamaluddin has kept his cards close to his chest on Bersatu’s approaches to bring him onboard for the state elections.

SOME described Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim’s place of honour on the stage at the Umno general assembly as a “homecoming” to the party he was booted out of.

IT was a beautiful night as the full moon glowed above Tanjung Karang but the war drums have begun on the ground.

THE future is bleak for Umno in the state elections except perhaps in Negri Sembilan.

HE was the most powerful Umno warlord in Selangor until he was sacked from the party.

ONE of Umno’s most gifted orators, Datuk Seri Alwi Che Ahmad recently described himself as “paper lama” or "old newspapers" after deciding to retire from politics.

THE Prime Minister has denied it several times but “the plot,” for want of a better term, continued to be a topic of conversation at the Hari Raya open house events of political parties.

THE normally low-profile Penang Chief Minister has been swamped by a blaze of media publicity the last few weeks.

UNTIL a few days ago, the Penang South Island (PSI) project was starting to look like an impossible dream for Chief Minister Chow Kon Yeow.

Two men – an incumbent and the other a former mentri besar – have been tasked to lead the charge for control of the 'rice bowl state' amid rumours of a plot unfolding within Umno.