Not ready for Penang

Penang first family not ready for Penang yet!

This is not what I simply puffed out from the wind, but this is what the Star reported.

Picture from The Star

From what is reported in the newspaper, Lim family is happily having a 'family visit' to the Chief Minister office at KOMTAR, you can see everyone is grinning 'inspecting the bounties' their proud son had captured. This not a good example, Guan Eng. You don't let your aunties and sisters and sons messed around the CM offices.

Back to our original topic, to put thing in context, let read the Star,

Wednesday March 12, 2008

A post that not even Lim’s family expected

By LIM AI LEE and ZARINAH DAUD

JUST like many Penangites, Lim Guan Eng's family members never expected that he would one day be the Chief Minister of the state.

His mother Neo Yok Tee, 67, said it never crossed her mind that her son would be a chief minister although he was a very serious and committed politician.

“Just like any mother, I am happy for him after such a long struggle and hard work.

“He should meet the people’s expectations as they have placed their trust in him and the party when they voted the DAP and other opposition parties to run the state government,” she said while accompanying Guan Eng to his Level 28 office in Komtar yesterday.

Neo said since her son became a VIP, an endless stream of visitors had been calling at their family home in Island Park, Penang.

“No more laidback lifestyle for me as I have to entertain the visitors. I hope my life will return to normal when Guan Eng moves in to the official residence.”

Neo’s advice to her son is to remain humble and do his best as Chief Minister and “I’m confident that he can do it.”

His father, DAP adviser Lim Kit Siang, said it was his birthday wish come true.

Kit Siang, who celebrated his 67th birthday on Feb 20, said he had secretly wished for DAP to capture Penang although the party’s target was to deny the Barisan Nasional of two-thirds majority in the state assembly.

Guan Eng’s wife Betty Chew, who is also newly elected Kota Laksamana state assemblyman in Malacca, said she was shocked when her husband told her that he would be Chief Minister of Penang on Saturday night.

“I did not believe him but he told me that he was serious. I did not expect it at all because the DAP’s objective was to have a strong opposition in Penang.”

On whether she would shift to Penang now that she was the chief minister's wife, Chew said they were still deliberating on the matter as three of the couple’s four children were studying in Malacca.

Their eldest daughter Rachel Lim, 17, said she never expected her father to be elevated to the head of the Penang Government.

Rachel was reluctant to move to Penang at the moment, saying she would be sitting for her SPM at the end of the year.

“My three other siblings may shift to Penang but I will remain in Malacca until my exams are over,” she added.

Apart from Rachel, the couple have three other children – Clint, 16, Marcus, 13, and Ethan, 14 months.

See, this is what I mean, you don't let a Malaccan head a Penang government.