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This week, Umusu snippet brings some other news other than street related stuff. Why? We think this widow deserve a recognition for her humble presence on this year general election. You may laugh but for us, this is an inspiring story.
This humble widow remind us a movie, " The World Fastest Indian". One of the crew heard about this grandma on the tv news recently and we decided to search on the net for more information. Finding her information was a brezzee since not only us that fascinated with her tiny humble presence on the Malaysian General Election scene.
Meet Maimun Yusuf, a 89 years old grandmother who make a living by selling Songket on her trusty bike. She will be contesting for one of the Terengganu Parlimentary seats.
Maimun Yusuf said although she is uneducated, poor and old, she will continue her dreams to stand up what she believes is right. She do not care wheather she lose since becoming a contestant itself has fulfilled her dreams.
When asked what make her to join the election, she said she wants to help people in her village and build beautufil schools and offices. She said lots of the politicians say wrong stuff nowadays and she wants to change that. She said, she is old and have seen a lot of things and let her take the lead (something like that). She dislike PAS (Parti Agama Islam SeMalaysia) since she thinks PAS will sell Terengganu to Japan since PAS flag looks like the Japan flag.
Maimun Yusuf spent RM10,000 for the election fee, RM2000 for her posters and RM200 for her "Operation Room" and mind you guys, she is one of the people who receive RM200 per month from Jabatan Kebajikan Terengganu. For campaigning, she only use her bike and she campaigns while selling Songket.
Maimun Yusuf has tried 4 times before for the general elections but all her four tries before were rejected by the SPR since she did not met the requirements. Now, after 20 years, Maimun Yusuf finnaly made it on track. When asked about the money which will definately burn out if she lose, she said she does not care since money can be find.
Ok. Some might think she is crazy, but whatever it is, some of the girls that we know told us that they are like going to burst in tears. Although she is unrealistic and what she believe seems crazy, when we considered her age, she surely endured the British era, Japanese Invasion, Independence of our country, 13 Mei etc and that drove her to speak since she saw it all! Spent around RM13,000 for the election when she herself receive help for Jabatan Kebajikan and only campaign alone using his bike, Maimun Yusuf has the pure heart for her cause to compete for this year general election.
Maimun Yusuf, we salute your spirit.
*whoever wins, we he hope you'll give back her money (if you can) and take a good care of her. or is this just a prank sponsored by someone?
