COMMENT | I was sitting at the mamak with a few of my friends after a basketball session and having teh tarik that was "kurang manis" (less sweet).

But who are we kidding, right? It is never really kurang manis. On our phone screens was Hamzah Zainudin, the opposition leader and deputy president of Bersatu - or I should say former deputy president.

He was surrounded by a sea of supporters at a “Reset” rally, and I couldn’t help but feel a strange sense of deja vu.

I’ve been writing opinion pieces for Malaysiakini (and several other platforms before) on a weekly basis for quite a while now. In dog years, that’s about 70. In Malaysian political years, it’s closer to a century.

I’ve written about Umno splitting, PKR splintering, PAS divorcing, and Bersatu being born.

And here we are in February 2026, and the headline is...