*This article is in response to TIME magazine’s issue on November 6th 2006. To read the article, click here.

But there is one road in Putrajaya that is different. Although the path affords a telescopic view of the onion-domed citadel that is the new prime-ministerial office, this strip of asphalt is mysteriously overgrown with weeds and scrub. No gleaming skyscrapers have taken root here. Only one building stands forlornly at the road’s dead end: the office of former Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad, the man whose two-decade building spree turned Malaysia into an economic tiger and whose grandiose dream included the construction of Putrajaya itself. The irony for the 81-year-old Mahathir must be overwhelming: Is this really how the story of one of Asia’s modernizing forces is to conclude, at the dead end of an unkempt road in the futurist metropolis he created?

As far as i can recall, Hannad Beech is the writer for Time Mag which based in Hong Kong. She wrote the article on Tun and the starting point wasn’t reflect any good upon the Premier. If u read carefully the quote above which taken partly from the article, it pretty much sounds like underestimating the Premier.

I’ve been to his office. doesn’t mean when u go through the road reflects wht the leader is all about. Maybe she’s just writing wht she think becoause she hardly know wht the leader had done the good for this wonderful country. As a Malaysia, I truly understand wht this leader have been through, and still, he’s have his stand the way the

*This article is still under contruction. The rest of the entry will continue until further editing from the editor.