The manner in which it seems as if PKR's intemperate rhetoric about electoral fraud and its seemingly endless rallies have unleashed a tiger in the form of NGOs and grassroots who took them seriously. We noted at the time that PAS and the DAP have long experience in managing their grassroots, and so have been able to accept the election results and move forward with the task of governance.

PKR, however, is and for as long as he lives will be the party of Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim, and so lacks the institutional competence to understand how far matters may be pressed. Matters were clearly becoming shambolic when various Pakatan Rakyat-aligned NGOs began calling on the Opposition to boycott Parliament. As noted at the time, this demand was perfectly reasonable if you believed Pakatan's ridiculous notion that the election was stolen – if the elections were stolen, Parliament is illegitimate, and it is morally and legally wrong to pretend otherwise.

This forced PKR into a complicated series of promises and climb-downs that ultimately ended with PKR's political officers voting unanimously to be sworn into Parliament, a move that likely confused those of their supporters who thought Keadilan serious about allegations of fraud rather than simply working up outrage to compel Anwar into Putrajaya.

This near-miss has not caused Pakatan's leadership to contemplate whether it might be wiser to tamp down the rhetoric; or if it has, they fear the consequences of such a move too much to stop. Thus, yet another Black 505 rally is planned for Saturday, ostensibly for Padang Merbok and in apparent violation of the Peaceful Assembly Act.

Yet six weeks after GE13, some of Pakatan Rakyat's most fervent supporters at online portals and outside have begun to ask whether there is some point to all of these rallies and assemblies, with hard work yet to be done. Perhaps most pressing is the redelineation exercise set for later in the year – a simple majority can set new boundaries for various seats, but experts agree that only a two-thirds majority can create new seats, as doing so will require constitutional changes.

Pakatan Rakyat does not command a two-thirds majority. Only by working with Barisan Nasional and showing seriousness of purpose will Pakatan have any say in new seats – and yet doing these things will be a slap in the face to those supporters whom they have convinced that working with BN is not many steps removed from treason.

Yet failing to work on new seats will leave BN to simply set new boundaries on its own and forego the addition of any new seats – something that will undercut Pakatan's message that only BN gerrymandering allowed the coalition to win GE13.

Yet the rally set for Saturday shows no signs of disappearing, and so Pakatan must now somehow lower the fires it has set – or be burned, one way or another.

In the six weeks since GE13, Datuk Seri Najib Razak and Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim have taken divergent paths which tell us much about the two men.

Anwar has been roaming the land bleating about alleged cheating at the ballot box despite the key piece of evidence to the contrary – that his coalition made gains at GE13.

He has been recklessly calling for a Parliamentary boycott, an idea that has already run out of steam, and has demanded the sacking of the Election Commission. Throughout it all, he has been blind to the fact few people now support his increasingly tedious argument.

In total contrast Najib is doing what he said he'll do – getting on with running the country. He emerged bruised from the poll but vowed that there would be "no sulking" on his side of the fence (take note Anwar) and turned immediately to the critical first 100 days of the new Government in which his new cabinet is being forced to directed their energies forwards, instead of looking backwards to what is now political history.

And it is important for this new team to show that they getting on with it. This year, 155 programmes aimed at benefiting small and medium enterprises (SMEs) will be implemented by his Government and this is yet another BN manifesto pledged fulfilled. These programmes are valued at RM18.4 billion and will benefit 465,000 firms.

This is an important sector for because Najib because he, as much as anyone, recognises that as our economy develops small business will play an increasingly important role and SMEs are set to become the biggest employer in Malaysia by the year 2020.

The boost to the SME programme was announced by Minister in the Prime Minister's Department, Datuk Seri Abdul Wahid Omar.

"This is an increase from the 133 programmes implemented last year, involving about RM7 billion and benefited more than 430,000 SMEs across all sectors," he said, reading a speech on behalf of Najib at the SME Annual Showcase 2013.

"The increase in allocations this year, including RM8 billion of private sector funding, is a strong head start for the private sector-led economy we envision for Malaysia. The government becomes more of a facilitator and mediator, and private enterprise takes charge," he added.

Wahid Omar knows more than anyone the problems faced by small business in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis. The Maybank chief saw how recoiling banks cut off the supply of credit to SMEs and the damage it caused.

But now he is part of a Government that can do something positive to help SMEs and in the process, is reminding the rakyat that the Government is getting on with the job it was elected to do.

Anwar really needs to take note.

DAP National Chairman Karpal Singh denied on Saturday that his party's grassroots leaders had called for a boycott of the swearing-in ceremony of the Dewan Rakyat on June 24.

"All Pakatan MPs will be attending the ceremony except for those who can't attend. They can always come within six months," he said, trying to patch up the damage triggered by his PKR allies over the past fortnight.

"I don't think there should be any (boycotting). You have been elected and you have to be responsible. To my knowledge, all including the PKR advisor Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim will attend the Parliament sitting."

His words came just days after House Speaker Tan Sri Pandikar Amin Mulia hit back at those 'mulling' a boycott by reminding those that did not attend in protest that they would be disqualified from Parliament if they kept up the shenanigans.

"MPs will have six months to take their oath and until such time, those who fail to do so would be barred from participating in parliamentary proceedings," he said after the parliamentary briefing on Tuesday afternoon.

If Karpal is to be believed that none of DAP's grassroots leaders had made plans to boycott the ceremony, then this should be taken as a positive sign of the party's relative maturity – at least compared to their erstwhile allies in PKR and PAS.

Earlier, the PAS Information Chief Tuan Ibrahim Tuan Man (no doubt a busy man since GE13), tried to explain that just because some of the party's key leaders had decided to stay away from Anwar's Black 505 rallies, it did not signify that they were disloyal to the cause.

"Not attending does not turn the leaders into traitors, they still do support. I am confident that there are no leaders who do not support the cause," he told Sinar Harian.

PAS Vice President Husam Musa had said dejectedly that any party leader who did not attend the rally in Kelantan was "carrying the voice of Umno," after Deputy President Mohamad Sabu issued instructions for the top members to attend.

"Everyone abides by the party's instruction but I am confident that some leaders who did not attend... had prior commitments or were worn-out," Tuan Ibrahim said, perhaps a little unconvincingly.

It must be a worrying time for the Opposition if PAS has to take a lesson on maturity from the DAP.

The police will conduct round-the-clock hourly patrols nationwide to prevent break-ins at automated teller machines (ATM).

National Key Results Area (NKRA) chairman Datuk Wira Ayub Yaakob said motorbike and car patrol units will carry out the patrols and report to the district control rooms on an hourly basis immediately.

Speaking at the launch of Ops Tawan Bukit Aman at the KLCC shopping mall, he said the patrol units would be fully accountable for any robberies or break-ins during their shifts. On another development, Ayub said the proposal for separate pedestrian and motorbike lanes as an initiative to reduce street crime was still under discussion.

"We have received Kuala Lumpur City Hall's (DBKL) response on the matter. But the proposal has to be studied further, including its impact on the society," he said.

According to Ayub, based on statistics, crimes involving motorbikes made up 50 percent of the national crime index and the proposal was seen as a method to reduce the rate.

"For example, motorbike thefts is a major component of the national crime index and if we zoned them to certain areas maybe such crimes can be controlled," he said.