Finally, the moment that all Malaysians have been anticipating for months and months has materialised.
Pak Lah has just passed the baton on to Najib. This makes Najib the 6th PM of Malaysia, taking over the country in the most vulnerable, volatile political, social and economic situation Gen-Y Malaysians have ever endured.

Even though I could see this coming, I was actually relieved when it happened. To be honest, most Malaysians, including myself included have very low faith and confidence in our ex PM, Pak Lah. Yes he was a man of integrity, and his modest, humble and clean image made him known as "Mr Good Guy" or "Mr Clean" but there just seemed to be something that he lacked. That leadership spark, the ability to movitate, lift and influence his fellow cabinet members and the people was just not there. Maybe MM himself chose Pak Lah as his successor because he thought that Pak Lah would carry on and implement the mega projects and visions that he had for Malaysia during his tenure as the 4th PM. He thought that Pak Lah was a straight person, simple minded, nice and accomodating so much so that he would not try to have his own say in how the country is run but would just continue with what MM had left behind.

But no, Pak Lah abandoned the so called mega projects, gave the press much more leash that it has ever had (it was never 100% free), 'sweeped clean' the corrupted and then led the Barisan Nasional to its worst ever general election in 2008 after such a promising start in 2004.
The reason being; 4 years into his time as PM, people could see that Pak Lah just didn't have that leadership quality in him. He was always wavering in his decision making, never precise and always came up with reasons when things did not go according to plan. As far as I can remember, he never put the blame on himself. It was always because of something else, either too much corruption, or bad press (ironic, as he himself gave the press the freedom), or peoples' biasness towards MM.

Although, it would also be fair to say that Pak Lah was just the wrong person to lead Malaysia at the wrong time. Oil prices went up, inflation soared, the world economy came crashing down, many jobs lost and markets were so bearish that people start blaming the government and ultimately, the PM.
In tough times, it takes one hell of a tough person to get things in order, to get thing under control. And Pak Lah was just not cut out for this situation. He was not firm in what he said, and what he did, and who could blame him? While he was handpicked by MM himself to be the successor, he was not MM.
MM was in the same situation in 1999, and he came out with guns blazing. He stuck by his decision to shun the help from the IMF and thus isolate Malaysia from the global economy, and it proved to be a success. And because of that, MM is a legend, up till today. He single-handedly turned Malaysia's economy around. He took the risk (which was calculated), and he won.
The ability to take calculated risks is one thing that Pak Lah lacks. Pak Lah is a person who plays it safe, who takes easy way out. And most of the time, too easy means mediocrity.

And now, Najib moves into the spotlight. It has been a good start so far, with MM and family rejoining UMNO and freedom for those detained under the ISA. Only a couple of days in his new office, Najib has indeed gained many friends. But it's still too early to say whether he will be as great a Prime Minister as his father, the late Tun Abdul Razak. Coming from a political blue-blood family line has its advantages, but ultimately he will be judge based on the present and the future instead of his history. 

But, in my opinion, the timing is just right for Najib. World leaders at the G20 summit announced over a trillion dollars would be spent on reviving the world economy and surely, after months and months of economical mayhem, it can't possibly get worse.  With the economy improving, and the opposition in fits of internal problems,  he hasn't got much risk to take, and not many problems ahead. He just has to play his cards right.

Because the only way from here is up, and it will only get better. The tide is in Najib's favour, and all he needs to do is sail with it.