The past five years have been a roller-coaster ride for Khairy Jamaluddin - that's how he described it himself.
Once labeled as the most powerful 28-year-old in Malaysia, Khairy now 32, is struggling to win the Umno Youth chief post when he would have been a shoo-in not too long ago.
In a 90-minute interview with Malaysiakini - the first he has given to the online newsdaily - Khairy talked about what went wrong.