im so tired lately... hate my lifestyle now
cant sleep at nite and waing up so early yet im still late for work...
y?? cos i stoned too much n get into so much emotions tt slows down my pace in doing things! hate it.... my adherance is so bad, i was given a notice to watch my adherance... hahaha!! n so does most of my colleagues...
management's decision to make changes irates everyone!!
but wat to do... work is work...
so many pple r leaving n sending out resumes to other jobs! gosh they're leaving me all alone cos me being so stubborn wants to stay for at least 6mths if not 1 year...
haiz... work is too much of a distraction tt i only hv time to be "emo" late at nite... tts when i need to snack n supper.... gosh i've been spending alot too...
some hw the reason y im saving up no longer stands... so let me jus enjoy wat ever i have but of cos i know my limitations.. i know when/where to stop
been wanting to get a new hp but the wait for starhub queue is crazy...
i want the sony ericsson Z520i.... small, flip-phone, young n sport... i think suits me well though it doesnt look tt gd... i find it cute n it has everythin i need.... hopefully i get it by this week..
on wed i went to Ir's hse to return his tent/hammock, his pair of our couple ring tt i kept for him, the blue topaz necklace n ring he bought in thailand n the name banner he bought fm taiwan. Julizah accompanied me... thanks gal!!
pple ask y i gave back the stuff... the expensive stuffs... well i only keep things tt hv sentimental value not necessarily expensive stuff. i keep some, i return very few... i hv my reasons....
Jus now meet up with Jo, YY n Ven at orchard... was supposed to hv dinner but the queue was so long n 2 of them didnt really wanna eat. i was craving for choc McMilkshakes, so we chill at mcd shaw. talk over some stuff.... i appreciate their efforts not to talk bout it though it felt so weird cos we always talk bout stuffs like this.... i didnt talk much today...
ven & YY were sick but they still come down n meet me.. so touched... was nice to hug them.... its been some time since the last time i hugged...
YY n Jo going MOS tmr... dunno if i wanna join.... dun hv the md... i think im nt ready to step out of my world yet.... haiz... some one told me few days ago... 'if it hurts so much, jus let it go n make peace, give in n stop being so egoistic over it'....
im looking forward to tmr... wanna go outz with my sistaz...
its gonna be my treat.... wanna watch cartoon on TV together, buy hp.... maybe catch a movie or something.... eat delifrance, cookies, brownies n icecream.. yum yum yum.... i need my sista... havent seen/been with her the whole week cos im so so so busy....
im so tired, dead restless and busy the whole entire month... things happen randomly... i forgot....
***Happy Belated 22nd Birthday ESLI***
posted by Azizan @ 12:42 AM
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I read with great sadness over the controversy arising from the statement made by with regards to the concept of malays as the 'masters of the land'.
It now appears to me that the problem began with the concept of 'Ketuanan Melayu'. This concept was introduced around the time when Malaysia was working hard to achieve independence from the British.
As we are all aware, the malays were marginalised in the economic sector and perhaps to a large extend the political side as well. The malay leaders of the time tried to boost the spirit of the malay community by introducing the concept of 'Ketuanan Melayu'.
So, the malay leaders at the time used the concept 'Ketuanan Melayu' as a rallying point not as a tool to oppress or rid the non-malays, but merely as a cry to prevent the malays from drifting towards oblivion in the era of Malaysia as a country.
I am a son of a Malaysian career-diplomat. I have had the privilege of traveling around the world all my life.
Based on the input I received from many others in my journey, racist concepts as Apartheid; KKK; and many more cannot be compared to 'Ketuanan Melayu'. While the other concepts ranging from ethnic cleansing to white supremacy are meant to dominate and wipe out the other races, 'Ketuanan Melayu' is only meant to help the malays to get to equal footing with the non-malays.
We can see today the barriers for non-malays in Malaysia are slowly coming down as the malays have steadily climbed up the ladders.
While our system might not be perfect, and rightfully we should criticise where need be, there is no need to throw mud across the table and certainly there is no need to use inflammatory words. Hopefully we can all steer our beloved Malaysia to a better future.
List of racial discriminations in Malaysia, practiced by government as well as government agencies. This list is an open secret. Best verified by government itself because it got the statistics.
This list is not in the order of importance, that means the first one on the list is not the most important and the last one on the list does not mean least important.
This list is a common knowledge to a lot of Malaysians, especially those non-malays (Chinese, Ibans, Kadazans, Orang Asli, Tamils, etc) who were being racially discriminated.
Figures in this list are estimates only and please take it as a guide only. Government of Malaysia has the most correct figures. Is government of Malaysia too ashamed to publish their racist acts by publishing racial statistics?
This list cover a period of about 48 years since independence (1957).
List of racial discriminations (Malaysia):
(1) Out of all the 5 major banks, only one bank is multi-racial, the rest are controlled by malays
(2) 99% of Petronas directors are malays
(3) 3% of Petronas employees are Chinese
(4) 99% of 2000 Petronas gasoline stations are owned by malays
(5) 100% all contractors working under Petronas projects must be bumis status
(6) 0% of non-malay staffs is legally required in malay companies. But there must be 30% malay staffs in Chinese companies.
(7) 5% of all new intake for government police, nurses, army, is non-malays.
(8) 2% is the present Chinese staff in Royal Malaysian Air Force (RMAF), drop from 40% in 1960
(9) 2% is the percentage of non-malay government servants in Putrajaya. But malays make up 98%
(10) 7% is the percentage of Chinese government servants in the whole government (in 2004), drop from 30% in 1960
(11) 95% of government contracts are given to malays
(12) 100% all business licensees are controlled by malay government e.g. Taxi permits, Approved permits, etc
(13) 80% of the Chinese rice millers in Kedah had to be sold to malay controlled Bernas in 1980s. Otherwise, life is make difficult for Chinese rice millers
(14) 100 big companies set up, owned and managed by Chinese Malaysians were taken over by government, and later managed by malays since 1970s e.g. UTC, UMBC, MISC, etc
(15) At least 10 Chinese owned bus companies (throughout Malaysia, throughout 40 years) had to be sold to MARA or other malay transport companies due to rejection by malay authority to Chinese application for bus routes and rejection for their application for new buses
(16) 2 Chinese taxi drivers were barred from driving in Johor Larkin bus station. There are about 30 taxi drivers and 3 are Chinese in October 2004. Spoiling taxi club properties was the reason given
(17) 0 non-malays are allowed to get shop lots in the new Muar bus station (November 2004)
(18) 8000 billions ringgit is the total amount the government channeled to malay pockets through ASB, ASN, MARA, privatisation of government agencies, Tabung Haji etc, through NEP over 34 years period
(19) 48 Chinese primary schools closed down since 1968 - 2000
(20) 144 Indian primary schools closed down since 1968 - 2000
(21) 2637 malay primary schools built since 1968 - 2000
(22) 2.5% is government budget for Chinese primary schools. Indian schools got only 1%, malay schools got 96.5%
(23) While a Chinese parent with RM1000 salary (monthly) cannot get school-text-book-loan, a malay parent with RM2000 salary is eligible
(24) 10 all public universities vice chancellors are malays
(25) 5% - the government universities lecturers of non-malay origins had been reduced from about 70% in 1965 to only 5% in 2004
(26) Only 5% is given to non-malays for government scholarships over 40 years
(27) 0 Chinese or Indians were sent to Japan and Korea under "Look East Policy"
(28) 128 STPM Chinese top students could not get into the course that they aspired i.e. Medicine (in 2004)
(29) 10% place for non-bumi students for MARA science schools beginning from year 2003, but only 7% are filled. Before that it was 100% malays
(30) 50 cases whereby Chinese and Indian Malaysians, are beaten up in the National Service program in 2003
(31) 25% is Malaysian Chinese population in 2004, drop from 45% in 1957
(32) 7% is the present Malaysian Indians population (2004), a drop from 12% in 1957
(33) 2 millions Chinese Malaysians had emigrated to overseas since 40 years ago
(34) 0.5 million Indian Malaysians had emigrated to overseas
(35) 3 millions Indonesians had migrated into Malaysia and became Malaysian citizens with bumis status.
(36) 600000 are the Chinese and Indian Malaysians with red IC and were rejected repeatedly when applying for citizenship for 40 years. Perhaps 60% of them had already passed away due to old age. This shows racism of how easily Indonesians got their citizenships compare with the Chinese and Indians
(37) 5% - 15% discount for a malay to buy a house, regardless whether the malay is rich or poor
(38) 2% is what Chinese new villages get compare with 98% of what malay villages got for rural development budget
(39) 50 road names (at least) had been changed from Chinese names to other names
(40) 1 Dewan Gan Boon Leong (in Malacca) was altered to other name (e.g. Dewan Serbaguna or sort) when it was being officially used for a few days. Government try to shun Chinese names. This racism happened in around year 2000 or sort
(41) 0 temples/churches were built for each housing estate. But every housing estate got at least one mosque/surau built
(42) 3000 mosques/surau were built in all housing estates throughout Malaysia since 1970. No temples, no churches are required to be built in housing estates
(43) 1 Catholic church in Shah Alam took 20 years to apply to be constructed. But told by malay authority that it must look like a factory and not look like a church. Still not yet approved in 2004
(44) 1 publishing of Bible in Iban language banned (in 2002)
(45) 0 of the government TV stations (RTM1, RTM2, TV3) are directors of non-malay origins
(46) 30 government produced TV dramas and films always showed that the bad guys had Chinese face, and the good guys had malay face. You can check it out since 1970s. Recent years, this tendency becomes less
(47) 10 times, at least, malays (especially Umno) had threatened to massacre the Chinese Malaysians using May 13 since 1969
(48) 20 constituencies won by DAP would not get funds from the government to develop. Or these Chinese majority constituencies would be the last to be developed
(49) 100 constituencies (parliaments and states) had been racistly re-delineated so Chinese voters were diluted that Chinese candidates, particularly DAP candidates lost in election since 1970s
(50) Only 3 out of 12 human rights items are ratified by Malaysia government since 1960
(51) 0 - elimination of all forms of racial discrimination (UN Human Rights) is not ratified by Malaysia government since 1960s
(52) 20 reported cases whereby malay ambulance attendances treated Chinese patients inhumanely, and malay government hospital staffs purposely delay attending to Chinese patients in 2003. Unreported cases may be 200
(53) 50 cases each year whereby Chinese, especially Chinese youths being beaten up by malay youths in public places. We may check at police reports provided the police took the report, otherwise there will be no record
(54) 20 cases every year whereby Chinese drivers who accidentally knocked down malays were seriously assaulted or killed by malays
(55) 12% is what ASB/ASN got per annum while banks fixed deposit is only about 3.5% per annum
There are hundreds more racial discriminations in Malaysia to add to this list of "colossal" racism. It is hope that the victims of racism will write in to expose racism.
Malaysia government should publish statistics showing how much malays had benefited from the "special rights" of malays and at the same time tell the statistics of how much other minority races are being discriminated.
Hence, the responsibility lies in the Malaysia government itself to publish unadulterated statistics of racial discrimination.
If the Malaysia government hides the statistics above, then there must be some evil doings, immoral doings, shameful doings and sinful doings, like the Nazi, going on onto the non-malays of Malaysia.
Civilized nation, unlike evil Nazi, must publish statistics to show its treatment on its minority races. This is what Malaysia must publish……….
We are asking for the publication of the statistics showing how "implementation of special rights of malays" had inflicted colossal racial discrimination onto non-malays.
Government forces us to learn Bahasa Melayu. Looking the fact today, what rubbish use is it? Do you speak malay in Australia? No, yes you speak malay in Indonesia, but who will go such a moron country and have his career started over there?
Bahasa Melayu sucks, I wonder why we should study this language first of all. English is always what we want it to be as the national language instead of Bahasa Melayu.
Using English as an official language is the best thing to do, not for our own good but for your own good. Due to this stupid Bahasa Melayu, it distorted our English learning improvement. If it wasn't due to this language, my English wouldn't be so slack here……….
So now those Umno morons finally see the importance of English, but limited by their narrow mind, they only change some the media language to English in the education system.
20 years after the change from malay to English, they finally relalise that Bahasa Melayu did not bring any good improvement. But still in my school years I learn malay……….damn!
Second of all, you are very narrow mind guy. Why should one in this world be patriotic to certain country and be faithful to them? World is world, everybody in this world are brothers, is it necessary to say that you belong to this region or something or so on!
For countries like Singapore and western countries, they can have double citizenships, it is not a big problem at all if one's holding so many citizenships, because they understand the meaning about this.
Only Malaysians having such narrow mind would care about those things……….
Seriously, are you a Muslim? It means that your God says one has special rights than others?
Immigrants? I don't think Malaysia can achieve half what they have without the immigrants. Do you seriously think that every things Malaysia have today are the effort of malays only? Indians and Chinese never even done anything?
It seems like worshiping Allah give you a characteristic of humiliating and scolding others off, and racist claim - sons of immigrants.
If there is a $$$ God, it will be better than Allah, the one you worship.
You want to talk about descendents? Oh aren't you the immigrants from Indonesia? Whose ancestors are from Africa, who grand grand grand parents are Adam and Eve. After all we are still the same. Get it?
God damn it, after 30 years Islam teaches out bunch of people that are racist towards other groups of people? Disappointing……….
Tell yourself what can you do to the country? Do you certainly believe that people having same characteristic like you are the people who helped to develop this country?
I want your own opinion, you think this is fair? You think this is right? After learning Islamic teachings for so many years, you agree with all those racist policies and called people sons of immigrants?
Holy crap……….all the years what Malaysia have are narrow mind cunts like you, you are no different with the Umno morons.
Tell me one of these government policies is wrong. Judge it. So you think that it is ok, if we don't like it, we get lost? Yes, I choose to get lost, I don't want pay my tax to a group of Umno morons to continue their unfair policies.
Not peaceful enough? What makes Malaysia peaceful?
Of course Malaysia can still live in peaceful situation. Isn't African countries also peaceful? As long as you stay at home. You are peaceful!
Let me tell you my perspectives. This land should belongs to no one particular race, should be multi-racial. Should run fair policies which is not one-sided. Should speak a common language - English.
Sick anyhow, this country has no relationship to me anymore. I am in Singapore now, thank God. After graduation I definitely get a Singapore PR and I will surely apply for citizenship.
It is ridiculous that you could discuss this without highlighting what the obvious problem is and injustice is. The original problem of low standard is due to the un-meritocracy practise of the Malaysia universities.
Without dealing with the issue, getting foreign professors and researchers is doomed to fail. The more likely result will be that mediocre foreign professors and researchers will come here and not achieve the objective. Any difference they make could have easily been achieved if they just practise a meritocracy system first.
I think the problems with our universities are more deeply rooted than merely not having world-class lecturers. Those world-class lecturers who come to Malaysia, often don't stay very long and leave after a year or two, out of frustration. This is something I've experienced first hand as a student, coming from university about 5 years back.
The whole thing is unjust to non-malays, and non-politically correct professors and researchers in this country. It is a far bigger crime against them than anything that can be achieved with such a measure.
What are they going to do next, if the grades and quality don't go up. Give scholarships to foreigners to come here to better the grades and performance, while keeping up deserving and even desperate Malaysians?
I say this is a huge loss to the university and to the country. Why do you think we produce so many unemployable graduates?
So, you see why having hiring world-class lecturers will not solve anything. If you want to think global and act global, you first need to have a world-class learning culture.
Worse off, we have foreign lecturers from Egypt, Nigeria, Sudan, and other African and Middle East countries who speak English with their heavy slang. Even I am English educated and considered proficient, I too don't understand them. Do you expect the undergraduates to understand? Wishful of thoughts and fallacy of ideas.
Before we turn to hiring top professors from the West, why not hire capable Malaysians who are teaching abroad? We have these much people in the global countries in the education field!
Do keep in mind that among includes head of departments and ilk in top universities like Harvard, Stanford, etc. We all know there are a whole lot of academicians across the causeway, and probably a lot more elsewhere in the world.
Why go for westerners when we have fellow qualified countrymen to hire? That of course, is the naive question we want to ask. Sadly, we all know why. Sadder is the fact that most of them would not want to return anyway.
It is no different from many organisations that choose to get some 'foreign' consultants to tell them what their local managers can tell them without additional costs.
It is the ear and the spaces between the ears choose what they want to hear that matters ultimately.
In Malaysia, many discriminated and disenfranchised particularly in the media have been beaten down not to deal with the issues, in the name of compromise and tolerance. The problem now is that there are many situations that those same group have been conditioned such that they now perpetuate myths, and hence the problem.
We have to look at ourselves in the mirror! That is something I cannot see happening, as nearly everyone is here for short-term gains and immediate results at the expense of long-term.
What is needed is sincerity and real acknowledgment of the root causes of the problems, not identifying merely the symptoms. Unemployable graduates and poor quality of faculty members are merely symptoms of the deep-rooted problems of political intervention, meritocracy (lack of it), favoritism, cronyism, etc. We must be objective rather than just choose to look at things from rose tinted glasses.
What I am against is covering up problems with cosmetic solutions because it either is wasteful and far worst, it covers up damages and injustices that are very very wrong.
Yes, I agree. Who else could hear owes of our kids better than parents but in the development of a child, the school alias the education system plays an important role.
There can be only two inferences from the discussion - either our leaders, particularly the ministers in charge of education are plain dumb and do not have the intellectual capacity to develop the nation's most important asset, or they do realise the importance and have the know-how but plainly chose to ignore it because of political considerations.
I do not know whether there will be a dawn of time for whatever you have so passionately put in write but pardon if I am a pessimist, we have lived through the changing times to know all too well that nothing seems to be in the horizon.
An education system that produces people who learn by rote, incapable of independent thinking and in a language not understood anywhere else has to examine itself.
It does not take a person with a PhD to tell you that something is wrong!
Almost fifty years after receiving independence, we Malaysia as a nation, ought to have matured into a cohesive force. Instead we have become so regressive. We have started another cycle of the NEP. This is not the first, second or even the third but would be the 9th one.
That the malays are lagging behind in the economic sector (if it is indeed true), what happened to all the "brains" who developed the policies to achieve them within the stipulated time?
My question is, with so much planning and billions of dollars pumped under the disguise of implementing the NEP policies, why are we still on the drawing board to determine how effectively we can help the malays? Consecutive government has bulldozed with a single unison of thought to hammer home the point of the mantra of 30% for the malays.
Each time, under the guise of a new-coined term the agenda was pushed forthright. From university education to business opportunities, they were given unfettered access which, if only a quarter of it had been given to the non-malays, would have far reaching consequences.
So, what is actually wrong? Are the malays incapable and only a few scattered spots are able to spring-up to claim as being the able ones? Having spent the better part of my life believing that race has nothing to do with the abilities of a person, and rightly so, then it still begs the question what is wrong?
The former prime minister, Mahathir in his "The Malay Dilemma" argued very vigorously the underpinnings of the malays as a race almost incapable of warding-off the Chinese without state assistance. After 22 years at the helm and having experimented almost every conceivable way to uplift the malays, his parting words were that he had failed to change the mindset of the malays.
In essence, what divide the malays and the non-malays is the different mindsets of each race - not the economics nor the politics of it. Time and again the malays were subtly reminded by their leaders that the time for depending on the "crutches" should be done away with, otherwise they will end up in wheelchairs, as Badawi pointed.
What would it take the malays to wake up from their slumber to realise that others need not have to take away their rights.
Look at the Chinese. Standing on their own feet, by crook or hook, they make things happen in the economic world. I did not say this, the former prime minister did when he said that you take away the Chinese from the towns, then there is no economic activity, or something to that effect.
One of the reasons why the NEP not able to achieve the many intended targets was the way the policies were envisaged. It was never used as a learning platform but as a get-rich quick sort of schemes without wanting to get involved in learning the ropes. Then it was creating successful malay entrepreneurs.
When I was working in a government agency, during meetings, stacks and stacks of reports were tabled but most of the time nothing would come out. Perhaps all those (from the top to the bottom) who were involved in the planning were off-track from the beginning.
The resultant turmoil is understandable but isn't it about time that they should not aim at 30% or even 60%? Why can't it be not reflective of the percentage? Why the encumbrance for any race to impose a limitation?
In short, they have failed. During the 1997 economic crisis, almost all top malay businesses had to be bailed out by the government.
A nation cannot settle down where there are inequalities among the races but when such inequalities are self-induced, then something is terribly wrong.
Our Malaysia country is full of resources - palm oil, Petroleum, rubber, tin, etc. All the revenues from these commodities have been misused.
Malaysia should had been a very rich country by now. Look at Singapore! What do they have and where are they now? The government that runs this country from the past and now is a joke.
Corruption exists in every facet of Malaysia society, from the laymen to the government. Is there any surprise to this? Everyone is corrupt. That is the only way to get ahead in Malaysia, if you are not a malay.
But the funny thing is, the malays with all the help from the government has gone nowhere. Very tiring!
There is no accountability from those that forms this BN government.
Every year make a report on the various misused or unused purchases done by government departments. Where is the follow up on this?
Much has been written about many misgivings in the various government departments but has anyone ever stop to ask 'whatever has been the prime minister or other leaders response?'
I don't know whether to laugh or to cry. First we have to close down our national airline and automaker. Now, we may have also to close down the navy, army and air force.
We can engage Indonesian migrant workers to patrol our coasts, the Singapore our airspace and the Thailand, our northern border. We can get our brilliant consultants who 'reengineered' MAS to handle this project.
My apologies to the forum said it is no laughing matter but I can't help it. The state of our country is such that one needs some comic relief against the corruption, hypocrisy, incompetence, negligence and double standards now overwhelming us.
But ignoring the issues would be like an ostrich burying his head in the sand and thinking that all is well and dandy for as long as I do not confront it.
Yes, I fully subscribe to equality and meritocracy, but in all fairness, you must empathise with the fact that enforcing it would mean hurting the status quo.
Hear no evil. See no evil. Speak no evil.
Sweep everything under the carpet. Hope and pray very hard for the problems to go away.
I just hope to God, the issues are also at the forefront of our politicians mind……….for the sake of all races.
To my fellow Malaysians - write in to the dailies - never mind if your letters are not publish. At least let them know that many are disgusted and tired of all the nonsense.
If writing is not your cup of tea, then tell your members of parliament in the face about your feelings about all those 'whatever gates' and demand action.
Better still let them know, straight in their faces, that come the next election, your vote will go the other way. The power to change is in your hands.
Let us walk the talk, fellow Malaysians. It is said that every generation needs a revolution. Let us be that generation.
Yes. All of us need to get out of that comfort zone. The BN government had a long run - it is time to make sure we put in more responsible ministers that will uphold the nation's integrity.
If we do not do so, our grandchildren will surely curse us.
Humans have always migrated throughout history - 'in search of better lives'. It is in our blood. Animals also do it. Some prefer to settle, others move on at whatever odds. The Chinese race is a good example of enthusiastic migrants. The Scots yet another.
Take the example of my own extended family. My father, who came from a poor family, emigrated together with his late father and late elder brother from Guangdong to Ipoh in 1923. The price they paid was separation from my late grandmother for a couple of years.
When reunited, the family expanded to a total of 10 children. Within one generation, eight of these children were able to go to university in Malaya (Singapore) and the UK. Three of these were Queen's scholars and another, a Colombo Plan scholar. This was during the time of the British, with free and fair competition prevailing.
Within another generation, my family were all dispersed around the world. Today, we have family in the US, UK, the Middle East and Australia. There are only two families left in Bolehland (Malaysia) from the previous generation - and they are retired.
In this generation, we have 13 doctors - all but one specialists - with one the holder of personal chair in a UK university. I am sure all of us can attribute our various successes to being at the right place at the right time and also by being diligent, open minded and persistent.
The argument has nothing to do with patriotism or race. We all love Malaysia as a country but we objected to the form and type of governance and the society it created during various times.
This spurred our migration and our decision to work and live away from the land we were born in. Some of us have even maintained our Malaysian citizenship in hope that things will change and we may be able to return. Nonetheless, we are thankful that we have not been hindered in our move across borders. We are also thankful that holding a Malaysian passport today will facilitate movement between many countries compared to say, 20 years ago.
In short, our leaving was our silent, peaceful protest. It will of course fall on deaf ears because the existing muhibah ruling class will only be interested in furthering their own wealth and well-being and not those of the rakyat. Fortunately for some of us, we could vote with our feet. So let it be.
We take a larger global view and see that we contribute to the world, not directly Bolehland. My question is: Have you considered that those who do not migrate are the ones who are truly enslaved?
And to the present government I ask: How do you think you could lure people like us back? (Hint: Better money would not work - as we get less where we all are.)
There is a huge diamond in the centre of a square room and there are 4 people in the room. Batman, dumb malay, smart malay and Spiderman stands at each corner respectively.
So the lights went off, and 4 of them rush towards the diamond. Who got the diamond?
Answer: Dumb malay, because Batman, smart malay and Spiderman are fictional characters.
How to keep universities relevant in the increasingly globalised world of the 21st century, universities have to spur top-notch research. We have the required infrastructure in our universities but an insufficient pool of talent.
Could this be due to the lower intellectual capability of Malaysians? Of course not. Our lack of talent is a self-afflicted and self-fulfilling phenomenon. It has been going on for decades.
A problem for Malaysia comes from its double-edged sword called; it is ethnic and cultural mix. Malaysia's malay controls the countries political system, with Indians and Chinese in many places of power in business.
Some from the Chinese and Indian population feel they are being left behind with preferential treatment given to malay. This could create a very damaging brain drain on the knowledge economy of Malaysia.
A likely scenario could give tip the advantage to Singapore. Malaysian Chinese and Indians feeling left behind, move to Singapore to fill the brain drain there. Higher wages and standard of living would lure these workers there.
Singapore has calmed ethnic relations among the dominant Chinese, minority Indians and Malays, and Westerners since the race riots of the 1960s, imposing controls on speech, the press and assembly in the process.
Salaries in Singapore are comparable to the US, but living costs are lower and Western researchers with children often receive subsidies for elite private schools.
Singapore has become more alluring in the wake of policy arguments inside the US.
By ignoring top minds in areas of specialisations which include medicine, information technology and engineering, we have essentially dumped our investment (subsidised by taxpayers money) down the drain at the last hurdle.
In effect, we have installed a brain drain in KL that empties into Singapore, Europe, Australia and America. These gainers are the lucky second buyers of our education.
We cannot afford to keep pushing away our most valuable resource in an increasingly level playing field. It is high time we stop this brain drain river and divert it into our pool.
Our current malay generation is racist now because they desperately want to hang on to privileges which I frankly believe is slowly causing the malay race to rot away and become a pathetic race on crutches dependent.
I think that malays are the most stupid idiots on earth……….They might have big sized bodies bud in their head, they have puny brains……….
Thus coming to the conclusion that they are the most stupid black blocks on earth……….they are colored black and stink like a garbage dump……….
Does malay ever think twice about their religious? What if yours believe is not what you think..........
You malays will rape anybody just for sexual pleasure. You didn't read about the malay who raped his own sister?
Not only that! They yell 5 times per day and expect to go to heaven! After committing so many sins like killing, rape, steal!
If Americans don't hate the malays, why is there so much bad press against Mahathir when he scolded the Americans? Isn't he a malay? You malays are brainless and never read the newspaper. Everyday special rights here and there……….still like your tongkat so much!
You go to American embassy and see which country now is blacklisted? Did they blacklist Singapore, Taiwan?
Malays are jealous of Chinese, that is why they hate them. Americans are not jealous of Chinese, because they don't need tongkat. They buy a lot of Chinese goods. If they hate, they would have boycott the products. Bodoh!
Oh! Bodoh! Only blind man needs tongkat.
Even the Japanese look down upon the malays because they are just a bunch of lazy, fool, corrupted person who feed on the Chinese income tax for their existence.
The malays want to produce as many pig babies as they want, but doesn't teach them what is honesty, hard working, civilisation!
Look, that seems to be the problem with certain countries. They seem to want to bash and victimize themselves every possible step of the way so as to not take blame for anything, and using sorry justifications to uphold their prejudiced and many times, racist policies and laws.
Look at Malaysia and Indonesia. It is not only the Chinese there that are suffering. And about "Chinese being privilege", yes, right……….many of us know of times where British put up those familiar "No Chinese and dogs" signs banning certain nationalities inside. I don't know how privileged is that.
Need I mention the thanks they give their minorities (that provide the iron rice bowl to the economy), for example, sin money (a tax that is considered dirty because it comes from license taxes paid by gambling resorts and pig farms and such, considered sinful and unclean by their majority religion, Islam) used for Chinese welfare……….many Chinese there have slammed it as an "insult" to them.
Stop referring to some sob past to justify some country's unfair policies and laws that relies on leeching on certain races for certain things, while the locals or the majority (malays) just sits back and enjoy the spoils.
Indonesia has plenty of Chinese who were abused, raped by Indonesians and so on for being "richer" and "taking money away from the people".
Hello, if they didn't have the - cannot be bothered attitude - and actually work hard to make a proper living for themselves without wasting precious money on luxury or items not necessary, and saving money, living frugal, they wouldn't have fallen into their own financial muck, and resorted to blaming other races for their own misery.
Today it seems, other races seem to be holding the reins of the economy in certain countries and these countries, instead of realising, they are falling behind and bucking up to be competitive to regain their competitive spirit and improve their situations, resort to using cheap tactics that discriminate against every other race, clearly, it shows they have no intention of getting their sorry bums up and working hard for their families and their country's pride.
Even countries like Saudi Arabia, where unemployment, crime, and every other bane of a country is rampant, because of the cushy role, the monarch plays as some sled oil dealer of the world.
Unlike which incidentally, still has quite a percentage of their economy made out of oil revenue, but is improving where they have realised that if they continue playing the stereotype of the dumb fat oil sheik, they are not going to get anywhere and once the oil runs out they will have a major crisis in their country.
North Korea is another country in Asia that is decadent, and finds no end to blaming other person or country for their stupid mishaps.
There, discrimination is at its best. Policies and laws mutilated in the name of corrupted politics run amok, and despite depending so heavily on foreign imports, they yet label these people as the problems of society that spreads evil decadent ways of the outside world into their country and refrain from giving these people proper rights - yet these people (the Chinese) are the ones contributing to the country the most.
One could argue every country has its own policies and laws that place prejudice on certain parties - yes, that is true, but none so shamefully as those who (Malaysia) not only boast about it, take the credit for the successes of these people whom they slam their discriminatory abuses on, and have no intention to change it (and that said with a smug look on the face).
That is a slap on the face to democracy and equal rights for all.
We seem to start the year 2006 with a bang.
Proton, Perwaja, MAS, are all government-linked companies which are millstones round the country's neck as a result of dishonest former CEOs. Somehow, the guilty have not been caught and charged, their place taken by 'smaller fishes'.
I suppose Malaysians are by now immune to this type of news.
Only in this blessed country, I suppose, where we applaud failure can these crony companies do no wrong with government funds (taxpayers hard-earned monies) being used to keep them afloat, when times are bad.
Whatever it is, don't hold your breath waiting for justice to be served. With Malaysians getting more and more immune to this kind of behaviour by business and political leaders, their cronies are having a field day raiding government coffers and escaping.
'Malaysia Boleh'.
The Malaysian International Chamber of Commerce and Industry is worried about the requirement that all manufacturers in Malaysia with foreign equity, which sell any part of their production in the domestic market, are now required to form a separate legal entity as a marketing and distribution company with RM1 million minimum capitalisation, which would be under the Ministry of Domestic Trade and Consumer Affairs, and subject to the 30 percent bumi equity condition.
These guidelines are taking a step backwards and will discourage foreign investors. If imposed on family businesses or small companies like this, it would discourage them from expanding or investing more.
Where previously they have been promised and given 100 percent foreign ownership, all of a sudden, if they sell one component into Malaysia, they find themselves caught under these guidelines and required to go back to 30 percent bumi equity.
Malaysia is talking about accessing the international market, competing with more foreign players for foreign direct investment and economic liberalization.
It is time for the Malaysia government to review policies to make them all consistent. The objective of 30 percent bumi equity is still there, but there is a need to review the minimum capital requirement. There should be an exemption for small retail companies, which won't find it worthwhile to look for bumi partners.
Malaysia is competing with its immediate neighbours, Singapore and Thailand. Both are very open economies: You can come in and invest as much as you want there, own 100 percent and do your business. They are internationally very highly rated; their efficiency levels are much higher; they don't have this restriction on top of that and their delivery systems are much better.
We have to consistently fine-tune investment policies which are no longer relevant. Guidelines which are not positive should be reviewed, or we will be forever lagging behind.
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