My big boss said yesterday he’d be in Beijing end of the month, to follow Pak Lah in an official trip. Some 30-year anniversary of establishing diplomatic relations or something. Must have been what followed Abdul Razak’s visit in what, 1972? Privately, I think he, like most who are following him, are afraid of SARS, which is foremost the issue more than anything else!
“So, I commend the enjoyment of life.” (From the Bible – really. Eccl 8:15)
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First of all, are we (the non-bumis, that is) really to believe that the government will abolish or tone down the New Economic Policy in the near future? We must be realistic, if you have the right to buy a property at a discount and have scholarships for your children, would you let go of these rights?With Chinese population dwindling in Malaysia, what needs to be done depends on the Chinese themselves.There is nothing wrong with the brain drain. In fact, we should encourage our children to move to Singapore, China, Taiwan etc. if we disagree with Malaysian government policies that are based on race and religion.When it comes to the matter of the dwindling number of Chinese Malaysians, we should talk about quality, not quantity.We should resolve why the Chinese-Malaysian population is reducing. Official figures have more than one million Chinese Malaysians emigrating over the past 25 years. Why did they emigrate? I am sure the government knows.Straight A students can’t get scholarships or university places. Nothing new, it’s been that way for the past 35 years. Nowadays, even enlightened Malay Malaysians are speaking up on this injustice. The MCA and Gerakan? Busy making money from private colleges.What’s so great about having TAR College or Utar which took more than 35 years of begging? Why should it be so difficult to set up an independent university when we have scores of public ones?While we push young talented people away, other countries notably Singapore, the US and Australia welcome them with open arms.Is it logical that we drive away our young talented ones and then invite retired Mat Sallehs to live here and exploit our low-cost of living?Singapore’s success in particular owes much to these ex-Malaysians or their descendants including Goh Keng Swee, Hon Sui Sen, Goh Chok Tong, just to name a few.About 30 percent of top management in both Singapore’s government and corporate sector are ex-Malaysians. We export them so that Singapore can compete with, and then whack us.Korea and Taiwan, both way behind us in the 70s and 80s are now way ahead. Thailand is breathing down our necks.Sadly, there is just no integrity in the nation’s leadership
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Congratulations to you who have found happiness in your adopted country. You have made the wise decision indeed to emigrate, and surely you and your family are enjoying every moment in of it in your newly adopted country.You are very right. There is a will, there is a way!Time for a life is limited, and we just can’t screw around. Instead of grousing around and doing nothing, you have taken positive steps to achieve what you want. To migrate or not is basically a personal choice. You decide your own destination.Best luck to you!No doubt things are bad back home in Malaysia, especially those who are not born with the right skin color. Given the chance, I am sure all the unprivileged ones would like to move away forever and forget about the mess back home.Alas, not everyone is that lucky. Migrating to a first world country is not easy (why should it be?). Most importantly, you need to have money. I am sure most of you started off your journey away from home with a tertiary education at a university in your adopted country. How many people in Malaysia can afford to send their children to study overseas? I am sure you can’t emigrate just by telling the Australian immigration that you like their country so much and you were treated badly by Malaysia, at least not legally.In the animal kingdom, animals migrate for food and water. Similarly looking at the history, migration actually is a natural process in which mankind has continuously looked for greener pasture. Very few countries (maybe none) actually maintain pure single race especially at this age of modern transportation, and the world is getting very small. Before I decided to apply for emigration, I did have the same thinking like you. I was not rich with four kids, I am 100% Chinese educated. I did not give up, I collected a lot of information through Internet, and I talked to those pioneers who came back for vacation. Finally, I applied for migration and gone through an assessment plus an English test. I emigrated to Australia two years ago and settled down quite well. There are many different categories for you to apply, it is not necessary you have to be rich. Do not simply give up. Do not blame on other people, or you are a real loser……….For those who have emigrated, farewell and goodbye. We do what we can and enjoy life in every moment we have.
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The malays are a truly hypocrite bunch of people. All this bullshit about the ‘freedom of religion’ as only appears to apply to anyone but not the malays! The malays have made Islam such a hated religion with many man-made laws and impositions, all to suit their own convenience, and yet they claim to be ‘Islamic’ without even practicing the religion as it was intended to be practiced.If Malaysia only wants Islam, then get rid of all the other races and live truly as ‘Malay’sia, and see the country being destroyed by brainless malays monkeys in a matter of one year! Why can’t all races live in harmony? Why must anything that is related to Islam be such a huge contentious issue? What the hell is the Syariah Court? These so-called Syariah ‘lawyers’ are a joke to the legal profession. The travesty of justice in Malaysia regarding converts to Islam especially is demeaning and a pathetic joke. The Federal Court which is the supreme legal authority in Malaysia is ‘impotent’ against this useless Syariah Court when it comes to matters dealing with conversion! What absolute rubbish!The malays are nothing but over-zealous hypocrites who don’t even understand Islam in the proper context, let alone profess to practice it!If malays want to progress in the world, you malays will have to rid the notion of God and your religion. It is your backward religion that is holding you back from every strata. Look at Muslim countries. They are absolutely backwards in every aspect, living in the most poverty-ridden corners. But when it comes to religion, and building mosques which is half empty always, they build the best ones. Ignoring the poor people who live in shacks.In Malaysia there is a mosque about every 100km and now they are built along the main streets of all towns. Is it to prove that you malays are so very religious? You malays think that every one has only sex in their mind all the time! This is a fault that undermines humans.Now you malays have to rid your backward religion and go forward. And you malays must learn to accept that there is no God but dog.Malaysia will never achieve developed status, certainly not with the malays. At least Mahathir built two tall structures that got the attention of the world, as he knew that the intellectual ‘capabilities’ of the malays were as good as a cow in the padi field, regardless of any kind of miracle!Despite all that the Malaysia government has been doing for the malays for ages, the malays are still way behind in terms of everything. They are lazy and have become so accustomed to handouts that they refuse to work to earn an honest living. It is very sad. Why can’t all races compete fairly? Remove all the barriers and ensure free competition based on merit and capability, rather than by race. Will that ever happen?Everything in Malaysia is a joke when it comes to the malays. They are laughed at by everyone in this world for being incompetent, lazy, useless morons. Be like Raja Petra……….a self-made man to be proud of, also a malay that is objective and can distinguish right from wrong.
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I admire your guts and will in achieving your goal. Not many of us could do that. What you have posted here could be very well the truth sadly. If only you could forward this to every minister and even our very own PM, so that he will know just what every deserving student feel when they are being rejected. I am sure they know but until and unless someone takes the initiative to write them personally, it will still be a lost because for the next generation. Those sitting comfortably in their ministerial positions won’t be willing to stir things and get the boot, but I am sure if you could write to the PM, things could be a little different………..perhaps. But you will never know if you don’t try. If we can get what is offered here like in abroad why do we want to work abroad?My cousin who was the best scorer for 2004 SPM (14As I think) is in the US right now, Wellesly Collage and she was offered a training programme while she was only there after 6 months – depending on her performance in the programme, she will be offered a high paid post on her graduation.Thus she is the only daughter with no father, her mother is willing to emigrate for her sake! Why? Because she knows that in Malaysia, nothing like that will be offered to her!Try for sharing your experience with us too, and we all know that even if you have a perfect score, you may not be sent abroad, remember the highest scorer from Sg Petani 2 or 3 years ago? The one who wanted to do medical but was given something else, where other not so better candidates were offered prime courses in top choice……… Well it is the same every year, you get stories like that and as for your statement of needing to work hard abroad, I think it ring true everywhere, not only abroad but at home as well. For at least in the US, if you work hard with the results you will get the due recognition, where else it is a different ball game here Malaysia!And for the education system which the government is experimenting at cost of our children, soon we will be really backdated. Look at the standard produced yearly and it does shows. Yet for all the ministers may talk, how many of you know a minister son studying in local sekolah jenis kebangsaan?I doubt it………So the story is simple……….when most of the Chinese have left this country then the population of malays will outnumber the rest and this gives them even more voice, and the remaining groups will have to suffer more. So how? Maybe we can ask the government for a piece of land, maybe an island and we can start afresh from there and call it China-newland. And 10 years later we will be better than Malaysia. Is that workable? Maybe……….one never knows.
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Forty-eight years after independence, the people of Malaysia are still searching for an identity. Are they Malays or Muslims first; are they Indians, Chinese or Malaysians first? This identity crisis is a result of the failure of the BN government, which has ruled Malaysia since independence in 1957, later as the expanded Barisan Nasional. The truth is that the malays of this country partly owe their independence to the non-malays. The reason was that the British refused to give independence without an agreement from the non-malays. Another argument put forth by the pro-malay special rights group is that, they made a compromise by giving the non-malays their citizenship and in exchange the malays must be given their special privileges. This argument is the most ridiculous I have heard thus far but in their ignorance some Malaysians still think that citizenship is for a certain race to give. This logic would mean that the minorities will always be seen as foreigners who will never be equal to the malay bumis. The Chinese and Indians must accept they are immigrants and they were given citizenships in 1957 on the agreement that the malays are given special rights and privileges. Stretching your logic a bit further, are you also suggesting that in America, the Negroes continue to be slaves to the whites otherwise they give up US citizenship and go back to Africa? This is stupid idiotic logic. Even if the so-called contract was valid, it was so only in the 50s and 60s. We are nearly 50 years after independence and all Chinese and Indians have begun citizens. They are no more bound by the so-called social contract which enslaved their ancestors. Umno is afraid to give up Ketuanan Melayu because it is bankrupt of ideas in competing with others in this 21st century democracy. Umno’s warped logic is that it is better for country to be backward so long as malays benefit than for country to prosper, where malays are marginalized. This warped logic is in fact the beginning of the end of the malays who will never progress and compete with others on level playing field and equal footing, so long as they subscribe to Ketuanan Melayu and have crutch mentality in forever relying on special privileges………. Malays will crumble from internal weaknesses and disappear in era of globalization……….no need for others to colonize them as Mahathir had constantly raised this bogey. My dad is a racist; so is my mom. Similarly racists are my brother, sister and relatives. All the Malaysian friends I now have are, and those I had were or at the least had been, racists too. Well, perhaps thanks to all these people, I have become – and remain – a racist as well. You see, we are the members of a much larger community: Malaysia – the racist nation! The term community is somewhat misleading. We are not united as such as a nation should be. We are only united by the fact that all of us – at one time or other – had been are or will become, racists……….All of us formally became racists in the year of 1971, when racism was institutionalised in Malaysia. Not that racism didn’t exist before: it did; it lurked underneath, which – as everyone knows – erupted as the May 13 ethnic riots. Hence came the New Economic Policy, set up to divert the winds off the sails of racism. Ballasting the boat, and listing it in favour of the economically disadvantaged malay-Malaysians may lead to Malaysians seeing each other as equals, it was thought. Then came the 80s, which also gave Dr Mahathir. Still, racism remained somewhat otherworldly to me. All of us practiced racism, on the streets, in shops, in schools and in the house, but racism was never blatant – at least in my life. That changed as the 80s came to a close. ………… Please tell me, can anyone even imagine a multi-cultural Malaysian nation – where no one discriminates the other on the basis of race, where everyone treats the other as a brother or sister – being run by the same racist parties that exist now? Is such a future even conceptually possible? It is time for me to descend to earth and crawl back into my racist carapace, and be a realist again. And heap praises on our nation and on the ideals that are so central to its psyche: long live, racism! Long live, racist Malaysia – the model racist nation! It is no wonder our civil participation is as backward as it is. Do you have any idea why Singapore is almost the first world country or 20 years better than Malaysia? 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). Bangsa Malaysia? Bah, humbug!
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The primary motive for emigration is not always pure economics. More generally, emigration happens because of a desire to better one’s lot, or to achieve one’s purpose in life whatever that may be. There are push and pull factors involved. An emigrant is both trying to escape something and advance towards another thing at the same time. For instance, a scientist who cannot flourish in his own country will want to go somewhere where his expertise is appreciated. Perhaps he finds the anti-intellectualism in his milieu too stifling (unfortunately, this is very true in Malaysia), or the government of the day too partial when it comes to resource allocation. There are many reasons for moving, and more often than not, people do it for more than one reason. Political dissatisfaction could well be one of those reasons, and why not? No one is saying that it is the only. Or sometimes it is because of a foreign spouse. It could also be a preference for a milder climate. Or simply to have the opportunities to do things that will lead to self-actualisation.You see, the major problem with a not insignificant number of Malaysians is that there is a lot of false pride around. This is a vestige of Mahathirianism. Small achievements are overblown so as to build up national pride. It is Malaysia Boleh this and Malaysia Boleh that.Therefore we need to look to other countries to remind ourselves that a society that is both equal and multicultural is simultaneously possible. We may not achieve it the same way they did, but we must definitely look at what we have done wrong and correct those things, and at the same time, look at what mistakes they have made and how they solved their problems.Anyway, I say cheer the emigrants on. Let people do what they want with their lives – they should not be beholden to the country. Do not blame their lack of patriotism for not staying – patriotism is poor persuasion.
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