Embarrassments of a wannabe banker
I know it’s such a horrible cliché but time just flies. I am already halfway way through my first semester at NUS. I swear i can still remember Form 3 like it was just yesterday, it takes some effort to reconcile with the fact that 4 years have passed since then. I feel so old now, there are some professional footballers who are a full two years younger than me . Just a couple of months ago my mother was waking me up in the morning, taking care of my laundry and preparing my food. Naturally whenever i feel old I tend to ponder about mortality, there was a time not too long back where i was absolutely terrified of dying, both of my beyond death choices looked and still do look rather bleak, hell or eternal oblivion of my consciousness, the eternal oblivion part scared me quite a bit more i would say, but now I am resolved to the fact that it is going to happen and I am not going to know anything about it till I escape life, or to in the words of Pink Floyd " I am not frightened of dying, any time will do, Don’t mind. Why should I be frightened of dying?
There’s no reason for it, you’ve gotta go sometime". My favourite tracks to listen to when pondering over death would have to be Pink Floyds's "The Great Gig in the Sky" and Mayhem's " Funeral Fog", i would love to quote Funeral Fog but i already have enuf people thinking that I am a devil worshipper, so we will just leave that one alone.Well since we are on the topic of mortality, I just wanna say if anyone of you attend my funeral, ( I hope it is not for about another 60 years or so), I fully expect you to make sarcastic snide comments at my grave, I would be extremely offended if none do, sarcastic snide comments has always been and continues to be my main hobby.
Well now that we are done with the rather depressing, or uplifting ( depends on your religious orientation dear, lets move onto another topic, the rather abominable practice of generalizing people. People are generalised with respect to almost anything, sex, religion, age, nationality and of course or particular favourite, race. Before I came to Singapore I was told that several variations of " Singaporeans (especially the Chinese) are the most unfriendliest and unpleasant people in the world". I will be first to admit that my experience is highly limited, i mean 2 months in a particular country with 90% of the time spent in the university hardly make you an expert on its people, but from what i have experienced Singaporeans ( and especially the Chinese) seem to be pretty nice people. Well just a little admission almost all of the Singaporans i know are Chinese, I attend 3 different tutorial groups and out of about 50 singaporeans only one happens to be malay and no indians.
I recently came down with flu and my singaporean tutorial mates sent me bout 10 get well SMSes, and these are people that i have only known about 3-5 weeks. In my eyes that is a pretty good sign of my friendliness, back in K.L only a couple of my closest friends used to send me get well messages if i fell sick. I know all this inconsequential but if i had believed all those generalizations about Singaporeans i would have stuck to myself in tutorials which lets face it would have great loss solely on my part. A human should put in the effort to get to know the other person before passing judgment on his/her character. Malaysian Malays should realize that Malaysian Chinese love Malaysia as much as they. Almost all the Malaysian Chinese I have spoken, and I have spoken to quite a few, seem to be extremely loyal to their country, sometimes even defending the country when I start bitching about it. And gasp some of the Chinese actually sympathized with the Malays, yes they defended the same people who have deprived them of economic and educational opportunities. I just think that it is "slightly" unethical for a government to give preferential treatment to certain populations just because of the color of their skin. I am not writing this to champion one group over another, i got better things to do than better, i just believe that humans are individuals and deserve to be treated as such, laziness is a rather poor reason for a war i would say. This is not to say that Singaporeans are a wonderful people, I have met some that i could kill without feeling no remorse but then i have met such people everywhere, the point i am trying to make ( not doing it very well i ma sure) is that humans are individuals and deservr to be treated as such instead of being lumped into some group.
I read somewhere that Malaysia has warned bloggers that they better be careful or they will feel the full force of the law. I am sure sensitive topics will be off topics, what a bunch of bull, "sensitive topics". Basically anything concerning race, religion or a certain political party ( u know which one) is off limits. God’s sake your former prime minister want to meet ur current one in a boxing ring, when he was in power you were all faithful lapdogs ready to obey his every whim and fancy, now u consider him a deranged elderly lunatic, although he certainly deserves his fate. You justify this by saying that you are loyal to the party and not to the person, don’t lie, you all are just loyal to power, and he who holds power is your master.
Last week i was absolutely embarrassed. I went to the bank to try and set up a Giro payment, the lady at the counter thot i was some sort of idiot. She, with infinite patience, the sort that you use on imbeciles, the one which i use on most people, told me that i didn’t need to come to the bank to set up a Giro payment, all with an eminently disapproving look on her face. I bet she probably thought " There goes one of our Singaporean kids without an university place, because this obviously moronic foreigner has been given one". Damn it was so embarrassing, more so cos it was in a bank and i do so wanna be a wall street banker, not just any banker, and an investment banker. Well I am off to a flying start wouldn’t you say.
Today i thot i had a chemistry test at 10.00 so i really panicked when i woke up at 10.50 ( long night, don’t ask). I really freaked out. And then when i went to the examination room and found it empty i was shocked. When i checked my timetable i found out that the test was on the 23rd and not on the 22nd. Damn i felt like such a moron. U know what I have been feeling like that rather frequently recently.
I have the spent the entire night listening to tamil songs, dont gasp, I dont just listen to " Slaughter and reign in blood under the freezing moon" type of music ok.
That said i havent listened to tamil music in like ages, hell i havent spoken in Tamil for moths, I kinda miss speaking in Tamil, it feels comforting, not surprising, i grew up speaking the language. AR Rahman is a freaking damn good music director and some tamil songs have extremely poetic language. There was this song that I just loved, here’s the link,http://youtube.com/watch?v=dFO6ialsB9I, you should really check it out its awesome, great music and touching lyrics. Anyone who tells me that the synthesized violin riff isnt awesome i am gonna kill you. I liked it so much that I even translated the lyrics, they are much more beautiful in their original. much is lost in translation (what a another cliché). Here's my own translation. its horrible, iam illiterate in Tamil so probably even more so.
Oh lightning why did you come here
You seared my eyes with ur radiance
Whats the mystery of your disappearance from my life
You came and went in a few days
After that my happiness crumbled
Lighting how my sky yearns for thee
Llightning why did you come here
You seared my eyes with ur radiance
Whats the mystery of your disappearance from my life
When I opened my eyed and looked around
Only your smile from my memories remained
Sorrowful weeping left my soul broken
Like shattered glass i have become
Lighting a flame through my tears
I will wait for the sound of your feet
Lightning why did you come here
You seared my eyes with ur radiance
Whats the mystery of your disappearance from my life
The earth does wait for the rain from the heavens to fall
God does wait to greet his followers
The earth does wait for the rain from the heavens to fall
God does wait to greet his followers
The poet does wait for the words to come to him
For your love I will wait
Lighting a flame through my tears
I will wait for thee
I will wait for the sound of your feet
You came and went in a few days
After that my happiness crumbled
Lighting how my sky yearns for thee
Lightning why did you come here
You seared my eyes with ur radiance
Whats the mystery of your disappearance from my life
You came and went in a few days
After that my happiness crumbled
Lighting how my sky yearns for thee
Yes i know its a hopelessly melodramatic piece of crap, but with the music and the guy singing it, it sounds awesome. Like i said the lyrics sound much better in Tamil and anyway there were some words that i didnt know so i had to improvise and fill in the gaps and i will just have u know that my poetic abilities are on par with Britney Spears. Going back home tomorrow. Ah home, where I am not sure i belong.
Do i belong anywhere?
There’s no reason for it, you’ve gotta go sometime". My favourite tracks to listen to when pondering over death would have to be Pink Floyds's "The Great Gig in the Sky" and Mayhem's " Funeral Fog", i would love to quote Funeral Fog but i already have enuf people thinking that I am a devil worshipper, so we will just leave that one alone.Well since we are on the topic of mortality, I just wanna say if anyone of you attend my funeral, ( I hope it is not for about another 60 years or so), I fully expect you to make sarcastic snide comments at my grave, I would be extremely offended if none do, sarcastic snide comments has always been and continues to be my main hobby.
Well now that we are done with the rather depressing, or uplifting ( depends on your religious orientation dear, lets move onto another topic, the rather abominable practice of generalizing people. People are generalised with respect to almost anything, sex, religion, age, nationality and of course or particular favourite, race. Before I came to Singapore I was told that several variations of " Singaporeans (especially the Chinese) are the most unfriendliest and unpleasant people in the world". I will be first to admit that my experience is highly limited, i mean 2 months in a particular country with 90% of the time spent in the university hardly make you an expert on its people, but from what i have experienced Singaporeans ( and especially the Chinese) seem to be pretty nice people. Well just a little admission almost all of the Singaporans i know are Chinese, I attend 3 different tutorial groups and out of about 50 singaporeans only one happens to be malay and no indians.
I recently came down with flu and my singaporean tutorial mates sent me bout 10 get well SMSes, and these are people that i have only known about 3-5 weeks. In my eyes that is a pretty good sign of my friendliness, back in K.L only a couple of my closest friends used to send me get well messages if i fell sick. I know all this inconsequential but if i had believed all those generalizations about Singaporeans i would have stuck to myself in tutorials which lets face it would have great loss solely on my part. A human should put in the effort to get to know the other person before passing judgment on his/her character. Malaysian Malays should realize that Malaysian Chinese love Malaysia as much as they. Almost all the Malaysian Chinese I have spoken, and I have spoken to quite a few, seem to be extremely loyal to their country, sometimes even defending the country when I start bitching about it. And gasp some of the Chinese actually sympathized with the Malays, yes they defended the same people who have deprived them of economic and educational opportunities. I just think that it is "slightly" unethical for a government to give preferential treatment to certain populations just because of the color of their skin. I am not writing this to champion one group over another, i got better things to do than better, i just believe that humans are individuals and deserve to be treated as such, laziness is a rather poor reason for a war i would say. This is not to say that Singaporeans are a wonderful people, I have met some that i could kill without feeling no remorse but then i have met such people everywhere, the point i am trying to make ( not doing it very well i ma sure) is that humans are individuals and deservr to be treated as such instead of being lumped into some group.
I read somewhere that Malaysia has warned bloggers that they better be careful or they will feel the full force of the law. I am sure sensitive topics will be off topics, what a bunch of bull, "sensitive topics". Basically anything concerning race, religion or a certain political party ( u know which one) is off limits. God’s sake your former prime minister want to meet ur current one in a boxing ring, when he was in power you were all faithful lapdogs ready to obey his every whim and fancy, now u consider him a deranged elderly lunatic, although he certainly deserves his fate. You justify this by saying that you are loyal to the party and not to the person, don’t lie, you all are just loyal to power, and he who holds power is your master.
Last week i was absolutely embarrassed. I went to the bank to try and set up a Giro payment, the lady at the counter thot i was some sort of idiot. She, with infinite patience, the sort that you use on imbeciles, the one which i use on most people, told me that i didn’t need to come to the bank to set up a Giro payment, all with an eminently disapproving look on her face. I bet she probably thought " There goes one of our Singaporean kids without an university place, because this obviously moronic foreigner has been given one". Damn it was so embarrassing, more so cos it was in a bank and i do so wanna be a wall street banker, not just any banker, and an investment banker. Well I am off to a flying start wouldn’t you say.
Today i thot i had a chemistry test at 10.00 so i really panicked when i woke up at 10.50 ( long night, don’t ask). I really freaked out. And then when i went to the examination room and found it empty i was shocked. When i checked my timetable i found out that the test was on the 23rd and not on the 22nd. Damn i felt like such a moron. U know what I have been feeling like that rather frequently recently.
I have the spent the entire night listening to tamil songs, dont gasp, I dont just listen to " Slaughter and reign in blood under the freezing moon" type of music ok.
That said i havent listened to tamil music in like ages, hell i havent spoken in Tamil for moths, I kinda miss speaking in Tamil, it feels comforting, not surprising, i grew up speaking the language. AR Rahman is a freaking damn good music director and some tamil songs have extremely poetic language. There was this song that I just loved, here’s the link,http://youtube.com/watch?v=dFO6ialsB9I, you should really check it out its awesome, great music and touching lyrics. Anyone who tells me that the synthesized violin riff isnt awesome i am gonna kill you. I liked it so much that I even translated the lyrics, they are much more beautiful in their original. much is lost in translation (what a another cliché). Here's my own translation. its horrible, iam illiterate in Tamil so probably even more so.
Oh lightning why did you come here
You seared my eyes with ur radiance
Whats the mystery of your disappearance from my life
You came and went in a few days
After that my happiness crumbled
Lighting how my sky yearns for thee
Llightning why did you come here
You seared my eyes with ur radiance
Whats the mystery of your disappearance from my life
When I opened my eyed and looked around
Only your smile from my memories remained
Sorrowful weeping left my soul broken
Like shattered glass i have become
Lighting a flame through my tears
I will wait for the sound of your feet
Lightning why did you come here
You seared my eyes with ur radiance
Whats the mystery of your disappearance from my life
The earth does wait for the rain from the heavens to fall
God does wait to greet his followers
The earth does wait for the rain from the heavens to fall
God does wait to greet his followers
The poet does wait for the words to come to him
For your love I will wait
Lighting a flame through my tears
I will wait for thee
I will wait for the sound of your feet
You came and went in a few days
After that my happiness crumbled
Lighting how my sky yearns for thee
Lightning why did you come here
You seared my eyes with ur radiance
Whats the mystery of your disappearance from my life
You came and went in a few days
After that my happiness crumbled
Lighting how my sky yearns for thee
Yes i know its a hopelessly melodramatic piece of crap, but with the music and the guy singing it, it sounds awesome. Like i said the lyrics sound much better in Tamil and anyway there were some words that i didnt know so i had to improvise and fill in the gaps and i will just have u know that my poetic abilities are on par with Britney Spears. Going back home tomorrow. Ah home, where I am not sure i belong.
Do i belong anywhere?
posted by Husain Zaman at 1:08 PM
12 Comments:
Malaysia is not a place to invest your money.
The policies are so loop-sided that you cannot chose the best people to work for you but to employ those malay graduates who are way below "standard".
In the first place, these malays are not of intellect quality but the foreign and local companies are forced to employ them.
So, if a foreign company has a choice, they will not invest in a country like that where competition is solely based on skin color, and "know who" not "know how".
Malaysia now lags behind both China's and India's science and technology sectors, and regional rivals Singapore and Thailand now attract more foreign direct investments.
Why is it so that we lag behind all those countries? Just study who are the planners in the countries education system.
Here we have third class educationists in the form of Umno-malays, most of them are third graders in their school days, planning the education policies. They are actually failures academically and now trying to teach others about education.
Then look around the schools and universities. Just a cursory glance will tell you that the teaching staffs are not of first class materials. Many are byproducts of unemployed graduates who managed to get teaching as their only choice of vocation.
Similarly the universities teaching staffs are third rated too. When you have such lousy teachers, would you expect first class materials?
Whatever Malaysia is advocating, Malaysia is heading to doom! Agriculture, commerce, education, health, politics, social interaction, everything that Malaysia embarks is doomed.
The information and communication technology that Malaysia implementing is as good as doomed since day one when the corrupted and racist Mahathir laid hand on it.
Anything that is the genesis of this corrupted and racist Mahathir is doomed, be it Agusta, Daya Bumi, education - English to malay malay to English, EPF, Felcra, Felda, Formula 1, general election, MAS, math and science in English, military defense, MSC, National Service, NEP, North South Highway, Perwaja, polis task force, Proton, Wawasan Schools……….the list is endless. Nothing works in Malaysia.
Now the religious Badawi is implementing 9MP using Islam with the doctrine advocated by the corrupted and racist Mahathir.
This is more severe than the doctrine by Mahathir since Badawi adds another critical and negative dimension into the corrupted and racist doctrine, that is, the aberrant Islam!
This further decreases the efficiency in the utilization of good human engineering practices in a highly competitive global world!
The only way Malaysia can succeed is to embrace good human engineering practices compassionately, since only good human engineering practices can attain excellent, efficient and effective production in order to compete with other formidable ICT nations.
This means the practices of meritocracy, no NEP and racial discrimination!
With a corrupted and racist government practice corrupt and racial discriminatory engineering practices, the effective job activities and efficiency in productions are definitely to be lagging.
This means high production costs, inefficient manufacturing processes, poor research and development designs, with expensive and inferior products! Example - Proton!
The government might as well close down Cyberjaya, encourage goat rearing and save costs. At least the loss in capital is not as severe as in ICT ventures and by the year 2020, every people is guaranteed with a roast lamb!
The biggest joke is, the people themselves are to be blamed for supporting the current and always has been and probably forever will be, the BN.
That is keep it up and make them more and more arrogant.
We want to be hubs of everything and master of none. That is why we know for sure Vision 2020 will not be achieved. It is easy to set a vision and really another to achieve it.
Principally as a small nation with limited human resources, not making optimum use of its human resource by sidelining a major more advanced sector of its population through the NEP, will create many many more "Tak Boleh".
With people only interested in sitting beside a money machine, where Malaysia will end with, is already a certainty.
Any cure? No, no way. The entire makeup of the Malaysia society from corruption, greed, politics and third world mentality etc, will doom any effort to rectify it. We can't even talk simple things like "understanding each other" let alone major issues like corruption, etc.
Even God has got no solution for Malaysia the way it is going.
If the mindsets of the Umno-malays here actually reflect the general people then I am afraid there is no hope. Simply hopeless. Nothing much is going to change to the good.
In fact it will be towards the extreme. What can you expect? We are simply good in blaming others for our problems. In fact we are world class in doing that. With a mindset like that, by year 2020 we should be toward Zimbabwe or probably worst.
Thank you 'Tun Mamak' for all this. Because of your need to be more melayu and to remain prime minister, your 22 years of ruling had made the people to have such attitude and mentality.
Sorry folks, I am one of those who don't believe Vision 2020 can be achieved, and not be a long shot.
Umno first consideration is not achieving Vision 2020 as what they are trying to tell us, but their paramount and top priority is to ensure that their ketuanan and NEP policies are intact in whatever goals they conceive.
This is where the stumbling block lies. Never mind if third grade graduates become lecturers or professors, so long their ketuanan and special rights policies are adhered to.
Even in business or industries enterprise, the business people have to satisfy Umno demands that these corporations/industries satisfy the NEP and special rights rules first.
So, is it that difficult to understand Vision 2020 has never been a top priority, but the ketuanan policies are, and these override all else, even if it means that Vision 2020 is not achieved.
'First class mentality' for Malaysians? When most of them are spoon-fed by the government and they behave like the baboons in the UPM cafeteria? Not in my lifetime! And I am still relatively young!
First class mentality starts in school. What chance does the young have when they are exposed to under qualified teachers? And a failed education system?
Whilst in Japan, I witness a scene where a homeless man, in filthy clothes and hair, rummaged through a few rubbish bins, spilling their contents onto the ground. When he finally found what he wanted, he actually put the rubbish back into the bins! I was shocked!
Back here in Malaysia, the educated and privileged don't even bother to look for bins to throw their rubbish in! What kind of mentality is this, compared to the homeless man? It is a sad, sad world we live in, man……….
The NEP will be a huge stumbling block towards Vision 2020. When leaders of business and industry are not chosen on the basis of meritocracy but purely on the basis of being a malay, how la?
And it is only getting worse and worse as it has become a 'right'. Can't see it changing anytime in the next 13 years.
Malaysia leaders always lamented that 'we have first class infrastructure but third class mentality'.
What they should actually say is that 'we have first class infrastructure but third class leaders' - that is more like it.
They can't even ensure that computer lab for schools do not collapse after few months completed. Need more examples? What are they able to do then? Don't try to get the answer from this third class people.
All I can say is thank God or Tunku Abdul Rahman for giving away Singapore to Chinese rule! He was right otherwise Singapore will be in deep shit like us now!
As much as we don't like Singapore that much - we must agree that the Chinese did a damn good job in running their tiny island!
The mega dictator started many mega projects and most of these projects became mega failures. We are left with mega problems to solve.
Man, may I ask - is dividing Malaysians into bumi and non-bumi not racist in itself? So it likes the pot calling the kettle black! Well whether you like it or not, we are living in a racist society now! Especially in Malaysia!
And, in case you are still in the dark - in Malaysia we practise racial politics! MCA for the Chinese, MIC for the Indians and Umno for the malays! So what is wrong if we are racist in our opinions? Isn't everyone racist to same extend? Some more and some less!
Malaysia and Singapore used to be one body. Both started on par in many things, including their universities.
Now, 40 years later, Malaysia and Singapore are different. A tale of two nations. One is declining or stuck and the other is moving forward.
Why the stark difference? One obvious reason is the way human resources are used in Malaysia and Singapore. Another reason is accountability and transparency. Yet another reason is corruption.
The government of one nation has tunneled vision under a coconut shell while the other has good mission and vision. One is concerned with one dominant race and the other is race-blind.
Furthermore, one practices an officially approved apartheid policy while pretending to be a fair government that does not marginalise its citizens of certain ethnic groups. One is pretends to be global while the other is truly global.
Malaysia and Singapore: excellent examples for historical and social analyses and studies. Also, excellent case studies in evolution: survival of the fittest.
With all complains about the brain drain etc. Sometimes you just get the impression that the Malaysia government just doesn't bother to make any effort to retain those really bright ones.
To build a mosque is extremely simple. To build another religion place of worship requires applications which may be delayed up to 20 years and even beyond.
What is up with all the hypocrisy?
Malays in Singapore are given special privileges. This is because the government is conscious that they are minority citizens. The special privileges include financial, education and even political representation.
I scored straight As in every single exam I took in Malaysia. I topped my school year after year in every examination. I am active in extra curricular activities etc……….
But because I am non-malay, I have not been appreciated. Another country has recognized my talents and has offered me a generous scholarship. It has been almost 9 years in this foreign country - and it has nurtured me very well. I got all my first choices. I am considering converting my citizenship. I feel very appreciated for my talents here.
Malaysia did not help me when I needed scholarship, funding etc. The other country did and they did it generously. I can proudly say that because of the other country, I am now a very successful researcher in the life sciences field.
I have got all As in my SPM yet I could not enter local university but one the only malay of my school was given scholarship to Japan for further studies!
I studied STPM and not managed to enter local university to study science and surprised to find that the "hot" courses like medicine, law and engineering were taken up by many so-so result malay and lazy malay students!
No wonder patients mistreated, houses collapse, criminals on the street!
Thanks to Lee Kuan Yew for me to work in Singapore. It is equal opportunity here. People work hard and get rewarded and not based on race.
Singapore has almost no nature resources vs. Malaysia, yet it has strived to become a better country in many aspects. Malaysia's nature resources have been wasted by the lazy malays. When other people getting achievement, you ugly malays marginalised the rests.
Singapore facing a difference situation if compared to Malaysia. Singapore government cannot simply put a malay to hold a high post in order to fill the quota.
Singapore not like Malaysia where they can simply fill a incompetence malay in government company like Proton, MAS and etc……….If those parasite race failed, Malaysia government will ask the non-malays to clean up the mess!
Why Malaysia can afford this even though losing out so much of money? It is because we got so many resources to feed the malay pig if compared to Singapore which is got nothing!
That is why so many malays cannot survive in oversea because they need the government tongkat all the time!
Malay leaders in Malaysia like to see their folks contained in a chicken coop. They tell them that they are free and yet to be beholden to them as they are the ones providing them their feed.
They even believe that if they left the coop, they might be eaten up by the wily fox, and that they might otherwise starve to death.
The Singapore malays is in no illusions and they know they are out of the coop. They got to find their own nourishment and they got no leader throwing in the crumbs to them.
If they don't want to labour for their food, they can always go across the causeway and be given citizenship rights and take advantage of all the crumbs thrown at them. But most of them will not.
Of course the chicken shit from there have all long crossed over. But the rest have a little more dignity and stay on to show what they are really made up of.
I respect the Singapore malays for that. It does not matter that they have made a lot of wrong turns or that they have hardly a fighting chance. But they got more respect and dignity than their kinsfolk from over here Malaysia.
This is what half-past-six ministers that we have in Malaysia. Even comparison between Singapore malays and Malaysian Chinese, Singapore malays are never discriminated by their government based on equality.
I have so many Singapore malay friends from school mates, college mates to business partners. Penang malays would be so glad if they are treated like Singapore malays. Just ask the Singaporeans……….do they want to be back to Malaysia?
The problem with the Malaysia malays is their jealous attitude. If they are left behind, they will prevent others from moving ahead too! And sometimes even sabotaging others, and some resort the use to cast spell on others.
Not only the laid back malays are preventing their own people from being successful, but other races too. We also want the malays to be successful by creating value in the society so that everyone benefit but not by taxing the non-malays then give contracts to the malays, who will then deliver half-past-six service.
Change your own attitude first through value creation using your own tears and sweats!
As said before, had Malaysia been managed by Lee Kuan Yew and his colleagues for the past 40 years, Malaysia would have been much better off today, including all the malays! 95% would have owned a house, and no such rampant corruption!
For the malay ultras, facts speak louder than your bigotry cries, wake up, grow up, be men instead of sissies!
You see the problem here - the malays just cannot face up to their main problem - Laziness. This shows how thick-skinned and self-deluded these people are.
Malaysia is a multi-racial country. Jika kamu tak suka, kamu boleh blar……….tiada orang larang kamu.
The fact is malays you are the biggest loser! I am trying to wake you up instead of using the way like what our government is practice to provide NEP even though it is proven NEP is a failure in the past 30 years. Keep on dreaming if you think Malaysia could achieve Vision 2020 with your kind of attitude!
Majority of the Penang big government contracts is being awarded to the malay firms. What else you want! They get the same as other malays in Malaysia. The only different in Penang is, the Umno guys cannot tap the government fund into their own pocket, as other state Umno did. This is the main reason why they raised this issue.
Speaking without substances and distorting facts seems to be the good old habitual ways of Malaysia malays, which is probably inherited by their much loved masters, the "malay killers" - Umno.
To add to this, constant distorted facts with regards to the situational state of the Singapore malays remains among the commentators of Umno. It is hard not to see that some people really need to see the situation and know it first hand before dishing out their empty vessel mentalities.
Anyways, good thing you be it Malay, Indian, Chinese in Singapore is open to competition, and cherish diversity. Not like the radical son of terrorist we can find many in Malaysia.
Most malays in Malaysia hate diversity and discontent to the minorities, especially the Chinese. In blog, radical malays can be either extreme or pretentiously diverse-minded. Very few is genuine.
I do admit there are lazy malays that depend on handouts, but this kind of malays will be phase out and this kind I would say hypocrite. They tend to claim they work hard to achieve success, in fact they relaying on government support. I myself despise this kind of human being.
Little do they realize this safety net is fast disappearing because the government is finding it increasingly difficult to maintain the system in the face of global challenges! But these handouts have become an addiction. Refuse the junkie and you get booted out of power.
It is the malays themselves that must come to realize the damaging side effects of the NEP. For someone who wants no better than to see his own race succeed, this must be painful.
And you can often see the malays are usually envious of not only the non-malays, but of their own successful malays as well.
Malays failed is a fact. What make non-malays not happy about their failure is, they fail despite get ample help from the government.
And they continue putting the blame on their fail to, especially the Malaysian Chinese. This is why created so many issue and argument here.
But those greedy Umno guys keep emphasis the NEP, how many percent of the country wealth belong to malays. In fact, those Umno guys having super good life by easy way.
And they keep on demanding, not really review what was wrong with it, putting the blame to non-malays, to stir the racist sentiment in the country.
If present situation continue, even the malays get 60% of the country wealth, majority of the malays will still munch.
Simple solution - come to Singapore and see for yourselves even if you want to guise that our Singapore malays are in lesser numbers on success than the Malaysia idiotic counterparts - our Singapore malays are based on merits and not on such keris wielding Umno policies……….are you proud of that?
Once again, in a subtle and indirect manner, this forum has proven how naive and "katak bawah tempurung" a Malaysia malay can be. Blame who? The Umno policies.
Yes, start collecting the achieves with regards to moral degradation among Malaysia malays. Look at the Umno ministers when they speak on national TV! Qualify or not become ministers with such low reactive capabilities?
Some Malaysia malays saying Singapore malays quota should be more in the Singapore cabinet if compared to the Indians. First, Singapore government is based on merit system and not like you bunch of racist moron Malaysia malays here. That is why Malaysia is so backward if compared to Korea and others.
Not many Malaysia malays can survive if they go oversea because they are slow and lazy and that is why they can't compete with the competitive market out there. Normally they will end up hiding their head in Malaysia with the protection and biased system by the Malaysia government.
Come on, man. We do not have time to argue the truth of your on and on talk about "not all malays are spoofed, not all malays are lazy". Like we are dying to argue that when we already know it is true.
It is human nature to blame everyone about their plight rather than blame themselves. The majority of new generation of malays in Singapore is educated, unlike their parents.
Please read the comments made by Singapore malays why they can hold their heads up and be proud as a Singapore malay and then maybe it will sink into you.
Muslims everywhere unless they are the minority, cannot tolerate people with different religions. The Singapore government handles the situation rather well as they handle their malay community with kid gloves.
The Barisan government has achieved 0% in reversing the trend of racism.
While South Africa has disbanded racism through the government's initiative after the global news onslaught, our Malaysia government leaders are propagating RACISM and FACISM in every way.
In term of racism, we are the most uncivilised country in the world. Look into our neighbouring countries of Asia, they are advancing economically on a straight forward objectives, for their citizens.
Whereas, we are moving in deviationist path, widely off the international economic theory, for the sole objective of propelling the well being of a supreme race.
Mahathir era is over, here we have Badawi. Is he changing the trend? Not a single sign of it! How about the future under Nazib?
Sad, sad. They have more camouflage in readiness.
To tell you the truth those BN blokes brains are filled with mud! They cannot see the similarity between Khairy statement and Lee Kuan Yew statement. Both bear the same meaning. Only change the name of country and race.
Khairy said: Singapore marginalised the malays.
Lee said: Malaysia marginalised the Chinese.
Pak Lah, do you need an English specialist to explain to you the differences!
I must congratulate Lee Kuan Yew who really shows our half past six government that the Chinese are marginalised here. And at the same time to tell Pak Lah that it is time to teach your son-in-law how to behave.
This is not something new. They are God and they are also the devil. They can do all they want. I don't care about their stupid speeches, blames or comments game. The only thing I care about is how they are driving this country down the drain.
BN is a virus. They come and consume the land's riches, integrity and morale. When all is gone, they spread to other areas to sustain their destructive ways. BN is a disease country cancer.
DAP is the cure. And to use this cure, we must vote them into parliament.
Please tell Pak Lah to restrain his dog Khairy. He is barking and pissing everyone off. Maybe Khairy is doing this on purpose to bring down Pak Lah and then grab the post for his own.
Our leaders are all hypocrites. It is alright for them to criticise USA, Singapore, Thailand and any country they want to. But when other country criticise us they want apology. The government is really half past six and they should all resign.
Umno is trying very hard to portray a confident and strong party. But deep inside, they are very insecure. This could be seen in the unusual behavior and conduct of their members.
Due to the education policies, most young and intelligent Malaysians have either cross over to Singapore and other countries to further their studies.
In fact a great number of them have been earmarked by the Singapore government before their finals to take up PR status and attractive jobs offered. Some of these Malaysians are actually in Singapore parliament to help the nation to progress.
Actually the fact that smart Malaysians who capable are going to other countries be it Singapore or Australia can be a good thing for the country or for Malaysian Chinese in particular.
Why?
In the age of globalisation, it is important to have roots and contacts around. These bondages among relatives and friends among all Chinese spread around the world can benefit trade in future. It is a form of bridge to better future. Companies headed by Malaysians can in future help each other.
We can never know what the future in Malaysia will be like given the circumstances. So in a way it is a good thing. It is like the old days when Chinese traded among each other in this region.
So stage one export our experts around the world - next connect each other. That is good. One day maybe someone will initiate an association of overseas Chinese Malaysians eh?
Malaysians are not genetically inferior to Singaporeans - we are the same kind of people except for the proportion of various ethnic groups. The reason why many intelligent Malaysians went overseas is due to a government bent on dividing us along religious and ethnic lines.
For too long Malaysians of all ethnic groups have been bamboozled by scoundrels who'd used divisive slogans to enrich their own pockets and the pockets of their relatives and cronies. Malaysians must unite and give the opposition a chance to do better.
Malaysians have been moving to Singapore for many years now and that has been their long term strategy since they allowed tens of thousands of Malaysians to study there.
I seriously think malays should learn how to stand on their own feet instead of blaming non-malays for their own failure. Without the hardworking non-malays, Malaysia government won't have money to subsidy the hardly work malays.
Institutional discrimination and NEP have brought negative effect to malays competitiveness and mindset.
I need to remind you; don't fool by this protectionism. Like APs, government contract, government land, government loan, government subsidy.
Tell me how many poor malays able to access to these goodies or did you get something from the list above! The grass-root malays have being cheated by the rich malays for supporting the NEP.
Only those rich malays have connection for these programs. Malaysia automobile policy has only created four APs kings vs. thousand poor malays. Wake up, your own people have cheated you not the non-malays.
Here is the following list of near bankrupt GLCs:
(They are direct GLCs or indirect GLCs via EPF, Tabung Haji or other government agency.)
(1) Bank Bumi (no longer exist)
(2) Bank Islam (looking for capital injection)
(3) IntraKota
(4) MAS
(5) Park May
(6) Perwaja
(7) Proton
(8) Putra LRT
(9) Renong
(10) Star LRT
It is about the wake up call for the malays. NEP will make malays as good as a 'katak dalam tempurung'.
Whatever you think may not be whatever it is. Non-malays never forbid malays to open their own business. Non-malays never ask malays to be not hardworking. I only hear non-malays complaint malays not work hard enough.
When malays choose not to work hard, please do not stop others to work hard by imposed regulation and rule such as permit or quota to stop someone to excel.
Why can't malays look beyond what is the protection? I never suggest take away all the protection; I know malays did not ready for that. But malays like you so scare to dare not even try for partial of the protection.
If this situation prolong, malays forever will live inside the protective area just like Red Indians live in their conservation.
I live in USA before, I used to work as an IT consultant. My pay was similar to the local white guys. They never treat me as a foreigner. I easily get a place for my MBA with a state scholarship. I never get discriminated even I have different skin color as them.
Yes, the income tax is high - 35%, sales tax is 7%; every time you buy anything you have to pay extra 7% for the goods; but when I call the city police regarding my car key being lock inside my car, they reach the site within 10 minutes. The best thing is the police never ask me for coffee money but some friendly advice for me to carry a spare key in my wallet.
I don't know where did one get the impression that USA is discriminate against foreigners. They know everyone in USA is foreigner. The black getting more scholarship than the white but the black don't like the book instead of drug/gun.
Protectionism will not able to broaden malays horizon. The best defend is reach out. Do not hide inside your protested area. It won't work. Learn how to proactive and reach out. Just like the fish in the river, either you being push down stream by the current or you constantly swim to stay ahead.
Fxxxx Muslims and all malay pig in Malaysia.
I feel ashamed to call myself a Malaysian nowadays because you malay pig are making us losing our pride day by day by corrupting the once dignified image of this country, you know Malaysia is now a laughing stock among the non-Muslim countries in the world!
People despise this country still protecting the lame lot and not doing anything to improve the deteriorating situation, still practising double standards among its own people, still expelling the non-malay genius to other countries, still depriving the rights and benefits of other races to its own race, still criticize and blame the Chinese for their minority poverty.
Hey, what is wrong with you malay pig? Haven't you fed yourself enough with the loots yet? Still want more? What a worthless thieves bunch!
You malay pig are worse than a maggot. We need leader not a faggot to rule this country. Get lost you freak!
For all the bad things you stupid melayu babi say about the Chinese, when you are in trouble and big shit, what do you do?
You come crawling back on your knees to the Chinaman to help you, because you can't trust all your malay pig who are rapists, sodomy incest culprits, drug addicts.
Without the Chinese, you malay pig will still live on trees, swinging from tree to tree like monkeys or forages on the ground by your 4 legs to eat all the shit.
You malay pig are a truly ungrateful lot - the minute all the Chinese leave Bolehland - you malay pig will collapse into the sea and die - that is your destiny!
I guess the problem of malay pig race is their culture - it is in born in their gene - nowhere in the world that you will see affirmative action is focusing on the majority because it is always the minority that need the protection.
Worst, the minority in Malaysia has been systematically been marginalized just to suppress them of their growth.
Let the malay pig make Malaysia the most corrupted place to live in and see what happened in 2020? I guessed malay pig will go back to Indonesia as Malaysia don't belong to them, they are also immigrants from Sumatra, Sulawesi, Jawa, etc.
Please get it into your pea-sized otak udang plastered with layers and layers of tahi babi encased in your kepala kayu that Malaysia belongs to the Orang Asli who are the true bumis of the country.
Niffy pellmell malay pig are in fact pendatang haram who swam across the Melaka Sea illegally from Sumatra. They should be caught, given severe caning and deported back to their pig sties in Sumatra.
The basis of how the Malaysia government works is based on the NEP, a highly flawed and self destructive (to most) system. We are citizens of a flawed system. There must be something wrong for those of us who grew up and indoctrinated on this low class mentality.
The crutches mentality and NEP have simply permeated too much of civil servants and the government.
Face it, too many people managing public education in this country have feudal mindset. Next to the police, the public education establishment is probably the most opaque and unaccountable.
We have principals and teachers who make shocking on decisions in schools on their own. We have administrators who make bad decisions on programs, schools, syllabus, teachers, etc.
Before we get a first class university, we need to get first class students from quality schools. Sadly most of the good schools have been decimated by who have become more engrossed with 'tudung' fashion than the quality of teaching.
Face it, there are many in the government that see education and skills the way they see government contracts - they need to limit the other races from it and to monopolize it. It is very much parcel and part of 'ketuanan' idea.
Their greatest fear is that non-malays would take what is available and run far ahead of them. In other words, if they can't have it their way, no one should get any either. It is better to spoil the game then let someone else win the game.
As long as those elements of the NEP inside higher education policy, don't ever dream on having first class universities. Second class is also out of our reach. Third class……….yes! This is what we are having now. Look at our local graduates that being churned out from these third class universities.
The frequent flooding is just one sign of all that has gone rotten in Malaysia.
Seems like none posters have confidence and hope at all on the government and the policy they implement. Any move they make is just to benefit their members and bringing down Malaysia to the knee and suffered its citizens.
I think the posters have no hope because we believe with the affirmative action and NEP to the majority favouring certain 'upper' class - there will be no prosperity for Malaysia regardless of the illusion they throw at us.
The grievances expressed here are tips for the government to reflect on the issues and to improve on its administration. It is free advice. We do it as if we are happy, or have no choice, but to let BN to continue to be in power forever.
I grew up in small town when I was a kid and that was the best part of my life but this corrupt system has to be stopped somehow. Even if they are not money corrupt, the system is ideologically corrupt and unsound.
It is just spinning on a vicious cycle. I don't see Pak Lah breaking that cycle. In fact, he is playing into it.
It is true that without meritocracy the malays will never be able to compete with anyone. The malays have to depend on the Chinese and Indians to do the work of the malays. So the malays are indeed helpless except to wait for the durian to drop.
The stronger the NEP the worse off it is for the malays. If malays cannot compete in their home, how can they compete in America! When the oil and gas run dry in Malaysia, the malays will be "maids" of the world, taking over from the Filipinos.
Bravo, NEP and otak udang malays. Time to learn to live in harmony with the valuable non-malays.
The NEP is unique in this world and while the system can fool the locals - they cannot fool the foreigners including our Asean partners. Let us be the only country not having free trade agreement (FTA) with the US. It is a great honour.
Why have FTA when our goods can already have access to the US markets. Only problem is we don't have competitive goods to market there!
That is the direct result of neglect to build an indigenous base of Malaysia manufacturers. Local entrepreneurs had been starved of support from the government more interested in giving free handouts with the money.
This is the direct result of short sightedness and mismanagement of Malaysia economy by the previous administration.
We hope Pak Lah will find ways to make Malaysia goods more competitive by supporting the best talents around instead of seeing them going away to foreign countries and competing against our products.
The way it is going, even I am going soon.
We are already by passed by many countries. Vietnam and Thailand are now the favored destinations. Yes, we are still too proud of being good for nothing. If we are not careful, prediction by somebody may come to reality.
Then you will find Malaysians plying as maids in Vietnam or Philippines. The males would probably be hounded as illegal immigrants in the said countries. Time to wake up! Others are passing us by.
We can export lot of things but the MNCs are mostly foreign or American owned, they are willing to make a long route sending back their goods to their countries because there are still comparative advantages after paying shipping costs. They will move out to other competitive regions when the advantages disappear.
Even if the playing field is leveled, the malays would still lose out because they have to play with their crutches on. Imagine playing football with crutches on. How to play? You take away their crutches in order for them to play better, they will complain they are not ready. So how?
Resistance is futile. You either surf the wave of globalization with a surfboard or you drown while trying to ride the wave using your wheelchairs and crutches.
Rafidah said that she will never compromise on the NEP etc, in her negotiations with the US. See what I mean about the NEP. This is Umno rice bowl, the special rights, the NEP, etc. This is how Umno's power is derived from.
All Umno bigwigs will fall back on the NEP and the three ketuanan policies (special rights, malay master, Islam) when under political pressure. And to think that Mahathir was working towards changing the mindset of the malays! What cock was he talking about?
Malaysia economy is being monopolised by Umno which benefited by a few individuals only. By agreeing to FTA with America will benefit the majority instead.
NEP is all bullshit and it does not benefit malays at all. It only benefit a few individuals, people must realised that by opening up Malaysia economy to FTA, the wealth will spreads evenly among the people.
NEP is monopolized policies and it does not benefit malays as well, but if it does how the malays are still poor? So don't listen to these bastards lies. What they do are for their own benefits only, nothing more.
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