i'm at home now.. came home yesterday by bus and going back to college by bus tomorrow...
the Director of my college, Tuan Haji Muhamad Hasnan bin Ismail has retired since yesterday... we'd a ceremony yesterday morning... last night, he'd a dinner with all the lecturers and staffs, including the wardens, at that's why we students were asked to leave the college yesterday as there's no one to 'supervise' and 'take care' of us the whole night.
the Director of my college, Tuan Haji Muhamad Hasnan bin Ismail has retired since yesterday... we'd a ceremony yesterday morning... last night, he'd a dinner with all the lecturers and staffs, including the wardens, at that's why we students were asked to leave the college yesterday as there's no one to 'supervise' and 'take care' of us the whole night.
...hmm... let me recall what happene when i reached college after the CNY holidays...
my mum was the oen who discovered that the bees had come back to rebuilt their hive at the same location! (please read through my previous posts if you don't get what i mean :)
immediately, i inform the warden but was told later that the chief warden didn't want to call the fire-fighter like what they did previously as he thought that the bees will go away soon.. he said that the bees were finding a suitable place to built their permanent hive, and they're just temporarily here! so we'd to wait.. and we really waited for more than 2 weeks before the kind cafe boss used an insect spray to chase away the bees... sigh*
i was one of the 3 emcees for the official ceremony of the CNY celebrations organised by our Student Council. had a very busy time during the preparations and rehearsals... were very busy with the scripts and stuffs... the 3 of us worked very hard... the ceremony was video-taped, but then, 90% of the parts when the emcees were talking were 'cut' off, i mean, not included in the CD. however, the things that are included are the photos before, during, and after the ceremony... let's think rationally, why would someone delete the part of the emcees, which i think is important to introduce and inform what's going on, but include the photos? don't they know how to differentiate which's more important? can't they just include less photos to allocate disc space for us? didn't they told us that the emcees are very imprtant to introduce the history and stuffs about CNY, and explain the Chinese culture to everyone? we've already done our part by cracking our heads to find words to make our scripts more 'presenatable' and informative. wasn't that good enough?
got straight As in my mid-semester exams :)
the Minister of Education, Dato' Sri Hishammudin bin Tun Hussein, and other VVIPs visited our college last week. our college is the 1st among the 11 matriculation colleges in Malaysia to get the MS ISO: 9001; 2000 certificate! to get this, our lecturers had a very busy time preparing al the documents and stuffs needed.. Kudos! to all the lecturers of KMPh!
my final exam's in next month : 17-21 April. wish me luck ya :P till then...
p/s: i really love "I Believe in You (Je Crois en Toi)" by Il Divo and Celine Dion. it's an English+French song... tried to search for it's free mp3 version in the net but failed..... to anyone who's the file, could you please email it to me? thank you very much.. and please tell me where to search for free mp3s as i always end up with sites asking for US$0.11 :-/
"I Believe in You (Je Crois en Toi)" by Il Divo and Celine Dion
Lonely the path you have chosen
A restless road, no turning back
One day you will find your light again
Don't you know
Don't let go be strong
Follow your heart
Let your love lead through the darkness
Back to a place you once knew
I believe I believe I believe in you
Follow your dreams
Be yourself an angel of kindness
There's nothing that you cannot do
I believe I believe I believe in you
Tout seul tu t'en iras tout seul
Coeur ouvert à l'univers
Poursuis ta quête
Sans regarder derrière
N'attends pas
Que le jour se lève
Suis ton étoile
Vas jusqu'où ton rêve t'emporte
Un jour tu le toucheras
Si tu crois Si tu crois Si tu crois en toi
Suis ta lumière
N'éteins pas la flamme que tu portes
Au fond de toi souviens toi
Que je crois Que je crois Que je crois en toi
Someday I'll find you
Someday you'll find me too
And when I hold you close
I know that it's true
Follow your heart
Let your love lead through the darkness
Back to a place you once knew
I believe I believe I believe in you
Follow your dreams
Be yourself an angel of kindness
There's nothing that you cannot do
I believe I believe I believe in you
Here is the statistic from my own experience……….
ReplyDeleteOf the same batch of students graduated during the same semester in my college in USA, only 3 of the 12 students returned to Malaysia so far. None of them intend to return in the near future.
Of the 100000 or more Malaysians who have emigrated to Australia, most are professionals. Their off-springs more often than not, are some of the best performers in schools here (Australia).
Right after graduation, my friend went to Melbourne to do her masters, with one objective on her mind, she wants to get a PR there.
Don't forget Singapore's Netwater……….That is founded by Olivia Lum, and presently also a nominated member of parliament in Singapore who made it only because she left Malaysia for Singapore!
Someone mentioned that two-thirds of the community of practicing doctors in Singapore is Malaysian Chinese.
Our Malaysia country is so lucky to be blessed with abundant of very best quality resources including human resources. I leave it to you yourself to go and find out who is who.
You name it and we have it. We just have a lot of very talented people from all fields, be it finance, IT, R&D, and etc. These people are highly sought by not just first world countries but the developing ones as well. They willing to offer everything they could even citizenships and needless to say about monetary rewards.
I am pretty sure they (from Mahathir to Pak Lah) know about these very well and they even know more than what we do. But question is, why nothing could be done to curb the losses?
NEP is the key, from the past until today, no Umno leader dare to bet on their entire political career by abolishing the NEP and revoking malay special rights.
Our Malaysia competitive edges like better educated workforces, better financial and legal systems, better infrastructure etc, are no longer better. It is either being offered or better by other Asian countries which are hungrier than us.
The developed countries like Australia know this and continue to pursue brain-gain policies which partly resulted in their 5% economic growth. Malaysia has not even reached there in its economic development and we are struggling with the current growth rate.
For them to survive, they have to be global citizens. I am making sure they master global languages like English and Chinese. The world will compete for the brightest to maintain their edge.
If one's parents continued here Malaysia, it would have been such a waste of talent. Look around us, everyday you see such wastage in our human resources……….
It is not a loss to Malaysia, as Malaysia simply does not have a culture and materials to nurture genius brains, due to its "non-competition policies" so to take care of fools……….
Some person is lucky to have parents with a foresight who would be able to get him out from the black box on time. The right type of soil will produce right type of fruits. In Australia, he becomes a sweet orange, if he were to be in Malaysia, he would turn into a sour lime.
I agree that has nothing to do with the Bolehland.
If he were to be in Malaysia at this present age, our Malaysia leaders would simply tell him: "Oh! Sorry, actually English is very important, let us start all over again to teach English in mathematics and science subjects beginning from primary school."
The current Malaysia education system still incapable of maximizing the full potential of the younger generation (even the older ones). A revamp is needed!
Go to the local premier university, see for yourself how the professors recruit research assistant, to help them prepare journal and PowerPoint. Then you will realise how the professors get the title. Afterward, you expect this kind of environment can nurture talent?
Yes……….another Malaysia Boleh!
Because Bolehland university got a quota to meet……….Because Bolehland lost all the talents with no regret……….Because Bolehland got double standards for everything……….
What a sad, sad loss to Malaysia and its economy.?!
Big deal!
ReplyDeleteWhile the stupid malays scream and shout, the non-malays quietly dominate the economy of this country.
The malays can keep their special rights and privileges. I don't need it. If this is what having special rights and privileges mean, I would rather be like the non-malays who have nothing but are laughing all the way to the bank.
Malay rights means, if you are Umno malay, you get university seat even you are fool……….that is the right what we are talking about.
Malay rights means, you must be given shares. Once you got, you can sell it to non-malays and keeps on asking for one after another……….that is the right what we are talking about.
Malay rights means, you must be given 5% discount whenever you are buying a new house. No matter how rich you are……….that is the right what we are talking about.
Malay rights means, it is the duty and responsibility of government to keep them feeding with sliver and golden spoon……….the non-malays should not ask anything even the non-malays voted for BN.
Lastly, the malays will never learn anything other than blaming non-malays for their failure.
What malays should realise when they curse Umno is the indubitable truth that despite 30 years of handouts, subsidies, undeserved jobs in the public sector, undeserved overseas scholarships, undeserved places in public education, lavish expenditure of taxpayers (mainly non-malays) money on all things Islamic, the state of the malays today is indeed as described, which in short is, pathetic.
Who is to blame? Not Umno or implicitly the Chinese, but malays themselves.
Can you just imagine how primitive they would have been if Umno had not existed, if May 13 had not occurred and if the perversion of the NEP had not transpired?
No race in history has prospered without application, cohesiveness, diligence, hard work and ingenuity.
These words are anathema to malays and so after all the handouts that no other race in the world in the history of mankind has got, they still look rather pathetic.
Pragmatic malays know it and so in Malaysia the bumis policy will carry on forever, until stopped by forces other than malays.
I long for that day!
First of all, are we (the non-malays, 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?
ReplyDeleteWith 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, Taiwan, China 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 is 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 is 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 Hon Sui Sen, Goh Keng Swee, 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.
It is better that you leave Malaysia. This country is full of crap. Everything is crap here. There is racism and lots of red tape bureaucracy. Malaysia don't practise meritocracy.
ReplyDeleteIf a malay is not even capable in comparison with a Chinese or Indians, he will still get all the goodies and left the shit to the other races. I advise the government not to help the stupid malays but to give equal rights to everyone and also judge a person based on his merits, and not his background or race.
If the government continues to help those incapable malays and not cutting those red tapes, I think Malaysia will not meet its 2020 vision. Also my advise to those malays: To the Hell with you!!!
There has been a survey done to investigate whether Chinese, Indians and Malays are hardworking. They found out that malays are the ones to be lazy. Lazier than Chinese and Indians. They do not have the motivation to strive harder.
Most of Malaysia's success come from the hard work of other races while the malays just reaped the fruits that the Chinese and Indians sowed. The Malaysia government know about this fact and that is how they implemented to protect those malays from lagging behind the other races.
If you agreed with what I had said, you know that this is making sense. However if you disagree on my views, here is 2 possibilities -
(1) you are a malay that is receiving help from the government and hence you don't make any contribution to the society.
(2) you are a corrupted, biased person that is easily influenced, just like our police force. Think about it.
You see, my family and I have, like one family, decided to leave Malaysia.
ReplyDeleteCertainly, it is my belief that if I do not take my family out of this country, I will continue to subject my child, and her children after her, to the continuing injustice of this contract.
I often thought the new administration under our new prime minister presents new hopes for fairer treatment.
Alas, just as the previous prime minister was an exciting breath of fresh air some 22 years ago but proved so putrid much later on, I feel I cannot subject my child and her children after her, to the same risk.
That risk being that this prime minister too, may abandon fresh hopes for justice in exchange for immediate gains to himself, his family, his supporters and his race.
If a bright, very well educated, articulate young man (ruling party) espoused thoughts which totally ignored the fundamental injustice of our system, what future does our country hold?
If this is future prime minister material, then I really feel people like one and I are doing the right thing by taking our children out.
Bright people may not be just people. No matter how bright and well educated our future leaders are, if they choose to continue to hold on to an obviously unjust system, we cannot subject our children's future to these leaders.
My father did not have the opportunity to leave. I now have to pay the price of starting anew - abandoning a secured and well-paid job - so that my child escapes the injustice.
Am I enjoying life here in KL? You bet. Like my wife and I draw incomes for lifestyles too painful to sacrifice.
Yet, if we choose to be concerned only with our own job security and comfortable lifestyles, our child may one day be faced with the decision I now face.
What if she does not have the same opportunity to leave for another country? I feel I must leave now, while the window remains open.
In this day and age, you can find answers to 80% of your questions simple by typing a few keys on your computer. Try this: Google "XXX".
ReplyDeleteNEP requires certain amount of bumis to sit on the large companies, and thus many Chinese businessmen choose to own many small companies (SMIs) instead of one large one.
It has its benefits, you pay less in taxes and you don't have to hire puppets. SMIs have their own associations, they even have a bank, where loans aren't given based on racial lines (well, at least the last I checked).
Have a vision. See beyond the past. Our handicaps, whatever it may be, are building blocks of a better future.
The term is plausible deniability. It is a tool of modern politicians that do not wish to be associated with anything that they can be blamed for.
Corruption will only make the poor poorer. It will kill hard work as money can buy one's way. I am sorry if you are holding up bad examples as a model to legitimise this evil.
All this while Mahathir did not know what the meaning of corruption is. That is why Malaysia was heavily corrupted. No wonder now I know why corruption was a pandemic like bird flu because the leader himself not very clear about it or pretend to be not clear. The latter makes more sense.
Again and again, Malaysians were taken for a ride through another issue like this in money-wasting activities just to fulfill an old man's ego.
So, we are a corrupt nation. Tell me something new. First we need to change things that happen at home, internally. The only option we have is to change the government which I hope to see before I died. I may not even live to see that because I may be dreaming.
These single-minded loggerhead top elites steered Malaysians into brick-wall. They are "killing" the burning patriotism of all Malaysians and then Mahathir and Najib went forward with the brainwashing scheme of the Malaysian youths with National Service (NS). If a simple NS will work, a fairy tale may come true.
It really shows that this Najib is "all talk but no sense". The quality of Malaysia leadership!
Najib is a mealy-mouthed liar. I am proud to be a Malaysian but if he becomes PM, I might chicken out and move to Singapore until we got a different one.
I am being serious. Johor, Penang and Sabah/Sarawak would've been a developed country but thanks to the formation of Malaysia, they are not.
Singapore was the only state that had balls back in those days and, Umno-led government knew it and before their ideas creep into the entire Malaysia, they were cut off.
It is a shame that it happened but at the same time you must admit they did the right choice……….malays were not ready to share power 50 years ago and I expect malays to feel the same for another 50 years.
All I want to say is that - sometimes, it does not matter that any one race is lacking, because we are all Malaysians. If we are not good at one thing, there ill always be people to help. Pride should not be a factor. That is one of the main reasons that I feel its causing discord among races these days.
Just try to imagine yourself being denied a chance because of race, because of the pride someone. It hurts and in the long run, it will make you do the same. This will be passed down to your children and they will pass it down to theirs. Imagine a country with everyone having a grudge against everyone.
This is 21st century and liberal democratic value must be the sole criteria, if not the most acceptable form of system, introduced and promoted to a nation-state with diverse people.
Malaysians must do something and not take the crap anymore……….affirmative action is the name of the game! Stop this habit and you can slowly bring Umno racist terrorists down……….We must learn to insult Umno or Umno will insult your intelligence!
I felt so excited I just had to post up here for some comments. Now I know this is bound to provoke some controversy, but I can't help - say the comment made sense 90%.
ReplyDeleteNicely said, this article. I totally agree with it. Most Chinese are emigrating not because they could afford to, but because they no longer wish to live in oppressive and stifling conditions, thanks to our so-called bumi privileges.
This actually has been on my mind for quite some time, sadly. It is high time that malays wake up and take action to salvage this country before it is too late. It is great to see there are other malays who care.
It is true there should be no discrimination in whatever things you want to do in your own country. Everybody is entitled to his opinion and everybody wants to be patriotic but things like these are really unfair. I think while the balance of economy is still not equality until when when when……….
Does that make it right? Is it right that Chinese children get better results than malay children, yet are denied tertiary education? Don't the Chinese pay taxes too (even more so than the malays)?
And this is about racial sentiments. We say it is not because we are the "dominant" race in the country, thus we have a deluded view on certain rights. malays enjoy more privileges than other races in Malaysia. This is fact, in accordance to the Federal Constitution.
I obtained my law degree not because I am a malay, but because I can. Much like one, he obtained his education because he could, not because of his status as bumi.
What apparent about non-malays to me are their competitive drive and the sense of belonging in helping their own kind - regardless. Look at ours……….we will join forces anyone who bang our leader, family and community.
Some comment, although noble and thought provoking, is rather inaccurate: in the West, scholarships are not given to any person. In the West, students finance their own studies by working through the summer, among other things.
The emigration of Chinese out of the country does not indicate that they are rich. It indicates that they are well in managing their finances. And in the aftermath of the exodus of these brilliant minds, we are left with mediocrity and decadence that rely too much on their status as bumis.
About the government being oppressive to the Chinese……….I guess they are not just being oppressive to the Chinese anymore - the Indians and the Malays also.
What they care most are their families and themselves. Just count how many malays had already succumbed due to the meritocracy rules.
Totally agree with the comment because my grandparents had also move to Singapore -they like it there - better than they like it here except for Genting Highland.
Sadly I am not interested to change all these craps. Those who made all these should be responsible for what they did to Malaysia. And it is more sad that it is our own people that did the damage. Our own Malaysians, Malays, Indians, Chinese.
Next time please don't blame Soros for causing damage. Blame it on us.
Yup, throw meritocracy out of the window and see what happens!
ReplyDeleteIn Australia, a Malaysian Chinese becomes youngest ever PhD holder in University of Melbourne, top university in Australia. That is because he went there at 3 years old.
Conclusion? Migrate to somewhere else where you are appreciated and where you can excel and bloom. Don't waste your talent here in this Malaysia country where only the mediocre and the well-connected (usually not mutually exclusive) excel.
And yes, Vijay Singh would not have been world champion if he had stayed in Malaysia.
And for those Malaysians with ambition to become a world class golfer. After using the unforgiving fairways and greens here in Malaysia……….get out! Go out somewhere where you can really become a champs. Places where sports don't mix with politics.
Do you think you are lucky too? No! You will be even more lucky if you go to Australia at age 16.
Do you see the change of environment changed the person! If Malaysia allows open competitions and accept only those capable students into the capable universities, Malaysia will not be Malaysia as is today.
Some shared this sad theory:
The poorer the country (education and money), the stronger the government influence. So in order to gain prolonged control, the people have to pay (with debt and education).
Well, how true……….the NEP failed. Make me question, was it ever meant to be successful? No wonder these talents left Malaysia. They emigrated for 'self incubate' themselves to be successful.
On the other hand, I have to admit that in the land of the blind, the one eyed man is the king.
Thus, anyone smarter with guts could make it with a lot of hard work. Also true.
Strange, one can say that the NEP was really helping non-malays. I am non-malays and fully support the NEP as it is preparing us for real world outside Malaysia.
How many Malaysians have moved to overseas and contributed to their adopted country? Just like the Jews in the second world war, they have contributed so much more to their adopted country.
So, the NEP is great for us as it force us to be more that we are and force us all out of Malaysia, and competition is easier when we move into another country.
Thank you Bolehland for forcing former Malaysians to be more than what we are and to contribute to our adopted country, by rejecting us and telling us that we are not good enough. After all, we have the results to prove it.
Also, just to note, this sort of treatment does not only extend when you are in Malaysia.
I know of countless cases where Malaysians of their adopted countries have rendered more help to them than local Malaysia embassy, as they do not want to know you if you are less than a "Dato".
This is true especially in Australia, as I have met with Malaysians in Australia not getting any help when their passport was stolen or burnt.
As regards to the passport thing, there is a joke about the comparison of the Malaysian passport and the Australian passport.
The Australian passport isn't worth that much as it is valueless if possessed by others, and to reapply back the passport, you just get it back from any post office within ten days time.
However, when their citizens are in trouble overseas, the whole country is backing them as reflected from the recent cases of drug couriers in Singapore. Though it is not a good example, but it just shows how much they care for their people, please note that the citizens include yellow, white and black.
To the migrants, Australia is a place they really can call it home!