New Direction
My uncle just called and said, “hello, auntie where are you going?” Hmm…. this is the status I have obtained after the marriage registration on 12th January, 2008 in Ipoh.
Before I proceed further, I would like to thank all friends and comrades who had sent us congratulatory messages via emails and smses. We had decided to keep it a simple wedding. As such, no grand dinner was held. We only had a small dinner for family members. Please do accept my apology.
I know that I have abandoned my blog for quite some time. I just do not know why I could not sit to write a piece, though I have so much to share. It has nothing to do with my wedding preparation. Perhaps, frustrations. I may be like you, searching for the directions for the nation.
Where can the change starts from? Top to bottom or bottom to top? The general election may be called soon. I told myself, this is the opportunity for the people. BN has been around for too long. Things in the country have been “out of order” for too long.
I really hope that people’s power can bring change to our beloved country soon. Let us grab the opportunity together! That is where we can find a new direction.
Hello MP Fong, just read about your wedding and i would like to take this opportunity to congratulate you and and your husband . May God Bless you in what ever you do and do keep on fighting for our beloved country Malaysia.You and your comrades are our only hope for our future generation. A Million Thanks.
Comment by RICHARD — January 14, 2008 @ 9:41 pm
Dear Poo Kuan,
Congratulations on your marriage, wish you “both” all the best.
Hope that you will still continue being active in politics, at least for the time being because we need people like you around.
Like you mentioned, the GE is around the corner and the only hope for this country is to kick BN out once & for all. BN is too corrupted to be reformed from within, and (like cancer) once it spreads all over there’s no more hope. The only way is to start anew, hopefully we can even with the odds against us with a dirty EC in place.
Comment by justice — January 15, 2008 @ 11:35 am
CONGRATULATION AND MAY GOD BLESS YOU BOTH
No apology needed and we understand the difficulties we all are facing against the corrupted giant.
Hoping that you will still carry on fighting for the good of this nation, at least until the GE. After the GE, you can have a long nice honeymoon.
Comment by ricky — January 15, 2008 @ 2:06 pm
As a Chinese and Politician there are a lot of Wisdom from Chinese Philosophy to go!
As a Western learner, Independent Legislation, Execution and Monitoring system are basis for a country to go!
Accountability, transparency, efficiency to win credibility are for a government to go!
A Party goes to where People are benefiting most
while officers of the Party goes ahead of People to do more!
Human Rights is the basis to be guaranteed by the Constitution
with Fairness to be followed by each and every Acts that go!
Authority and Public Servant Protection even with rules overriding the courts destroy most!
A country of rich resources has to urge for license fee and individual income tax is a joke!
Where has all the oil income gone, will tell how big gap BN has been manipulating.
Figures say a lot, when more than 30billions still has to be found!!
http://whatalulu.blogspot.com/2008/01/lulu-always-wondered-about-our-oil.html
EPF concerned People a lot, a good topic to discuss.
Fair EC for fair election to start
Human Rights for Accountable, Transparent and efficient Government to be next!
Only parties with same goal should go (NEW direction)
or parties with power sharing without the same Right goal (OLD administration) will head for destroy!
Constitution needs to be amended and so are many Acts
Administration are to be rectified and no more hang-on Ministries just for the look (in fact, power sharing to be exact)!
Many Departments are to be on the right track!
Lay the steps with a timetable to go
as it will take some times before all the 20 years more loopholes be fixed!
Direction must be set and Patience from People must be projected.
Oil income may cut so not much time really to correct!
The Direction is yours and People has to realize to make the choice
who understand not only the GE but still a long way to go!!
Comment by Sharing — January 16, 2008 @ 1:19 am
wow YB sudah kahwin ka? congrats to you. he is definitely a lucky man
continue fighting the good fight… im not from batu gajah but i am sure your voters will vote you in again!
Comment by shiver — January 17, 2008 @ 2:12 pm
Finally you have resurfaced after such a long hiatus. I thought you have lost like Nurin. Congrats to you and your hubby. You sure have broken lots of hearts. Keep up your mission for a upright society and correct the rots in the legislature.
Comment by chisinau — January 19, 2008 @ 3:42 am
新婚快乐！
Comment by citifong — January 27, 2008 @ 4:52 pm
Do you think a change to a new government will change the country? Yes I agree with you it will - but Malaysia will be in worse situation if the “Alternative Caolitions” rules. I shudder to think of the consequenses.
Comment by Observer — February 10, 2008 @ 11:59 am
GOng Xi Fa Cai and Congratulations for your recent wedding.
Keep up your good work in fighting for the rights of all Malaysians. May God bless you and your family.
We are grateful that we have people like you in our community.
Thank you very much YB Fong.
Comment by Wizzerd — February 13, 2008 @ 10:45 am
dear po kuan, unknown to yourself, i have been visiting your blog from time to time. i wonder if you remember me. by the way, congratulations for having tied the knot. sorry to hear about your predicament for not being allowed to stand in batu gajah as a candicate. when i joined the dap, it was my intention to participated actively in politics, but unfortunately, i now realize that my aspirations will not be fullfilled. i have written to teresa kok with regards to this respect but her response is lukewarm to say the least. please contact me by email of better still, please give me a call if you have any advice for me. thanks.
Comment by alfred ho — February 16, 2008 @ 2:03 am
If you give up, UMNO bocor will be very happy but not your supporters from Batu Gajah like us ! I hope you will not resign from all posts in DAP just because of some negative elements inside DAP. this is not a perfect world,nothing is perfect. the people still need you to fight for their rights in parliament! thanks for your care and love for the people for the past 8 years ! we appreciated your hard work and effort.
Comment by Jennifer Batu Gajah — February 18, 2008 @ 5:05 pm
Dear Poh Kuan, I alway paid attention to your performance in parliament, and I feel proud of what you did like a proud father who see his daughter’s outstanding performance! In fact you are the daughter of all Malaysian! saddened by your decision not to contest in Batu Gajah, though I respect your decision, but I sincerely hope that you can reconsider your decision for the sake of BG constituents and Malaysia’s future. BTW I’m not a politician but a retiree from JB. You should keep it up to your chilly padi image. That’s my wish.
Comment by Raymond Tan — February 19, 2008 @ 3:23 pm
Dear Miss Fong Po Kuan !
I speak to you from Australia, but I was once a Malaysian but not anymore. There are about 500,000 Chinese Malaysians living in Australia and like me call Australia home; while it is true that Australia is a wonderful country, but to me Australia is more wonderful because every citizen is treated equally. This is why so many of our Chinese people migrate to Australia.
Malaysia has no future while the government is in the hands of UMNO, this you must understand for the sake of your children; and while we are at this point, let me congratulate you on your up coming wedding and may “TIN KHONG” grant to you and your children great success and prosperity; we Chinese are Chinese where ever we do and we must feel proud of our motherland.
Miss Fong, while I do admire you as a person (and I am sure you are a good & courageous person) I disagree that what you are doing is RIGHT FOR THE CHINESE PEOPLE. You have chosen to represent the Chinese constituents of Batu Gajar and our Chinese brothers & sisters trust you and look to your leadership to put their grievances to the Malaysian people of all races. If we are to look for help from the Barisan National, then you can just as well whistle for the birds to come down from the trees. We all know that MCA is UMNO and the people in MCA are crooks and they are traitors to our people. Every one holding office in MCA are condemned as bastards who will sell their mothers to get a DATO, TAN SERI OR TUN; they are not interested in the problems of our Chinese people.
Miss Fong forgive my saying so, but from my perspective you are very selfish. You are only interested in your own feeling and you have no care for the important thing in the future of our Chinese people living in Malaysia, because if you care for our people you will have to understand that UMNO has to be put out of government. 50 years of UMNO government and another 100 years of UMNO now that the ‘CHILDREN OF MAHATIR, SYED ALBAR, TUN HUSSEIN ONN, TUN ABDUL RAZAK and do you as a Chinese NOT FEEL ANGRY WHEN HISSAHMUDDIN BIN ONN WEILDED HIS KRIS ? You have taken a public duty when you chose to represent our Chinese people AND IT IS A PUBLIC DUTY, YOU ARE IRRESPOSIBLE IF YOU LEAVE DAP AT THIS POINT. The seat of Batu Gajah IS YOURS TO KEEP AS MP FOR BATU GAJAH, it does not belong to the DAP. You have to understand that IT IS YOU WHO WON THE SEAT OF BATU GAJAH. Miss Fong, forgive me for saying so, IF YOU ARE A RESONSIBLE PERSON WHO CARES FOR YOUR CONSTITUENTS, THEN WHY DO YOU NOT STAND AS AN INDEPENDENT and at least as an independent you will DEPRIVE THE BN FROM WINING BATU GAJAH ? Your duty, Miss Fong is to drive UMNO out of government and if you stand as an independent you will at least take away one seat from those bastards in MCA and by that you will deprive UMNO from taking one more vote.
I beg you Miss Fong to reconsider your decision, if it suits you stand as an independent and your owe it to your future children to come a duty to put UMNO out of business.
Email : yap.chongyee@yahoo.com
Comment by yap.chongyee — February 20, 2008 @ 9:39 am
Dear ertswhile party member, greAtings from Serembanite, hometown of party adivser Dr Chen MH. I can empathise wit’ your decision to opt out!
“Meanwhie, read:
_____________________
Tuesday, February 19, 2008
ELECTION WATCH (4): Cili padi MP Opts Out
When MP for Batu Gajah hit the frontpages of most
newspapers yesterday, YL Chong was not surprised at
all. No, not when an independent minded and principled
Member of Parliament Fong Po Kuan — nicknamed cili
padi for her upfront and fiery speeches in and out of
the august house — almost wept her way through a
press conference she was NOT OFFERING HERSELF TO BE
RE-NOMINATED TO DEFEND THE SEAT SHE HAD HELD FOR TWO
TERMS.
YL Chong does not need to chat with oncefellow member
to guess what hurdles and challenges she faced, for I
can easily project that it was a problem faced by
“credible and principled” politicians inte Opposition
party where often it is the same culture of sucking
upto the chiefs, federal or State (”balls-carrying”,
remember? just like the MCA and UMNO cunterparts),
that is being encouraged and practised.
I can tell it from first-hand experience in NS, and
especially in Seremban. But from the beginning, le’s
start, let’s use NST copy’s (extract from online
edition):
NST Online » Frontpage
2008/02/18
PO KUAN CRIES OFF: Batu Gajah MP declines nomination
By : Shahrul Hafeez and P. Chandra Sagaran
Fong Po Kuan says her decision to withdraw is final.
Major blow to DAP in its bid to win big in Kinta
Valley.
BATU GAJAH: The opposition Democratic Action Party was
dealt a major blow in Perak when its firebrand female
leader, Fong Po Kuan, pulled out of the general
election, citing internal politicking as her reason.
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YL, Desi
Comment by ylchong — February 20, 2008 @ 12:16 pm
Well. Poh Kuan, It seems 2b a wise decision to recollect and find your very own self, tho its a hard one.
Comment by nik — February 20, 2008 @ 3:41 pm
i had been vote for 5 or 6 times and every vote is for your party. Including the vote of this election until my last breath. I hope u can participate in this election too.
Comment by Moo — February 20, 2008 @ 8:09 pm
Miss Fong Po Kuan, Greetings !
I just cannot let you sleep peacefully if you do not get back into the race for the seat that you have held for so long and so successfully. I am retired and a pensioner and my wife & I receive just sufficient for us to live comfortably, but we do not have very much left after living expenses; but THIS IS WHAT I WILL ASK YOU TO DO FOR THE SAKE OF OUR CHINESE PEOPLE, I will pay for your nomination deposit. This is not to say that you cannot afford because from my circumstances I can assure you that you have more money than I will have.
I make this offer to you for the sake of our people. The reason why I make this offer is that I believe that you can win even if you do not make any effort whatsoever. You have my Email address and all you need do is to accept my offer by email and I will send to you the money by my sister who lives in PJ.. All I want is that you nominate and you can then sit back WIN OR LOOSE IS NOT YOUR BUSINESS ANY MORE.
The seat of Batu Gajah belongs to you and not to DAP. The people of your constituency chose you as their representative and you owe them a duty until they choose another representative; so if you nominate and you do no work at all to win and somebody else takes your place then you are released from your public duty. Miss Fong show your sincerity and commitment to the cause for the betterment of our Chinese people. Please take my offer and nominate; just nominate as an
independent !
Comment by yap.chongyee — February 20, 2008 @ 8:12 pm
Sad to say but all my respect to you gone down the drain. You rather dropped a bombshell than having face-to-face confrontation with your party’s president goes to show your selfishness,lack of maturity and disrespect to your fellows comrades and supporters .
Despite all said, I hope the rumour is not true…..that you were bought out by certain people.
Comment by Cricket — February 20, 2008 @ 8:30 pm
Your irresponsible action has brought much disgrace to all women who looked up to you as rolemodel. You rather dropped a bombshell to the press than having face-to-face confrontation with your party’s president goes to show your selfishness, lack of maturity and disrespect to your fellows comrades and supporters . All my respect for you has gone down the drain.
Despite all said, I hope the rumour is not true…..that you were bought out by certain people.
Comment by Cricket — February 20, 2008 @ 8:39 pm
We the voters are very very disappointed. Lim kit Siang and Lim Guan Eng have called you and promised to let you stand at Batu Gajah again. What else you want?
Comment by Voter — February 20, 2008 @ 10:19 pm
This is so call Yang Berhormat; treat her parties, contry and citizen. Why suddent retire from the war in last minutes? U R BETRAY BATU GAJAH PEOPLE WHO TRUSTED ON U !!! BETRAY U PARTIES !!! BETRAY MALAYSIAN !!!!
PEOPLE WHO JUST THINK DEEPER WILL KNOW: THE EXCUSE U GIVEN WAS SO WEAK !!!
MALAYSIAN, PLS WAKE UP, WE NO NEED SUCH SELFISH PEOPLE AS OUR REPRESENTATIVE IN PARLIMENT, WE WANT SOMEONE WHO REALLY LOVE THE CONTRY, LOVE THE CITIZEN, NO FEEL GUITY IN FRONT THEIR RELIGION SUCH AS TENKUL ABDUL RAHMAN, TAN CHENG LOCK.
MADAM FONG: THE REASON AT THE BACK WHY U BETRAY IN LAST MINUTES, U SELF WILL KNOW, GOD WILL KNOW, U WILL FOR U WHOLE LIFE CAN’T FACING BATU GAJAH PEOPLE !!! FOREVER FEEL GUILTY INFRONT U RELIGION !!!!
Comment by Golden Tee — February 21, 2008 @ 1:58 pm
Considering the hurt harm created to all the loyal malaysian who wanting a democratic caring society and the Party.the comments shown in yr blog with their xpressions and feeling and the Party leaders begging to return,against you whatever reasons and difficulties are overflow sufficiently warant you to reconsider. U sorry cant compensate the hurt of your supporters and the xpected adversed consequence in the battle field of u not contesting.There is a better time to make a decision.A proper handover will be the best.Give a chance to us and yourself and the Party. Come back quick.Tats the day Dap will shine and fly and the joyous day for every loving caring Malaysian. Please come back to this battle field. Dont leave your fellow colledges fighting alone with the gaint BN.We hv beenwaiting sleeeplessly longing for your positive action.dont be track into those fellows like Fung Ket Wing and gang and Lee Lam tie. They hv done very much harm to the party in the past and they have (Ket Wing and gang)destroyed by their own deed. Please come back we and the party need you. Leave a legacy of respect, trustworthy for you, family and generation.Look things at the positive side and all will turn to sunshine.We pray for u and may God grant yr the wisdom required to determine the correct way.
Comment by thomas Wong Sandakan Sabah — February 21, 2008 @ 11:19 pm
Greetings Miss Fong !
I believe nomination day is still a couple of days away, and I will try again to persuade you to nominate if not as a DAP, then nominate as an independent. To say the least, it is important to me if you get elected. I am speaking to you to further my own selfish interest because I am in the midst of a campaign of my won to fight for my legal rights in your Malaysian High Court and my personal battle is against Judge Zainon binti Mohd. Ali. It is enough for me to say that I have been fighting this judge for the last 8 years and for all that is unjust, my lawyer Mr David Hoh of M/s Lim & Hoh of Ming Building, Bujit Nanas, KL. Supports Judge Zainon binti Mohd. Ali and in so doing “PLAYS ON THE RESPONDENTS’ SIDE.” I have gone public on this fight by blogging on my own blogg.
My blogg. Is on http://yapchongyee.blogspot.com and I have been writing for the last 2 years. I made a promise to judge Zainoon binti Mohd. Ali that I will eventually come to KL and fight her in a Malaysian Court of Law, BUT AFTER THE BEIJING OLYMPICS. I will come to KL. and I will and both prosecute and sue Judge Zainon binti Mohd. Ali; together with Mr David Hoh, the lawyers for the respondents and Stephen Lim Cheng Ban, Wong Kem Chen and Mr Kwong Sea Yoon. I will only say that for those who want to read more on this matter, they will know what to do.
That being my own circumstances, the reason why it is to my interest for you to be in Parliament is for you TO FIGHT THE GOOD FIGHT AND TO SPEAK IN THE CHAMBER ON ISSUES THAT WILL BE libelous, but nevertheless I assure is the truth. I will come to KL and know that in a lawless nation all the judges will support their own colleague in the courts. This case is very much in the public interests to expose to all the world to know that in Malaysia a proper court case that is still alive, as is my wife’s case can be intentionally put INTO LIMBO and neutered because our judges are corrupt and lawless. Let it be known that judge Zainon binti Mohd. Ali AWARDED 2 INTERLOCUTORY ORDERS SIMULTANEOUSLY (1) Order for security for costs, for which my wife had paid RM60,000 and the order was ENFORCED BY RESPONDENTS BY ACCEPTANCE OF THE SECURITY FOR COSTS (2)AFTER RECEIVING THE RM.60,000 RESPONDENTS APPLIED TO STRIKE OUT WHICH JUDGE ZAINON BINTI MOHD. ALI APPROVED AS WELL. In layman’s language Judge Zainon binti Mohd. Ali “had the cake and ate it too”. This bit of SILLY nonsense that was perpetrated by Judge Zainon binti Mohd. Ali has never been known to have HAPPENED IN ANYWHERE ELSE IN THE WORLD IN ALL OF HISTORY.
I need “chilly padi” to speak to Parliament on this issue when I get arrested in KL. I will be arrested in KL because it will be very shameful for the world to know that a MALAYSIAN JUDGE OF THE HIGHEST COURT OF THE LAND DOES NOT KNOW THE LAW. Every Malaysian citizen is calling for judicial reforms, but there is no need for judicial reforms at all. The laws in Malaysia is adequate and no reforms is necessary BUT IT IS THE HONESTY OF THE JUDGES THAT IS IN QUESTION AND NOT THE LAW. What can we ordinary citizens do IF THE JUDGE WILL NOT ENFORCE THE LAW AS SHE IS DUTY BOUND TO DO, as is the case in my example where Judge Zainon binti Mohd. Ali totally and with knowledge of the law REFUSES TO ENFORCE THE LAW; because she intended to STRIKE OUT MY WIFE’S CASE FOR THE PURPOSE OF PROTECTING HER RESPONDENT FRIENDS.
Miss Fomg Po Kuan, please nominate and you will help our Chinese people by joing with me to fight this good fight, because if judges do not with knowledge that they are not and will not enforce the law, what is there to protect our people. I have just a very few years left, and I say to myself, that I ought to make the best of what few years left to fight for our Chinese people living in Malaysia. WHY DO WE ALWAYS ALLOW THE UMNO TO PISS IN OUR FACES, and shit on our heads ?
IF MY SACRIFICE IS NOT TO BE MADE IN VAIN THEN MISS FONG DO NOMINATE AND GET INTO PARLIAMENT AND SPEAK TO MY INJUSTICE; my injustice is the injustice that we all Malaysian Chinese face today. MISS FONG IF YOU ARE SINCERE IN WANTING TO FIGHT FOR OUR CHINESE PEOPLE, HELP ME IN THIS FIGHT !
THIAN KONG BLESS YOU SISTER.
Comment by yap.chongyee — February 22, 2008 @ 3:23 am
I read the latest news from malaysiakini.com u reconsider to serve the people.One Parilment up many more to come.Keep the goods news around lift the spirit of democary. Many Malaysian are behind u.
Comment by albert — February 22, 2008 @ 4:51 pm
Dear Po Kuan,
I appreciate your decision to change your mind and continue to fight along with your other DAP comrades against the corrupted BN. We must be united in facing our big common enemy (whoelse but BN ! )
Comment by chong sin min — February 22, 2008 @ 5:37 pm
Thank goodness you are back again. Very wise move indeed to contest again. Wish you all the best.
Comment by JAMES OOI — February 22, 2008 @ 8:08 pm
I read the little caption on Malaysiakini.com and I am very glad that you have taken a very positive and responsible decision. I wish you lots of good luck ! I do not subscribe to Malaysiakini.com so I will have to read in either Straitstimes (S’pore) or the Star.com.
I have written a lot on the lawlessness of Malaysia in my blogg. I have sacrificed my wife’s security for costs of RM.60,000 and I have accepted the fact that Judge Zainon binti Mohd. Ali had acted illegally and immorally. I also know that I will never ever going to see the return of our security for costs; but to my mind why bother when we know that everything that is done in KL (Malaysia) is either crooked, unethical and illegal and unlawful. I decided to expose Judge Zainon binti Mohd. Ali because the only weapon against government corruption is public exposure. I then decided to attack judge instead of waiting for the appeal to languish for ½ a century, I will be dead by then.
I suggest that from the point of view of our Chinese people, the greatest protection of all is not democracy or some shit like that, because from day one of the founding of Malaysia, THERE HAS NOT BEEN NOR WAS THERE EVER REAL DEMOCRACY IN MALAYSIA. I believe that what our Chinese people need most of all is RULE OF LAW, and not the rubbish that pass as English Common Law; THE CONDUCT OF JUDGE ZAINON BINTI MOHD. ALI IS ONE OF LAWLESSNESS. In all the time of her performance on the bench vis a vis my wife’s case (Petition) Judge did not once even remotely applied the law that relates to our case in court. If ever Judge Zainon binti Mohd. Ali finds the courage to take legal measures to prosecute me and I HAVE GIVEN HER many, many reasons to prosecute me for alleged sedition I will welcome it and defend myself gladly. Judge Zainon binti Mohd. Ali has recourse to obtain for my prosecution in Perth where I live by the process of EXTRADICITON. I have written to her, the Chief Justice, Malaysian Attorney General, President and Secretary of Malaysian Bar Council BUT TO MY UTTER DISAPPOINTMENT THERE HAS NOT BEEN ANY ACTION TAKEN AGAINST ME. I want a scandal that will explode out of my case that a JUDGE OF THE HIGHEST COURT IN MALAYSIA HAS KEPT HOSTAGE A PETITION THAT IS ALIVE. What sort of BANANA COURT MALAYSIA HAS THAT ALLOWS A JUDGE OF THE HIGHEST COURT TO NEUTER AN ONGOING CASE ?
Let me suggest that you campaign on the issue for the removal of Judges that can be proven to have acted corruptly OR INCOMPETENTLY, or wrongly; because I have always argued openly that the penalty for OFFICIAL MALFEASANCE must be pursued vigorously because this offence is applicable to all officials who refuses to apply the law or to do what he is required to do in the performance of her duty. The penalty is removal from office and/or be sued for malfeasance for civil damages.
I will end my letter to you at this point BECAUSE UP TO THIS POINT THERE IS NOTHING THAT JUDGE ZAINON BINTI MOHD. ALI HAS CAUSE TO CREATE TROUBLE FOR YOU. This letter continues at length as posted in my own blogg.
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Comment by yap.chongyee — February 26, 2008 @ 2:28 pm
YEAR 2008 THE YEAR THAT MALAYSIA WILL CHANGE OR BUST !
PART ONE
The 50 years of crony, crooked racist politics has at last culminated to this YEAR OF CHANGE. The last 50 years for the Chinese & Indians were the years of living dangerously; the years of living under the specter of racial pogroms. We were threatened by the Malay KRIS and we accepted these humiliation because MCA & MIC had emasculated our people and all for the personal aggrandizement of a few Chinese & one Indian SAMY VELLOO who crawled on his belly to lend cover to UMNO to further the interests of the UMNO oligarchs.
This year has seen the collapsing of many of the pillars that had for 50 years bewitched the Malay rakyat to believe that THE MALAYS CAN TAKE IT ALL FOR THEMSELVES. UMNO had in fact undermined the development and progress of their own Malay people to stay in power. The so called AFFIRMATIVE ACTION that has for so long deprived the Chinese & Indians had by the twist of fate worked to divide the Malays into the elite who enjoy “connected privileges” and the ordinary RAKYAT whose father is not a Tun, Dato or Tan Sri and hence 22 million who are unconnected live like the Chinese & Indians; largely deprived from a share in the distribution of the national wealth.
The Malay rakyat like the Chinese & Indians too had been cheated by the UMNO oligarch from achieving true and real progress; this had been the irony of fate. The truth is that in all the world, no vested interests group of any modern society can ever keep 45% of their population in a permanent state of privation and expect to achieve a harmonious society. There are 1000’s of living example to draw from, why not look at what has become of UGANDA and the consequences of Idi Amin driving the Indians out ! Why not look at Kenya, and to what is even today taking place that invites comparison with “513” but one that you Malays can see in stark relief is to cite the permanent state of war that exist between the Israelis and the Palestinians; can this war ever in our lifetime see peace ?
I do not think that any argument, however well shaped it might be is going to influence change and we all know that Malaysia really need change. It is quite hilarious to say it but it has to be said that Malaysia under UMNO is headed backwards and towards “FEUDALISM”, and what the Malays see as “MALAY PRIDE”. It is really comical that in this day and age when even the British talk of giving up the royal family bullshit; here comes Malaysia wanting the restoration of feudalism. This craziness has a lot to do with the Malay obsession for “rank” or what the Malays call “pankat”; and in this respect they have restored the ceremonial heraldic titles like “Tun” “Tan Sri” “Dato” etc. I observe in the upcoming election that progenies of former UMNO leaders are entering the elections to take the place of their fathers and fore-bears. These events set the foundations for the calcification of a feudalistic oligarchy; and the surest endorsement of these developments is the public denial by non other than former PM Mahatir Mohd. That in his government he did not approve of “DYNASTIC” politics and that for that reason he did not elevate his son to take his place. That to be sure is debatable !
The fore going discussion is the basis for my perspective that “AFFIRMATIVE ACTION RETARDED THE POSSIBLE PROGRESS OF THE MALAYS”.
(1)Why affirmative action or more correctly RACIAL DISCRIMINATION has retarded the progress of the Malay rakyat & the Malaysian nation as a whole.
The truth hurts, I mean the truth to the Malays hurt, but why bother to say anything if it is not the truth. Malaysia has 23 million Malays, and about 5 million Chinese & Indians. We the minority component of Malaysia do not get a look in on the largesse of the government ever but on the other hand we pay the baulk of income tax ( I think about 55% or a bit more); this has gone on from ever since the first days of independence. To say the least the Chinese communist led by Chin Peng forced the early departure of the British. It was not, as claimed by UMNO that the British were forced to leave Malaysia by the Tengku and his UMNO party. If it was not for the pressure of the Communist, then what is the pressure that forced the British out because the Malays fought the Communist on the side of the British ? It was Chin Peng and the Communist Party fighters that caused the British to haemorrhage national treasure (made the Brits go broke) that forced them to leave Malaysia.
The Chinese & Indians do and did contribute to the development of Malaysia and form the baulk of income tax contributors. The least that we can expect is equal treatment; we do not and have not expected any hand outs from the government. We are Chinese and we can look after ourselves; and we live by very little and we save a lot for capital. What I am saying in a nutshell is that we Chinese willingly accommodate the GOVERNMENT’S UNJUST EXPROPRIATION OF THE NATIONAL WEALTH FOR A SMALL ELITE MALAY GROUP.
I had earlier said that 23 million are Malays, and of these 23 million Malays, how many benefited from government scholarships ? Yes ! every year more than 5,000 (“guestimate” agar agar saja), gain scholarships, but of these only a handful of Malay scholars go on and pursue a course of study that has any practical application; the courses pursued are mostly in the “ARTS” disciplines, and very rarely do we see a Malay pursue a course in engineering or in SCIENCES; as a consequence most Malay graduates cannot find employment outside of the government; WHAT A WASTE OF SCARCE RESOURCES. The source of this dislocation between government largesse and returns of funds for training lies in the fact that recruitment of recipients for scholarships are stymied by nepotism and crony politics; the best that the Malay race can offer will not get the scholarships. You need to be the son of somebody to get anywhere. This distortion of the system has gone on for 50 years and will go on if it is not stopped now.
I had earlier said that we Chinese do accommodate you Malays (mostly because we cannot oppose ), but we also do grudge that what we Chinese have been so crudely deprived of go to benefit only a very few and most of these scarce resources are squandered by irresponsible bureaucrats. The results of this wastage is to train an Army of unemployed “clerks” who can do nothing. Unfortunately this blind affirmative actions cannot produce sufficient numbers of useful and highly skilled workers; Malaysia has not progressed at all in the globalised 21st century. We are behind Vietnam, Thailand, and soon you will be behind such 3rd world minnows like Cambodia and Laos.
Tomorrow, I will discuss why Malaysia will regress economically, while the rest of Asean will pass you by.
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Comment by yap.chongyee — February 26, 2008 @ 3:17 pm
YEAR 2008 THE YEAR THAT MALAYSIA WILL CHANGE OR BUST !
PART TWO
At the time of “513” I lived at Kamunting Street, which was at the edge of Kampong Bahru. The riots started from Kampong Bahru and engulfed Chow Kit R market. The whole riot was carefully planned by that fellow, former Mentri Besar of Selangor, Dato Harun. There was nothing spontaneous about it at all. It was just foray to slaughter as many Chinese as the Malays can. We who lived in that area around Kamunting Street were ourselves poor Chinese and we went through privation just as much as the Malays, but with one difference, they (Malays) got government assistance while we ahd to scratch for what little that we could. My father was just a lowly accounts clerk and we did not have much as children, even to eat. How much can we expect when my family were 9 children ? Therefore, we were in fact worse off then our Malay nirghbours. All of us Chinese, Indians and Malays have the same background, NOT ALL ARE RICH ! “513” therefore was the bogey to scare us of the minority group into submission and it succeeded because Malaysian Chinese were badly led by common traitors of our own Chinese people. This has gone on for 50 years. This is the year of change and we are accountable to our grand children and their children after then. We all Chinese and Indians have a duty to bring about CHANGE and this is the year because Barisan national is led by a SLEEPY HEAD PRIME MINISTER. GO OUT AND VOTE OPPOSITION.
It is still not fully appreciated by all Malaysians that globalisation has already left Malaysia behind; today it is Vietnam, Singapore, Thailand and very soon it will be the real 3rd world wallahs like Cambodia Burma and Laos that will pass us by. Glad to say it, because the decline of Malaysia is already past redemption, MALAYSIA IS ALREADY A BASKET CASE. Why do I say it with so much relish ? And why not, my experience during the riots has made me want to gloat whenever Malaysia suffers adversity. I am no more or less than what the average Malay will find happiness at the suffering of the Chinese or the Indians. You ENJOY to see me fall and in the same way I enjoy to see you fall. UMNO & the Malays think that they have taken all and left nothing for us; that if I may say so myself, is just about true ! But as I said in my discussion in Part 1, as fate would have it the hoggish behaviour of the Malays laid the very foundation that will see the Malays RACE TO THE BOTTOM of the third world. Sort of like PROVEDENCE has taken the side of the Chinese & Indnas.
I will discuss the thinking that drove UMNO and Malay leaders in Malaysia as opposed to the thinking of Singapore vis a vis the issue of introducing a Bahasa Kebangsaan ( hope I got it right now that I am Australian ), the national language. Malay leaders at the time of Merdeka were all fired up and wanting to change everything “yesterday”; and they went more in the manner of vandals destroying everything and would only have what they thought would be just MALAY. The sin of pride gripped them and every one who is any one IS AN EXPERT. Malay leaders were just plain tunnel “visioned” and they in fact vandalized and discarded their one big advantage which they inherited from their colonial masters, the British. It really amuses me to note that at that time Malaysia had a very distinct advantage over the other “ASEAN” NATIONS, we were fluent in English, Malay, Chinese and to a lesser extent Indian. We were in fact at that time MULTILINGUAL; an absolute advantage in these times of globalisation. To say the least it used to be Japanese that most businessmen wanted to learn when Japan was the biggest dog in the neighbourhood. Now thank god for the Chinese, we have become the bigger dog than the Japs and now even the “Mat Salleh” is learning Chinese. Malaysia had some very excellent Chinese schools, but the Malaysian government’s language policy has caused that advantage to close as well. Malaysia boast that she is an English speaking country when they want to attract Chinese mainland student to come and learn English in Malaysia; WHAT A JOKE ? Sorry to say so, but the truth is that it was in my generation that the last English fluent Malaysia had graduated. Yes, it was my generation that Bahasa Kebangsaan was introduced; and mainly it was because I did not like to learn Bahasa that I left Malaysia. NO REGRETS !
In the case of Singapore, their leaders were more enlightened and they consolidated and progressed with what language advantage that they had at the time of independence. Singapore today teaches in English & Chinese as the main language and other minor languages are allowed to flourish at their own pace. Singapore was progressive and when asked what was Singapore’s advantage, in DOHA recently Mr Lee Kuan Yew said that Singapore had progressed as fast and as far because Singapore had 80% Chinese and 8% Indians; these were according to him was Singapore’s advantage. Why is it that Singapore at the time of independence with no resources, except for their people and with a small population (1 million), and now they are 4 million, had progressed to the extent that today’s GDP for Singapore is higher than that of Australia and their per capita is also higher than that of Australia. This is sure something, believe or not does not matter but those are the facts.
The factor that retarded the progress of Malaysia most was the compulsory insistence that the medium of instruction to be in Bahasa, and that English to be taught for a mere two or three hours per week. Yes, even today there are those Malay chauvinists who want to reintroduce Bahasa as the medium of instruction for MATHS & SCIENCE. The biggest set back for tis language policy is that not too many BOOKS ARE WRITTEN IN BAHASA; and if you do not have the books you just cannot learn Maths & Science ! There is a great rush for Mainland Chinese to learn English because English is the language of science & Maths and in engineering and everything that is important. How would you honestly rate Bahasa as a language og science & maths ? However even if by tomorrow, the Malaysian Government were to reintroduce English like the old times, Malaysia has already GIVEN UP their advantage and to start again will take another 50 years to get to where you were 50 years ago; so in truth Malaysia is 100 years to get to the start line. MALAYSIA IS ALREADY A BASKET CASE AND ALL YOUR JAMALUDDIN AND NAJIBS CANNOT PUT HUMTY DUMPTY TOGETHER AGAIN.
I will a write my third part I hope tomorrow.
Comment by yap.chongyee — February 26, 2008 @ 11:00 pm
PKR “A NEW DAWN FOR MALAYSIA”
To my Chinese & Indian brothers, have you read the PKR manifesto just released by Dato Seri Anwar Ibrahim ? IS THIS MANIFESTO NOT WHAT WE IN THE MINORITY OF MALAYSIAN SOCIETY BEEN WAITING FOR THE LAST 50 YEARS ? We have at last FOUND A TRUE MALAYSIAN LEADER, who by the manifesto that he has put out for this election solemnly STANDS his ground that Malaysia has been retarded by the NEP policy that was extorted by UMNO and by the complicity of the MCA & MIC the two parties that have SOLD OUT our Chinese & Indian RIGHTS.
Today we see the rise of a true son of Malaysia, Dato Seri Anwar Ibrahim, THIS IS THE FIRST TIME IN ALL OF 50 YEARS OF MALAYSIAN INDEPENDENCE THAT A MALAY LEADER OF DATO SERI’S STANDING AND STATURE WHO HAS COME OUT AND SAID IN PLAIN & COURAGEOUS WORDS THAT UMNO’S NEW ECONOMIC POLICY IS AS ARCHAIC AND NON PRODUCTIVE AS THE EXTINCT DINAUSAURS. This is the first time in all of our brief history that a leader of Dato Seri’s stature who has the courageous to utter that FORBIDDEN WORDS “No more RACE POLITICS “; and I say that these words from dato Seri Anwar “cracks the air like the boom of a canon”. Dear Chinese & Indians we must all (including SAMY VELLO & THAT OKT) must vote for Dato Anwar.
The most important words in his manifesto is his promise that MALAYSIAN LAW MUST BE ENFORCED AND ALL CONTRACTS WILL BE ENFORCED ACCORDING TO LAW. This as I had argued in my past posts is the most important PROMISE because as I have tried to bring to public attention the criminalities of Judge Zainon binti Mohd. Ali vis a vis my wife’s petition WHICH JUDGE ZAINON BINTI MOHD. ALI HAD TRIED TO STRIKE OUT AND SHE THOUGHT THAT SHE HAD STRUCK OUT BUT BECAUSE SHE IS SO ILLETERATE IN THE LAWS THAT IN TRUTH SHE FAILED TO EFFECT WHAT SHE WANTED TO DO (ie. TO STRIKE OUT MY WIFE’S PETITION). She failed and she does not know why she had failed. This is the incompetence of a Malaysian judge of the highest court, THE MALAYSIAN COURT OF APPEAL. My wife’s petition is still alive but it has been put in a state of comatose because the judges of Malaysia do not know that it is still a live Petition and biggest laugh of all is that my wife’s solicitors M/s Lim & Hoh of Ming Building of Jalan Bukit Nanas, KL is in complicity acting with Judge Zainon binti Mohd. Ali to BURY MY WIFE’S PETITION. THE MALAYSIAN JUDICIARY & MALAYSIAN BAR COUNCIL are all WHAT JOKES ARE MADE OF.
There cannot be a modern society if the laws of that society is not enforced and in Malaysia you can buy a positive decision by bribes and what can you say of that society ? I am convinced that Dato Seri has gone through very profound philosophical SEARCH FOR THE TRUTH while he languished in PRISON on trumped up charges and UNJUSTLY CONVICTED BY A CORRUPT COURT AND BY JUDGES WHO ARE UNETHICAL AND IMMORAL.
Dear Chinese & Indian brothers, I say to you fucking bastards to vote in one block all out Chinese & Indian votes for the opposition and it does not matter that you vote for PAS, DAP or Keadilan. Vote opposition my dear Chinese & Indina fucking brothers.
Comment by yap.chongyee — February 27, 2008 @ 10:14 am
YEAR 2008 THE YEAR THAT MALAYSIA WILL CHANGE OR BUST !
PART THREE
I read an article in yesterday’s Malaysiakini ( Feb./27) that voters need to punish UMNO, but I believe more correctly that UMNO, MCA and MIC should not exist any longer because fundamentally the reason for the continued existence has too long ago become irrelevant. These three race based Parties were cobbled together willy nilly to bring together the three main races of Malaya for the purpose of agitating for an independent Malaya from the colonial rule of the British. The three “leaders”, of the Tengku, Sambantan and Tan Cheng Lock did not represent the Chinese and Indians, while the Tengku’s leadership, well on that issue I leave it to the Malays to decide; but in the case of Tan Cheng Lock, he was a close friend of the Tengku’s and he was “brought along” as one of the leaders representing the Chinese. His participation had no legitimacy whatsoever, and by the way Cheng Lock is a BABA, what does he know about Chinese interests ?
Malaysia is in all and every way a HOTCH POCH of 3 separate communities living under one “roof”, and in all of the 50 years of independence UMNO had made no attempt nor made any effort to remove the race barriers and build a harmonious and united modern nation. On the contrary the politics of UMNO has always been to DIVIDE ALL THE THREE RACES SO THAT UMNO WILL RULE MALAYSIA PERMANENTLY. Therefore it has always been the politics of UMNO to hog all the nation’s largess for their own cronies, a small clique of privileged families who claim descend from their original “founding fathers”. The whole structure of UMNO is geared towards perpetuating this objective. The MCA & MIC dogs are the slaves and hangers on of UMNO waiting by the UMNO dining table waiting for the scraps that are thrown from the UMNO main table dinners. It is absolutely disgraceful to watch these MCA & MIC dogs hanging their tongues out begging for a TUN or a Tan Seri or a Datoship. I will today take on the mission to expose why UMNO ought to be destroyed for the good of Malaysia.
(1) RACIAL DISCRIMINATION !
UMNO has used racial discrimination as the bait to draw support from the Malay rakyat to perpetuate their hold on power, and the continued retention of this ugly and medieval policy has been the most damaging and regressive factor that stymied the growth and progress of the Malay people. It is a pity that those in UMNO cannot see what the extent of damage that they have brought on their own people by prolonging their use of racial discrimination for the purpose of retaining power for themselves.
I will confront head on this issue and argue why the power of UMNO to take for the Malays all the fruits of the nation and give it all to the Malays IS NOT A GOOD THING FOR THE MALAYS. Is this not what the Malays believe UMNO is doing for them as Malays, and that Malays TAKING IT ALL IS GOOD FOR THE MALAYS ? My argument will seem futile from the perspective of the Malays, BUT I ASSURE THAT IT IS THE OPPOSITE. I will prove that UMNO’s racial discrimination is very bad for the Malays.
(a) AWARD of scholarships exclusively to only Malays (please do not quibble, I know that a tinny few do go to non Malays, miniscule); so why is that bad for the Malays ? The Malays will say yes it is very BAD for the Indians and Chinese but it is very good for the Malays. WRONG ! I tell the Malays to look around you Malays, and ask the question, who are the recipients of these government scholarships. CONSIDER this one question, “IS THERE A NATIONAL EXAMINATION TO SELECT THE APPROPRIATE AND MOST TALENTED MALAY
CANDIDATE ? To my knowledge there has never been such a selection process; therefore how are scholarship recipients selected ? They are selected by phone calls from the well connected UMNO stalwarts friends call friends and friends of friends call friends and so on, all HAVE TO BE WELL CONNECTED ! If you Malays care to admit it, these recipients of these government largess consist of a clutch full of about 5000 UMNO connected families, the other 23 million other unconnected Malays do not get to smell any of these goodies. Yes it is true that all the good stuff goes to Malays but who are the ones among the Malays who get to share in these largess ? Are these other non connected Malay families any better off than the Chinese or Indians ?
On one of my visits to KL I read a statement made by Najib comparing “MERITOCRACY” between Singapore and Malaysia, and he said that Malaysia too practice meritocracy. This is sufficient evidence of the standard of education that Najib has had; he has no idea what is meant by the word meritocracy, poor man ! In Malaysia in the manner that I have already described above, such a process is not merit based. IT IS CRONY BASED PROCESS. In Singapore only the best are justly awarded such scholarships. NOW I COME TO THE MOST INTERESTING PART OF MY ARGUMENT. If you agree that in Malaysia selection is by “POWER” connection, then it must be agreed that by logical deduction ONLY A CLUTCHFULL of well connected candidates will receive these scholarships. Then you will need to ask, WHAT IS SO BAD TO GIVE SCHOLARSHIPS TO ‘CONNECT CHILDREN ?” The only conclusion that can be drawn from this process is that only a very small ELITE belong to this group of “power connected” candidates. Therefore, not the very best & brightest of the Malay race will benefit from the process. This also means the process perpetuates the RULING CLASS OF A SMALL CLASS OF ELITES; and these recipients are the drags of Malay society; spoiled brats like that fellow Khairy Jamaluddin who is the butt of all the criticism that is coming from bloggers. The evils of the process is that for the last 50 years Malaysia had not produced any pool of Malay talents in any field of professional skills. Malay Engineers are as scarce “whale’s tooth” and in the field of science I don’t think any exist.
The question that you want to ask me is, WHAT HAS THIS TO DO WITH RACIAL DISCRIMINATION ? It has everything to do with racial discrimination, because under the first Malaysian Constitution there was provision under the constitution to set aside 1 out of 4 places in government employment, award of contracts and award of scholarships etc. to be awarded to minority races that means that 25% of government largess must by law go to minority; and under this enabling provision BUREAUCRATS who administer any programme that call for the fair distribution of government largess discriminates against the Chinese & Indians with impunity; thus began the eroding of this provision until today there are no consideration to be given to minority rights. IT BEGAN by bureaucrats abusing the system and awarded all government largess to Malays and by extension the laxity of the government led to CRONY POLITICS and this enabled these bureaucrats to abuse the system for the benefit exclusively FOR UMNO and their member families. This system has hardened and it is beyond reform. The only recourse is to destroy UMNO. Even if the Chinese & Indians do not agitate for a fair share of government largess, the Malays too need a fairer system to get the best returns for the Malays and hence the nation. UMNO is bad for Malays, Chinese & Indians alike. As for the MCA & the MIC, if there is no UMNO there also cannot exist the MCA & MIC.
THE ONLY GOOD SENSE FOR MALAYS, CHINESE & INDIANS IS TO DESTROY UMNO. VOTE THE OPPOSITION AND NO MATTER IF IT IS PAS, DAP OR KEADILAN.
Note that I will write another part to this one.
(2) DESTRUCTION OF THE LAW AND CORRUPTION OF JUDICIARY
Comment by yap.chongyee — February 28, 2008 @ 2:21 pm
THE TIGERS THAT LOST THEIR ROAR
The decline of crony capitalism ( Feb./29th)
This is a precise of the book “Asian Godfathers “ by Joe Studwell and I will keep very closely to the text by liberal quotes from the book. I thought of not commenting on this work because the arguments are so close to my own 3 part posts that I had published last week under the title of the “Year Of Change” only my article was written all about Malaysia and this one is all about South East Asia(Asean). You can read the www.economist.com article dated 29th/Feb., from which I had quoted most of it.
The book examines the factors that underpinned the sharp decline of most of the S-E Asian economies, excepting Singapore.“In a recent book, “Asian Godfathers”, Joe Studwell, a journalist, examines this failure in stark terms. The region’s business scene, he says, remains dominated by old-fashioned, mediocre, sprawling conglomerates, run at the whims of ageing patriarchal owners. These firms’ core competence, such as it is, is exploiting their cosy connections with governing elites. Their profits come from rent-seeking: being handed generous state contracts and concessions, or using their sway with officialdom to keep potential competitors out. If they need technology, they buy it from abroad. As a result, Mr Studwell says, the region has “no indigenous, large-scale companies producing world-class products and services.”
“Corruption is another great burden on business. That is true elsewhere in Asia too, but several South-East Asian countries—notably Indonesia—are afflicted by corrupt and unreliable judicial systems, making it difficult to enforce contracts.” I had written many, many posts (83 posts on my own blog. http://yap.chongyee.blogspot.com) setting out in detail how Judge Zainon binti Mohd. Ali had corruptly and incompetantly struck out my wife’s petition. The judge forced the complicity of my wife’s counsel Mr David Hoh of M/s Lim & Hoh of Jln. Bukit Bintang, KL to render my wife’s petition, COMMATOSE. We do not know how the alleged “appeal” has gone and we do not know whether any appeal has been lodged or not because Mr David Hoh has held himself and his partner father Mr Frank Hoh INCOMMUNICADO. We just got no response from our many letters that I had published on my blogg.
Judge Zainon binti Mohd. Ali had committed the criminal offence of Malfeasance by approving to respondent Stephen Lim Cheng Ban both (1)an order for security for costs (2) later after the security for costs had been paid Judge Zainon binti Mohd. Ali approved to Stephen Lim the second Order for striking out petition. Just the fact that these two orders were made afte my wife had paid the RM.60,000 is proff that Judge Zainon binti Mohd. Ali has committed the said crime. To cap it all Judge Zainon binti Mohd. Ali FROM SHEER IGNORANCE OF THE LAW PROBABLY DID NOT THAT SHE HAD COMMITTED A CRIMINAL OFFENCE; but tough for Judge Zainon binti Mohd. Ali has no excuse because knowledge of the criminal offence is not required to be proved, bloody IGNORANCE WILL DO.
I had also argued that Malaysia had wasted billions of ringgit to educate the children of Bumiputra, but lacking in vision Malaysian leaders hogged all the scholarships for their own children, while leaving those who do not have UMNO connection out of the loop. Therefore the Malaysians find that their choice of candidates are circmscribed by a clutchful of about 5,000 to 6,000 families. This limited choice also disadvantaged the selection of candidates to the easier academic courses in the arts and consequantly Malaysia does not have a sufficiently large pool of talents in the much needed fields of engineering and science. Here is what the author has to say “ Malaysia has also spent heavily on universities and the promotion of technology but its efforts have been stymied by the country’s messy racial politics (including preferential university places for the Malay majority) and by the handing of state contracts and concessions to undeserving government cronies. Both the lack of fair competition between businesses and the failure to widen access to education may have a common underlying cause: that South-East Asian countries remain in the grip of narrow elites.”
The result is that there are very few Malay talents of any kind that will provide leadership that will grow their industries or provide a talent base for the growth of science and scientific innovation that is sweeping the font runner economies of India & China. In Malaysia UMNO leaders live in a bubble dream world of make belief. The incident that really cracked me up is the claim that Malaysia had produced an ASTRONAUGHT; this Malay dentist hitched a ride on the back of a Russian SPACE SHOT at the costs of at least riggit 100 million, because that was how much another SPACE TOURIST, an Iranian computer entrepreneur paid for her ride on another Russian SPACE SHOT. It is ridiculously silly to claim that this dentist is any kind of an ASTRONAUGHT because an astronaught is a SPACE TECHNITIAN and he “drives” the space vehicle and to say that this dentist is a space astronaught is really STRETCHING REALITY TO BREAKING POINT. This phenomena is stated in these terms : “This dilettantism was once summed up damningly by Michael Porter, of Harvard Business School: “These companies don’t have strategies, they do deals.” Gerry Ambrose in the Kuala Lumpur office of Aberdeen Asset Management laments that it is indeed hard to find Malaysian companies with “a business plan that will last ten years”. Because even the best-run firms often have boards and shareholder lists dominated by the founding family and their friends, it is hard to believe that their thinking will change.
Hitherto, Malaysian companies have had a remarkable record of picking duds when they buy foreign firms. Laura Ashley, a fashion designer; Costain, a builder; Lec, a fridgemaker; and Agusta, a motorbike-maker: all were bought by Malaysian firms with less than glorious outcomes. This was also described by me in my article as fact.
However, he says that there are hopeful signs there are “…..hopeful sign for South-East Asia’s corporate future is that it seems to be getting easier for those outside the closed circle of the politically well-connected to set up new businesses and challenge the incumbents. Mr Fernandes’s AirAsia is the prime example. Started only six years ago, the airline now criss-crosses the region with a huge network of low-cost flights. Mr Fernandes, a former music-industry man, is still frantically adding routes: he expects to be allowed to start domestic flights in the Philippines and Vietnam soon. He has started a separate, low-cost, long-haul airline, AirAsiaX, which is flying from Kuala Lumpur to Gold Coast airport in Australia and Hangzhou near Shanghai. Flights to Melbourne, Amritsar and eventually London are on the way. “In other once-coddled industries, too, governments are starting to dismantle monopolies. YTL’s Mr Yeoh says there will soon be “no hiding place” for firms trying to live from old-fashioned rent-seeking.
The rise of China and India, with their huge home markets, may mean that it is too late for South-East Asia to become big in manufacturing. “The region already dominates some types of agricultural produce: Thailand and Vietnam are the world’s two largest rice exporters, for example. Since the region has so much coastline and so many rivers, there is much scope for expanding fish-farming and seafood production. Thai Union, a giant tuna-packer, is already in BCG’s top 100. Vietnam, the region’s rising star, has several big seafood firms which, if they can resist the regionwide scourge of diversification, may one day reach similar heights.
But they do seem to be linked to the perseverance of narrow elites and to the countries’ sluggishness in overcoming old rivalries and building an integrated regional market. It is already too late for Malaysia to catch up to the regions major players, but at least Malaysia may want to remain a little bit ahead of the wost of them all at the bottom rank of S-E Asia. Malaysia has lagged behind because Malaysia’s economic model is built on the FOUNDATIONS OF EXCLUSION. A System that excludes 27 million to enrich an elite of some 10,000 families has no other way to go but DOWN.
Comment by yap.chongyee — March 2, 2008 @ 4:20 am
IN DEFENSE OF Dato Seri Anwar
Hey! Dr Chandra Muzaffar are you trying to dazzle the poor Malaysians with your “Doctor” whatever that stands for; please la Doc. That Phd. Does not mean shit, It does not make you more intelligent and it does not neam that you are any smater than when you started. A Phd. Just means that you had taken an in depth study of one aspect of a subject and as a matter of fact a Phd merely leads to a career in teaching, Our Asian people are so awed by that Phd., thinking that these Phd. Types Know it all, nothing is further from the truth.
Comrade Chandra to my way of thinking, and by your claims made against Dato Seri, I say that you are bloody naïve. We are all humans (I think so) and we have emotions and full of bias and prejudices; and above all we are in truth all racist. I am racist & you are racist, and the only difference between a Mahatma Ghandi type saint and an ARYAN Nazi thug is that most of us who dare claim that he is not racist (you can leave me out because I am racist) are those who’ve got a two bit claim to having higher education, a wanna be intelltual. Comrade Chandra says that Dato Seri in the past had been consistently not in favour of Chinese and maybe he is truthful, while Dr Lim Kheng Yaik claims that Dato Seri is chamileon and in Lim Kheng Yaik’s experience with Dato Seri he could be speaking the truth. Bearing in mind that we all carry a lot of baggage are we correct in our estimation of the man. We are all very complex and we are all driven by self interests; therefore what oue see is not really what is the man ! We can never tell what a man will do in all circumstances because what we see as the man is only the tip of the iceberg.
Politics is all about perception and creating an IMAGE of the politician, and we just cannot know what the whole man is in truth. For Dr Chandra & Dr Lim Kheng Yaik to say that they both ahd worked with Dato Seri and that they know the man is ingenious. Both these Dr.’s are playing their support for the BN and not quite really to give an assessment of Dato Seri for what he is factually, because that will be beyond their capability. Having said that I say both of them are naïve THAT IS NOT HOW THE GAME OF POLITICS IS PLAYED. We can only take Dato Seri at his word and the issue is therefore ARE WE HAPPY WITH HIS PROGRAMME FOR HIS GOVERNMENT ? That to my mind is all that we need to ask and we will have to take him at his word; because we just cannot do otherwise. WE DO NOT NEED TO KNOW WHAT IN TRUTH HE IS LIKE AND THAT BY OUR UNDERSTANDING HE WILL OR WILL NOT DLIVER WHAT HE HAD PROMISED FOR THE ELECTION. There is no need to go too far out of the way; ask yourselves what had BN promised for the last election (1999) and did BN deliver ? I do not think so !
Dato Seri and the United Front of DAP, PAS and Keadilan HAS MADE IT THEIR PLATFORM that if elected he and his United Front will deliver a GOVERNMENT FOR ALL MALAYSIANS AND TO STEP BACK FROM RACE BASED POLITICS. That is what we must accept for the truth; and if he ever fail to deliver then the next election vote him and his United Front out. This is what will therefore develop into a TWO PARTY POLITICAL STRUCTURE. Is this not what we want, and what is the profit if we just not believe him and we merely take the word og the two Dr.’s both of them are pretentious and know it all. I say do not listen to them shooting hot air. VOTE OPPOSITION and let 2 party politics develop.
Comment by yap.chongyee — March 4, 2008 @ 11:25 pm
Greetings Miss Fong !
I write to wish you the very best outcome for your campaign for election. I know youwill win your seat.
Hope to read of your success in the media.
Good luck and good bye ! yapchongyee
Comment by yap.chongyee — March 8, 2008 @ 5:46 am
Greetings Miss Fong & CONGRATULATION TO YOU AND THE OPPOSITION ! NEXT TIME YOU AND THE OPPOSITION WILL FORM GOVERNMENT !
Comment by yap.chongyee — March 9, 2008 @ 7:35 am
Mr Lim Kit Siang has been too lomg in politics and he has become demented from living too long; senile dementia I suspect.
I read some of the cemments and all of them have one sentiment in common, ie THE MOST IMPORATNT ACHIEVEMENT OF THIS ELECTION IS THE DAWN OF RACE POLITICS. Therefore why does Lim Kit Siang object to PAS nominee. Having said that Lim Kit Siang has no common sense because if DAP, PAS and PKR submitted 3 candidates for the Sultan’s approval then it must also mean that DAP has agreed to accept whomsoever the Sultam chooses. I can see how that little mind of Lim Kit Siang works, HE THINKS THAT BECAUSE DAP AND PKR HAVE THE MOST REPRESENTATIVES IN THE STATE ASSEMBLY, THEREFORE EITHER HAVE A RIGHT TO THE MB SHIP. That I am afraid is not correct because the coalition submitted 3 names and of these only one can become MB and that decision belongs to the Sultan.
There is no ground upon which Lim Kit Siang can gribe about. I read quite a few of the 500 plus comments on Malaysians unplugged and I have to make one very obvious and important observation and that is the TOTAL ABSENSE of any comment on the Sultan’s choice and why he had been unfair. I WOULD LIKE TO CORRECT THIS OBVIOUS deficiency; I WANT TO CONGRATULATE HIS HIGHNESS FOR HIS OBVIOUS WISDOM FOR WHAT HE HAD ACHIEVED. Did any of you even asked yourselves why is it that His Highness did what appears to any ordinary person to be unfair ? None of you did! That shows how much you understood of the actions of His Highness. From my perspective I think it was sheer poetry. His Highness had just cast a stone into the pool and watch the ripples radiate in ever bigger circles.
I believe it was His Highness intention to expose the cracks in the rhetoric of those like Mr Lim Kit Siang and he achieved that by picking the least qualified and the one that will generate the most controversy, ie, PAS because they had the least claim to the job being the party with the least seats. It was so simple and it was so effective; it caused the UNITED FRONT TO CRUMPLE RIGHT THERE. Is that not sheer poetry ? I would like to say that Lim Kit Siang has proved himself to be too old for the job and he need to be replaced. I would like to remind Lim that wisdom is not always about how to achieve your objective by force; you need to also know what is POSSIBLE. Politics is all about perception, image and knowing what is possible. The Sultan has made his choice and no amount of force will change that.
Now that race politics is proven to be irrelevant, you Mr Lim too has become irrelevant and you should retire; 50 years as a politician is much too long, all those who went into politics like the Tengku, Tan Siew sin, Tun Sambantan etc. have gone to their makers and you Mr Lim should also go to your maker. Mr Lim you have fought for CHINESE RIGHTS for too long & now we do not want CHINESE RIGHTS, what we want today is MALAYSIAN RIGHTS OF FULL CITIZENSHIP. No more Chinese or Indian rights because there is only one RIGHT and that is the right to full Malaysian citizenship. This you have to understand is what all Malaysians what; not just Chinese rights; and by your own ignorance YOU WHO OPPOSE THE DECISION OF HIS HIGHNESS HAS BECOME A RACIST YOURSELF.
I read quite a few of the 500 plus comments on Malaysians unplugged and I have to make one very obvious and important observation and that is the TOTAL ABSENSE of any comment on the Sultan’s choice and why he had been unfair. I WOULD LIKE TO CORRECT THIS OBVIOUS deficiency; I WANT TO CONGRATULATE HIS HIGHNESS FOR HIS OBVIOUS WISDOM FOR WHAT HE HAD ACHIEVED. Did any of you even asked yourselves why is it that His Highness did what appears to any ordinary person to be unfair ? None of you did! That shows how much you understood of the actions of His Highness. From my perspective I think it was sheer poetry. His Highness had just cast a stone into the pool and watch the ripples radiate in ever bigger circles.
I believe it was His Highness intention to expose the cracks in the rhetoric of those like Mr Lim Kit Siang and he achieved that by picking the least qualified and the one that will generate the most controversy, ie, PAS because they had the least claim to the job being the party with the least seats. It was so simple and it was so effective; it caused the UNITED FRONT TO CRUMPLE RIGHT THERE. Is that not sheer poetry ? I would like to say that Lim Kit Siang has proved himself to be too old for the job and he need to be replaced. I would like to remind Lim that wisdom is not always about how to achieve your objective by force; you need to also know what is POSSIBLE. Politics is all about perception, image and knowing what is possible. The Sultan has made his choice and no amount of force will change that.
Now that race politics is proven to be irrelevant, you Mr Lim too has become irrelevant and you should retire; 50 years as a politician is much too long, all those who went into politics like the Tengku, Tan Siew sin, Tun Sambantan etc. have gone to their makers and you Mr Lim should also go to your maker. Mr Lim you have fought for CHINESE RIGHTS for too long & now we do not want CHINESE RIGHTS, what we want today is MALAYSIAN RIGHTS OF FULL CITIZENSHIP. No more Chinese or Indian rights because there is only one RIGHT and that is the right to full Malaysian citizenship. This you have to understand is what all Malaysians what; not just Chinese rights; and by your own ignorance YOU WHO OPPOSE THE DECISION OF HIS HIGHNESS HAS BECOME A RACIST YOURSELF.
Comment by yap.chongyee — March 13, 2008 @ 8:59 am
Hello Miss Fong !
I am posting to you a letter that I wrote to Anil Netto and which I would have written to you in a similar manner.
Sincerely Yapchongyee
Hello Anil ! You have written a very insightful article arising from the Sub-prime mortgage problem, of which I was not too clear about. After reading your article I can see that it looks very much the 1997 problem that got Asia undone by the same people from the US and I suppose from EU.
I believe in one wise and ancient saying that nothing comes from nothing; and no matter how clever you are you just cannot pump up hot air and expect it to remain the same all the time, what goes up must eventually come down. The BN government have for the last 50 years been about shaving off a percentage of all government generated contracts and franchises for their own selfish benefit; I would go as far as to say that about 25% of all government contracts have been shaved off and pass on as waste due to corruption. Grandiose projects are thought up that are not of any urgency or requirement are implemented merely because the bigger they are the more the politicians can shave off for themselves. Looking at the second bridge project for Penang I can only say that this is another white elephant that will costs the state several billion ringgit and the shave off will make another crony very rich.
I have been back to KL and the huge highway that runs through KL to Penang must have costs several billions, and from my observation there is no urgency for such a huge project, Penang is a sea port and Penang could have a first class air-port to improve much needed infrastructure, but instead you plan to put in a billion dollar second bridge project; where is the need for such a project ?
In KL the hugely expensive FREEWAY does not merit the expenditure because it has not loosened up traffic at all, there are still very long traffic chock points that were there before the highway was put in use as it is now when it is in use. These projects were built merely to benefit those in power. To give them the opportunity to collect toll and to shave off a percentage of the contract sum. The BN government has wasted billions upon billions over the past 50 years. Compare the returns on investment between Singapore and Malaysia and you can see what they have and how they have put their investment dollars to good use. Malaysia wasted their billions upon billions of their ringgit merely to profit a few in the government. While Singapore has invested billions of dollars towards building up one of the world’s finest educational system and a world renown R & D facilities, Malaysia is still “clomping” along at bullock-cart speed; there is just no comparison, a case of cheese and chalk. Singapore has catapulted into the front ranks of a 21st century economy, while Malaysia is still chugging along at a leisurely “kampong” pace.
I have forever said that Malaysia had the good fortune to discover oil at the time that I left Malaysia, and that discovery of oil saved Malaysia from becoming a case of a SUDAN OR AFGHANISTAN. Malaysia has no manufacturing to speak off. What is passed off as manufacturing in Malaysia is nothing more than mere assembly of discarded Japanese technology as eg. The assembly of the Mitsubishi that passes for the Proton. Yes Malaysia bought the British Lotus and what profitability has it generated ? Look at the Malaysian icon of cheap flights, like Asia Airlines a success story, but it was bought by Fernandes for 1 ringgit and turned around. The Malaysian government lost billions in that project only to be turned around by a non Malay. There are hundreds of other similar examples, that proves the rule that AFFIRMATIVE ACTION IS A WASTE OF SCARCE RESOURCES; it did not really benefit the Malays because all the projects that were supported by Affirmative action went into huge losses and they did not benefit Malaysia in any meaningful way.
The Malays ought to by now at least by trial and error, realize that it takes a certain type of individual to become an entrepreneur and one can say by a rule of thump that a Malay is not likely to be one.
Penang is an excellent test bed for Malaysia (and by that I mean the BN government) to find a more effective model for development than just sticking to a failed model that is hooked on affirmative action that has gone on for the last 50 years. I agree with DAP that the NEP needs to be scraped because Penang is mainly Chinese, may I guess about 75% Chinese ? Therefore, 75% of the population will not need affirmative action (are there 25% Malays in Penang ? ) In the case of Penang therefore, may I suggest that CM Lim Guan Eng need not take any step back from what he has declared, that he will scrap the NEP(I think he will scrap it too ). My suggestion is for the CM to implement a public announcement of all the good stuff eg. Government contracts up for tender and scholarships and jobs in government.
My suggestion is that if qualified Malays win any government contracts by fair tender then government assistance may be available to the successful Malay contractor to complete the project. This model is built on the foundation that merit is the basis of success and that if the Malay candidate has merit but not sufficient means to complete his project, the government will render assistance to him. This system will therefore remove the “Malay Sultan syndrome”; the Chinese dubbed this the Malai Wong system, whereby the China-man enlist a Malay as the chairman and under his name takes on a government contract and pays off the Malay chairman a percentage of the contract but the whole project is managed by the Chinese. This system has gone on ever since the first days of Merdeka and it is the greatest indictment of the failure of Malaysia’s failed affirmative action. Let us be blunt about it, if the Malay is not able or qualified to take the job then where is the common sense for taking him on ? His inadequacy only blow up the costs of the project and this has gone on forever.
I can say that I speak for most Chinese that we do not object and for that matter we had never ever objected to a fair and equitably administered affirmative action, meaning that this assistance are given justly to deserving cases of Malays who need assistances to progress. We Chinese only object to the wastage brought on by nepotism and corruption. If affirmative action only benefits an elite then the Malays will never progress to the point when they will not need any assistance. This is our objection. That being the case CM Lim can experiment with a system that will ultimately create a class of Malay entrepreneurs that will draw level with the other races. What CM Lim has said is just common sense and good thinking. We Chinese do not need any affirmative action.
On the issue of the award of scholarships and government jobs, if I remember rightly, there is provision in the original Malaysian Constitution that mandates a ratio of 3 : 1 in other words, a 25% places reserved for non-Malays; but this provision had been perverted by those administer the government to give ALL THE PLACES to the Malays. All we need do is to revert to the original Malaysian Constitution and enforce that provision according to the law. We need to name the successful candidates in the press, like the publication of the HSC results. Who are the Malays and who are the non-Malays to show transparency and just administration of the required affirmative action. I believe that transparency is the key and it applies even in the case of the Malays.
Comment by yap.chongyee — March 15, 2008 @ 2:39 am
The Malaysian Constitution in its original form was a document that delivered to the People justice according to law; but after the “513” riots, UMNO had progressively undermined the justice elements of the Constitution to finally make nonsense of the Constitution. The Malaysian Constitution today is nothing short a joke and is the laughing stock of the world community. The final product of all the amendments that have been made to meet the political whims of Tun Mahatir is a document that is meaningless; of all the craziness that went to amend the Constitution are those that GAVE ABSOLUTE POWER TO THE JUDICIARY TO DO & ACT ILLEGALLY AND OUTSIDE THE LAW AS AND WHEN IT PLEASES THEM TO DO SO. Malaysia today is lawless because High Court judges themselves commit criminal offences while performing their duties on the bench because they are not required to be accountable and in their IGNORANCE OF THE LAW they commit breaches of the Penal Code and still are not held accountable. If the laws of the nation is not held sacrosanct as it is not held sacrosanct in Malaysia, then there is no need for the very existence of Parliament, because Judges in Malaysia make their own laws by not strictly enforcing the law. Judges depart from provisions of the law and do as they pleased. What jurisprudence in all the civilized world can make sense of the over-riding of the Malaysian Constitution by the Sharia laws, because the Constitution IS THE MOTHER OF ALL LAWS and the Sharia must come under the Constitution not the other way around; this proposition is so basic that any 1st year law student must know, and yet the Highest Court of Malaysia went on to over ride the Malaysian Constitution by the Sharia.
The sorry state of Malaysian politics has come about because the leaders of MCA & MIC were co-conspirators to the leaders UMNO to commit PLUNDER on the nation’s wealth and resources. Without exception the leaders of UMNO
Comment by yap.chongyee — March 18, 2008 @ 5:58 am
CROSS THE FLOOR OF PARLIAMENT, YOU MCA RUNNING DOGS !
The Chinese have voted overwhelmingly in favour of the opposition DAP or PKR and it was only in constituencies where the predominance of Malay voters caused the return of MCA candidates. This voting pattern demonstrated the community support of the Chinese for the opposition and therefore if those MCA Chinese Members of Parliament have any ethical and moral sense, they have a duty to cross the floor of Parliament and join with the opposition. That is the right thing to do since if the MCA claims to represent the Chinese community, then the voting pattern shows that they are on the wrong side of Chinese preference. If on the other hand such members of Parliament would rationalize their stay with UMNO on the argument that since it was the Malay votes that got them elected then they are morally committed to stay with UMNO in Parliament; but that argument will be turned on its head because the MCA claims to represent the Chinese not the Malays. That being the case they are morally obligated to either resign their seat or cross the floor of Parliament because the Chinese supports the opposition.
The Malaysian general election of 2008 is the first election in Malaysian history that makes any sense at all because in all past elections the voting was rigged to return the UMNO led alliance to form government and consequently does not represent the true will of the minority voters. In the first election previously in 1967 the voting pattern of the minority races demonstrated that they would prefer to return an opposition to government and that was the election that prompted UMNO to organize a pogrom of minority races; and this time around all the indications point to a preference by the minority races to vote OPPOSITION, hence the childish symbolic actions of Hishamuddin wielding of that bloody Malay keris that instead of frightening the minority races provoked them to vote en bloc for the opposition. The keris scared no one, it only helped the opposition to really win support and the smell of possible success and to put UMNO out of government for the first time in Malaysian history. The general election for 2008 spell the end of race based politics and it is this if not for anything else that MCA must take heed that they bear a special and heavy responsibility to cross the floor of Parliament because it has always been the betrayal by the MCA & the MIC that has given UMNO the pretext to pervert the Malaysian Constitution to ENTRENCH MALAY SPECIAL PRIVILEGES FOR AS LONG AS UMNO IS IN POWER. This election marks the end of that distortion of our Malaysian democratic rights. We the Chinese & Indians have for the first time in history put our rights as Malaysians in proper context; we have the last chance to be what we really are, MALAYSIAN CHINESE OR MALAYSIAN INDIANS OR MALAYSIAN MALAYS; we are truly for the first time CITIZENS OF A MALAYSIAN MALAYSIA; and it took us 50 years of hard slough to get there AND FUCKING MCA OR MIC OUGHT NOT AGAIN SELL US OUT TIS TIME. The MCA is duty bound to cross the floor of Parliament to join Dato Seri Anwar Ibrahim to form the GOVERNMENT of a truly Malaysian Malaysia that represents all Malaysians.
I want to further emphasize my point of view. I suggest that for those Chinese from MCA who are obligated to cross the floor of Parliament should do so in their personal capacity as Members of Parliament and not as representing MCA because they have a duty to remove RACE BASED POLITICS for the good of future generation of Chinese & Indian and Malays. Race based politics is and has been totally unacceptable and it has always been divisive and an abuse of our human rights; let MCA & MIC fade into the background of history as a failed model for good governance. I suggest that MCA should become a sports club for Chinese.
I had earlier stated that at this time in Malaysian history MCA carry a particularly heavy duty to act in the best interests of the Chinese people. This victory for the Barisan Alternative has come about due to the incompetence of PM Abdullah Badawi and to the power of the internet and the accident of history that Dato Seri Anwar Ibrahim was expelled from UMNO under very treacherous and bitter circumstances.. Were it not for the power play between Mahatir Mohd., and Dato Seri Anwar, UMNO will still dominate Malaysian politics and the condition for a democratic change of government will not emerge for any fore-seeable future. I say that these circumstances will not converge again for a very long time IF MCA ACT IRRESPONSIBLY and not cross the floor of Parliament. This window of opportunity exist for only the life of this parliament and if MCA Members of Parliament REMAIN IN COALITION WITH UMNO & MIC then the UMNO government will survive until the next general election when let me guarantee you Malaysians all (of all races) that UMNO will heavily GRASP GOVERNMENT sans election or with election, no matter what BECAUSE THE HIGH COURTS ARE CONTROLLED BY UMNO JUDGES AND THE POLICE ARE CONTROLLED BY UMNO APPOINTEES. I cite a precedent in the election of the MP for Bukit Bintang, when issues relating to the legality of the elections ( I believe it was one relating to the counting of the votes ) went to the High Court for decision; and the federal court was headed by TUN Fairoz. The Court decided that there were irregularity and promptly awarded the seat to MCA candidate. This was a glaring MISCARRIAGE OF LAW AND JUSTICE, because if his decision was that there was irregularity his duty is to declare the election VOID and declare the seat vacant and call for a by-election for the same seat. THIS WAS BECAUSE TUN FAIROZ IS AN UMNO JUDGE. The present Court of Appeal have a majourity of UMNO judges as for example Dato Zainon binti Mohd. Ali and the President of the Court of Appeal Tan Seri Zaki Azmi.
In these circumstances UMNO can rigged all elections and have a parliament of all UMNO Members of Parliament and any challenge will be decided by UMNO Judges. Malaysia will revert to the Malaysia of old. I say to our running dogs of MCA members of Parliament that you cannot seal and condemn all Chinese to a fate that is as good as death. This year 2008 is the tipping point in the history of Malaysian history, will we survive as Chinese or Indians depend on our running dogs from the MCA to act honourably and responsibly ! CROSS THE FLOOR YOU MCA BASTARDS.
Comment by yap.chongyee — March 22, 2008 @ 4:23 am
I believe UMNO still has not awakened to the reality that the Malays have rejected their racist brand of nationalism. To be truthful, I myself have not yet come to believe that the Malays have registered their rejection of UMNO. The Malaysian model of race based politics was in fact a powder keg waiting to blow up into a typical guerrilla led insurgency; because the lesson of history is that when people have no means to support their family, they will take the law into their own hands. This is a rule of natural law, as we can all see what is going on in Africa and Latin America. The situation in Malaysia was at the tipping point and just a slight nudge and we will be in the middle of such a debilitating insurgency, that will drain the resources of the nation and turn Malaysia into another basket case.
If we will only find the courage to admit the truth that the NEP had no chance of succeeding; because the NEP was a programme of exclusion; and those who held the power of implementing the policy had a vested interest to keep the benefits of such a crazy scheme to themselves. The Chinese was never at any point to blame for the lack of progress of the Malay race. The blame should sit squarely on the shoulders of UMNO leaders. If those in UMNO who held the power of dispensing government largess had any care to improve the fortunes of the Malays, they should have manage the programme in a more responsible and honest manner, but instead they restricted the benefits to their own small clique; hence government largess were given to only connected families. This restricted the programme to too few candidates and the quality of recipients were very low. Malaysian scholarships went to recipients who chose the easy courses of study that had no practical value in the job market, resulting in a colossal waste of scarce resources and it produced a culture of indifference; and it also produced graduates who could not find jobs and had to be absorbed into government service of pen pushers, a total waste of money.
The election of 2008 is a defining moment. For the first time in 50 years history a crucial section of the Malays had come to realize that change had to come to save Malaysia from UMNO. This turn of events at this moment is a mere illusion because UMNO is still the Federal Government and in the next election UMNO will massively stuff the ballot boxes. If I may say so, the most important institution for a coup d’tat is well placed and entrenched by UMNO judges and my namesis is that fat woman judge Zainon binti Mohd. Ali and from my own experience with Judge Zainon binti Mohd. Ali, either through ignorance of the law or sheer disrespect of the law will dare to decide my wife’s petition in breach of the penal code and hence had herself committed several crimes. This piece of comedy is unprecedented in all of legal history anywhere in the Commonwealth.
This morning I read an article in Malaysians Unplugged on Dato Seri Anwar, and the author raised issues whether Dato Seri is or is not the Anwar of before his incarceration on trumped up criminal charges. I believe this line of enquiry is both futile and irrelevant. We just cannot assess a man’s character under any circumstances. I had some one who I held as a dear friend for over 65 years and I just was unable to know that he was all along one of my worst enemy. However, the point that I want to put across is that in politics and the choice that we ordinary man in the street has to make to vote in a good government does not require that we know Dato Seri or not.; ALL THAT IS REQUIRED OF US IS TO ACCEPT OR DENY WHAT HE SAYS HE WANTS FOR MALAYSIA. If what Dato Seri wants for us is what we as voter wants, then it is Dato Seri who we will vote for as our government. Is Dato Seri a truly a good man ? That question is to me, not relevant. I have never ever met Dato Seri but what he wants for Malaysia is what to my mind what I want and to all Malaysians I can only say that UMNO’s policy of race, with emphasis for Malays as the superior race is WRONG AND WILL BE NON PRODUCTIVE FOR MALAYSIA.
I dare say that our Malaysian founding fathers like the Tengku even as he kicked out Singapore from the Federation realized that what Lee Kuan Yew said made sense and yet he felt that the Malays wanted a race based Malaysia and he acceded to their demands; and now after 50 years of independence both the Tengku and lee Kuan Yew are both right, and to say the least Malaysia took the wrong path. To this point in time (50 bloody years) Malaysia will have a “window of opportunity to get back on the ‘rail”. Contrary to UMNO’s and the Malays misled by UMNO Malaysia has not progressed at all and if I may say so myself, Malaysia had regressed because Malaysia has a 3rd world education system and Malaysia has descended into a spiral of LAWLESSNESS. You will disagree but ask yourself if you had any laudable achievements in these 50 years ? Singapore had nothing but dirt and of course a predominantly Chinese and Indian population; and they have gone into such tremendous race into the front ranks of developed nations BECAUSE SINGAPORE HAD A MODEL THAT IS INCLUSIVE, NOT EXCLUSIVE.
I had said earlier that after this 2008 election Malaysia merely has a WINDOW FOR CHANGE and we all are hanging our hopes on an Anwar led coalition to bring about change, This change is merely a hope because it can still de-rail. Affirmative action is an illusion that is difficult to wean off and may still return to de-rail our hopes. THE MAIN AND No ! priority is to restore a first world judiciary so that the laws will be respected and strictly enforced. What is the use for the government to legislate when the courts will not respect the laws ? To entrench an ethical, honest and corruption free judiciary, the PKR led government must totally dismantle the UMNO machinery that has been put in place to hold an iron grip on retention of power and government.
My the No. 1 issue in my list of priority is to remove the number of UMNO judges on the bench of the High Court and for that purpose, I recommend my wife’s petition and the abuse of power that was perpetrated by Judge Zainon binti Mohd. Ali will be the first act to restore independence of the judiciary on the saying, “kill a chicken to scare a monkey”.
Comment by yap.chongyee — March 31, 2008 @ 7:49 am