Malays are a race of people who still live under a coconut shell. To us, the world is as big as the shell we live in. We are fortunate because we are princes of the land, our land is fertile, anything can grow on it.

When we want to cook curry, coconuts are there. If we want chicken meat, all the kampung chicken run wild. If we want to eat fish, we can easily catch one or two from the rivers or padi field. What more, we produce petroleum too, the only thing is we have not learned how to extract petrol and diesel from it.

"Malaysia is very advanced, self-sufficient and most knowledge in the world come from Malaysia, so all the information that we need are in Bahasa Melayu. The world better learn Bahasa Melayu in order to access all these wonderful knowledge that we have in Malaysia. Because we are world's biggest economy, other countries who want to trade with us better learn Bahasa Melayu."

We also have a lot of "former world No. 1" exporters - tin, rubber, palm oil, air conditioner, etc. How nice to relive the nostalgic yesteryears every now and then……….

We may never be big again. Never mind. "Malaysia Boleh!" We Malaysia Boleh compare with the Japan, German, America, anybody, just name them!

Funny, isn't it? The country will be 50 years after independence, the government still provide us with tongkat. We love you Malaysia!

This is a laughing stock article.

Think of improving the country from bribe, economic and equal right among races so that the Malaysia real meaning Boleh.

In my view, no matter what is said now and in the future, and whether English does get re-instated to its former position of importance or not, whether our present batch of politicos and up-coming will or will not make the changes to elevate English, this blasted fact will remain - Malaysia has let innumerable opportunities for super-development pass in the last two decades.

The other fact is that these opportunities will never come our way again.

Let those who feel study English is not important continue to study Bahasa Melayu and those who want to continue to study English continue to study English. That way in time to come we can see which group progresses faster and more employable.

There is no need to deprive any group from studying what they want to study. We lost a generation of English speaking citizens through the short sightedness of our leaders.

All these talk are pride and again a result of entitlement mentality. Not having faced real world competition, a disconnect exist between their ideas and knowledge with the real world. All the talk are theoretical and imaginary, not implant-able solutions and results. Coupled with false pride, the result is just that - false.

Because of this shortsighted policy, thousands of graduates are unemployable. We have only to blame our leaders for this state of affairs and is a sad reflection of our leaders capability. Time and history have proven that our leaders lack vision and foresight.

The sad part is that the leaders of this country did not have the vision to place a higher importance to this aspect which had been one of Malaysia's competitive advantage. So we are now lagging behind.

Bolehland is lost! Too many mistakes are made at the great expense of ordinary people and the country - socially, politically and economically.

At the end of his tenure, Mahathir said the only thing I give him credit for, no one is going to wait for the malay race to catch up, the rest of us will move on and the harder it gets the harder we push.

It is very sad to see a promising country in this difficult situation! Those responsible for this terrible mess should come forward and apologise to the ordinary people with concrete plans and solutions to resolve the many critical issues confronting the country - immediate, long and short term plans and solutions. top

Do you have any idea why Singapore is almost the first world country or 20 years better than Malaysia?

Because all the brainy Malaysian Chinese end up in Singapore providing the super manpower they have needed and Malaysia has wanted them to fail at all cost. My brother is one of the brainy guys who refuse to work in Malaysia. My best friend who is top of the class is now in Australia.

If Malaysia would take us Chinese as Malaysians. We would have been like Singapore.

The newest brain drain is Malaysian Chinese going to China. Any company in Malaysia and Singapore who has a factory or business in China is taking everyone up. My friend who is getting a fair income of RM3000 as an accountant, is paid RM12000 in China.

Why - Malaysian Chinese are able to speak in Mandarin and English. These provide them the bridge between locals and offshore companies communication channel.

So most Malaysian Chinese are of capable in China at the moment. top

huh?
what the fuck was that all about?
get a blog mister top

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?

With Chinese population dwindling in Malaysia, what needs to be done depends on the Chinese themselves.

There is nothing wrong with the brain drain. In fact, we should encourage our children to move to Singapore, 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. top

I was in the same boat as 13 years ago. My Form 6 results were 4As and 1B and I could not be accepted to go to local university. Whereas the malay classmate earning 1 or 2As goes straight to local universities. Those malays who earn 3As were selected to be on an all expense paid oversea university education.

My father is a lorry driver all his live. Our only most valuable possession was a 20 years old bicycle. All 5 kids cramped into the same bedroom with my parents.

I worked for 7 years and applied to US universities. I borrowed money from my uncles, parent's life long savings of US$6000, my 7 years of earnings and, close and far relatives.

This enables to survive my 2 years in colleague.

I worked and worked during school days in the campus (allowed under US law). During the summer I worked 3 jobs (deliver newspaper in the morning, then paint house and in the evening worked in a restaurant). I put myself through school and got my PhD in Engineering.

I did not get a single Malaysian cent sponsor from the malay government for my studies. It was an easy decision whether I wanted to return to Malaysia for work. I stayed in US and worked for some multi-national companies. Last year I was moved by my company to come to Malaysia to work.

The malay manager in another department was hostile to me (to the surprise of my white skinned colleagues). He has put a lot of roadblocks in my work. I sensed that he was thinking an ex-Malaysian Chinese is now a big shot.

I totally resent that but I knew he has those hatred toward Chinese instilled in him. I still have 3 more months to go to complete my assignment in Malaysia.

I never ever regret the choice I make to give up my Malaysian citizenship. Being a non-malay is a second or third class citizen in this country. top

I am currently studying in Australia. I managed to get friends from China and Taiwan who are here to learn English. I am proud to say that I am able to communicate with them in their mother tongue.

All sorts of discrimination exist in our Malaysia nation and actively practised by our government. Discrimination is our way of life and heritage sustained by our government.

Don't you see in our national papers many advertisements on 5% discount given only to so-called economically disadvantaged malay buyers to buy RM3 million to RM5 million bungalows?

Najib knows this, otherwise he does not deserved to be our deputy PM. How dare he wants certain people to stop practising discrimination? That will be double standards and discriminating against people who follow the mainstream practice of discrimination!

Like the saying goes, mother crab is trying to teach young crabs on how to walk straight!

We should redefine what is the meaning of national universities! A national university is the university by the people, for the people and of the people!

Talk about discrimination, this is what we should do - but is Malaysia ready for such a cultural revolution? Me think it will take at least 2 generations (40/50 years). Similar with education, you can't change it overnight, it takes time up to ten years minimum.

No wonder we are never near in any top rank world-class universities that would possibly produce prospective Nobel laureate.

I doubt if there is anyone who can fight with the "invicible hand" in this highly-globalize era. Countries, e.g. North Korea, Laos or perhaps Ghana may able to do so by eliminating any international collaboration.

For the sake of Malaysian, please don't head us to this kind of circumstances. No one can close the door and do business internally. top

Sometimes, we malays deserve to be labeled. We need to be criticised and provoked, and be put into a corner before we come out fighting. Otherwise we tend to be easy going, preferring the softer options even when we know that there are no free lunches at the end of the day.

When we cannot deal or cope with reality, what do we do? We become envious of others and legislate to take away their rights, not matter how well we rationalise our actions. At worst we run amuck, and that is infantile behaviour.

The NEP cannot be in perpetuity. After 35 years of affirmative action, we have not much to show for it. Our destiny is in our own hands. The golf handicap concept is not a prop. It has to be assessed on performance. Don't you think it is time we, as individual malays, make the paradigm shift in our thinking towards being self-reliant? We need new modalities and a renewed "can do" spirit.

No leader, intellectual or otherwise, can help us if we do not want to change. I am not here to lead you and others, as I do not believe in being led. Lead yourself. You have to learn to accept criticisms, and be confident and strong to deal with them.

You have to take to the well and drink its water yourself. But before that, you have to identify where the well is, learn to dig it, assess the drink-ability of the water, and find the best way to tap it. It will be better if you can purify and package the water, brand it and sell the surplus for profit. To do that would require knowledge which must be acquired as it is not given to you or me on a silver platter.

I believe in self-motivation, serious self-criticism, and sober reflection, together with the guts and will to make appropriate adjustments. That is hard work, but it is most satisfying in my view.

The choice is ours to make: keep our feudal ways, or abandon it in favour of a more liberating and open system. For me the answer is obvious. However, I do not expect this to happen overnight. We have to make a start. A journey of a thousand years begins with the first steps, the outcome of which is full of challenges and uncertainties.

I do not give up because I believe in fighting back, and speaking my mind. This streak remains with me to this day. Thanks. top

Malays today are nomadic people that originated from the China as well.

The Chinese made their money before the NEP anyway. Before there was no any affirmative action. All the people like Robert Kuok and the rest of them made their money before 1957 when there was no affirmative law.

Probably it is time to take away the cane from the rich malays and give it solely to the poor ones. I am sure the nelayan and petani would appreciate the aid better.

The very reason why Malaysia has not yet to achieve a similar status like Singapore is due to the very reason that we are arguing or disputing on the malay special rights. There is just no unity among races. We manage until now is due to tolerance. And this would not get us very far.

What has become of this nation of our? Is it going to the dogs? To be fair, I don't blame it on the Pak Lah government, this all started some twenty-five years ago during Mahathir era and it has been left to rot. Twenty-two years is a long long time he ruled the country, but did he care to rectify the situation?

Umno were responsible for our Malaysia Malay, Indian and Chinese identities in their divide-and-rule policies. Racial and religious bigotry is the result of a long history of discrimination, lack of political and cultural space, and abuse of power for the non-malay Malaysians.

This nonsense and tyranny has gone on for too long. Malaysians want a clean, corruption-free, just and transparent government that ensures equal rights to all Malaysians, without the current institutionalised racism and blatant discrimination.

The New Economic Policy has degenerated into a subsidy policy and programme, benefiting a handful of Umno-members at the expense of the many bumis.

But they came across as smug, hypocritical, conceited humbugs when they lectured the people about the need to be weaned from the subsidy mentality - when they are not prepared to set an example of eradicating such a subsidy mindset in the first place

Without accountability and transparency, the record of the use of the Petronas hundreds of billions of ringgit to bail out mega-financial scandals like the repeated Bank Bumi rescues, Malaysian International Shipping Corporation and Renong, and to fund mega-projects like Twin Towers, Proton, Formula 1 Circuit, and Dayabumi - the most spectacular examples of a subsidy culture and mentality - is it any wonder that the people are not convinced by the government's case for the hefty hike in fuel prices?

They were elected through the grand subsidy of the politics of money, running into hundreds of millions and even billions of ringgit, totally against the principles of free, fair and clean elections.

Malaysian students are sadly very ignorant of what is happening around them now. When I look at some of my friends in the universities now, the most they care is how can they pass in the exams and even if they are reading the newspaper, most probably they will be reading the sports or entertainment section rather than national or international news. The things that are really affecting them are ignored.

We must educate our young on the freedom of choice and he responsibility of electing a government that truly upholds and protects the freedom of all Malaysia people through the rule of law and the constitution of Malaysia.

Any government who fails to protect the constitution and the Malaysia people could be removed from government seat. top

Citizens of Malaysia, be you malay or non-malay, it is time to wake up, the earlier the better, and realize that the mother of all problems in Malaysia is not caused by ordinary citizens but by Umno, who have insatiable greed for power and money, and hence must divide this country by race and rule.

It is their insatiable greed that is ruining Malaysia, including our education system and universities. The struggle in Malaysia is not between malays or non-malays, but between Umno-malays and the crony.

The current political environment does not properly and fairly engages opposition parties to debate issues of national interest.

In this age of Internet and information technology, it will be great mistake for any government not to change quickly and try to control and manipulate information to influence the people.

It is wise to empower the people with accurate, factual, meaningful and timely information so that they could use it in a globalised and competitive world.

Information has put power and influence in the ordinary people hands, and a successful country is very much depends on the distribution of timely and accurate information to its people - the western countries are good example.

Without the practise of free thinking, speech and actions, we have a huge problem to overcome the shortcoming of our students and employees. Students and eventually employees that don't know how to work around different circumstances and goals will remain just clogs in an economic machinery controlled by someone else.

And of course the government goes on pretending like they don't exist, or they are cavemen from the jungle. So much for bumis policy.

The Internet is but a reflection of real life. Racists exist in Malaysian societal structure, therefore racists will exist in the Malaysian Internet realm as well.

Oddly although, as long as the government of the day practices institutionalised racism through preferential policies, this racism won't go away. The government can't see that, and therefore Malaysia deserves what it gets.

I am a Malaysian. And stop bad-mouthing Chinese, because part of me is Chinese. If malays end up being slaves, it is their own fault. Stupid, typical malays.

First thing to be blamed is the politic which spoilt them so much that they would never learn to stand on their own 2 feet. Politic is about uniting people in a country, not just a certain race and then be racist.

Leave those comments here as reminder why the malays have to work so hard. The younger ones never had to face those sentiments and it is good that they come to grips with it.

As for harmony, there was never real harmony in Malaysia. There was tolerance - thus faked harmony, but not true acceptance which bring about true harmony.

The directions set out in the first place was wrong. We are living the consequences.

Maybe I should. But wait, I do have a life. Do I need to reconsider that? Don't think so. It is my rights anyway to live how I want to, as long as it is ethically and morally right.

This thread is just a place for discussion just like a cafe. But I see anger. I see hatred. I see un-satisfaction. And I want to see changes so that all these don't continue.

Enough said. I am drawing the line here. Focus on the topic at hand, or shut up if you don't have anything better to say but stupid stuff like emotional, blah, angry, etc.

I apologise for the language. I am tolerant of many things, but not incompetence fueled by misplaced bravado.

For those who plan to move away, pray go with all our blessings. Good luck. There is nothing to be sad about for this country does not even value you. Go and give your children a chance to breath true freedom and justice.

Don't ever thought of coming back for, there are not much pleasant things to return to, even if the government invites you back. top

Ask all malay pig go back to Indonesia.

The malay pig make Malaysia become rubbish country. Without malay pig in Malaysia - Malaysia country will become same as Singapore or Taiwan.

Where malay pig came from? Indonesia? Arab? Africa? What happened to our Orang Asli? They are the original settlers here, they should be the true real bumiputras. Not the babiputras we have here.

What is wrong with the babiputras? Highest crime rates, highest divorce rates, highest number of criminals, highest number of drug users, highest number of rapists.

A genetically flawed race (babiputras) cannot be fixed by politically.

What have we got now?

Brain drain, economic disparity getting wider, poor education system, racial segregation, widespread corruption, inefficiency and uncompetitive on the government departments and others.

Sad. Sad. Sad. The question asked by many of my fellow Chinese is this - Why can't you just tell the malay pig to adopt Chinese culture which is superior?

It makes no difference whether I am a Chinese, Indian or for that matter, anyone else, even a Mat Salleh. I am speaking as a human being to a malay pig like you.

If you malay pig don't like the non-malays here, then go back to Sumatra, Jawa, or wherever your ancestors came from, and give this land back to its rightful master, the Orang Asli.

If Malaysia is to divide into two countries with malay pig taking the east, and the west to the Chinese and the Indians - watch that the malay pig starting to migrate to the west illegally for a better future.

It is no wonder Singapore is a country which is 50 years ahead of Malaysia.

You know something - once outside the perimeters of Malaysia, these malay pig are so small in value even a dog has more value than them!

Everything in Malaysia is a joke when it comes to the malay pig. They are laughed at by everyone in this world for being incompetent, lazy, useless morons.

From research, this peninsular was part of the Siamese empire way before these malay pig from Indonesia invaded it.

Still so thick skin, don't want to go back to Indonesia. top

No, the vast majority of us is not fooled, but we Chinese mentality is, above all else do not rock the boat.

It is public knowledge that even malay patients favor visiting non-malay doctors. And in the long run, it is to the detriment of our beloved country as a whole.

The truth is most middle-class Chinese have at least given up on local universities. The only people I know who hope to get into local universities are dirt-poor relatives.

My hawker relatives, who scrap by with small income, save every penny they get to send at least one child abroad so that eventually all of them can move over.

Among those who attend local universities, each and every one of them head down to Singapore as soon as they graduate for jobs and only when they fail, do they try to get a job locally.

Comparing the education received by my relatives in the US, Singapore, Australia, and even China, I can simply tell non-malay parents: Your children are screwed from the day they step into primary school.

Compared to the rest of the world now, everyday he spends in school here is falling behind everyone else. If you can afford private school here, they at least don't fall behind too badly that they can catch up later but otherwise, it is likely they will never catch up with others for the rest of their lives.

Even education is not spared from the dirty and manipulative politics of race and religion. How low would one go to achieve one's goals in life by hook or by crook?

This is most shameful and disgraceful by any reasonable standard of fairness and decency. It makes you want to throw up.

The ethical and decent malays must speak up and distant themselves from this totally unacceptable practices and behaviour in a decent society - tak ada maruah.

I spent my primary and secondary in Malaysia. After studying and living in overseas, I realised our common knowledge about the world are so little.

From western countries such as US and Canada to developed territory in Asia such as Taiwan and Hong Kong, children have approached some world history such as Jewish holocaust or the great Alexandra in primary/elementary School.

I was surprised to see how serious the insufficiency was in our Malaysia education and found huge difficulties to just catching up the history when I studied humanities. I don't know how is the primary and secondary school syllabus now.

But every time I went home to visit my nieces, I worried about them. Because each of them has talented and potential but the unfortunate truth is - they are non-malays and in Malaysia. Maybe I sound too pessimistic but it is what I think in my deepest heart.

There it is. It all started very soon after our so-called father of development PM, started the NEP and all discriminatory hell broke lose after that.

By my reckoning, it is been a whole generation 30 years where our tertiary education selection process has been twisted to the detriment of deserving students whose sole fault was that, they were unlucky to be born non-malays.

Ever since statistics was used to rationalize the cause of May 13, Umno has perfected the art to lie with statistics, or to create statistics to lie. top

Boleh of the Bolehs but Idiot of the Idiots.

We should make the best of what we have and progress from here.

All languages can be a medium of higher learning but are we going to upset the whole system just to please someone's ego and willing to start 50-60 years behind again and play catch up.

I hope Malaysians can face up to the fact that this is a multi-ethnic, multi-religion and secular country and stop blaming history for what we are today.

If we are so hateful, then we should kill all the white guys on sight for the unholy occupation of Malaya by their forefathers, of their more than 400 years of cruel colonial rule or was it?

If they were cruel, I would expect most malays be Christians today instead of Muslims

Like our great Tunku said, if the British didn't bring the Chinese and the Indians here, probably we don't have the famous Twin Towers today, if you know what he meant.

But strangely enough, instead of laying their heat on the white guys, some Malaysians laid their anger on their Malaysian Chinese brothers, probably they don't like to see too many Chinese characters on shops and the many Chinese schools and temples, that make them feels small as although they were living under the Chinese.

They always say the Chinese have a secrete agenda to control Malaysia economy and ultimately to rule Malaysia.

This is a legitimate concern in 1957 but who have been ruling Malaysia for over 40 years since then and who have been trying hard to wrest control in everything and in every field?

All Malaysians including myself are a confuse lots, most have lost the directions, we don't understand the government, we don't know where we are heading.

To the outside world our government portrays Malaysia as a place full of wonderful people of various ethnicity, saturated with a potpourri of cultures, food and fun but on the other hand, the actions of the officials, point to other directions.

I would not dare and I think most Malaysian would not want to touch anything on Islam but I dare say majority of the Muslims are contended with today's Malaysia (But never, never confront them with question whether they like to see a Muslim state in Malaysia).

I don't think we are selling our country as a tourist destination to the Arabs by saying how strict a Muslim country ours are but luring them with the combination of wonderful and colorful things that they can expect here. Incidentally Genting Highland is one of the favorite spots for the Arab tourists.

Therefore I hope we should try our best to improve on what we have instead of disrupting the beautiful 'God sent system' that we are enjoying now and not ended up as becoming one of the 'pariah countries' of the world.

Stupidity is the price for ignorance and blinkered foresight.

Stay at inertia and we will be in the fourth world. top

lol! who r these people? obviously ur blog kinda intertwined with some other blogs. tak de kena mengena.. and i find it hilarious. :-D top

omg
yes
i'm having a headache tryingto figure out who the hell are these people.
apelah nak gaduh gaduh pasal education and all
hmmmm top

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and i tot ur latest entry kinda depressing...but nothing like theirs huh? hahaha top

yeah
diorang punya cam masalah negara
mine is just a tiny entry yang i dont think anybody akan bace.

it's very weird

it's not like anybody comment ape ape pun. tak paham top

i baca la... top

oh thanks
hheheh
update lah your blog che abang oi
i'm sure you have banyak gile cerita top

citer mmg byk giler...cuma takleh xpose je. ahak heheh
penatla dik oi, byk keroje, byk masalah nak kena settle, otak pun jadi beku kekadang. u doin ok there? top

hollaaa .. rizal .... top