《火箭报 8月号》
伯拉，夹着和蔼、亲切的形象，在2004年大选中，为国阵打了一场漂亮的选战，得到91%国会议席的空前大胜。
人民信心满满的等待阿都拉重整巫统长久以来尘封的弊端，贪污、舞弊、滥权，任何一项问题都足以让国家体制被侵蚀以致腐蚀，但是，人民还是天真的认为，伯拉，会不一样！
果然，新官上任展现了他的改革决心，许下一重又一重的承诺，2003年《星洲社论》大篇幅叙述首相“听真话”，要廉政、简朴政治的决心。2004年首相誓言，即使肃贪不利大选，肃贪行动不会退缩。
2006年1月的裸蹲事件，让阿都拉再次许下承诺要重整警队。2007年，阿都拉不说政治、搞教育，推出《高等教育大蓝图》，要在马来西亚打造世界级学府！
温和的形象、美丽的誓言，伴随着伯拉走过这4年的平稳岁月，上届大选远去已久，来届大选又将莅临，是选民监视候选人绩效的时候。承诺再美丽，是不是真金，还要看它是否经得起红炉火！
伯拉上任至今，查卡利亚的百万豪宅，不了了之；巴生港口自由贸易区的46亿令吉到如今没有下文，伴随而来是总稽查司报告中那数十亿令吉滥用的丑闻。随着重重案件浮上台面，再不了了之，伯拉第一个肃贪誓言，已经灰飞烟灭！
首相说要“听真话”，却在两个月间，封锁了四个课题的探讨，回教国事件、黄明志短片、回教法与普通法的争议还有土著贩卖部事件。重重事件不是不能再被探讨，就是只有首相与副首相可以发表，人民的真话是说给谁听呢？
没有人知道伯拉的真正人格是否慈悲，公众只能在媒体上看到那不变的笑颜，与对太太的挚情。但是，政治与生活、真相与掩饰，往往有着天壤之别。如果一个领导，只能在外表上给人加分，实际上却处处受限，他，始终不足以成为众人的领导！
伯拉，最大的政治局限，就在于，他可以是你身边的好街坊，却无法为你日理万机、料理国事。他只能服首于国阵的政治游戏，而不能跳脱那腐蚀已久的裙带、腐败政体的结盟，更不能为人民、国家带来新气象！
一次受骗，并不可怕，可怕的是，当骗局一再反复，却还深陷其中，而不能自拔！
人民信心满满的等待阿都拉重整巫统长久以来尘封的弊端，贪污、舞弊、滥权，任何一项问题都足以让国家体制被侵蚀以致腐蚀，但是，人民还是天真的认为，伯拉，会不一样！
果然，新官上任展现了他的改革决心，许下一重又一重的承诺，2003年《星洲社论》大篇幅叙述首相“听真话”，要廉政、简朴政治的决心。2004年首相誓言，即使肃贪不利大选，肃贪行动不会退缩。
2006年1月的裸蹲事件，让阿都拉再次许下承诺要重整警队。2007年，阿都拉不说政治、搞教育，推出《高等教育大蓝图》，要在马来西亚打造世界级学府！
温和的形象、美丽的誓言，伴随着伯拉走过这4年的平稳岁月，上届大选远去已久，来届大选又将莅临，是选民监视候选人绩效的时候。承诺再美丽，是不是真金，还要看它是否经得起红炉火！
伯拉上任至今，查卡利亚的百万豪宅，不了了之；巴生港口自由贸易区的46亿令吉到如今没有下文，伴随而来是总稽查司报告中那数十亿令吉滥用的丑闻。随着重重案件浮上台面，再不了了之，伯拉第一个肃贪誓言，已经灰飞烟灭！
首相说要“听真话”，却在两个月间，封锁了四个课题的探讨，回教国事件、黄明志短片、回教法与普通法的争议还有土著贩卖部事件。重重事件不是不能再被探讨，就是只有首相与副首相可以发表，人民的真话是说给谁听呢？
没有人知道伯拉的真正人格是否慈悲，公众只能在媒体上看到那不变的笑颜，与对太太的挚情。但是，政治与生活、真相与掩饰，往往有着天壤之别。如果一个领导，只能在外表上给人加分，实际上却处处受限，他，始终不足以成为众人的领导！
伯拉，最大的政治局限，就在于，他可以是你身边的好街坊，却无法为你日理万机、料理国事。他只能服首于国阵的政治游戏，而不能跳脱那腐蚀已久的裙带、腐败政体的结盟，更不能为人民、国家带来新气象！
一次受骗，并不可怕，可怕的是，当骗局一再反复，却还深陷其中，而不能自拔！
彭雪琴
11 条评论:
Badawi telling people to speak the truth is like an ugly woman asking her husband to tell her the truth about her looks. Any husband worth his salt would know you are asking for trouble if you listen to her.
And that is the problem, Badawi is not only similarly inconsistent, he is behaving similarly womanly, indulgent, poor in leadership, spoilt by the comforts of establish rule and structure, and still wanting more but not willing to pay the price, yet still think other people should do more and owe them more, i.e. entitlement.
It is given Badawi is not the leader to oversee great changes but rather a caretaker. The best Malaysians can hope for is that he does not mess things up worst than his predecessor would have.
And there is one danger that he will leave a legacy that could be abused worst than his predecessor by sheer inertia. By entrenching the elected Sultanate system, he puts in danger the possibility of abuse by the truly ambitious. All it takes is someone mediocre but more ambitious and we would end up a basket case.
Everything else that Badawi does is irrelevant whether good or not.
The truth hurts.
The Chinese or the yellow race is what brings progress. Just look at Asia……….is enough.
Whether they do it internationally or locally they will survive.
We can distinctly see the lowering of Malaysia standards of living as the percentage of Chinese in this country goes down.
In the 70s we were tops with 40 over percent of Chinese and today with only 25 percent we are far behind Singapore, Hong Kong and Korea.
Main reason is the number of such Chinese migrating to these countries - the best ones and rich ones.
Next ten years as the percentage goes even lower, we would be nearing Indonesia or Philippines.
Meanwhile enjoy your stay and the good time.
On the whole as the Chinese spreads out throughout the world, the average standards of these will have much higher standards of living over others.
Lee Kuan Yew said recently the relationship between Malaysia and Singapore has not always been smooth sailing, and so investing in the Iskandar Development Region (IDR) may not always be smooth sailing for Singaporean companies.
This is simply a statement of fact that nevertheless appears to have gotten local Umno leaders into a tizzy.
Every local Umno politician hopes to be in a position to be approving investment flows into the country because to stand as gatekeeper is a very lucrative position, and when public squabbles erupt between Umno politicians about who is the better "protector of malay privileges and rights", it usually means someone just wants a bigger cut of the investment action for himself.
Go figure that one.
Of course, the relationship between Malaysia and Singapore is special because of the race relations issue.
Singapore has been the favourite whipping boy of the Umno-controlled malay vernacular press for the last 50 years, and if anything are seen as even bigger devils than the local Chinese and Indian citizens of Malaysia in the eyes of Malaysia's malay Muslims.
The fact is Singapore's development model has meant that Singapore's malays are far better educated, far better equipped, far better paid, far more self-confident, and self-reliant to deal with globalisation than malay Muslims in Malaysia.
This makes Ketuanan Melayu, the malay Agenda, and the NEP look like failed racist apartheid policies that have impoverished everyone except Umno cronies. Of course, Umno must demonise Singapore to maintain the illusion that Umno politicians are nationalists and not parasites, and more so if Singapore happens to be better educated, meritocratic, richer, and safer than Malaysia.
Malay Muslims in Malaysia have been brainwashed by Umno for the last 50 years into thinking that the Chinese and Indians both Malaysians and Singaporeans have gotten rich at their expense, and this perception probably won't change anytime soon because Umno does not have another elections winning formula if it dumps the present demonisation formulas.
Every time Singapore's first world achievements are compared with the sluggish competitiveness, economic, educational, professional, scientific, technological, and social standard in apartheid Malaysia, there is the predictable keris waving, baying for blood, and frothing at the mouth in every Umno up and down the country in Malaysia.
Although Chinese and Indian Malaysians have simply accepted the gross racial discrimination in business, education, and job as a fact of life in Malaysia, the non-apartheid non-NEP meritocratic Singaporean mindset may not have the stomach for this particular type of nonsense in the IDR.
I think Lee Kuan Yew is way too smart to think the demonisation process of the Chinese and Indians in the Umno-controlled malay vernacular press is going to stop anytime soon. How else is Umno going to win elections except by continuing to perpetrate the lie that the orang asing minorities in Malaysia are a threat to the malays?
Nevertheless Lee Kuan Yew may be hoping Chinese and Indian Singaporean investors will not be discriminated against in the IDR in comparison with investors from countries like China, Europe, India, Hong Kong, Taiwan, United Kingdom, and United States.
In the meantime, I am sure it will simply be business as usual for the rest of us in racial and religious apartheid Malaysia.
ACA protects cheats, money launderers, the corrupting, lying and thieving politicians. I congratulate the ACA chief (what is his name?). Well done, good job.
It is a sad story for both Sabah and Sarawak for joining Malaysia. Just look at Brunei and Singapore to see the answer.
Sabah and Sarawak is being raped by Malaya till dry, all the oil and timber from the two states is being used to finance all the failed projects and also to feed all the Umno zealots.
Ask the Iban and Kandazan, they are being marginalized. Now the government even want to make the country into an Islamic state, did Sabah and Sarawak agree to join an Islamic state in the first place?
September 16 is a day for mourning, a day of shame for Malaysia.
I think if Lee Kuan Yew is given a free reign to govern Malaysia for just a single term, Malaysia will double its GDP, poverty will be cut by 50%, corruption will spiral down and our jail will be filled with Tun, Tan Sri and Datuk.
Of course it is just a dream but what a nightmare Malaysians are now suffering!
Many countries have tried to develop an IT industry much earlier, and with more and better resources and better government than us Malaysia, and have not succeeded.
The chance of us succeeding given our handicaps was never good and will never be good. It begins with poor politics, then poor government, then poor education, and then poor business environment (e.g. small market).
What is remarkable to me is that some people have managed to make good money and build companies despite our problems - Mobif, Jobstreet, Green Packet, etc. These people proof that the government is more in the way for developing the industry than helping it.
In fact, the government would do better to get out of the way rather actually have any sort of grand plan like MSC. The real only way the government can help is by having open competitive bidding in government procurement of IT and putting competent people in charge of that.
Nothing else they do would really mean anything much. I would argue all the spending on grand projects, computer labs, computer courses etc, amount to basically waste.
There is no hope of the MSC really succeeding, but we can still benefit from better IT and that perhaps is, would be better because at least it means less waste.
The truth is there - it is no real strategy. MSC was never a great idea - it was an opportunity for government spending more than anything else and as Bill Gates told us very politely, it would not work because of that.
A couple of years ago, there was this idea of attracting Malaysians overseas to come back to run Malaysia GLCs. Among my extensive overseas network of business and personal associates abroad, they discussed it and unanimously shot down the idea.
The reason? Quote: "Smart people can't stand inconsistencies in fact they rely on it. Malaysia politics make things too inconsistent to do the kind of work they do."
You want to know why they will never attract the best in public service? At one time, we all agreed what the future of Malaysia was and will always be - secular, rule of law, multiracial, meritocracy. Today, even among those in power, there is no agreement on these basic things.
Why would the best people subject themselves to these inconsistencies? Maybe naivety but how long will that last and how many?
For every one brain that comes in, fifty brains will leave the country. With the affirmative policies in place, do not talk about attracting the brain. For decades, Malaysia was losing its best peoples to developed countries and taking rejects from developing countries.
Please forget about bring back those lost brains, while we can keep those bright students now and love them and care for them!
First, the government and country has to figure out what it want to be first before it can really retain the best, otherwise we are merely exploiting those who do not have better choices elsewhere.
I still remember of my junior wanted to serve in our Malaysia air force and he was able to design war fighters, but instead he was not retained, he headed south Singapore and he was happily married down there, has a happy family and no way back!
People with the best brains inadvertently mean they know how to think. Therefore they are wise enough not to choose Malaysia as their destination, as it could spell disaster to their reputation as we work differently. Singapore will still be the ideal landing point of such calibre people.
Malaysia will forever be suffering from a massive "brain drain" so long as the Umno-led government keeps in place the malay agenda. To forego the agenda is too costly sacrifice which the Umno malays cannot make. A clear symptom of an inferiority complex.
Malaysia is slowly and surely turning into a very sick place. We must finish off Umno and its cronies to cure the country from this acute sickness.
Thanks for your all's comment.
May I know where you got link to my blog?:)
Country IQ (2006)
Hong Kong 108
Singapore 108
North Korea 106 (Dictatorial Regime)
South Korea 106
Japan 105
Peoples Republic of China 105 (Communism)
Republic of China 105
Italy 102
Iceland 101
Mongolia 101
Very interesting - the entire top 7 slots are occupied by yellow skins.
If anybody who thinks that corruption and racial discrimination is not wrong then there will be nothing that is wrong.
This is what actually happening in Umno. They love the two evils:
(i) corruption to enrich themselves (ii) racial discrimination to make them feel good and superior to other races (when they do not know that they still need to be spoon fed and the tongkat) and deceive the poor kampung folks that they are heroes to their race who keep on voting for them.
They are actually robbing the country by making everybody poorer, malays and other races alike. Petrol prices are raised with hundred and one excuse, and tolls are raised without any transparency, and everything has gone up making the poor becoming poorer.
I do not see anything that they can be proud of, and nothing superior about them. Even to rob, they are all given assistance and tongkat to do it by having two set of laws, one for them and one for the ordinary citizens.
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