THE PRIME MINISTER OF MALAYSIA : Do and Don’t (Part 3)

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Dr. Mahathir is pointing his fingers towards foreign presses in his blog in defending the PM. Just recently, he was re-admitted to UMNO, and now as usual he is the busiest retiree in Malaysia. I guess, because of his love for his country, he is tirelessly putting his neck fighting for others. He defended Anwar before, he loved Pak Lah initially and now he is defending the new PM. Come on guys, he is already more than 80 years old, and yet he the one who is at the front against the might of foreign presses, to defend the PM of Malaysia.

I don’t mind if our own peoples criticise the PM, and in fact I welcome it. But if Malaysians are colloborating with foreign elements to tarnish our image by attacking our top leader, then something must be wrong somewhere. I think we should protect the Prime Ministership and not the Prime Minister. That’s why the political parties should always be aware of the consequences if they chose the wrong leader. We need a leader who can defend the country and not just busy defending himself or herself. We want a leader who regard Malaysia as his main and sole agenda and not his political survival. Unfortunately, in Malaysia regardless of parties, apparently our politicans are good at championing their personal goals than rakyat as a whole.

Nevertheless, it’s too soon to tell the performance of our PM, but I wish he should have learnt from past mistakes (his own or others) like we all should. We are so lucky compared to the PM, because we are not to be judged by public like him. Conversely, the Public is actually the real PM, who determine the right person to be delegated with powers to rule and to serve and not the other way around. Let the Public decides who they want to be their defender. Actually, PM is supposed to be the Public Defender and not the Public is the Defender of the PM. But is it right? Ironically, most of the times, and sometimes even in a traffic jam, we must give a way to the PM or his wife and not the other way around..such a pity!!!.

THE PRIME MINISTER OF MALAYSIA : Do and Don’t (Part 2)

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Dear Mr Prime Minister, in order to be an excellent, lovable and inspiring leader, you must be extraordinary, brilliant, strong and superb leader….or in other word, you must be a Superhero!!!. These are some examples of superheroes and their opposites for your reference :-

A Prime Minster must :

1) Be the SUPERMAN and not the SUPERFICIAL MAN ;

2) Be the SPIDERMAN and not the SPITEFUL MAN ;

3) Be the BATMAN and not the BADMAN ;

4) Be the XMAN and not the XEROX MAN ;

5) Be the ULTRAMAN and not the ULTRA VIRES MAN ;

6) Be the FANTASTIC FOUR and not the FANATIC FOUR ;

7) Be the TRANSFORMER and not the TRANSGRESSOR ;

Be the MIGHTY MOUSE and not the MISCHIEVOUS MOUSE ;

9) Be the ROBIN HOOD and not the ROTTEN HOOD ; and the most importantly

10) Be the PM as the PRIME MINISTER and not the PROXY MINISTER.

THE PRIME MINISTER OF MALAYSIA: Do and Don’t! (Part 1)

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Dear Mr Prime Minister..

1) To differentiate clearly between UMNO and BN from the Government. UMNO and BN are political parties which under democratic system have been empowered to form a federal government. The Government is regulated under the principles of Separation of Powers, Rule of Law and Constitutional Monarchy who is answerable not only to members of political parties but more importantly to the citizens as a whole. The Federal and State Government is founded under democratic system which is to ensure that the Government can implement its laws and policies smoothly and efficiently.
It’s a conventional practice (also a branch of laws) that the President of UMNO shall automatically become the Prime Minister of Malaysia. But this practice should not tantamount to a guarantee or label that UMNO is Government and Government is UMNO. President of UMNO and Prime Minister of Malaysia are two different entities/institutions and a clear line should be drawn to distinguish each other. As such, whenever Najib talks as A Prime Minister, the peoples would understand that the message is for them and just for BN or UMNO. The UMNO and BN members must also realise, Najib is accountable to all and not just them.

2) Do not ever threaten or intimidate the non-supporters of BN like saying that the opposition leaders are hopeless peoples. It would create hatred among Malaysian peoples. Let UMNO and BN do it. It is a clear difference between politic and government administration. If he condemns and criticize oppositions or others when he is wearing a Prime Minister’s hat, he actually puts himself in a defensive mode WHENEVER he is trying to put forward his agenda, because the targeted audience would be limited to his supporters and not his detractors. He just needs to explain in simple and inspiring terms and language for everybody and leave rhetorical speeches during UMNO or BN assembly.

3) Instruct other UMNO leaders not to raise racial sentiments like what Zahid did recently. Being part of the Government, he should not do that. Let UMNO, its member or members of the Supreme Council who are not in government to take up that role. No point for them to be there if they do not champion the Malays’ causes.

4) To come up with a catchy tagline, motto or brand for UMNO and BN. “BN for All”, “BN to Serve not to Rule”, “BN is the Future”, “UMNO sayang Semua”, “UMNO Kampungku, BN Milikku dan Semua”, “Your Future is BN”, “UMNO untuk Semua”, “UMNO sayang Melayu” and others. BN can no longer rely on racial issues to be a champion. This approach is getting absolete. BN must be forward thinking and see history as a guideline and not a precedent. Najib must steer Malaysia, BN and UMNO along this line. Rakyat comes first, party comes second.

5) To come up with a new oath for all Malaysians. More inspiring than Rukunegara or modify it insuch a way that everytime we read it, we would be the proud Malaysians. And this oath must be read in any government fuctions. It is a universal and standard oath to Malaysian in which among other things, spelt out about bribery, good governance and excellent service. It will become Malaysian aspiration of this nation and government. Talk to the oppositions in formulating its content, so that everybody would accept. The bypartisan approach must be adopted if the outcome is intended to benefit the nation as a whole. Rakyat (the citizen) would definitely appreciate this move.

TO LEAD OR TO FOLLOW? Malaysian Perspective

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The least expensive car was launched recently in India..3 metres long vehicle, probably suitable to Asian Markets. I remember reading about the arguments by Dr Mahathir when he explained the justification of buying MV Agusta i.e one day Malaysia would probably produce a small capacity motorcycle. By buying Agusta, Proton can shorten the R&D process and reduce its cost. But unfortunately some peoples did not share his idea. Now Proton has embarked on a quest to produce an electric car, which innovative venture being undertaken by many companies in the world. As usual, we always want to compete and to follow and not to lead or to create.

Sometimes, I wonder whether we are content that Malaysia is just a manufacturing country where the consumers can find foreign international products not to mention fake items. We provide semi-skilled workers in factories, producing several items invented by foreigners. We then follow in trying to produce the same products hoping to compete in a global market. I am trying to recall any products that were invented or created by Malaysians, the first thing comes to my mind is Tongkat Ali, but even the end product from this herbs is the outcome of research by foreigners.

I suppose Malaysians do not have the drive to lead the world. We just like to follow and play safe all the times. No wonder, no great achievement can be put in a list that we can really be proud of. May be the first astronaut from Malaysia, Im not entirely convinced though, or like some said it’s just a space tourism. We are sometimes proud of our lacklustre performance excessively. We reward our peoples prematurely. Just because we won in olympic games, regardless of its prestige, we want to call him or her “Datuk”, even he/she are still young. This is the result if the politcians play too much narrow-minded politics. May be, we think whatever we do, we must gain something for ourselves, then we would only do it.

Due to free trade, global financial and digital consumerism, the world is getting smaller. It seems that time is ticking uncontrollably, we may be left behind too far without we realise it. We need to stress on the R&D Development, Technology Invention and Rebranding Malaysia. We must think far ahead and not just waiting everything to be put in place by others and we follow. In 5 years time, the world might become robotic, more advanced biotecnological and open sourcing. And I am afraid that Malaysia at that time is still struggling to find its own image, brand and niche. So, come on Malaysians!!!

Malaysia’s inflation rate eases as fuel costs tumble – Regional – MSN Malaysia News – News

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Energy particularly the price of oil is one important factor in determining our economic situation. Yesterday,  I had a discussion with a former Petronas’s employee and he said, the fall of crude oil price, will definitely affect the performance of Petronas. As a result, the country’s income will eventually decrease.

Malaysia’s inflation rate eases as fuel costs tumble – Regional – MSN Malaysia News – News

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Typical Malaysians

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Nowadays, there are many awful comments about Malaysians. It’s coming from some of the quarters in our society who are deeply concerned with the direction of this beloved country. The relationship between the races are not encouraging at the moment. Most of political parties want to be champion of their races and on few occasions have made racist remarks. There are scholars, journalists, writers and intellectuals who also have pointed out their opinion on how to resolve the prolonged dilemma.

There are several taglines like “Bangsa Malaysia”, “Malaysian Malaysia”, “Pendatang”, “Ketuanan Melayu”, “Hak Istimewa”, “Bangsa Kelas Kedua” and others which do not help to mend the sensitive nature of the whole situation. You may see that nothing is wrong on the surface, but actually in reality, it is not really that good.

Having said that, there are bad attributes amongst the Malaysians that can absolutely be evidenced regardless of race and generally practiced by all. These are some of typical idiosyncratic habit or behavior of Malaysians which are distasteful, undignified and disgusting that I can think of :-

a) cannot keep the public toilets clean;
b) jump queue during traffic jam/ use emergency lane on the highway;
c) speak so loud on the handphone at public place;
d) spit, throw rubbish and cigarettes butt indiscreetly;
e) do thing at the very last minute (for ex: mykad);
f) scuffle for food during festive open house;
g) are willing to queue (long stretch during festive season) at toll plaza
rather than using Touch n Go or Smart Tag;
h) destroy public phones, bus stops, rubbish dump, lifts and etc (vandalism and graffiti);
i) using degrading label on races;
j) hardly say “excuse me”, “thank you” or even smile to strangers;
k) being courteous or respectful towards foreigners or tourists more than to fellow citizen;
l) treat VIP or Datuks excessively;
m) so difficult to offer seat in public transportation to the elderly,
pregnant woman and less fortunate person;
n) talking on handphone in cinema;
o) employing foreign workers at restaurants who cannot even understand the order/ unable to communicate;
p) sub-con the business to foreigners using the license given by authority like in Chow Kit;
q) Mat Rempit, Bohsia and others; and
r) -please be free to add on-.

Nevertheless, I am hoping that Malaysians will eventually triumph and be united for the sake of our country and would like to end with a quotation from the great Mahatma Gandhi :

“You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean, if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.”