How bad can it get??
Was reading some blogs by several Malaysian bloggers on issues and news that were happening back in Malaysia... Maybe it's norm that people tend to report the bad and not the good (好事不出门，坏事传千里), nothing I've read is encouraging or even remotely motivating!!
First there was the petrol subsidy issue that will save the government 4.4billion a year (and so coincidently MAS said that it needs 4billion to bail itself out), the peaceful mass protest at Twin Tower but were forced to dispersed by police wielding water canons, the DPM Najib asking the people to change their lifestyles, then the idiotic quest to send a Malaysian to space (what a total waste of money, although again the DPM claimed that no money was paid, hellloooo, if the 'thing' used to pay for those Russian is not money, then what are they? Hell money??), the bird flu outbreak in Perak, the 'scenic' bridge that the government insist on building, the Parliment session where the circus goes to town again with all the 'mp-rimates' busy trying to outperform one another in hope for promotions, the opposition of the creation of the IPCMC (Independent Police Complaints and Misconduct Commission) by the ruling BN members (gasp! and I thought they were supposed to be the guardian of the rakyat!!) and many more sad/idiotic/depressing news.
It seems to me that the government is busy trying to outperform the rest of its neighbours in ways that is beyond comprehension.. They were doing good things with PTP (Perlabuhan Tanjung Perlepas) when they grab away 2 big customers from Spore Ports Authority, to name a few. Now? Seems to me it is doing all kinds of things to distract the citizens of the existing problems. What is the use for us to have a Malaysian astronauts? We are using tax payers' money to pay for 1 Malaysian to hitch a ride to space. So what is so proud of that? It's not as if we are part of the exploration/scientific team who will be able to contribute to the space research! Unless the person is willing to be the guinea pig for the other astronaut-scientist to experiment on!
What is the benefit of championing the cause for a 'National Space Program' when our MSC is languishing and rotting away? We are wasting precious god-given resources on programs/projects that do not value-add or help with national development. No wonder Singapore is more than happy to take all the non-Bumi talents from Malaysia and give them PR/citizen-ship so that they can work and contribute to Singapore instead... Mark my word, in around 2020, when Malaysia is supposed to achieve 'developed' nation state, it will see the (beginning of the) rapid decline of Malaysia if the current situation is not reversed, fast. In my small way, I will vote in the next election, hoping that my 1 vote can be the drop of water in this ocean of change that will see the reversal of Malaysia's fortune.
First there was the petrol subsidy issue that will save the government 4.4billion a year (and so coincidently MAS said that it needs 4billion to bail itself out), the peaceful mass protest at Twin Tower but were forced to dispersed by police wielding water canons, the DPM Najib asking the people to change their lifestyles, then the idiotic quest to send a Malaysian to space (what a total waste of money, although again the DPM claimed that no money was paid, hellloooo, if the 'thing' used to pay for those Russian is not money, then what are they? Hell money??), the bird flu outbreak in Perak, the 'scenic' bridge that the government insist on building, the Parliment session where the circus goes to town again with all the 'mp-rimates' busy trying to outperform one another in hope for promotions, the opposition of the creation of the IPCMC (Independent Police Complaints and Misconduct Commission) by the ruling BN members (gasp! and I thought they were supposed to be the guardian of the rakyat!!) and many more sad/idiotic/depressing news.
It seems to me that the government is busy trying to outperform the rest of its neighbours in ways that is beyond comprehension.. They were doing good things with PTP (Perlabuhan Tanjung Perlepas) when they grab away 2 big customers from Spore Ports Authority, to name a few. Now? Seems to me it is doing all kinds of things to distract the citizens of the existing problems. What is the use for us to have a Malaysian astronauts? We are using tax payers' money to pay for 1 Malaysian to hitch a ride to space. So what is so proud of that? It's not as if we are part of the exploration/scientific team who will be able to contribute to the space research! Unless the person is willing to be the guinea pig for the other astronaut-scientist to experiment on!
What is the benefit of championing the cause for a 'National Space Program' when our MSC is languishing and rotting away? We are wasting precious god-given resources on programs/projects that do not value-add or help with national development. No wonder Singapore is more than happy to take all the non-Bumi talents from Malaysia and give them PR/citizen-ship so that they can work and contribute to Singapore instead... Mark my word, in around 2020, when Malaysia is supposed to achieve 'developed' nation state, it will see the (beginning of the) rapid decline of Malaysia if the current situation is not reversed, fast. In my small way, I will vote in the next election, hoping that my 1 vote can be the drop of water in this ocean of change that will see the reversal of Malaysia's fortune.
posted by imm @ 8:46 PM
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