You may ask any children what their ambition will be and their typical answer is to be a doctor. Why, you may want to know. The answer is simple – “I want to help sick people!”
The simple truth is that somehow everyone will get sick and has to consult a doctor. A child will revere a doctor because like Mary Popping, a child is made to get well with those pills and liquid.
No parent will take the child when visiting a lawyer, accountant or architect for the matter because there is no reason for a child to tag along. Wanting to help another is the virtuous primordial feeling any child is blessed with. And that is compassion! However, sad to say that in the process of growing up, children are exposed to everything that evil has made its claim on.
Some grow up to be God fearing but some grow horns on their foreheads.
In our country, people work hard and pay their taxes, even though endless. It is with a hope that such taxes can be intelligently ploughed back to sustain the economy and with the manageable cost of living to take the burden off the wage earners shoulders. But, it turns out not only otherwise but also chaotic through wanton mismanagement. This is where the government has failed us to the core.
It is like rubbing salt to the wounds where a new breed of the “dreaded species” that is rich, powerful and politically well-connected are sprouting at every corner. They robbed, stole and killed and could get away with it, yet nobody could stop them. Such plundering is beyond words and comprehension so to speak. By insinuating that nothing can stop them is downright paranoid.
People work hard, play by the rules but when they need help, “they” give you the rope to hang yourself. Uncountable smart students are deprived of their tertiary education and their parents are left in the lurch because they don’t have the financial means. On the other hand, those who are not qualified are fed with privileges down their throats. This is where the people should wake up and know where they stand.
People have to be in such predicament because they allow it to happen. Politicians voted in to run the country are all fine actors especially when it comes to breaking the law. They have all the money to make simple-minded people go away or dirty work fixers can make people disappear for good. They have the law on their side and they seem untouchable. This social malady is spreading like cancerous cells and can only be stopped when the people are ready to make the change. It is the people’s power that matters most but not rhetoric.
All law-abiding citizens are patriotic without having to stand below the “Jalur Gemilang” and sing the national anthem. In their hearts lay the love for the country that counts. In our country selective arrest prevails even singing the national anthem in a peaceful gathering. To be unpatriotic, one is deemed to be a traitor to the country but to be patriotic one has a price to pay as well. How are we to be true Malaysians when we have Hobson’s choice but to hold on a double-edged knife?
Have the people seen, heard or learnt enough to get out from their comfort zone to stand up and be counted for the change? It is your prerogative because it is – you are what you eat syndrome laced with complacence. So, don’t ever utter any complaint but to accept what you want and allow it to happen.
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year my fellow Malaysians. God Bless!
Friday, December 25, 2009
Monday, December 14, 2009
Have We Learnt Enough?
It is not difficult to understand Malaysian politics, how it works, swaying with the people’s sentiment and making promises that are half empty most of the time.
In politics, power and money are the influencing factors and to be able to hold on tenaciously is the political clout that has been the norm of the ruling elites.
The complacent citizens insinuating that they are in good hands from the fair and just governance for the past five decades are actually paranoid. Whether we agree or otherwise, the two-party system for check and balance is ideal for Malaysia with a multi-racial make-up.
Waiting for the trees and wind to speak to us will not generate political awareness instead we have to make ourselves available by attending forums and political functions for the updates.
This is how we can use cues and the information that hold the general value orientations into support for the particular policies. This is best measured for political awareness in which many of us are still lacking. Such civic activity is definitely positive which purveys political awareness which is in a dire need.
To be able to arrive at a sound decision, people cannot be ignorant about the details of politics otherwise opinions will appear to be constrained by ideas. The willingness to get out of the comfort zone should prevail because without it, we will become the less aware voters who have disengaged from politics.
Which political party deserves our votes and which politician to support in order to realize what we expect of is imperative.
The man who wears a watch know the time, wears two is unsure. We have to be sure and use our prerogative to exercise that right otherwise we can blame no one else but ourselves.
The Barisan government had lost its firm grip to divide and rule since the last general election. Thanks to the previous prime minister for his ineptness. Like Pakatan Rakyat which had lost the state of Perak, the present prime minister has a task not to lose the federal government to the waiting Pakatan Rakyat to take over the federal government.
The game in the present political chessboard depends on the pawns for the checkmate. The people are the pawns – people’s power, kuasa rakyat or makkal sakti (call what you like) should be aligned for the coup de grace.
Seeing how injustice is practiced, my angry impulse was to stand in front of the firing line. But who cares if one life is lost when one after another the Indians had suffered the same fate and the screams for justice fell on deaf ears?
The greatest stumbling block lies in the different perspectives among the various NGOs and the people from the various communities.
Why the existing NGOs still draw a visible boundary to whom and why they should come in to support? Why can’t they be “there” to share the common objective – the objective that is to cut through racial line? Generally speaking, they are not ready except for their rhetorics!
As if it is not enough, the new political party Makkal Sakti emerged to champion the Indians right. Don’t we have enough of racism and political greed to witness the additional disguise?
The Chinese are perceived to be king of the economy who cared two hoots about what are happening politically, the Malays akin to civil service and the Indians are resigned as Bandar Raya workers. How pathetic it could be but sad to say that this is the general tone.
Until and unless Malaysians from different political parties and NGOs can tune to the same frequency of how they want Malaysia to be, then lets shut up and support IMalaysia!
In politics, power and money are the influencing factors and to be able to hold on tenaciously is the political clout that has been the norm of the ruling elites.
The complacent citizens insinuating that they are in good hands from the fair and just governance for the past five decades are actually paranoid. Whether we agree or otherwise, the two-party system for check and balance is ideal for Malaysia with a multi-racial make-up.
Waiting for the trees and wind to speak to us will not generate political awareness instead we have to make ourselves available by attending forums and political functions for the updates.
This is how we can use cues and the information that hold the general value orientations into support for the particular policies. This is best measured for political awareness in which many of us are still lacking. Such civic activity is definitely positive which purveys political awareness which is in a dire need.
To be able to arrive at a sound decision, people cannot be ignorant about the details of politics otherwise opinions will appear to be constrained by ideas. The willingness to get out of the comfort zone should prevail because without it, we will become the less aware voters who have disengaged from politics.
Which political party deserves our votes and which politician to support in order to realize what we expect of is imperative.
The man who wears a watch know the time, wears two is unsure. We have to be sure and use our prerogative to exercise that right otherwise we can blame no one else but ourselves.
The Barisan government had lost its firm grip to divide and rule since the last general election. Thanks to the previous prime minister for his ineptness. Like Pakatan Rakyat which had lost the state of Perak, the present prime minister has a task not to lose the federal government to the waiting Pakatan Rakyat to take over the federal government.
The game in the present political chessboard depends on the pawns for the checkmate. The people are the pawns – people’s power, kuasa rakyat or makkal sakti (call what you like) should be aligned for the coup de grace.
Seeing how injustice is practiced, my angry impulse was to stand in front of the firing line. But who cares if one life is lost when one after another the Indians had suffered the same fate and the screams for justice fell on deaf ears?
The greatest stumbling block lies in the different perspectives among the various NGOs and the people from the various communities.
Why the existing NGOs still draw a visible boundary to whom and why they should come in to support? Why can’t they be “there” to share the common objective – the objective that is to cut through racial line? Generally speaking, they are not ready except for their rhetorics!
As if it is not enough, the new political party Makkal Sakti emerged to champion the Indians right. Don’t we have enough of racism and political greed to witness the additional disguise?
The Chinese are perceived to be king of the economy who cared two hoots about what are happening politically, the Malays akin to civil service and the Indians are resigned as Bandar Raya workers. How pathetic it could be but sad to say that this is the general tone.
Until and unless Malaysians from different political parties and NGOs can tune to the same frequency of how they want Malaysia to be, then lets shut up and support IMalaysia!
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