Malaysia: 51st Merdeka Day

Our country will be celebrating its 51st Merdeka Day in few days time. But it seems something is missing for this year. It is not as grand as it was previous years. The spirit is not there.It's lacking. Maybe not for you,but thats what I feel it.

What has happened to this year's Merdeka Day? Frankly, does anyone of you Malaysian know what is this year's Merdeka Day slogan? Even I didn't realize of it till I saw the slogan in picture below. I felt the difference from what I experienced last year. The spirit is missing. It's not that I dun love my country anymore but the things that happening around seems overcome the joy of Merdeka.
The spirit of Merdeka is just not by displaying the flag but to know the slogan of the year too. Well,by observing the things that happening in our country now,you might say we still never obtained Independence Day. But still we have obtained right from British? Well,the situation now is like "Keluar kandang singa,masuk kandang harimau". Yes,it is,we are freed from British but we ended up with BN. But eventhough,we have been marginalised by BN for past this years,it is still our duty to celebrate and have the spirit of Merdeka. All for the sake of our beloved country. Leave politic aside. WE,as MALAYSIANS,should have the spirit.

But the problem now is the theme " Malaysians".The concept "Bangsa Malaysia".

Look at the picture above.Just explain how racist are some people in this country and ironically,this year slogan is "Unity Is the Pillar of Success" (Perpaduan Teras Kejayaan). But looking at the events that happened past few weeks,Malaysia has been witnessing some kind of disunity among the races. The Bar Council Religious Conversion Forum ruckus and the Malay-Muslim UiTM student protests.

Not only that,this year I don't see lots of vehicles zipping around with fluttering Jalur Gemilang like the last few years. What about the call for raising the flag?I never heard any campaign of raising the flag from PakLah.Busy zzz perhaps? Instead I hear about the call for flying the national flag upside-down as a sign of protest. The word "patriotism" is hardly mentioned these days. This year no minister is blaming no one for "not being patriotic enough". Instead,they are busy blaming the oppositions and busy getting their ass sticked in current seat.

What will we witness for this year Merdeka? Will there be loud joyous cries in unison of "Merdeka ! Merdeka! Merdeka!" among Malaysians of all races? Or shouts of anger blaming each other: "Mereka! Mereka! Mereka!"

Malaysians were more interested about the Olympic games in Beijing and Permatang Pauh by-election. And next they will be interested with what Anwar going to do in parliament. And most awaited Sept 16.

Malaysian Political Struggle

It has been quite a long time since I blogged about politics.. It's not that I had lost the passion but I just got fed up with the politic drama which seems more worse then Tamil drama.. Politic drama haven't even reach the climax..And it just don't have one climax..Of course it don't have one climax because aint politic is a drama..The first climax was during the GE...The next climax will be for this by-election. And then the date set by DSAI-Sept 16. And more to come perhaps..

Malaysia politic seems very unstable with uncountable plots going on.It's like a big stirs going on..For what are politicians for? To serve the Rakyats right or to serve them self?? But is that the one happening in Malaysia?? Can we trust politicians? I will never trust politicians. Each politicians have their own agenda..M I right? Correct me if I'm wrong...But thats what I think....You think DSAI don't have his own agenda?Well,we know PM and others for surely/certainly/obviously/absolutely have their agenda.We all know why this this and this peoples using "people power" to gain politic power. Mind you,"this" in my previous sentence refers to politicians in general. I'm not a pro-BN neither pro-PR.Most of them for sure have own things to get done by the help of the politic power.

Alright,back to the topic before I stray out of the topic more further.As I said earlier,I will never trust politicians...Why?Well, it might be their duty to steer their messages to the best of their abilities but in the end there would be flip n flops to argue on their rights. Well, that's politics.And it doesn't mean I have to trust them just because they are politicians in the name of serving for people? Since they are politicians,IT IS their duty to serve the people. So.it doesn't mean we have or I have to trust this people especially those who try gaining the trust by empty promises and demands,demands and only demands!! Not implemented demands.

Since March 08,what have we Malaysians achieved? Well,you might list down things that have be done in PR states..But was that the only things that we wanted to achieve? Our Government can't perform and our Opposition can't counter thus leading us into total inconsistency in our own land.And our beloved PDRM , are you guys working for politicians or to be specific,for BN? Stop backing up them and get your jobs done...There are just too many cases in pending because you guys are too busy with this politic drama. Whats with Nurin and Sharlinie case?? Whats the progress on it? Or it's just another case for you folks? Or too busy covering up everyone's ass? Sigh...

I just wonder whats so hard on working hand in hand as Malaysians? Why the keturunan and ethnic problems still prevailing? Malaysia can't progress at all with a single keturunan as it was proved during the last 51 years!! Can't you open your ears, eyes and minds? Why are you people sooo with this special privileges when it is the basic things that every human in this country needs no matter of what races,religion or whatsoever. For example,the UiTM matter....Don't other races needs education or is just that others races are rich enough to afford their children to study in private University?Why are guys feel so affected with the 10% allocation? After all it is just a 10%. and it's just on education wise.Are going to be the same when working?Even some of the Malays agree with that...Read here . Leave this UiTM story aside as I feel I'm straying out of the topic.

Is it that hard for us all to work as Malaysians?? Why is so hard to implement Bangsa Malaysia? We are just implementing the so-called Bangsa Malaysia. The philosophy is that, let's take the mentality of what we think of how our friends treated us. The reverse is how we have treated our friends! That's the philosophy! Why making it complicated with this quota,buta craps all? And ya hell,I stumbled upon a blog,which is here ,and it sounds as below :

Would you like to go to a store that allows to you to destroy things to help you relieve stress and forget about your life dissatisfactions?

This new business concept is great for Malaysians especially for those who have big problems with Islam, Muslims and Malays in this Muslim-majority country. If you can’t break us Muslims, why don’t you folks go and break things?

Yes,I do understand that this refers to for those who........But why on the earth this certain people would break Muslims? What they gonna gain from that? Basic equalities? Or does that gonna make the politic drama in Malaysia stable? Or it gonna make the others united with especially some Malayalees having problem with Indians?? Gimme a break,as I know, Chinese and Indians and few Malays wants the Bangsa Malaysia concept.. But somehow there will be a black sheep be racist and further dividing us. In the end,we all gonna die as a human. Whats so big fuss who gonna break who? Geez!

Back to the politic drama,all are waiting anxiously for the up-coming climax that is Permatang Pauh by-election. The situation is just hot enough to make a twist.Anything might happen..BN and PR are trying their very best. Only one of this gonna happen...BN might spring a surprise with some cheap,dirty,idiotic tactics or DSAI would march into Parliament. Till then,kindly witness the plots going with both party finding fault on each other.

Remember,

We have to be gentlemen for the whole world in observance.

THE REST IS THAT WE MALAYSIANS MUST STAND UP AND BE COUNTED.

Racial Harmony : A Myth?

It’s okay for a Chinese boy to take a stroll across the street to buy a thing or two from the friendly neighborhood Indian kedai runcit owner. It’s also okay if he wants to give the old lady at the counter a wide smile, say hello, and maybe even ask her how her day is. She’ll probably smile back, slip in a line or two about how tough life is, then maybe rounds up the bill to the lower Ringgit to make the kid’s day. That’s racial harmony.

It’s okay for all the different races to be represented in schools. There’s no real need to segregate the Malays, Chinese, Indian and others in the classroom. They’re all taught the same equations. It’s also perfectly okay to be in the same canteen during the break. Five hundred students of all races crowded into a cafeteria of long tables and benches trying to finish their food and have a good chat all in twenty minutes. One glance and it’s easy to say, ‘that’s racial harmony’.

Then it’s your turn. You’re a well groomed young Malay teenager filling in a scholarship application form. You write your name, birth date, address, phone numbers, email, religion, nationality, then your race. There are four boxes. You tick either ‘Malay’, ‘Chinese’, ‘Indian’, or ‘Others’. You tick Malay, because obviously, you’re Malay. You notice that Malaysia recognizes racial diversity, providing each of them with an equal opportunity to progress and move forward. That’s racial harmony.

Back to the Chinese boy who just bought something from the kedai runcit, then. In the same evening he goes to the park, sits by the swing and shares and ice-cream with the daughter of the kedai runcit owner. The boy’s parents are happy that he’s making friends. Ten years later, the boy decides to marry the girl. Both families object to it because they cannot envision a Chinese family in union with an Indian family. The same individuals involved in the shop and the playground are now embroiled in a racial tug of war. Suddenly it’s less harmonious.

Then take a close look at our public school cafeterias. The only place where there’s a mixture of skin colors is at the food counters, where you can’t segregate the queues by race, and where impatient students don’t mind who they’re pressed against, as long as they get their food. But immediately after, they each automatically direct their bodies to certain tables according to their own race. No such rule is enforced, yet it is embedded within our students that they must return to ‘their own’. Not so harmonious after all.

Lastly, if you’re Eurasian, Semai, Malaysian-born Greek, Caucasian, so on and so forth, you’re really just ‘others’. No one’s interested in what you are. It is possible that categorizing the minority races would save page space. If that is so, why not have just two columns: If you are Malay/Chinese/Indian, tick here. If you are anything else, tick there. Take a good look at history. Obsessive race categorization can cause death tolls in the millions. It has happened all over the world, why aren’t we learning? Not so harmonious anymore, huh?

Certainly there are many Malaysians who transcend the above, but are there enough of them to warrant our pompous promotion of racial harmony to the rest of the world? Did we decide to accidentally leave out the fine prints of our race relations? Is racial harmony just a myth?
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