Bullshit. It’s not. To anyone who says it is, I fart in your general direction.
Anyway this appears to be a decent essay idea to rile up some minds and perhaps stir up thoughtful debate (unlikely). Whatever is posted here might look like disjointed flashes of semi-mental diarrhea. Actually, It is. And I’m rehashing an old point. Not even hashing it, to be honest. But never mind.
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The present Prime Minister of Malaysia, Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi once famously said of Malaysia:”THE WAY I SEE IT, THE MALAISE AFFECTING MALAYSIA THAT MAY WELL JEOPARDISE OUR WAY FORWARD IS A CASE OF HAVING FIRST WORLD INFRASTRUCTURE AND THIRD WORLD MENTALITY* FROM POOR EXECUTION AND INEPT MANAGEMENT TO SHODDY MAINTENANCE AND APPALLING CUSTOMER SERVICE, MALAYSIA IS IN DANGER OF POSSESSING THE HARDWARE, BUT LITTLE SOFTWARE*”
A very famous paragraph, that. Very popular too, at the time; most people agreed with it and probably still do now. But it being in caps is a crime to Internet etiquette. Why is he screaming? Uh, because the paragraph was stolen from a PDF which I don’t feel like linking where he screams through his speech. I’m sorry. Just Google around.
“The Government” and the kampung dudes are third world – and the kampung dudes are third world because “the Government” (yes, it’s always capped because it’s a wonderful mask to hide behind) isn’t doing anything about it. I’m sure the kampung dudes (and to be fair, dudettes) are great people, but seriously, they deserve so much better. Mr Abdullah’s superfarmer policy for the kampung dudes is not “better” at all.
- Why is The Government third world?
Two words: “duit kopi”.
And now, for a soon-to-be classic example of the Malaysian “tidak apa” attitude:
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Monday August 4, 2008 MYT 7:10:07 PM
PM on his approval rating: Never mind-lah
KUALA LUMPUR: Prime Minister Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi was accepting of the drop in his approval rating as suggested by an opinion poll conducted by the Merdeka Centre recently.
“Nevermind-lah. That’s the fate of politicians. Up and down. What’s important is what you do before you leave,” he said after a meeting with Wanita Umno leaders at the Putra World Trade Centre here on Monday.
The independent research centre polled 1,030 Malaysians from July 4-16 to gauge voters’ perception of current issues, the state of the economy and the leadership.
The survey found that Abdullah’s popularity had plunged to below 50% for the first time in his premiership, from a record high of 91% in late 2004 after he won his first term as Prime Minister.
But is every mind in Malaysia of this “third world mentality”? Hardly. There are so many brilliant Malaysians abroad – I’ve met quite a few of them myself and read about plenty more; they are typically young-ish, urban, (to be frank) Chinese or Indian, and a lot of them don’t want to go home. Why? Opportunity cost. As good as the food is in Malaysia, almost every other aspect of living in Malaysia just isn’t worth the income level, compared to other countries where these people could work. Income disparity in Malaysia is insane. I can’t give you the numbers because I don’t know them, but it’s rather obvious as you take a stroll around Kuala Lumpur and then pop over to, oh, Kelantan for a walk. Basic salary for fresh grads in Kuala Lumpur is pathethic most of the time. Oil prices are just… wrong. Food remains good and the malls are fun to walk through, but that is it. Anything else to enjoy in KL? No, nothing really.
Main Malaysian export product is brains which is taken from today’s brightest minds of Malaysian youth. Brains are exported to countries such as UK, the US and Australia through institutions called private colleges. This is a serious problem for Bolehland because while this ensures that Malaysia would be free of the ‘undeserving immigrant Chinese’, it also makes Malaysian graduates stupider in average (because the smarter, job-competent one’s have ran away). There are even conspiracy talks that the average Malaysian still staying in Malaysia by 2185 will not be able to tell the difference between his/her left and right hands. Efforts have been made to create brain plugs in our rivers, thanks to their stupid social contract signed more than half a century ago. – http://uncyclopedia.org/wiki/Malaysia
Yes, not the best of sources, but it’s mild proof the opinion is generally shared.
By the way, does anyone realize how much oil there is sitting outside the shores of Sabah and Sarawak? I hardly know myself, but damn, Brunei’s a rich place isn’t it? And Sarawak is at least 3, 4 times bigger than Brunei with plenty of space around its oil infested waters. What’s going on over there?
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Also, Makoto Shinkai’s works for next time. This is fast becoming my closing slogan.
