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Thursday, August 17th, 2006 @ 10:17 am | Life-logger
Eh what was it that we're going to do this year for the Merdeka celebrations again?
Last year we did the 'Kempen Berbelog Merdeka'.
You know everytime i type 'belog' i keep having to scroll back to delete it cos I keep typing 'belon' instead.
This year should we do an 'I am Malaysian' meme?
Or maybe everyone write a simple 'wish-list' of what we all wish for this country…
Or maybe we have a mini 'Pesta Puisi Kemerdekaan' online?
Crack some minds here. What do you think?
August 17th, 2006 at 10:29 am
Well we are working on the Merdeka Bloggers blog project again though. Stay tuned for it.
August 17th, 2006 at 10:50 am
My wish for Malaysia:
Where The Mind is Without Fear Where the mind is without fear and the head is held highWhere knowledge is freeWhere the world has not been broken up into fragmentsBy narrow domestic wallsWhere words come out from the depth of truthWhere tireless striving stretches its arms towards perfectionWhere the clear stream of reason has not lost its wayInto the dreary desert sand of dead habitWhere the mind is led forward by theeInto ever-widening thought and actionInto that heaven of freedom, my Father, let my country awake.(R.Tagore)
August 17th, 2006 at 10:53 am
I think a puisi would be wicked!
August 17th, 2006 at 11:29 am
I think theStar (for once in a REALLY long time) has the right idea. Lets all take 1 picture, which depicts what Malaysia really is to us, it doesn’t have to have that flag flying or other stereotypical Merdeka stuff, but a picture that captures the reason why we love our homeland.
It can be a picture of your family, or your friends all hanging out or maybe a steaming hot plate of char kuey tiow even… Essentially, it’s the part about home that makes you all warm and fuzzy.
Then we put it up on our blogs along with a short write up on it and have it linked on another blog like Merdeka Blogger. And we’ll make ours better then the “mainstream” media’s too
August 17th, 2006 at 12:12 pm
Eh…I like that idea by Viceice!
August 17th, 2006 at 1:51 pm
Yeah, I like the one proposed by Viceice. I’m going to take I picture I have in mind.
August 17th, 2006 at 3:12 pm
Patience, can?
I told you already mah.
August 17th, 2006 at 4:51 pm
I think we should all wear minishorts
August 17th, 2006 at 9:12 pm
We should make a list of why Malaysia sucks. too often we blind ourselves with our so called achievements. There have been valid successes in the past but what about our future?
August 17th, 2006 at 9:22 pm
Last year i wrote in Malay … very bad Malay … this year I thought I blog in Swahili … then I remember, that’s not good, I can’t speak any Swahili!!!!
August 17th, 2006 at 9:23 pm
nevermind. disregard my idea above. that idea sounds too depressing. maybe we should just write about how much malaysia means to us.
August 18th, 2006 at 9:47 am
Let’s all do what Rudy and JJ from Hitz are doing: Shout “MERDEKA!!” with the SUPERMAN theme song boldy playing in the background.
August 18th, 2006 at 11:29 am
a puisi thingie would be nice.
pity i can’t write in BM :/
August 18th, 2006 at 4:05 pm
yeah, i like the idea by viceice too.
August 18th, 2006 at 4:37 pm
I reckon Viceice has a good idea. Worth looking into. Simple and doesn’t need you to crack our silly heads on how to be creative in our writings. My lousy 2 cents (or sen) worth. Haha!
August 18th, 2006 at 5:05 pm
No Daniel.
I think your idea is a good idea. Instead of just looking at everything through rose-tinted glasses, we should be realistic.
Lets all write on how Malaysia sucks and how it could be improved!
August 18th, 2006 at 6:40 pm
Haiya we everyday also blog about how malaysia suck la. Bad idea. Just for one day (out of 365) come we do/say something nice about malaysia. We go with viceice’s idea!
August 18th, 2006 at 8:06 pm
Take photos of how people behave during that day, especially during the count down. The last I check, people can break all the traffic rules they like and the traffic police just ignore them. Oh and the fire works…
August 18th, 2006 at 9:05 pm
-sigh- i tried..
August 19th, 2006 at 10:41 pm
‘I am a Malaysian’ shud be good. Some ppl do not understand puisi. ahha
August 21st, 2006 at 12:22 am
desiderata2000.blogspot.com has already suggested that wishlist thingy. The Star has come up with a quiz of “How Malaysian you think you are”. A Puisi is really out of league. Posting pics would be nice. Picture of onde-onde and write Hang Tuah. So that’s nyonya kuih and Melaka. Cool or not? Haha!
August 21st, 2006 at 5:24 am
Mine would probably be “Crossbred in a Culturally Confusing Country”
August 21st, 2006 at 8:18 pm
Dear Suanie,
Sorry…. I know we don’t know each other personally but it’s sorta an emergency.
Can you please post this up?:
My friend’s cousin, Michelle Tai, has been missing since Friday. If anyone has seen her, please kindly call Jessica at 012-653 2114, her father (Mr Tai) at 017-8835 118 or her brother (Kelvin) at 012-3080 670.
(Futher details and her photos here)
Trust me, I’m not trying to promote myself… It’s just that you have many readers and there may be a chance that one of them has seen her.
Thank you so much.
(I really appreciate it)
-J-
August 21st, 2006 at 8:20 pm
Bwargh. I am an idiot.
I meant Dear Minishorts,…
Sorry sorry.
(Curse these typo prone fingers!)
August 22nd, 2006 at 12:23 am
Puisis are so…gay and sissy. rock concerts would be nice…
August 22nd, 2006 at 11:44 am
yea… humsup puisi is my cup of tea.
August 23rd, 2006 at 12:17 am
i was think about tis a few weeks yet……currently writing my “meme” now……..most porbably gonna put as a post in my blog soon…..hopefully can make it to a podcast……
August 23rd, 2006 at 12:07 pm
The Following Malaysian Government Statistics were released by:
China Daily BBS
A List of Racial Discriminations in Malaysia
The following is a list of ‘Racial Discriminations’ in
Malaysia, practiced by the Government of Malaysia
as well as various government agencies. This list is
an open secret. Best verified by government itself
because it has the statistics. This list is not in the
order of importance. That means the first one on
the list is not the most important and the last one
on the list does not mean least important.
This list is a common knowledge to a lot of Malaysians, especially those
Non-Malays (Tamils, Chinese, Ibans, Kadazans, Orang Asli, Christians,
Eurasians, etc.) who are being racially discriminated against.
Figures in this list are estimates only and please take
it as a guide only. The Government of Malaysia has the
most correct figures. Is Government of Malaysia too
ashamed to publish their racist acts by publishing true
racial statistics?
This list covers a period of about 47 years since
Malaysia’s Independence from Britain in 1957.
Specific List of Racial Discriminations, Quotas,
and Practices by Malaysia (The Muslim Dominated Malaysian Government):
50 road names (at least) had been change from
Chinese names to other names, specifically Malay.
In all 10 public universities the vice chancellors are
Malays.
99% of 2000 Petronas gasoline stations are owned
by Malays.
99% of Petronas directors are Malays.
The rural development budget was distributed as
2% to Chinese New Villages, and 98% to Malay
Kampongs (villages).
Chinese parents with RM1000 salary (monthly)
cannot get school-text-book-loans, but Malay
parents with RM2000 salary are eligible.
Only 5% of all new intake for government jobs
for nurses, police, and army is Non-Malays.
2.5% is the Malaysian Government budget was
for Chinese primary schools. Tamil schools got
only 1%. But Malay schools got 96.5%.
There is a mandatory 15% Discount for a Malay
buying a house, regardless of whether the Malay
is rich or poor.
Only 5% of the government university lecturers
are Non-Malay origins. This has been reduced
from about 70% in 1965 to only 5% in 2004.
Non-Malays make up a mere 2% in government
servant positions in Putrajaya (the new government administrative capital).
But Malays make up 98%.
In 2004 the Chinese make up only 7% of government
servants in the entire government nationwide in every
capacity, this is a down from 30% in 1960.
The Chinese make up only 2% of the present staff
in the RMAF (Royal Malaysian Air Force), a drop from
40% in 1960.
Zero (0) of the government TV stations (TV1, TV2, TV3)
are directors of Non-Malays origin.
2 million Malaysian Chinese had emigrated overseas
in the last 40 years. During the same period of time
0.5 million Tamil Malaysians emigrated overseas.
3 million Indonesians (Muslims) have migrated into
Malaysia and became Malaysian citizens with Bumiputra
status in the last 15 years.
Zero (0) Non-BUMI are allowed to get shop lots in
the new Muar bus station (stats as of Nov 2004).
1 out of all the 5 major banks, is multi-racial, the
rest are controlled solely by Malays.
An allocation of 10% placement for Non-BUMI students
for MARA science schools beginning from year 2003,
but only 7% were filled. Before that it was 100% Malays
only.
1 Catholic Church in Shah Alam took 20 years to apply
to be constructed. It was but told by the Malay authority
that it must look like a factory and not look like a church.
Still not yet approved in as of 2004.
Since 1969 ten times, Malays (especially UMNO) have threatened to massacre the
Chinese Malaysians using May 13th as a cornerstone date.
There were 50 cases of Chinese and Indian Malaysians
being beaten up in the Khidmat Negara (National Service) program in 2003.
8000 B is the total amount (RM 8000 Billion Ringgit)
the Government channeled to various Muslim Malay
pockets through ASN, ASB, Tabung Haji, MARA, and Privatization of Government
Agencies through NEP over the last 34 year period.
25% of the population in 2004 was Chinese, a drop
from 45% in 1957.
There were 20 reported cases whereby Malay
ambulance attendance treated Chinese patients
inhumanely and Malay Government hospital staffs
purposely delay attending to Chinese patients during
2003. Unreported cases are believed to be 200 or
higher.
Over the last 40 years 600,000 Tamil and Chinese
Malaysians have held a red IC and have repeatedly
been rejected when applying for citizenship. Perhaps
60% of them had already passed away due to old age.
This shows racism of how easily Indonesians get their citizenship compared
with the Chinese and Indians.
95% of all Malaysian Government Contracts are given
to Malays.
Only 3 out of 12 ‘Human Rights’ items have been
ratified by the Malaysian Government since 1960.
0 Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination
(UN Human Rights) is not ratified by Malaysia
Government started since 1960s.
Only 5% of scholarships is given to Non-Malays by
the government over the last 40 years.
There were NO Chinese or Tamils were sent to Japan
and Korea under “Look East Policy.”
100% of all crucial business licensees are controlled
by Malay government e.g. Taxi permits, AP permits,
etc. Two private Chinese taxi drivers were barred
from driving in JB Larkin bus station.
80% of the Chinese rice millers in Kedah had to be
sold to Malay controlled Bernas in the 1980’s.
Otherwise, life is made so difficult by the government
the Chinese rice millers can’t survive.
At least 10 Chinese owned bus companies
(throughout Malaysia, Over the last 40 years)
had to be sold to MARA or other Malay transport
companies due to rejection by the Malay authority
to Chinese applications for bus routes, and rejection
for their application to buy or add new buses.
1 Dewan Gan Boon Leong (in Malacca) was altered
to another name (e.g. Dewan Serbaguna or sort)
when it was being officially used for a few days.
The Malaysian Government makes every effort to
shun or change Chinese names. The biggest racism
changes happened around year 2000.
100% of all contractors working under Petronas
projects must have Bumiputra status (the must
be BUMI Muslim Malays).
Only 3% of all Petronas employees are Chinese.
30 government produced TV dramas and films
always showed that the bad guys were Chinese.
Recent years 100 big companies set up, managed,
and owned by Chinese Malaysians were taken over
(forced buyouts by the BUMI Malay Muslim controlled government)
100 constituencies (states and parliaments) have
been racist divided or delineated so that Chinese
voters were diluted, and Chinese candidates
particularly DAP candidates lost in election since
1970s.
20 constituencies won by DAP Chinese candidates
can not get funds from the government for development.
Or, the government made sure these Chinese majority constituencies were the
last to be developed.
Zero (0) Temples or Churches were built for any
Taman housing estates. But yet every Taman estate
got at least one mosque or surau built. Example:
there were 3000 mosques and surau were built in
Taman religious neighborhoods throughout Malaysia
since 1970.
No temples or churches are required to be built for
Taman.
There were 2637 Malay Muslim new primary schools
built between 1968 and 2000, all had a mosque.
48 Chinese primary schools were closed down between
1968 and 2000.
144 Tamil primary schools were closed down between
1968 and 2000.
128 STPM Chinese top students could not get into the
course that they aspired like Medicine just in the year
2004 even though they had higher grade point averages
and scored better on exams than any Malay.
The publishing of any Bible in Iban language has been
banned officially since 2002, which is against the Malaysia constitution.
There are at least 20 cases every year whereby
Chinese drivers who accidentally knocked down
Malays were seriously assaulted or killed by Muslims.
There are a minimum of 50 cases each year whereby
Chinese, especially Chinese youths are beaten up by
Malay youths in public places. The police took the
reports, did nothing, and later no record of any
report could be found.
Currently the Indians make up about 7% of the present,
as of 2004, Malaysian population, a drop from 12% in
1957.
There are NO Non-Malay staff quotas legally required
in Malay companies. But there must be 30 % Malays
staffs in all Chinese or foreign companies.
12% interest rate is what ASN / ASB got per annum
while all other bank fixed deposit rates were only
about 3.5% per annum.
There are hundreds more racial discriminations we
found in Malaysia Which makes this Southeast Asian
country a “colossal” racist society.
It is hoped that the victims of racism will write in to
expose the racist government of Malaysia, controlled
and dominated by BUMI Muslim Malays. The Malaysian Government should
publish statistics showing how much Malays have benefited from the “special rights”
of Malays and at the same time tell the statistics of
how much other minority races are being discriminated against. Hence, the responsibility
lies in the Malaysian Muslim dominated government itself to publish
unadulterated statistics of racial discrimination.
If the Malaysian Government hides these statistics,
then there must be some evil doings, immoral doings,
sinful doings, and shameful doings, like the Nazi
regime of Adolph Hitler’s Germany.
Civilized nations, unlike the evil Nazi Empire, must
publish statistics to show its treatment of its minority
races. This is what Malaysia must Publish! We are asking
for the publication of the statistics showing how “implementation of special rights of BUMI Muslim
Malays” has inflicted colossal racial discrimination
onto Non-Malays and Non-Muslim Religions.
End
Some Personal Notes:
(1) The article is written pretty much as sent to me.
It was translated from Chinese to English so I just
cleaned up the spelling and sentence structure, and
converted British English to American English spelling.
(2) Tamil are ethnic Indians from places such as India
and Sri Lanka.
(3) The Orang Asli are the real original inhabitants
of Malaysia. They were the indigenous tribes. Nearly
wiped out by the Malays under former Sultan
(Royal family entities). These Sultans and their
people called Bumiputra (BUMI Malays) are not
even from Malaysia they are from Sumatra Indonesia,
and are invading conquerors.
(4) Putrajaya is a government complex built to house
the country’s government at a separate location from
its original location in the Capital City of Kuala Lumpur
(KL). It is also how the concept of a Multi Media Super
Corridor would be built linking all aspects of technology.
One of the biggest land scam deals perpetrated by
any government on its own people and foreign
investors. It is a real friggin joke, a disaster in
mega dollar happening. Bill Gates warned everyone
of this and NO one listended.
(5) RM = Ringgit is the country currency of Malaysia.
No longer traded on the free world market. The
exchange rate is approximately 3.75 to One U.S.
Dollar.
(6) Petronas is the country’s national oil and gas
company. Petronas is deeply embedded with Shell
Oil, BP Oil, and Exxon (Esso) Oil. Almost all the Oil
and Gas comes from East Malaysia, part of the
Borneo Island. The BUMI Muslim Malays do not
return the wealth to that island keeping the people
poor and dependent. They would like to have
independence but todate no super power has
stepped up to help them. Where is China, Japan,
Korea, Australia, Canada, Britain, Russia, India,
or the United States?
November 9th, 2006 at 1:19 am
This is suck!
“However, when Anna did not return to their hotel after a few days, her friends became worried. They went to report the matter to the Mongolian consulate in Thailand.”
Does that sound like they are not able to make a report in local police station for missing person.
November 07, 2006 01:07 AM E-mail this news to a friend Printable version of this news
Malaysian’s Mongolian Lover Killed, Blown Up By Hitmen
KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 7 (Bernama) — Three police officers, one of them a woman, have been arrested in connection with the murder of a Mongolian woman believed to have had an affair with a Malaysian man.
The victim, Anna Ana Ang, is believed to have been murdered and her remains blown up with a grenade.
Anna, who was in her 30’s, was said to have had a brief sexual encounter with the Malaysian man when he visited Mongolia last year.
The affair resulted in a baby born in Mongolia this year.
It is learnt that Anna and two female friends from her country came to Malaysia early last month to meet up with the man, who is already married with children.
They visited his home in Damansara Heights on Oct 9 to discuss matters. However, things didn’t go too well and the man called up three police officers to “escort” Anna away.
Her friends were then told to leave while the matter was being “settled”.
However, when Anna did not return to their hotel after a few days, her friends became worried. They went to report the matter to the Mongolian consulate in Thailand.
They also lodged a report at the Brickfields police station here.
Following the report, the Mongolian consulate in Thailand contacted Malaysian police to seek help in the search for its missing citizen.
Aided by details provided by Anna’s friends, police detained a chief inspector and lance corporal to help with investigation. They were both remanded for a week last week.
The interrogation led to the arrest of a third police officer, also a chief inspector, who was arrested today. Police were unable to detain him earlier as he was on duty overseas.
A search for Anna’s body is now being carried out at the Subang dam in Puncak Alam.
Kuala Lumpur police chief Datuk Sulaiman Mohd Yusof, when contacted, confirmed the search but remained tight-lipped otherwise.
– BERNAMA