Exodus of Malaysia professionals simply means outflow of monetary capital as well as human capital.
The winners of this scenario are the smart countries like Singapore, Australia and the US. By maintaining the good governance of the country, making it safe, clean and having equal opportunity for all to develop their potential to the fullest, they are able to skim off the cream of our country in terms of skill peoples, professionals and the capital.
Not every person could emigrate; the host country would pick and choose to ensure these emigrants are useful for them; unfortunately more often than not, these people are usually wealth creators or productive peoples who are actually badly needed by our own country.
Once these people are already out, it would be very difficult to get them back simply because we no longer could afford to get them back. These people include non-malays and malays simply for economics reason.
The economics force seeks to its own equilibrium like water flows to a lower point and man tries to go to the highest point. All the money, legal or illegal flow to this heaven perceived to be safe and the nearest one is Singapore.
Though there is ample of land in Australia, yet the property prices shoot rocket high because it is perceived as one of the few safe places in the world that one's generation could live well.
That makes the cost of migration heavy this day. The earlier one could migrate the better he would be. After all, the ringgit is shrinking day by day. In that sense, we already lose points in this competitive globalize market in securing useful productive people.
For an individual migrant, he is also a winner. Take an example of a family of three kids which emigrated to Australia in 1990. The price of the property has gone up five to six times. At the end of the day, the family has gained:
1. The children are PR automatically and enjoy equal employment opportunity with the Aussies in an income of 1:10 ratio compared to their counterparts in Malaysia.
2. Saving over a million ringgit in education fees over the three kids who are now professionals trained up by the Aussie land.
3. No doubt income tax is high, but one is guaranteed with unemployment benefit, medical and educational facility just in case.
Economics reasons dictate everything and forget about the patriotism. Just don't make people laugh!
We had sometime ago this Malaysia politician caught in the Brisbane carrying bags full of millions money trying to snatch properties there, and one prominent lady politician also was (not sure is still is) PR of Australia.
These so-called leaders are actually busy striping off country assets and busily shipping them to places like Singapore or Australia. They don't really care for the people but their own pockets, and when this is challenge by the people, the racial card is frequently produced to shut the people up.
How many times we have been threaten by the saying of the infamous keris wielding, May 13 and disturbance of hornet nest!
At least the emigrants and their descendents are earning honest money and contributing national building, to their host countries simply because they are grateful to them. They don't waste time in arguing how to divide a shrinking cake like in Bodohland.
To those who are qualified to emigrate, the destiny is at your own hand, make your choice. It is entirely your own right to seek a better place for you and your family in this world.
List of racial discriminations in Malaysia, practiced by government as well as government agencies. This list is an open secret. Best verified by government itself because it got 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 (Chinese, Ibans, Kadazans, Orang Asli, Tamils, etc) who were being racially discriminated.
Figures in this list are estimates only and please take it as a guide only. Government of Malaysia has the most correct figures. Is government of Malaysia too ashamed to publish their racist acts by publishing racial statistics?
This list cover a period of about 49 years since independence (1957).
List of racial discriminations (Malaysia):
(1) Out of all the 5 major banks, only one bank is multi-racial, the rest are controlled by malays
(2) 99% of Petronas directors are malays
(3) 3% of Petronas employees are Chinese
(4) 99% of 2000 Petronas gasoline stations are owned by malays
(5) 100% all contractors working under Petronas projects must be bumis status
(6) 0% of non-malay staffs is legally required in malay companies. But there must be 30% malay staffs in Chinese companies
(7) 5% of all new intake for government army, nurses, polices, is non-malays
(8) 2% is the present Chinese staff in Royal Malaysian Air Force (RMAF), drop from 40% in 1960
(9) 2% is the percentage of non-malay government servants in Putrajaya. But malays make up 98%
(10) 7% is the percentage of Chinese government servants in the whole government (in 2004), drop from 30% in 1960
(11) 95% of government contracts are given to malays
(12) 100% all business licensees are controlled by malay government e.g. Approved permits, Taxi permits, etc
(13) 80% of the Chinese rice millers in Kedah had to be sold to malay controlled Bernas in 1980s. Otherwise, life is make difficult for Chinese rice millers
(14) 100 big companies set up, owned and managed by Chinese Malaysians were taken over by government, and later managed by malays since 1970s e.g. MISC, UMBC, UTC, etc
(15) At least 10 Chinese owned bus companies (throughout Malaysia, throughout 40 years) had to be sold to MARA or other malay transport companies due to rejection by malay authority to Chinese application for bus routes and rejection for their application for new buses
(16) 2 Chinese taxi drivers were barred from driving in Johor Larkin bus station. There are about 30 taxi drivers and 3 are Chinese in October 2004. Spoiling taxi club properties was the reason given
(17) 0 non-malays are allowed to get shop lots in the new Muar bus station (November 2004)
(18) 8000 billion ringgit is the total amount the government channeled to malay pockets through ASB, ASN, MARA, privatisation of government agencies, Tabung Haji etc, through NEP over 34 years period
(19) 48 Chinese primary schools closed down since 1968 - 2000
(20) 144 Indian primary schools closed down since 1968 - 2000
(21) 2637 malay primary schools built since 1968 - 2000
(22) 2.5% is government budget for Chinese primary schools. Indian schools got only 1%, malay schools got 96.5%
(23) While a Chinese parent with RM1000 salary (monthly) cannot get school-text-book-loan, a malay parent with RM2000 salary is eligible
(24) 10 all public universities vice chancellors are malays
(25) 5% - the government universities lecturers of non-malay origins had been reduced from about 70% in 1965 to only 5% in 2004
(26) Only 5% is given to non-malays for government scholarships over 40 years
(27) 0 Chinese or Indians were sent to Japan and Korea under "Look East Policy"
(28) 128 STPM Chinese top students could not get into the course that they aspired e.g. Medicine (in 2004)
(29) 10% place for non-bumi students for MARA science schools beginning from year 2003, but only 7% are filled. Before that it was 100% malays
(30) 50 cases whereby Chinese and Indian Malaysians, are beaten up in the National Service program in 2003
(31) 25% is Malaysian Chinese population in 2004, drop from 45% in 1957
(32) 7% is the present Malaysian Indians population (2004), a drop from 12% in 1957
(33) 2 million Chinese Malaysians had emigrated to overseas since 40 years ago
(34) 0.5 million Indian Malaysians had emigrated to overseas
(35) 3 million Indonesians had migrated into Malaysia and became Malaysian citizens with bumis status
(36) 600000 are the Chinese and Indian Malaysians with red IC and were rejected repeatedly when applying for citizenship for 40 years. Perhaps 60% of them had already passed away due to old age. This shows racism of how easily Indonesians got their citizenships compare with the Chinese and Indians
(37) 5% - 15% discount for a malay to buy a house, regardless whether the malay is poor or rich
(38) 2% is what Chinese new villages get compare with 98% of what malay villages got for rural development budget
(39) 50 road names (at least) had been changed from Chinese names to other names
(40) 1 Dewan Gan Boon Leong (in Malacca) was altered to other name (e.g. Dewan Serbaguna or sort) when it was being officially used for a few days. Government try to shun Chinese names. This racism happened in around year 2000 or sort
(41) 0 churches/temples were built for each housing estate. But every housing estate got at least one mosque/surau built
(42) 3000 mosques/surau were built in all housing estates throughout Malaysia since 1970. No churches, no temples are required to be built in housing estates
(43) 1 Catholic church in Shah Alam took 20 years to apply to be constructed. But told by malay authority that it must look like a factory and not look like a church. Still not yet approved in 2004
(44) 1 publishing of Bible in Iban language banned (in 2002)
(45) 0 of the government TV stations (RTM1, RTM2, TV3) are directors of non-malay origins
(46) 30 government produced TV dramas and films always showed that the bad guys had Chinese face, and the good guys had malay face. You can check it out since 1970s. Recent years, this tendency becomes less
(47) 10 times, at least, malays (especially Umno) had threatened to massacre the Chinese Malaysians using May 13 since 1969
(48) 20 constituencies won by DAP would not get funds from the government to develop. Or these Chinese majority constituencies would be the last to be developed
(49) 100 constituencies (parliaments and states) had been racistly re-delineated so Chinese voters were diluted that Chinese candidates, particularly DAP candidates lost in election since 1970s
(50) Only 3 out of 12 human rights items are ratified by Malaysia government since 1960
(51) 0 - elimination of all forms of racial discrimination (UN Human Rights) is not ratified by Malaysia government since 1960s
(52) 20 reported cases whereby malay ambulance attendances treated Chinese patients inhumanely, and malay government hospital staffs purposely delay attending to Chinese patients in 2003. Unreported cases may be 200
(53) 50 cases each year whereby Chinese, especially Chinese youths being beaten up by malay youths in public places. We may check at police reports provided the police took the report, otherwise there will be no record
(54) 20 cases every year whereby Chinese drivers who accidentally knocked down malays were seriously assaulted or killed by malays
(55) 12% is what ASB/ASN got per annum while banks fixed deposit is only about 3.5% per annum
There are hundreds more racial discriminations in Malaysia to add to this list of "colossal" racism. It is hope that the victims of racism will write in to expose racism.
Malaysia government should publish statistics showing how much malays had benefited from the "special rights" of malays and at the same time tell the statistics of how much other minority races are being discriminated.
Hence, the responsibility lies in the Malaysia government itself to publish unadulterated statistics of racial discrimination.
If the Malaysia government hides the statistics above, then there must be some evil doings, immoral doings, shameful doings and sinful doings, like the Nazi, going on onto the non-malays of Malaysia.
Civilized nation, unlike evil Nazi, must publish statistics to show its treatment on 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 malays" had inflicted colossal racial discrimination onto non-malays.
Ask former non-malay civil servants how they were treated in the government service in terms of career development and promotion, then one would appreciate better why government services became a choice of the last resort for the non-malays.
But when job opportunities are scarce in private sector, non-malays knowing that practices under the auspices of the NEP are more discriminatory in government services, applied for the jobs, nonetheless.
I heard this from my relative: In a government sector, 10% of non-malay employees are taking up 90% of the overall workload. Not only jobs are discriminately offered, at the work place, workload distribution is always unequal.
The ones who are promoted are generally the lazy ones as they have time to apply for leave to go for this course and that course, leaving the hard workers to cover for them.
So in the end, the hard workers are driven out by selection, leaving the lazy ones to fight among themselves. And no wonder why you get lousy service.
Mahathir already said in his book, that the malays will take a long time to catch up with other races, that they are not that sparkling eh (for some reasons) and they need help. Fine and good.
We, the other people who are then economically ahead were empathise and patient with them. Give 30% shares, give discount to buy houses, give assistance to start business, allocate more places in the universities for them (they cannot comprehend meritocracy), etc, etc, 35 years later, they still need help.
How much time do they need? Now they fling their 'keris' and shout 'leave' and 'racist'. How they ungrateful!
The element of NEP does not encourage a competitive economy. To name a few:
(1) Credit to employees are discriminative and not properly tied to performance. (2) The 'concept' that civil jobs are guaranteed results in unproductive manner of employee.
The problem is that hard workers are not rewarded. Generally if you work hard, more work will be given to you. If you are lazy, you do less work and still get the same pay.
So in the end, the hard workers will all feel disillusioned and if you can't beat them, join them and be lazy too.
Sad to say, while the world is changing with new technology to improve efficiency, Malaysia government administration and systems did not change much.
The work environment, with intense politics at play, in the government departments is not healthy for career, financial and job satisfaction, and personal improvement. They are not happy. If you look at the public servants, you will know what I mean.
The malays must be daring to go into the private sector or set up their own business and not solely rely on government contracts. It is challenging and very hard but in the end, it could be personally rewarding with career and job satisfaction, not just in terms of monetary rewards.
This is the best way to improve and increase malays permanent share of the economy.
Even in developed countries, most people who joined public service are not ambitious and do not want to work hard. They just want a job with the government for security with plenty of time for personal matters.
It is like spoon feeding your own kid until he is 40 years old. NEP is discriminatory and government should abolish it. What can do!
Before the NEP could succeed in its twin objectives of eradication of the identification of economic function with race and poverty respective of race, there must first be the twin objectives of which are eradication of the identification of political parties and policies with race and equality respective of race.
Only with it will people start to think of the Malaysian identity being more important than their ethnic identity paving way for ethnic insecurities and polarisation to abate.
The issue of the NEP has been hotly debated for several years now and nothing has changed. NEP will continue to thrive till the end of time unless the malays themselves see in the ineffectiveness of the policy.
Frankly, the NEP has not really benefited the majority of the malays because it has opened only a big doorway for those who wield political power to getting rich quick.
NEP is a biased policy and has no aim to thrive to the economy. In basis, NEP is not an economy policy. If prime minister is serious to develop a competitive economy, NEP should be dropped.
People who are used to getting easy money like this will fight to the end to ensure the continuous steady stream of easy money flowing into their pockets.
The trouble with our Malaysia government is that they do not have the foresight to know the consequences of their policies and it is only when the horse have bolted that they close the barn door. By then it is too late and beyond repair.
It is a common notion that there is no equality and meritocracy in the government department, civil service and armed forces. Nevertheless, the reality remain that the government is not prepared to embrace this fact. There is simply too much at stake to risk.
I believe the problem of non-malays not joining the army, civil service, navy, police force, and the likes will not go away but instead further deteoriate in time to come.
How true, promotions are denied to the non-malays. They say that non-malays are not interested in joining the civil service, yet those in the civil service know that applications from the non-malays mostly end up in the waste paper basket. Perhaps one or two are employed as the eyewash.
Even with better education, more malays are joining the government services instead of private sector for various reasons. Their education and personal potentials are not fully realised and utilised.
Of course the non-malays have not abandoned the nursing profession. Instead the non-malays seek qualification from private hospitals or oversea institutions and many of them are serving in private hospitals and oversea hospitals.
I don't want my son to be a government servant in Malaysia. In the age of globalization, he should look forward to being a world citizen. His experience in Malaysia should stand in good stead when he is ready to spread his wings.
I am not trying to be racial in this post. I am just trying to provide facts for everyone to ponder upon. Could you blame the non-malays not to enter the civil service when such unfairness is openly practised?
How can Malaysia remains a competitive country when we have layers and layers of rent seekers permeating almost at every facets of our society? Please keep watch - the national budget will be used to shore up the performance of GLCs soon.
Now, the dominance of malays goes beyond the civil service. They now control and manage most privatised entities, GLCs and increasingly the private sector especially the banking industry. At one time it was the civil service that was inefficient. Now it is everywhere.
A civil service dominated by only one race is just a manifestation of individuals taking liberty to carry the policy of affirmative action, further than what it is intended to be. Discrimination in the civil service against the non-malays and the failure of the government administration to check it, resulted in the present imbalance.
As Malaysians become better and better educated and hence become more and more aware of what is actually going on, I think eventually the people will soon see the ugly side of communal politics and we will surely see a paradigm shift in the thinking of Malaysians
Wake up, Malaysians, unite and be strong and happy together!
Yes, if you take up a two years vocational course in New Zealand, your family could follow you to go while you could work there after finishing studies. It is not difficult to study, then work and get a PR in New Zealand.
Basically, Indian and Chinese and other ethnic groups in Malaysia are peaceful, hardworking excel, economically and academically.
The presently ruling party does not appreciate for what non-malays have done. Even Oxford graduate like Khairy said Penang businesses have been dominated by non-malays. He thought setting up businesses is free and running it also easily.
Why doesn't he set up in Penang many businesses like motor and car workshops, supermarkets, sundry shops, saloons, real estates agency, electrical chain shops, etc……….?
Those who could emigrate just emigrate. Nothing is wrong. Survival of the fittest meaning - if you don't like to stay on in Malaysia. Just go. Go where you like if you are mobile and a professional.
Those who are less fortunate, they have to stay back and fight economically and to survive in this. They are still many non-malay politicians in this country who would still do their work peacefully for people without showing sword or keris.
There are still kind opposition parties members who dare to risk their lives to report to the passive and inefficient Malaysia police to 'sedition'. All these opposition parties members do not want to see racial riot again to happen. So, they have done a good and brave job to upkeep peace in Malaysia.
It does not matter if you are younger or over 30 years old, sell your house, car and pool all money to go to New Zealand. This country would welcome immigrants who have skilled. Their immigration department has not mentioned about age limit. In Australia, to migrate based on skill is below 45 years old.
If you have vocational qualification, you could also work in New Zealand. If you do not have qualification, study vocational certificate would be the shortcut and good prospect due to shortage of skills there.
But those who has money like A$700000, you could put this money into Australia government bond and earn interest while you would get a provisional business visa (leading to PR) to live and work and study in Australia for whole family. So, send your money to Australia if you have that amount! Age is not a problem for this business visa.
So, send your money out and retire in Australia is a good option for your children education - universities in Australia are good ranking and fair.
It is easy to get PR in New Zealand. Once you have got a PR of New Zealand, you could always to Australia.
In New Zeland and Australia, you could work full time during holiday and during school days, you could work part time.
Yes, go to enroll a vocational course like mechanic, electrician, air-con etc. You could always work part time during study days. During long holiday, go to work full and collect money.
Even if you work part time in New Zealand, your total monthly salary would still higher than you would get in Malaysia. So, go for it!
Pool money to show you are going to study for first year. If English is a problem, study English as a start for several months there before starting vocational course.
Vocational qualification is high demanded in New Zealand and Australia.
You just need to pool (sell your property or borrow) first year money to study in New Zealand. New Zealand has a lower living cost and you just need to have a vocational certificate to work in New Zealand and lead to permanent resident. You could also bring your family members who might be able to work there too.
Yes, work overseas, so that less paying taxes to Malaysia government.
Yes, send your children to study overseas, after all local public universities are of low ranking. At least send your children to Singapore universities which are of higher ranking.
But in New Zealand, you don't need to study university to work and stay on. Just choose vocational course. Send this info to all your friends.
It is easy to work in New Zealand and Australia now. Those who have the below could apply visa to work in New Zealand and Australia quite easy.
1. Nurse 2. IT 3. Engineering degrees 4. Doctor 5. Almost all vocational, trade or polytechnic certificates 6. Accountant (ACCA degree from New Zealand or Australia)
Salary is often higher than you could get in Malaysia for any jobs. In New Zealand, minimum wage is NZ$45000 per year while in Australia is about A$39000 per year.
Be prepared to sit for IELTS. You just need to send your transcript for assessment and have IELTS to apply visa. You could sit for International English Language Test System at British Council.
For those who are without qualification, just go to New Zealand is the best option because of lower living cost and enroll for vocational course would qualify to work and to residency.
When you get New Zealand residency, you could always go to Australia to work.
Opposition could start this campaign by reusing the independent university fund. Select some poor students to study in New Zealand and Australia. Lobby those Chinese conglomerates to donate to the trust fund.
Hope those entrepreneurs would each one considers to sponsor one non-malay guy or girl to study in New Zealand or Australia. Condition must be from poor family and none of their family members have studied in New Zealand or Australia or elsewhere.
In this way after graduating, this young man or girl could work there (should be the job on demand occupation list). Then after graduating so, this young man or girl could apply for PR there and have family bridging to bring their family to go over there.
Yes, crime is on the rise in Malaysia couple with millions of illegal immigrants and previously admitted immigrants from neighbouring country (many of them carry red identity cards).
So, plan well and if you possess vocational, university or polytechnic degree, you could easily apply for work visa to work in New Zealand (no age mentioned) or Australia (provided under 45 years old).
It is worth to sacrifice ourselves to protect our loved one (family members, good friends and relatives). This mean, go to work and raise our young child or children in an unbiased country and safer country like New Zealand. At least Australia has anti discrimination law and if you excel academically, you would get the course you would like to have.
I have lost confidence with the BN controlled government from the day I left for US. I also was rewarded with financial assistant that I could not get while I was in Malaysia.
Malaysia would not be achieved Vision 2020 if preferential treatments for malays still prevail. Pak Lah and gang should start scrapping the discriminatory policy be it public or private sector.
Don't mention about coming back of the Malaysians overseas. This is like an ugly woman who keeps on telling all the men around the world, "Please marry me. You are ungrateful for not marrying me………." - Malaysia would better be a nice woman first.
Feel appreciated? These people are being polite. Many would return if only they feel they are not being robbed. The truth is the NEP is really robbery. It is basically an unfair tax system that robs the future of non-malays.
Let say you run a company. Imagine being asked to invest in a country that taxes you higher than most people. Imagine also that the more you can make, the higher the tax rate while majority of others gets tax breaks and subsidies.
Also, if you are successful, you have to give up some equity, even majority in some cases. Who would invest?
For non-malays it is the same, when they choose to work and live in Malaysia, it is an investment both personal and financial. They get the bare necessary support and often thrown obstacles along the way.
They pay most of the taxes and their savings are abused. If they are successful especially very successful, they are expected to give it up, and not to the needy and deserving, but mostly to the wasteful, undeserving and arrogant.
It is a no brainer for towering non-malays. In fact it is a no brainer for all non-malays.
My sincere advice to these towering Malaysians is, to stay where you are and don't come back! Also think of your children's future and education, which this country cannot provide.
This country only wants thieves, non-skilled labourers and criminals from Indonesia, Bosnia and Bangladesh. The only qualification is that he is a Muslim.
My brother found a job in Australia two weeks after graduation. Got his PR a few weeks later. All individuals I have spoken to compliment and agree it is the right thing to do.
Not one has the slightest disagreement with my brother decision. The sentiment among my relatives and peers are obvious. There is no pride for non-malays in Malaysia and never will.
I got a few friends in UK, Swiss, to further PhD in biotech. They won't come back to Malaysia as Malaysia can't provide them the technology that they currently using, studying. Of course they feel unfair in the Malaysia system. That is it, Time to change……….
Recently I have talked to Malaysian friends about the issue of returning home. Not surprise me that they all have their Australia PR.
Please do not criticize us that we are not loyalty, we are grown up in national schools, we do not really have "well-funded education" as a Malaysian should be. The main concern for us is the secure feeling of staying in Malaysia.
Despite the public security, it is more about uncertainty we have percept since we are born. I do not expect my children future ruin in your hands.
I think all Malaysians should try hard to educate their children to be global citizens, i.e. give them an education that will enable them to survive anywhere even in India or China.
But if you are a connected crony your children will be able to prosper for the next two generations until or at least our energy reserves run out.
After that we hope they will be able to make the correct life choices. If they settle overseas it means we have less hotel bills to pay when we tour!
Malaysia may yet change for the better. The one minister got it right this time - "You can't fool all the people all the time".
Everyday I remind myself this: Study harder; make money. The grass is greener on the other side, not for myself but definitely for my children.
Migration is perfectly normal. But it is the circumstance of one decision to migrate is the issue.
Please all of you don't come back. Malaysia does not want intelligent people: they are difficult to control (i.e. LKS, Karpal Singh, etc).
I have so many friends and children of friends, who stay overseas that when I go there, I feel more at home than here! I feel free there!
I went to bed troubled at the huge loss of talents that could have helped Malaysia become another Japan. So many brilliant people are coming forward to narrate how they made good in other countries when Malaysia, the country they were born and bred in, failed to treat them fairly.
Everyone knows Japan story.
The Japanese phoenix worked because they built back their country as one people. They didn't have a Petronas rebuilding the country. They were a country starved of natural resources, but the biggest wealth and asset of post-war Japan was the people themselves. They recognised and made full use of the talents from the people for the country.
As long as the NEP and the affirmative policies are in place, more and more will emigrate and the loser is Malaysia.
The solution is simple. However, in this country everything boiled down to pampering one race which has proven again and again that it is not working after 50 years.
Our leaders are not bothered about all these messages and they will brand the emigrants as not patriot to avoid finding solution for the long benefit of the country.
To all, for time being, emigrate to other country to teach a lesson to BN the hard way.
Just put it very simply, our Malaysia country is not competitive enough that we no longer could afford to hire our talents in overseas back. The environment is just not conducive for further development.
For those who wish to sell short to come back, there must be a good reason. Why bother to come back if you know that you are not appreciated? Patriotism is not a good reason as it is illogical to say that one is not patriotic if one is working or living overseas.
The latest slogan I heard from Singapore is that one could venture overseas as far as he could, but the heart is always welcome to be with home, Singapore. Overseas Singaporeans did come back solely for their national day celebration. I think this is a more liberal way of thinking. The world is flat now.
Either way, one has to make his own decision to make a choice to be out or in. After all, our society has become very sick and corrupted such that white or black, wrong or right is indistinguishable. Idiotic loyalty is unwise. You just have to make your own way to seek a better future for your self and your family.
Affirmative policies which the government is adopting will do more harm than good to the proud "Bangsa Melayu". That is why after five decades of independence, their inferiority complex is still very much prevalent among them.
Further, how much progress have they made internationally? Virtually none or if there is, I dare say, is insignificant. Other races have made headlines in the international arena, including being top executives of major multinational corporations.
Some have even made it in Hollywood! If you are talking about our local guys, people like Zang Toi, a Chinese designer from Kelantan, and Dato Jimmy Choo, famous for his shoes, are worldwide brands.
If the NEP continues in its current form, the malay community may face the danger of sinking into oblivion in the sea of vast technological and economic changes which our world is constantly experiencing.
Forget this towering Malaysians bit. After 50 years there is no Malaysians but only Malays, Indians and Chinese. Forget patriotism - there is no such thing. All this talk about NEP is just a smokescreen, a mechanism for Umno leaders to enrich themselves, siblings and offspring - at the expense of working class Malays, Indians and Chinese.
The smart ones with special talents like "eco" would emigrate with or without the discrimination. It is the "pull" factor and not the push factor that decides where peoples like "eco" will make their home.
To us ordinary folks, with dreams of making something out of our lives, I say follow your instinct and look for that Promised Land.
We should be grateful to the government of Malaysia for starting the exodus. We are what we are today, like I always say, "Not in spite of the discriminatory policy but because of it."
Some of us prefer to be birds of fine weather. That is fine too.
Steadily and slowly, the middle class Malaysians are moving overseas, be it the US, UK, Singapore or Australia. Not because we are unpatriotic but because we do not want our next generation to endure the state-sponsored racial discrimination that we had to endured for so long.
It is the adults who teach hate and discrimination to the kids who in the end become the racists that they are. My best friends in primary school and secondary school are malays and Indians.
We don't realize that non-malays have lesser opportunities to go to tertiary education. When I see that my country is actually engaging in state-sponsored racial discrimination segregation laws later in my life, I am deeply disappointed that while we are taught moral values and all the values of Malaysia in school, that it is actually not being practised in our daily life.
When you have these "push" factors in place, when non-malays have the opportunities or when they are fed up with the policy of the country, they will leave the country and will never come back to contribute to the country.
As a lot of these politicians who wield keris and the other radicals want the non-malays to get off the land, they do not realized that as much as they think they do not need us, they actually do.
I second one opinion, my parents did not have a choice back then. I have a choice now, I am choosing to develop elsewhere. Not because I am unpatriotic, but I do not want my tax money to go into incompetent BN politicians pocket or any other maggots associated with them.
Now my tax money will go to a deserving country where I feel I am not being shortchanged. You will be surprised how many young non-malay Malaysians will end up building US, UK, Singapore, Canada and Australia. We owe this to our parents and to our next generations who never had the chance.
Rad, knock! knock!..... r u still here? ingatkan dah salah masuk blog. Rad, ko nye blog dah jadik tempat luahan perasaan ketidakpuasan hati kat gomen nampaknya. Was wondering what might have triggered the issues being brought up? something u wrote in ur post? or err...... *masih garu2 kepala sebab tak jumpa sebab musabab* anyway, ada gak betulnya apa yg diluahkan. untuk difikirkan bersama...... what do u think rad?
HELP3x! MAYDAY2x!I couldn't login in properly-1st: forget my new pw - *hung my head in shame) 2nd: Your browser's cookie functionality is turned off. Please turn it on. HOW??????
I promise I'll reply all the comments plus more entry if I can simply login..*verythestupidrad*
Simah, Manal, dlt & ~gab~, SORRY is all that I can say ...wasn't in the mood earlier & especially now too but has no one else to turn too so have to back to blogging to keep me hyped up again.
BTW,bukannya gambar carpet tu - ada ke? heheheh - Ceiling lor..but then how are you suppose to know kan? Since I'm too lazy to explain? Dah type tapi dlm kepala la...
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thanks 4 the photos..yg satu gambar tu gambar carpet ker? utk hiasan ka or boleh dipijak?
Errr....rad, i know la those pictures speak volume but how about spare us some stories behind those unforgettable moments....?
Exodus of Malaysia professionals simply means outflow of monetary capital as well as human capital.
The winners of this scenario are the smart countries like Singapore, Australia and the US. By maintaining the good governance of the country, making it safe, clean and having equal opportunity for all to develop their potential to the fullest, they are able to skim off the cream of our country in terms of skill peoples, professionals and the capital.
Not every person could emigrate; the host country would pick and choose to ensure these emigrants are useful for them; unfortunately more often than not, these people are usually wealth creators or productive peoples who are actually badly needed by our own country.
Once these people are already out, it would be very difficult to get them back simply because we no longer could afford to get them back. These people include non-malays and malays simply for economics reason.
The economics force seeks to its own equilibrium like water flows to a lower point and man tries to go to the highest point. All the money, legal or illegal flow to this heaven perceived to be safe and the nearest one is Singapore.
Though there is ample of land in Australia, yet the property prices shoot rocket high because it is perceived as one of the few safe places in the world that one's generation could live well.
That makes the cost of migration heavy this day. The earlier one could migrate the better he would be. After all, the ringgit is shrinking day by day. In that sense, we already lose points in this competitive globalize market in securing useful productive people.
For an individual migrant, he is also a winner. Take an example of a family of three kids which emigrated to Australia in 1990. The price of the property has gone up five to six times. At the end of the day, the family has gained:
1. The children are PR automatically and enjoy equal employment opportunity with the Aussies in an income of 1:10 ratio compared to their counterparts in Malaysia.
2. Saving over a million ringgit in education fees over the three kids who are now professionals trained up by the Aussie land.
3. No doubt income tax is high, but one is guaranteed with unemployment benefit, medical and educational facility just in case.
Economics reasons dictate everything and forget about the patriotism. Just don't make people laugh!
We had sometime ago this Malaysia politician caught in the Brisbane carrying bags full of millions money trying to snatch properties there, and one prominent lady politician also was (not sure is still is) PR of Australia.
These so-called leaders are actually busy striping off country assets and busily shipping them to places like Singapore or Australia. They don't really care for the people but their own pockets, and when this is challenge by the people, the racial card is frequently produced to shut the people up.
How many times we have been threaten by the saying of the infamous keris wielding, May 13 and disturbance of hornet nest!
At least the emigrants and their descendents are earning honest money and contributing national building, to their host countries simply because they are grateful to them. They don't waste time in arguing how to divide a shrinking cake like in Bodohland.
To those who are qualified to emigrate, the destiny is at your own hand, make your choice. It is entirely your own right to seek a better place for you and your family in this world.
List of racial discriminations in Malaysia, practiced by government as well as government agencies. This list is an open secret. Best verified by government itself because it got 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 (Chinese, Ibans, Kadazans, Orang Asli, Tamils, etc) who were being racially discriminated.
Figures in this list are estimates only and please take it as a guide only. Government of Malaysia has the most correct figures. Is government of Malaysia too ashamed to publish their racist acts by publishing racial statistics?
This list cover a period of about 49 years since independence (1957).
List of racial discriminations (Malaysia):
(1) Out of all the 5 major banks, only one bank is multi-racial, the rest are controlled by malays
(2) 99% of Petronas directors are malays
(3) 3% of Petronas employees are Chinese
(4) 99% of 2000 Petronas gasoline stations are owned by malays
(5) 100% all contractors working under Petronas projects must be bumis status
(6) 0% of non-malay staffs is legally required in malay companies. But there must be 30% malay staffs in Chinese companies
(7) 5% of all new intake for government army, nurses, polices, is non-malays
(8) 2% is the present Chinese staff in Royal Malaysian Air Force (RMAF), drop from 40% in 1960
(9) 2% is the percentage of non-malay government servants in Putrajaya. But malays make up 98%
(10) 7% is the percentage of Chinese government servants in the whole government (in 2004), drop from 30% in 1960
(11) 95% of government contracts are given to malays
(12) 100% all business licensees are controlled by malay government e.g. Approved permits, Taxi permits, etc
(13) 80% of the Chinese rice millers in Kedah had to be sold to malay controlled Bernas in 1980s. Otherwise, life is make difficult for Chinese rice millers
(14) 100 big companies set up, owned and managed by Chinese Malaysians were taken over by government, and later managed by malays since 1970s e.g. MISC, UMBC, UTC, etc
(15) At least 10 Chinese owned bus companies (throughout Malaysia, throughout 40 years) had to be sold to MARA or other malay transport companies due to rejection by malay authority to Chinese application for bus routes and rejection for their application for new buses
(16) 2 Chinese taxi drivers were barred from driving in Johor Larkin bus station. There are about 30 taxi drivers and 3 are Chinese in October 2004. Spoiling taxi club properties was the reason given
(17) 0 non-malays are allowed to get shop lots in the new Muar bus station (November 2004)
(18) 8000 billion ringgit is the total amount the government channeled to malay pockets through ASB, ASN, MARA, privatisation of government agencies, Tabung Haji etc, through NEP over 34 years period
(19) 48 Chinese primary schools closed down since 1968 - 2000
(20) 144 Indian primary schools closed down since 1968 - 2000
(21) 2637 malay primary schools built since 1968 - 2000
(22) 2.5% is government budget for Chinese primary schools. Indian schools got only 1%, malay schools got 96.5%
(23) While a Chinese parent with RM1000 salary (monthly) cannot get school-text-book-loan, a malay parent with RM2000 salary is eligible
(24) 10 all public universities vice chancellors are malays
(25) 5% - the government universities lecturers of non-malay origins had been reduced from about 70% in 1965 to only 5% in 2004
(26) Only 5% is given to non-malays for government scholarships over 40 years
(27) 0 Chinese or Indians were sent to Japan and Korea under "Look East Policy"
(28) 128 STPM Chinese top students could not get into the course that they aspired e.g. Medicine (in 2004)
(29) 10% place for non-bumi students for MARA science schools beginning from year 2003, but only 7% are filled. Before that it was 100% malays
(30) 50 cases whereby Chinese and Indian Malaysians, are beaten up in the National Service program in 2003
(31) 25% is Malaysian Chinese population in 2004, drop from 45% in 1957
(32) 7% is the present Malaysian Indians population (2004), a drop from 12% in 1957
(33) 2 million Chinese Malaysians had emigrated to overseas since 40 years ago
(34) 0.5 million Indian Malaysians had emigrated to overseas
(35) 3 million Indonesians had migrated into Malaysia and became Malaysian citizens with bumis status
(36) 600000 are the Chinese and Indian Malaysians with red IC and were rejected repeatedly when applying for citizenship for 40 years. Perhaps 60% of them had already passed away due to old age. This shows racism of how easily Indonesians got their citizenships compare with the Chinese and Indians
(37) 5% - 15% discount for a malay to buy a house, regardless whether the malay is poor or rich
(38) 2% is what Chinese new villages get compare with 98% of what malay villages got for rural development budget
(39) 50 road names (at least) had been changed from Chinese names to other names
(40) 1 Dewan Gan Boon Leong (in Malacca) was altered to other name (e.g. Dewan Serbaguna or sort) when it was being officially used for a few days. Government try to shun Chinese names. This racism happened in around year 2000 or sort
(41) 0 churches/temples were built for each housing estate. But every housing estate got at least one mosque/surau built
(42) 3000 mosques/surau were built in all housing estates throughout Malaysia since 1970. No churches, no temples are required to be built in housing estates
(43) 1 Catholic church in Shah Alam took 20 years to apply to be constructed. But told by malay authority that it must look like a factory and not look like a church. Still not yet approved in 2004
(44) 1 publishing of Bible in Iban language banned (in 2002)
(45) 0 of the government TV stations (RTM1, RTM2, TV3) are directors of non-malay origins
(46) 30 government produced TV dramas and films always showed that the bad guys had Chinese face, and the good guys had malay face. You can check it out since 1970s. Recent years, this tendency becomes less
(47) 10 times, at least, malays (especially Umno) had threatened to massacre the Chinese Malaysians using May 13 since 1969
(48) 20 constituencies won by DAP would not get funds from the government to develop. Or these Chinese majority constituencies would be the last to be developed
(49) 100 constituencies (parliaments and states) had been racistly re-delineated so Chinese voters were diluted that Chinese candidates, particularly DAP candidates lost in election since 1970s
(50) Only 3 out of 12 human rights items are ratified by Malaysia government since 1960
(51) 0 - elimination of all forms of racial discrimination (UN Human Rights) is not ratified by Malaysia government since 1960s
(52) 20 reported cases whereby malay ambulance attendances treated Chinese patients inhumanely, and malay government hospital staffs purposely delay attending to Chinese patients in 2003. Unreported cases may be 200
(53) 50 cases each year whereby Chinese, especially Chinese youths being beaten up by malay youths in public places. We may check at police reports provided the police took the report, otherwise there will be no record
(54) 20 cases every year whereby Chinese drivers who accidentally knocked down malays were seriously assaulted or killed by malays
(55) 12% is what ASB/ASN got per annum while banks fixed deposit is only about 3.5% per annum
There are hundreds more racial discriminations in Malaysia to add to this list of "colossal" racism. It is hope that the victims of racism will write in to expose racism.
Malaysia government should publish statistics showing how much malays had benefited from the "special rights" of malays and at the same time tell the statistics of how much other minority races are being discriminated.
Hence, the responsibility lies in the Malaysia government itself to publish unadulterated statistics of racial discrimination.
If the Malaysia government hides the statistics above, then there must be some evil doings, immoral doings, shameful doings and sinful doings, like the Nazi, going on onto the non-malays of Malaysia.
Civilized nation, unlike evil Nazi, must publish statistics to show its treatment on 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 malays" had inflicted colossal racial discrimination onto non-malays.
Ask former non-malay civil servants how they were treated in the government service in terms of career development and promotion, then one would appreciate better why government services became a choice of the last resort for the non-malays.
But when job opportunities are scarce in private sector, non-malays knowing that practices under the auspices of the NEP are more discriminatory in government services, applied for the jobs, nonetheless.
I heard this from my relative: In a government sector, 10% of non-malay employees are taking up 90% of the overall workload. Not only jobs are discriminately offered, at the work place, workload distribution is always unequal.
The ones who are promoted are generally the lazy ones as they have time to apply for leave to go for this course and that course, leaving the hard workers to cover for them.
So in the end, the hard workers are driven out by selection, leaving the lazy ones to fight among themselves. And no wonder why you get lousy service.
Mahathir already said in his book, that the malays will take a long time to catch up with other races, that they are not that sparkling eh (for some reasons) and they need help. Fine and good.
We, the other people who are then economically ahead were empathise and patient with them. Give 30% shares, give discount to buy houses, give assistance to start business, allocate more places in the universities for them (they cannot comprehend meritocracy), etc, etc, 35 years later, they still need help.
How much time do they need? Now they fling their 'keris' and shout 'leave' and 'racist'. How they ungrateful!
The element of NEP does not encourage a competitive economy. To name a few:
(1) Credit to employees are discriminative and not properly tied to performance.
(2) The 'concept' that civil jobs are guaranteed results in unproductive manner of employee.
The problem is that hard workers are not rewarded. Generally if you work hard, more work will be given to you. If you are lazy, you do less work and still get the same pay.
So in the end, the hard workers will all feel disillusioned and if you can't beat them, join them and be lazy too.
Sad to say, while the world is changing with new technology to improve efficiency, Malaysia government administration and systems did not change much.
The work environment, with intense politics at play, in the government departments is not healthy for career, financial and job satisfaction, and personal improvement. They are not happy. If you look at the public servants, you will know what I mean.
The malays must be daring to go into the private sector or set up their own business and not solely rely on government contracts. It is challenging and very hard but in the end, it could be personally rewarding with career and job satisfaction, not just in terms of monetary rewards.
This is the best way to improve and increase malays permanent share of the economy.
Even in developed countries, most people who joined public service are not ambitious and do not want to work hard. They just want a job with the government for security with plenty of time for personal matters.
It is like spoon feeding your own kid until he is 40 years old. NEP is discriminatory and government should abolish it. What can do!
Before the NEP could succeed in its twin objectives of eradication of the identification of economic function with race and poverty respective of race, there must first be the twin objectives of which are eradication of the identification of political parties and policies with race and equality respective of race.
Only with it will people start to think of the Malaysian identity being more important than their ethnic identity paving way for ethnic insecurities and polarisation to abate.
The issue of the NEP has been hotly debated for several years now and nothing has changed. NEP will continue to thrive till the end of time unless the malays themselves see in the ineffectiveness of the policy.
Frankly, the NEP has not really benefited the majority of the malays because it has opened only a big doorway for those who wield political power to getting rich quick.
NEP is a biased policy and has no aim to thrive to the economy. In basis, NEP is not an economy policy. If prime minister is serious to develop a competitive economy, NEP should be dropped.
People who are used to getting easy money like this will fight to the end to ensure the continuous steady stream of easy money flowing into their pockets.
The trouble with our Malaysia government is that they do not have the foresight to know the consequences of their policies and it is only when the horse have bolted that they close the barn door. By then it is too late and beyond repair.
It is a common notion that there is no equality and meritocracy in the government department, civil service and armed forces. Nevertheless, the reality remain that the government is not prepared to embrace this fact. There is simply too much at stake to risk.
I believe the problem of non-malays not joining the army, civil service, navy, police force, and the likes will not go away but instead further deteoriate in time to come.
How true, promotions are denied to the non-malays. They say that non-malays are not interested in joining the civil service, yet those in the civil service know that applications from the non-malays mostly end up in the waste paper basket. Perhaps one or two are employed as the eyewash.
Even with better education, more malays are joining the government services instead of private sector for various reasons. Their education and personal potentials are not fully realised and utilised.
Of course the non-malays have not abandoned the nursing profession. Instead the non-malays seek qualification from private hospitals or oversea institutions and many of them are serving in private hospitals and oversea hospitals.
I don't want my son to be a government servant in Malaysia. In the age of globalization, he should look forward to being a world citizen. His experience in Malaysia should stand in good stead when he is ready to spread his wings.
I am not trying to be racial in this post. I am just trying to provide facts for everyone to ponder upon. Could you blame the non-malays not to enter the civil service when such unfairness is openly practised?
How can Malaysia remains a competitive country when we have layers and layers of rent seekers permeating almost at every facets of our society? Please keep watch - the national budget will be used to shore up the performance of GLCs soon.
Now, the dominance of malays goes beyond the civil service. They now control and manage most privatised entities, GLCs and increasingly the private sector especially the banking industry. At one time it was the civil service that was inefficient. Now it is everywhere.
A civil service dominated by only one race is just a manifestation of individuals taking liberty to carry the policy of affirmative action, further than what it is intended to be. Discrimination in the civil service against the non-malays and the failure of the government administration to check it, resulted in the present imbalance.
As Malaysians become better and better educated and hence become more and more aware of what is actually going on, I think eventually the people will soon see the ugly side of communal politics and we will surely see a paradigm shift in the thinking of Malaysians
Wake up, Malaysians, unite and be strong and happy together!
Yes, if you take up a two years vocational course in New Zealand, your family could follow you to go while you could work there after finishing studies. It is not difficult to study, then work and get a PR in New Zealand.
Basically, Indian and Chinese and other ethnic groups in Malaysia are peaceful, hardworking excel, economically and academically.
The presently ruling party does not appreciate for what non-malays have done. Even Oxford graduate like Khairy said Penang businesses have been dominated by non-malays. He thought setting up businesses is free and running it also easily.
Why doesn't he set up in Penang many businesses like motor and car workshops, supermarkets, sundry shops, saloons, real estates agency, electrical chain shops, etc……….?
Those who could emigrate just emigrate. Nothing is wrong. Survival of the fittest meaning - if you don't like to stay on in Malaysia. Just go. Go where you like if you are mobile and a professional.
Those who are less fortunate, they have to stay back and fight economically and to survive in this. They are still many non-malay politicians in this country who would still do their work peacefully for people without showing sword or keris.
There are still kind opposition parties members who dare to risk their lives to report to the passive and inefficient Malaysia police to 'sedition'. All these opposition parties members do not want to see racial riot again to happen. So, they have done a good and brave job to upkeep peace in Malaysia.
It does not matter if you are younger or over 30 years old, sell your house, car and pool all money to go to New Zealand. This country would welcome immigrants who have skilled. Their immigration department has not mentioned about age limit. In Australia, to migrate based on skill is below 45 years old.
If you have vocational qualification, you could also work in New Zealand. If you do not have qualification, study vocational certificate would be the shortcut and good prospect due to shortage of skills there.
But those who has money like A$700000, you could put this money into Australia government bond and earn interest while you would get a provisional business visa (leading to PR) to live and work and study in Australia for whole family. So, send your money to Australia if you have that amount! Age is not a problem for this business visa.
So, send your money out and retire in Australia is a good option for your children education - universities in Australia are good ranking and fair.
It is easy to get PR in New Zealand. Once you have got a PR of New Zealand, you could always to Australia.
In New Zeland and Australia, you could work full time during holiday and during school days, you could work part time.
Yes, go to enroll a vocational course like mechanic, electrician, air-con etc. You could always work part time during study days. During long holiday, go to work full and collect money.
Even if you work part time in New Zealand, your total monthly salary would still higher than you would get in Malaysia. So, go for it!
Pool money to show you are going to study for first year. If English is a problem, study English as a start for several months there before starting vocational course.
Vocational qualification is high demanded in New Zealand and Australia.
You just need to pool (sell your property or borrow) first year money to study in New Zealand. New Zealand has a lower living cost and you just need to have a vocational certificate to work in New Zealand and lead to permanent resident. You could also bring your family members who might be able to work there too.
Yes, work overseas, so that less paying taxes to Malaysia government.
Yes, send your children to study overseas, after all local public universities are of low ranking. At least send your children to Singapore universities which are of higher ranking.
But in New Zealand, you don't need to study university to work and stay on. Just choose vocational course. Send this info to all your friends.
It is easy to work in New Zealand and Australia now. Those who have the below could apply visa to work in New Zealand and Australia quite easy.
1. Nurse
2. IT
3. Engineering degrees
4. Doctor
5. Almost all vocational, trade or polytechnic certificates
6. Accountant (ACCA degree from New Zealand or Australia)
Salary is often higher than you could get in Malaysia for any jobs. In New Zealand, minimum wage is NZ$45000 per year while in Australia is about A$39000 per year.
Be prepared to sit for IELTS. You just need to send your transcript for assessment and have IELTS to apply visa. You could sit for International English Language Test System at British Council.
For those who are without qualification, just go to New Zealand is the best option because of lower living cost and enroll for vocational course would qualify to work and to residency.
When you get New Zealand residency, you could always go to Australia to work.
Opposition could start this campaign by reusing the independent university fund. Select some poor students to study in New Zealand and Australia. Lobby those Chinese conglomerates to donate to the trust fund.
Hope those entrepreneurs would each one considers to sponsor one non-malay guy or girl to study in New Zealand or Australia. Condition must be from poor family and none of their family members have studied in New Zealand or Australia or elsewhere.
In this way after graduating, this young man or girl could work there (should be the job on demand occupation list). Then after graduating so, this young man or girl could apply for PR there and have family bridging to bring their family to go over there.
Yes, crime is on the rise in Malaysia couple with millions of illegal immigrants and previously admitted immigrants from neighbouring country (many of them carry red identity cards).
So, plan well and if you possess vocational, university or polytechnic degree, you could easily apply for work visa to work in New Zealand (no age mentioned) or Australia (provided under 45 years old).
It is worth to sacrifice ourselves to protect our loved one (family members, good friends and relatives). This mean, go to work and raise our young child or children in an unbiased country and safer country like New Zealand. At least Australia has anti discrimination law and if you excel academically, you would get the course you would like to have.
I have lost confidence with the BN controlled government from the day I left for US. I also was rewarded with financial assistant that I could not get while I was in Malaysia.
Malaysia would not be achieved Vision 2020 if preferential treatments for malays still prevail. Pak Lah and gang should start scrapping the discriminatory policy be it public or private sector.
Don't mention about coming back of the Malaysians overseas. This is like an ugly woman who keeps on telling all the men around the world, "Please marry me. You are ungrateful for not marrying me………." - Malaysia would better be a nice woman first.
Feel appreciated? These people are being polite. Many would return if only they feel they are not being robbed. The truth is the NEP is really robbery. It is basically an unfair tax system that robs the future of non-malays.
Let say you run a company. Imagine being asked to invest in a country that taxes you higher than most people. Imagine also that the more you can make, the higher the tax rate while majority of others gets tax breaks and subsidies.
Also, if you are successful, you have to give up some equity, even majority in some cases. Who would invest?
For non-malays it is the same, when they choose to work and live in Malaysia, it is an investment both personal and financial. They get the bare necessary support and often thrown obstacles along the way.
They pay most of the taxes and their savings are abused. If they are successful especially very successful, they are expected to give it up, and not to the needy and deserving, but mostly to the wasteful, undeserving and arrogant.
It is a no brainer for towering non-malays. In fact it is a no brainer for all non-malays.
My sincere advice to these towering Malaysians is, to stay where you are and don't come back! Also think of your children's future and education, which this country cannot provide.
This country only wants thieves, non-skilled labourers and criminals from Indonesia, Bosnia and Bangladesh. The only qualification is that he is a Muslim.
My brother found a job in Australia two weeks after graduation. Got his PR a few weeks later. All individuals I have spoken to compliment and agree it is the right thing to do.
Not one has the slightest disagreement with my brother decision. The sentiment among my relatives and peers are obvious. There is no pride for non-malays in Malaysia and never will.
I got a few friends in UK, Swiss, to further PhD in biotech. They won't come back to Malaysia as Malaysia can't provide them the technology that they currently using, studying. Of course they feel unfair in the Malaysia system. That is it, Time to change……….
Recently I have talked to Malaysian friends about the issue of returning home. Not surprise me that they all have their Australia PR.
Please do not criticize us that we are not loyalty, we are grown up in national schools, we do not really have "well-funded education" as a Malaysian should be. The main concern for us is the secure feeling of staying in Malaysia.
Despite the public security, it is more about uncertainty we have percept since we are born. I do not expect my children future ruin in your hands.
I think all Malaysians should try hard to educate their children to be global citizens, i.e. give them an education that will enable them to survive anywhere even in India or China.
But if you are a connected crony your children will be able to prosper for the next two generations until or at least our energy reserves run out.
After that we hope they will be able to make the correct life choices. If they settle overseas it means we have less hotel bills to pay when we tour!
Malaysia may yet change for the better. The one minister got it right this time - "You can't fool all the people all the time".
Everyday I remind myself this: Study harder; make money. The grass is greener on the other side, not for myself but definitely for my children.
Migration is perfectly normal. But it is the circumstance of one decision to migrate is the issue.
Please all of you don't come back. Malaysia does not want intelligent people: they are difficult to control (i.e. LKS, Karpal Singh, etc).
I have so many friends and children of friends, who stay overseas that when I go there, I feel more at home than here! I feel free there!
I went to bed troubled at the huge loss of talents that could have helped Malaysia become another Japan. So many brilliant people are coming forward to narrate how they made good in other countries when Malaysia, the country they were born and bred in, failed to treat them fairly.
Everyone knows Japan story.
The Japanese phoenix worked because they built back their country as one people. They didn't have a Petronas rebuilding the country. They were a country starved of natural resources, but the biggest wealth and asset of post-war Japan was the people themselves. They recognised and made full use of the talents from the people for the country.
As long as the NEP and the affirmative policies are in place, more and more will emigrate and the loser is Malaysia.
The solution is simple. However, in this country everything boiled down to pampering one race which has proven again and again that it is not working after 50 years.
Our leaders are not bothered about all these messages and they will brand the emigrants as not patriot to avoid finding solution for the long benefit of the country.
To all, for time being, emigrate to other country to teach a lesson to BN the hard way.
Just put it very simply, our Malaysia country is not competitive enough that we no longer could afford to hire our talents in overseas back. The environment is just not conducive for further development.
For those who wish to sell short to come back, there must be a good reason. Why bother to come back if you know that you are not appreciated? Patriotism is not a good reason as it is illogical to say that one is not patriotic if one is working or living overseas.
The latest slogan I heard from Singapore is that one could venture overseas as far as he could, but the heart is always welcome to be with home, Singapore. Overseas Singaporeans did come back solely for their national day celebration. I think this is a more liberal way of thinking. The world is flat now.
Either way, one has to make his own decision to make a choice to be out or in. After all, our society has become very sick and corrupted such that white or black, wrong or right is indistinguishable. Idiotic loyalty is unwise. You just have to make your own way to seek a better future for your self and your family.
Affirmative policies which the government is adopting will do more harm than good to the proud "Bangsa Melayu". That is why after five decades of independence, their inferiority complex is still very much prevalent among them.
Further, how much progress have they made internationally? Virtually none or if there is, I dare say, is insignificant. Other races have made headlines in the international arena, including being top executives of major multinational corporations.
Some have even made it in Hollywood! If you are talking about our local guys, people like Zang Toi, a Chinese designer from Kelantan, and Dato Jimmy Choo, famous for his shoes, are worldwide brands.
If the NEP continues in its current form, the malay community may face the danger of sinking into oblivion in the sea of vast technological and economic changes which our world is constantly experiencing.
Forget this towering Malaysians bit. After 50 years there is no Malaysians but only Malays, Indians and Chinese. Forget patriotism - there is no such thing. All this talk about NEP is just a smokescreen, a mechanism for Umno leaders to enrich themselves, siblings and offspring - at the expense of working class Malays, Indians and Chinese.
The smart ones with special talents like "eco" would emigrate with or without the discrimination. It is the "pull" factor and not the push factor that decides where peoples like "eco" will make their home.
To us ordinary folks, with dreams of making something out of our lives, I say follow your instinct and look for that Promised Land.
We should be grateful to the government of Malaysia for starting the exodus. We are what we are today, like I always say, "Not in spite of the discriminatory policy but because of it."
Some of us prefer to be birds of fine weather. That is fine too.
Steadily and slowly, the middle class Malaysians are moving overseas, be it the US, UK, Singapore or Australia. Not because we are unpatriotic but because we do not want our next generation to endure the state-sponsored racial discrimination that we had to endured for so long.
It is the adults who teach hate and discrimination to the kids who in the end become the racists that they are. My best friends in primary school and secondary school are malays and Indians.
We don't realize that non-malays have lesser opportunities to go to tertiary education. When I see that my country is actually engaging in state-sponsored racial discrimination segregation laws later in my life, I am deeply disappointed that while we are taught moral values and all the values of Malaysia in school, that it is actually not being practised in our daily life.
When you have these "push" factors in place, when non-malays have the opportunities or when they are fed up with the policy of the country, they will leave the country and will never come back to contribute to the country.
As a lot of these politicians who wield keris and the other radicals want the non-malays to get off the land, they do not realized that as much as they think they do not need us, they actually do.
I second one opinion, my parents did not have a choice back then. I have a choice now, I am choosing to develop elsewhere. Not because I am unpatriotic, but I do not want my tax money to go into incompetent BN politicians pocket or any other maggots associated with them.
Now my tax money will go to a deserving country where I feel I am not being shortchanged. You will be surprised how many young non-malay Malaysians will end up building US, UK, Singapore, Canada and Australia. We owe this to our parents and to our next generations who never had the chance.
Rad, knock! knock!..... r u still here? ingatkan dah salah masuk blog. Rad, ko nye blog dah jadik tempat luahan perasaan ketidakpuasan hati kat gomen nampaknya. Was wondering what might have triggered the issues being brought up? something u wrote in ur post? or err...... *masih garu2 kepala sebab tak jumpa sebab musabab*
anyway, ada gak betulnya apa yg diluahkan. untuk difikirkan bersama...... what do u think rad?
Wish I had a year or two to live at that place to learn more on the their culture first hand.
HELP3x! MAYDAY2x!I couldn't login in properly-1st: forget my new pw - *hung my head in shame)
2nd: Your browser's cookie functionality is turned off. Please turn it on. HOW??????
I promise I'll reply all the comments plus more entry if I can simply login..*verythestupidrad*
Simah, Manal, dlt & ~gab~,
SORRY is all that I can say ...wasn't in the mood earlier & especially now too but has no one else to turn too so have to back to blogging to keep me hyped up again.
BTW,bukannya gambar carpet tu - ada ke? heheheh - Ceiling lor..but then how are you suppose to know kan? Since I'm too lazy to explain? Dah type tapi dlm kepala la...
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