The standard of living in Malaysia is high. For instance, a newly working graduate will not be able to buy his/her own house or even a car.
But the conversion of Malaysian Ringgit 353.67, it can be converted to 1,000,000 Indonesian Rupiah, which will make any Indonesian maid a millionaire by the time they finishes their working permit.
If their permit is for 2 years, if their salary is RM400 per month, they can get more than 24 million Indonesian Rupiah when they get back to their country, but we are still ordinary working folks even though we work hard in Malaysia, we can never get RM24 million after working for 2 years.
This will surely enable them to live a better life there after working for 2 years in Malaysia. No wonder many Indonesians would be illegal maid or working in construction sites so that they can send back money to Indonesia.
Therefore, why should the Indonesia government be so over as to ask for a minimum wage for their maid? Even some of the people here, need to work two jobs to supplement their lives due to the high standard of living in Malaysia. Those working in the hotel or service industries do not even have a minimum wage.
So, why should our government follow what other government wants when we can get a more educated, efficient and professional English speaking maid from Filipino? If they are still stubborn, we could get maids from other Asean countries or proposed that single mothers who do not have any job to be part time maids.
Moreover, the cases of Indonesian maid being abused, tortured to death by their non-Muslim employers is a case for concern too.
NOTA UNTUK PM DARI BLOGGERS PRO UMNO!
Saturday, July 24, 2010
Friday, July 23, 2010
Provocation by The Star
The Star can be considered the agent of provocation and be biased in some of their articles.
For example, they would promote and propogate about Teoh Beng Hock's death after being questioned by SPRM though it cannot be determined who murdered him or did he commit suicide.
However, they would highlight too the stories of leaders in UMNO if ever they are caught in any personal or professional scandal.
One example is the news on 23rd July 2010 with the title "Umno member under probe" where they go on and on about a so called prominent Umno member who was a Member of Parliament who is under the investigation for alleged money politics.
Now I remember Khairy Jamaluddin was involved in money politics as well, which resulted in him winning the Ketua Pemuda post. Why isn't he under Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) investigation?
MACC should not choose sides or just ignore some who has clearly been involved in money politics.
What about the illegal stealing of sands mining in Selangor? When are those involved will be investigated?
MACC should be more serious in doing their job. What about the investigation in Kelantan where a car plunged down from KB Mall? Is it still under investigation?
If MACC is not impartial, people will doubt the effectiveness of MACC. Investigate all involved in CBT and money politics. Also those who gave bribes to government servants.
For example, they would promote and propogate about Teoh Beng Hock's death after being questioned by SPRM though it cannot be determined who murdered him or did he commit suicide.
However, they would highlight too the stories of leaders in UMNO if ever they are caught in any personal or professional scandal.
One example is the news on 23rd July 2010 with the title "Umno member under probe" where they go on and on about a so called prominent Umno member who was a Member of Parliament who is under the investigation for alleged money politics.
Now I remember Khairy Jamaluddin was involved in money politics as well, which resulted in him winning the Ketua Pemuda post. Why isn't he under Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) investigation?
MACC should not choose sides or just ignore some who has clearly been involved in money politics.
What about the illegal stealing of sands mining in Selangor? When are those involved will be investigated?
MACC should be more serious in doing their job. What about the investigation in Kelantan where a car plunged down from KB Mall? Is it still under investigation?
If MACC is not impartial, people will doubt the effectiveness of MACC. Investigate all involved in CBT and money politics. Also those who gave bribes to government servants.
Malay unity is good for the Malay race in our country
Malay is synonym with Islam. Even though we cannot deny the fact that there are some who have converted to other religion.
Therefore, the unity of PAS and UMNO is crucial for the survival of the Malays here since we can witness the cruel treatment of the DAP government towards the Malay food stall owners in Penang.
They are racists and will just allow their own race to conquer the stall, but will demolish anything that is owned by the Malays.
To tell you the truth, that is just a little that we had seen. Imagine what will happen if DAP does rule the Federal level.
Come on! Let your imagination go wild! What will happen if DAP governs Malaysia? I am sure you have your own ideas of what will happen if they do govern our country.
Therefore, the unity of PAS and UMNO is crucial for the survival of the Malays here since we can witness the cruel treatment of the DAP government towards the Malay food stall owners in Penang.
They are racists and will just allow their own race to conquer the stall, but will demolish anything that is owned by the Malays.
To tell you the truth, that is just a little that we had seen. Imagine what will happen if DAP does rule the Federal level.
Come on! Let your imagination go wild! What will happen if DAP governs Malaysia? I am sure you have your own ideas of what will happen if they do govern our country.
Thursday, July 22, 2010
Go ahead with the teachings of Mathematics and Science in English
Don't abolish the teachings of Mathematics and Science in English! The majority of the ministers and the senators are well-versed in English.
Even KJ who opposes it can speak fluent English. So why deny the kampung folk the chance to improve themselves?
Why do they want to sabotage this good policy? Call a spade a spade.
The Bahasa Melayu fighter opposes this policy because they have their stake in writing the books in Malay. But they too are well-versed in English and studied overseas.
The other racist kiasu will love that move because the Bumiputera will be left behind further from their race.
Even KJ who opposes it can speak fluent English. So why deny the kampung folk the chance to improve themselves?
Why do they want to sabotage this good policy? Call a spade a spade.
The Bahasa Melayu fighter opposes this policy because they have their stake in writing the books in Malay. But they too are well-versed in English and studied overseas.
The other racist kiasu will love that move because the Bumiputera will be left behind further from their race.
Wednesday, July 21, 2010
Demystifying Europe: Tun Dr Mahathir and The West
Professor Dr Ahmad Murad Merican, a lecturer from Universiti Teknologi Petronas (UTP) started his introduction by quoting Goenawan Mohamad, the journalist, editor and founder of Indonesian opinion magazine, Tempo.
In the Conversations with difference: Essays from Tempo magazine (2002), Goenawan describes the West as
Under Demystifying the West: Selected Discourses, Professor also explained how Tun Dr Mahathir had always been cynical towards the United States that he always gave bold statements which no other leaders in the South East Asia had acted as bold as he in criticising the world power or voicing out their statements.
A quote on Bosnia-Herzegovina, Kosovo, and Chechnya in Enhancing the Understanding of Islam for the Media (2000) where in these countries the Muslims
Koo Boo Teik, a historian who had written "The paradoxes of Mahathirism" said that Tun is more towards making an example of the Eastern countries in competing with the Western countries.
For that reason, he had introduced the Look East Policy by making example of Japan, the best success story of Asia.
He also rejected the loan from IMF when Malaysia faces the economic crises of 1997 which wants the country to take up the loan with IMF and not many understand the drastic move.
Anwar Ibrahim had been too excited to take up the easy way out, which is to take up the IMF loan. That's now a surprise since he was the Chairman of the IMF.
He also introduced "Buy British Last" policy as a way to push the people out of the colonialisation of the British and to loosen the Western grip on the Asean economy.
Vision 2020 was introduced by Tun Dr Mahathir that stated 9 challenges that have to be overcome to make Malaysia a developed nation by year 2020 not by following others but in our own unique way.
In the speech delivered at the Meeting with Muslim Intellectuals and Businessman in Doha, Qatar on 11th November 2000 titled "Islam and Globalization", Tun Dr Mahathir said
We can also see many times, Tun Dr Mahathir citing from the Spaniard philospher and thinker George Santayana (1863-1952): "But those who do not learn from history will be tormented by repeating their mistakes."
Therefore, we must be more like Tun Dr Mahathir who learns about history and understand it so that we will not be doomed to repeat it again and once again allow ourselves to be enslaved by the colonizers who are looking for new ways to colonize us again.
In the Conversations with difference: Essays from Tempo magazine (2002), Goenawan describes the West as
People by those who once colonized us, with a power that placed us formerly at their feet, that humiliated us, and that now remains something in which we can see our own reflection. We scrutinize ourselves before this mirror: are we smaller than they, larger then they? (2002:p.27)
Under Demystifying the West: Selected Discourses, Professor also explained how Tun Dr Mahathir had always been cynical towards the United States that he always gave bold statements which no other leaders in the South East Asia had acted as bold as he in criticising the world power or voicing out their statements.
A quote on Bosnia-Herzegovina, Kosovo, and Chechnya in Enhancing the Understanding of Islam for the Media (2000) where in these countries the Muslims
are oppressed. The story needs to be told. The killings in Srebrenica needs to be told. The arrest, torture and killings need to be told. While terrorists of Muslim faith are called Muslim terrorists, no one talks of Muslims who have been oppressed, massacred, and expelled from their homelands as Muslim victims (p. 67)
Koo Boo Teik, a historian who had written "The paradoxes of Mahathirism" said that Tun is more towards making an example of the Eastern countries in competing with the Western countries.
For that reason, he had introduced the Look East Policy by making example of Japan, the best success story of Asia.
He also rejected the loan from IMF when Malaysia faces the economic crises of 1997 which wants the country to take up the loan with IMF and not many understand the drastic move.
Anwar Ibrahim had been too excited to take up the easy way out, which is to take up the IMF loan. That's now a surprise since he was the Chairman of the IMF.
He also introduced "Buy British Last" policy as a way to push the people out of the colonialisation of the British and to loosen the Western grip on the Asean economy.
Vision 2020 was introduced by Tun Dr Mahathir that stated 9 challenges that have to be overcome to make Malaysia a developed nation by year 2020 not by following others but in our own unique way.
In the speech delivered at the Meeting with Muslim Intellectuals and Businessman in Doha, Qatar on 11th November 2000 titled "Islam and Globalization", Tun Dr Mahathir said
We, along with other Islamic countries, have missed and are not part of the industrial Revolution and the Industrial Age. We lag behind in the acquisition of knowledge, which is a catalyst in the industrialization process. The question is whether we would also miss the information Technology Age, which will radically change human lives, including us Malays in Malaysia. (Ibid.,17)
We can also see many times, Tun Dr Mahathir citing from the Spaniard philospher and thinker George Santayana (1863-1952): "But those who do not learn from history will be tormented by repeating their mistakes."
Therefore, we must be more like Tun Dr Mahathir who learns about history and understand it so that we will not be doomed to repeat it again and once again allow ourselves to be enslaved by the colonizers who are looking for new ways to colonize us again.
Tuesday, July 20, 2010
Fellowship Seminar: Mahathir and The West
Perdana Leadership Foundation held a thought provoking Fellowship Seminar on "Mahathir and The West" today at Perdana Leadership Foundation.
The panelists for the event were Dr. Ahmad Murad Merican, a professor at the Department of Management and Humanities, Universiti Teknologi Petronas, in Perak and Dr Ong Kian Ming who had recently graduated with a PhD in political science from Duke University.
The gists of what Dr Ong Kian Ming, a frequent contributor to Malaysiakini was quite short. He questioned why Tun Dr Mahathir never wrote about the slavery in the United States maybe because the indigenous people of Malaysia had never been slaves themselves.
Dr. Ahmad Murad explained his paper on "Demystifying Europe: Tun Dr. Mahathir Mohamad and The West" into 4 parts which are the background, Dr Mahathir as the writer of the West, Selected Discourses of Tun Dr Mahathir and Conclusion.
However, the most inappropriate thing that happened at the seminar was that some individuals fall deeply into sleep that he snored out loudly, to the gasps and surprised look of others that were in this seminar.
I had said this before and I will say it again, if you want to come and waste your time sleeping, you better stay at home and sleep there because there are some of us that attended the seminar who are really interested to hear what the panelists have to say and are utterly annoyed by your loud snore.
We don't want to see or listen to you sleeping and snoring away in the seminar. Aren't you ashamed at all for your disrespectful behaviour towards the speakers?
I will write about what was said by Dr. Ahmad Murad Merican in the next article.
The panelists for the event were Dr. Ahmad Murad Merican, a professor at the Department of Management and Humanities, Universiti Teknologi Petronas, in Perak and Dr Ong Kian Ming who had recently graduated with a PhD in political science from Duke University.
The gists of what Dr Ong Kian Ming, a frequent contributor to Malaysiakini was quite short. He questioned why Tun Dr Mahathir never wrote about the slavery in the United States maybe because the indigenous people of Malaysia had never been slaves themselves.
Dr. Ahmad Murad explained his paper on "Demystifying Europe: Tun Dr. Mahathir Mohamad and The West" into 4 parts which are the background, Dr Mahathir as the writer of the West, Selected Discourses of Tun Dr Mahathir and Conclusion.
However, the most inappropriate thing that happened at the seminar was that some individuals fall deeply into sleep that he snored out loudly, to the gasps and surprised look of others that were in this seminar.
I had said this before and I will say it again, if you want to come and waste your time sleeping, you better stay at home and sleep there because there are some of us that attended the seminar who are really interested to hear what the panelists have to say and are utterly annoyed by your loud snore.
We don't want to see or listen to you sleeping and snoring away in the seminar. Aren't you ashamed at all for your disrespectful behaviour towards the speakers?
I will write about what was said by Dr. Ahmad Murad Merican in the next article.
Monday, July 19, 2010
If you do drug trafficking, be prepared to be hanged
Don't do the crime if you don't want to do the time.
I am so fed up with the sob stories and pathetic excuses made by criminals to get away from the sentences imposed on them for the crimes that they had indulged in.
The latest is the promotion in The Star about a petition to free Yong Vui Kong, convicted of drug trafficking from being hanged in Singapore.
Nowadays, the trends is that the criminals want to get easy money by robbing people or becoming drug mules. As if there are no other work that can give them salary from doing honest and hardworking work.
They just want easy money by robbing others who worked hard to get their salary by doing honest job instead of becoming crooks like them.
The ones that are stupid enough to be drug mules are of the same kind. They want to do easy job to get high income. After getting caught they will come up with sob stories and pathetic excuses so that our government will help bail them out from the countries that they are in.
The government should not be so stupid and help those who are greedy and stupid too. The newspaper had divulged about Malaysians being conned into becoming drug mules over and over again. Surely, we must make an example of that and don't be the next victim.
For those unemployed graduates, you are too choosy. You think that you are so great that you don't want to get your hands dirty by doing menial or low income jobs to gain some working experience first.
You give pathetic excuses such as there are no jobs. But I could see job vacancy signs everywhere from shop assistants in various shopping malls, small stalls, in fast food restaurants and many more.
If you are not willing to do the hard work for starters, how will you fare when you are in a more stable position work? If you work at a higher level straight away, you will not have the experience and understand the problems faced by workers at the lower level.
In conclusion, you do drug trafficking, be prepared to be hanged to death. If you are not, don't do the crime. Criminals nowadays will kill the victim to get what they want. So be prepared to defend yourself in whatever way possible.
I am so fed up with the sob stories and pathetic excuses made by criminals to get away from the sentences imposed on them for the crimes that they had indulged in.
The latest is the promotion in The Star about a petition to free Yong Vui Kong, convicted of drug trafficking from being hanged in Singapore.
Nowadays, the trends is that the criminals want to get easy money by robbing people or becoming drug mules. As if there are no other work that can give them salary from doing honest and hardworking work.
They just want easy money by robbing others who worked hard to get their salary by doing honest job instead of becoming crooks like them.
The ones that are stupid enough to be drug mules are of the same kind. They want to do easy job to get high income. After getting caught they will come up with sob stories and pathetic excuses so that our government will help bail them out from the countries that they are in.
The government should not be so stupid and help those who are greedy and stupid too. The newspaper had divulged about Malaysians being conned into becoming drug mules over and over again. Surely, we must make an example of that and don't be the next victim.
For those unemployed graduates, you are too choosy. You think that you are so great that you don't want to get your hands dirty by doing menial or low income jobs to gain some working experience first.
You give pathetic excuses such as there are no jobs. But I could see job vacancy signs everywhere from shop assistants in various shopping malls, small stalls, in fast food restaurants and many more.
If you are not willing to do the hard work for starters, how will you fare when you are in a more stable position work? If you work at a higher level straight away, you will not have the experience and understand the problems faced by workers at the lower level.
In conclusion, you do drug trafficking, be prepared to be hanged to death. If you are not, don't do the crime. Criminals nowadays will kill the victim to get what they want. So be prepared to defend yourself in whatever way possible.
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