Agree with Zewt, Malaysia is in fact disgraceful.

I haven't blogged much lately, I know, my apologies for that.

Today MT carried out Zewt's post titled Our country a disgrace? I agree with Zewt, Malaysia is indeed disgraceful.

I came to Australia in 2003 when I was 18. Its been 7 years and in this period I received my permanent residency, did my share of taxes, absorbed a bit of Australian culture, and imparted with some Malaysian culture. That all in a nutshell.

I like the fact that, when passengers get onto the bus here, they greet the driver with "Good day, mate" or other similar phrases.

I like the fact that, when they get down, they thank the driver.

I like the fact that, seats are reserved for the elderly, disabled and the expectant moms in public transports.

I like the fact that, people hold the doors for you if you are coming behind them, even if its public toilet doors!

I like the fact that, people actually queue here!

I like the fact that, students in schools here are taught to become all-rounders, and not syllabic-focused like we have in Malaysia.

I like the fact that, students are taught in English with optional language subjects such as Vietnamese, Hindi, Italian, Spanish etc etc, which probably makes them more multi-cultural than Malaysians.

I like the fact that, if you're looking for a product and the shop has actually ran out of it, the shopkeeper redirects you to another place where you might get it, even though it could be his direct competitor; unlike the usual rude "No stock!!" you get in Malaysia.

I like the fact that, you can take a snipe at the Prime Minister on national TV. (By the way, its a series which runs every week!)


Now coming back to Malaysia and why I think its disgraceful:

We take pride in tall buildings and white-elephant megastructures, but none of them are built by us. And no, you can't stare at KLCC for more than 5 minute straight.

We take pride in paying a space tourist who made roti canai in outer space, and when he returned we gave him a Datukship and even bought the space capsule from the Russians for millions (which probably worth RM50 at the local scrap-dealer's).

We take pride in designing logos with three distinct colours, as to represent 3 races. Yea, everything is pretty much race-based eh?

We hardly blink our eyes when our politicians are involved in multi-billion scandals, but we refuse to pay for teh tarik which has gone up by 10 cents.

We take pride at our children attending tuition classes. Why should our children attend tuitions when our tax money is not used for rectifying our education system?

We take pride when religion is brought into our education systems. Secular education and religion shouldn't mix you idiots. Stop reciting verses in school assemblies and remove those "shrines" from our schools.

We take pride when our students have the "option" to learn languages other than Malay. But most of us do not know that to learn other languages there must be a minimum of 15 students and its the parents' responsibility to find the teacher, not the school. So much for the right to learn languages.

We take pride when people die in police cells for no apparent reason. Well one reason anyway; chest fluids. And oh we also take pride and believe when the cops tell give us grandmother stories as to how they died.

We take pride at our ability to copy everything from Proton designs, our national language to our culture. Tell me, which Malaysian culture is actually ours? Yea the Indonesians copied from the Indians and Chinese, but at least they acknowledge it. Look at what they did to Borobudur and look at what we did to Bujang Valley. One is a UNESCO heritage site while the other has been closed permanently for "work-in-progress".

We take pride when the government spends millions for air-conditioning cops' tents during by-elections, but the government can't pay RM 2000 for Penan's rape cases.

We take pride when we call our citizens as immigrants/pendatangs but treat the Indonesians working in Malaysia as first-class citizens.

We take pride at our cops when they can arrest candle-holding people, but are "helpless" when it comes to Mat Rempits and criminals.

We take pride at our PM, who is involved in a freakin murder case. Bravo Malaysians, for not only setting the trend, but now every murderer can aspire to become a PM.

We take pride at one of our citizens who is part of the mastermind behind the bombings in Indonesia. And we wonder why Indonesia wants to go to war with us?

And the list goes on..

You see the problem is, what's the point of having super-highways and skyscrapers and megastructures if everything else is fucked up?? We have nothing!!

I didn't move here because I want to earn more or what, I simply didn't want my kids to grow up the way I grew up.

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