If you were Prime Minister of Malaysia...

[misled_youth]

Let's pretend for a second that even non-muslims can become PM of Malaysia (just for sake of discussion)...

What will be the first three courses of action you would take for the benefit of the country?




misled_youth says:

1. Legalise marijuana
2. Legalise porn
3. Lift taxes on alcohol

Ok, your turn! Dare to dream!
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[littlebigone]

I don't have a plan yet...but I think Ali G's actions in Ali G in Da House would be a good start. Especially the fit women immigrants part.

[widagdo]

I would slap myself first. I must have been dreaming.

[budakkerek]

i'll allocate more money on education, and hv better public facilities esp for tranportation.
:wink:

[gal_flower]

i'll be thinking to myself: "hell! how did i get myself into tis position!"

[CyberJaya]

I'll make myself education minister and improve all the public universities to make them rival the ones in the west.

[topdog]

i'd check myself into rehab...coz i must be on drugs

[littlebigone]

i'd check myself into rehab...coz i must be on drugs

topdog thinking aloud,"Oh wait, I am!!!"

[deaf-knee]

FIRST (and MOST important): Take away THE MOST idiotic chapter in all of the History syllabus of Malaysia. -> Chapter 6 of Form 4. I mean, YES I understand why we should learn all about Khulafa al-Rasyidin. but NO I don't get WHY we have to LEARN and MEMORIZE all the other CRAP about the BANIs. IMHO they're SO not related to Malaysia and SO ...pathetic.

Anyway. Apart from that. (I believe only those who have gone through the distress and depression History of Islam has caused would understand me.)

Secondly, I would make Malaysia CooLer. (Though I have no idea how that is possible.)

Thirdly. Come on lah, take away politics man. Please Please Please be fair in giving out scholarships. I know Malays and Pribumis have Hak Keistimewaan in Pendidikan and all...but STILL......*dies*

heh. anyway yeah that's all I'm going to ramble on incessantly about today.

[topdog]

two things that demand instant attention, for the sake of the nation:

1. CORRUPTION
2. MERITOCRACY

[sanghanuman]

True. 1. Corruption
and then,
2. Fix the shitty government customer service.

[gohweihan]

What I'll do might be provocative, which are:

Establish a true meritocracy system for education
Abolish racial quotas in the country
Abolish Bumiputera rights
Abolish the ISA
Heavier punishment for corruption
Revive true freedom of speech
Bring back power to the people
Revive English as the medium of administration and education

[__earth]

What I'll do might be provocative, which are:

Establish a true meritocracy system for education
Abolish racial quotas in the country
Abolish Bumiputera rights
Abolish the ISA
Heavier punishment for corruption
Revive true freedom of speech
Bring back power to the people
Revive English as the medium of administration and education

how about vernacular system?

and you are supposed to have only 3. =)

[chenchow]

Yeah, I think if we want to really establish a balanced and equitable society, from quota stand point, all races need to give and take. Currently, by quota system, we have ministers and other leaders of various races. If by removing the quota system, would we be able to strike that balance? I doubt.

And _earth raises a good point, on vernacular schools. If we want to have a fair system, everyone needs to let go of something and I think that it is something that everyone should give serious thoughts about. We tend to see from the view points of what we could get from others' giving up, but do we look at what we could give up?

[misled_youth]

It's good that you guys are aware of the system's present shortcommings. Keep it up. Tell you friends/family/future bosses what's wrong with the system. Tell them what can be done.

Tell them what kind of power they hold with the ballot paper.

On a serious note, misled_youth's main concern as PM:

1. Environment (Fucking government is going to rape Bkt Larut and Tioman)
2. Economy
3. People (human rights, meritocracy, racial integration etc...)
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[budakkerek]

i'd revamp the whole edu system and keep to it like that, with only minor improvements done to it (to keep up w the world etc)..like, right now, whenever we hv a new minister of Edu, the policies etc change..And it kinda irks me, coz we dont hv a consistent system, one that we all know how it workds. Grr...why cant we hv one system, that works fine and dont need to bechanged so much...heh.. :roll:

[topdog]

Grr...why cant we hv one system, that works fine and dont need to bechanged so much...heh.. :roll:
because the education ministry has been politicized beyond recognition. all the umno bigwigs, past and present, has been education minister at one time or another. it has come to be seen as a stepping stone to prime minister-ship. (the one exception was musa mohamed.) therefore, the politician occupying the education minister's post at that time will only be too eager to stamp his name on policies that may make him appear visionary and dynamic (malaysia boleh!), often with disregard to proper planning, preparation and implementation.

[misled_youth]

Grr...why cant we hv one system, that works fine and dont need to bechanged so much...heh.. :roll:

Coz we find creativity, ingenuity, and invention through diversity of opinion and positive conflict.

Evolution of human thought!
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[budakkerek]

ya laa..but then, changing stimes like 360 degrees of the whole system is like too much...cause much prob heh..

[zAiTsEv]

1. downsize the civil service.
2. develop the agricultural sector 2 produce ample food 4 the
ppl without having 2 rely on imported goods.
3. fight corruption.

What I'll do might be provocative, which are:

Establish a true meritocracy system for education
Abolish racial quotas in the country
Abolish Bumiputera rights
Abolish the ISA
Heavier punishment for corruption
Revive true freedom of speech
Bring back power to the people
Revive English as the medium of administration and education

b prepared 2 wear bulletproof armor & helmet all the time if u were 2 carry out these.

And _earth raises a good point, on vernacular schools. If we want to have a fair system, everyone needs to let go of something and I think that it is something that everyone should give serious thoughts about. We tend to see from the view points of what we could get from others' giving up, but do we look at what we could give up?

do u mean vernacular schools should b closed down? u're sure 2 lose most of the support of chinese voters 4 doing so.

check this out!
http://www.nanyang.com/index.php?ch=8&pg=21&ac=369412 (in chinese)

[__earth]

do u mean vernacular schools should b closed down? u're sure 2 lose most of the support of chinese voters 4 doing so.

check this out!
http://www.nanyang.com/index.php?ch=8&pg=21&ac=369412 (in chinese)

Of course. Most ppl here are well aware of that. malaysian is a conservative society. But that still doesn't mean vernacular system is right. the same things go with bumiputra rights.

IMO, when we are trying to repair something in the society, we need to start with a general premise rather than go directly to specific case. Doing the latter instead of the former would cause inconsistency in policymaking.

My general premise concerning this issue is equality. And bumiputra rights/vernacular violates this premise.

[gal_flower]

maybe i shud push the job to someone else, eh?

well, since i am the PM (for discussion sake), i might as well make equality among sexes more prominent...agree, ladies?! like job opportunities...even my cabinet ministers (don u realize how many females r there compared to males on the cabinet ministries? i mean, females r equally, if not more, competent wif males. look whose our director of bank negara? dr. zeti azhar--a female!

[misled_youth]

Speaking of which, If I'm PM, I would amend Constituition to recognise HOMOSEXUALS as a-okay!
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I will fix the big problem faced in education sector esp. issue regarding higher education and scholarship....

[amshah]

What I'll do might be provocative, which are:

Establish a true meritocracy system for education
Abolish racial quotas in the country
Abolish Bumiputera rights
Abolish the ISA
Heavier punishment for corruption
Revive true freedom of speech
Bring back power to the people
Revive English as the medium of administration and education

abolish bumiputera rights???
then who do you think owns this piece of land in the 1st place??

[dqbonafide]

I will be shot by a Jemaah Islamiah member because I am a chinese hahah

[dqbonafide]

i dont mean to db post....but the abolishment of the bumiputras rights its inevitable in the future but the time is still not right...there's no use whining now as non bumi's we just play our part in helping the nation by working hard in improving ourselves as for the bumi's i know i have no right speaking for them...but as bumi's they too must work hard for the same course because we live in the same country. If the attitude like WHO OWNS THIS LAND IN THE FIRST PLACE is spread....man.... we can say goodbye to Malaysia....these things is sensitive it can bring a major havoc to Malaysia...as the racial integration although reported is great...but for me it looks like its getting worse...so topics this is sensitive lol.

[johnleemk]

What I'll do might be provocative, which are:

Establish a true meritocracy system for education
Abolish racial quotas in the country
Abolish Bumiputera rights
Abolish the ISA
Heavier punishment for corruption
Revive true freedom of speech
Bring back power to the people
Revive English as the medium of administration and education

abolish bumiputera rights???
then who do you think owns this piece of land in the 1st place??
Uh...Malaysians? :roll:

Anyway, I've written on this topic before (http://www.asiafinest.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=52588&view=findpost&p=1282699) (in a Bumiputra-dominated forum). If I really had to narrow it down to three, though:

1. Clean up the terrible public sector and enforce quality-based standards. No more kaki bodeks. Everyone should be able to pull their own weight. Wages will be raised in proportion to competency and effectiveness increases. Anyone who tries to wiggle out of the way by begging for a transfer when he/she is clearly incompetent will be sacked, no questions asked.
2. Reform the education system. There's no point in talking about eradicating quotas for university admissions when even the most fundamentals - primary and secondary school - are lacking. More funds will be diverted to educational programmes, beefing up training, and raising teachers' wages. Clerical workers will be assigned to deal with all the paper pushing teachers have to do. And of course, the curriculum has to be rewritten from top to bottom, especially in secondary school.
3. This is where I am undecided. Tackling corruption and meritocracy are imperative, but I feel priority #1 should be able to cut down on this quite a bit. I would totally alter our current policies when it comes to race. While Article 153 will be shredded down to maybe one or two clauses (presuming a 2/3rds Parliamentary majority is available), a new economic programme will be introduced, focused more on vocational programmes and entrepreneurial loans for the poor (those below a certain cutoff point in terms of wages). As this will presumably contain a large number of Bumiputra and Indians, while eliminating privileges for tycoons cruising around in their Mercs, something equitable should be easier to achieve without as much grumbling as we have now.

[kakumei]

i dont mean to db post....but the abolishment of the bumiputras rights its inevitable in the future but the time is still not right...there's no use whining now as non bumi's we just play our part in helping the nation by working hard in improving ourselves as for the bumi's i know i have no right speaking for them...but as bumi's they too must work hard for the same course because we live in the same country. If the attitude like WHO OWNS THIS LAND IN THE FIRST PLACE is spread....man.... we can say goodbye to Malaysia....these things is sensitive it can bring a major havoc to Malaysia...as the racial integration although reported is great...but for me it looks like its getting worse...so topics this is sensitive lol.


The politicians are always shying away from these "racist" comments. Everytime when they question the bumiputras rights, the majority and UMNO will make a ruckus out of it, even if they are good-will suggestions.

I don't know whether the leaders are regularly reviewing this matter confidentially, or just ignoring the fact that bumiputra rights should be amendmended. Abolishing it will make the country going hoo-hah. The Sultans will sure voice up (that is their duty to protect the bumiputra rights). He'll just ask the politicians to 'beware' of what they say. So, let say ammending it...but...


Both non-bumiputras and bumiputras are greedy. They just want to be treated EQUALLY.
1. non-bumiputras wants quotas to be abolished (so that only competent ones are not left out, no means of bias here)
2. most bumiputras wants the quotas. (WHO OWNS THIS LAND IN THE FIRST PLACE argument)


If I'm the PM, in my first 5years of service (before being kicked out of the office) is...

1. Sack all the corrupted politicians and officers.
2. Sack the incompetent kaki-bodeks
3. Improve stock exchange market in Malaysia (potential investors are running away) ~ you know the cause of the fall... :?
4. Replace the Education minister with a capable one. Make it independant of political influence, (NGO) ~ is this a good idea?
5. After killing off most of the corrupted officers, do something about the environment.
6. Ban smoking.
7. Prevent brain-drain ~ u know how to prevent it...

[Thirdshifter]

1. Eliminate the term Non_Malay,non Bumi bullshit. Everyone who were born in Malaysia are Malays. So Chinese or Indian Your a malay too. I'll redifine the meaning of Malay. Everyone now will enjoy the special right except those who are not born in Malaysia.

2. De-UMNO-zation. No More Political party based on race will be allowed.

3. No more than 2 - 5 year term of being the Prime minister.

yea, labelling is bad for everyone!!

[johnleemk]

1. Eliminate the term Non_Malay,non Bumi bullshit. Everyone who were born in Malaysia are Malays. So Chinese or Indian Your a malay too. I'll redifine the meaning of Malay. Everyone now will enjoy the special right except those who are not born in Malaysia.
I don't like this. It's not economically viable to have, say, 1% of the population subsidising the other 99%. I think instead the rights should be slowly reduced and eventually abolished.

[Thirdshifter]

1. Eliminate the term Non_Malay,non Bumi bullshit. Everyone who were born in Malaysia are Malays. So Chinese or Indian Your a malay too. I'll redifine the meaning of Malay. Everyone now will enjoy the special right except those who are not born in Malaysia.
I don't like this. It's not economically viable to have, say, 1% of the population subsidising the other 99%. I think instead the rights should be slowly reduced and eventually abolished.

who would be the 1%? if everone get a special right it means its not that special anymore hence.. its pretty much useless.

[stevemc90]

power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

abolish bumiputera rights???
then who do you think owns this piece of land in the 1st place??
I don't know... Orang Asli? :lol:


Revive English as the medium of administration and education
Just like going back to the future. You would say that I'm talking craps like "people shouldn't idealize the West" thing, but Malaysia is Malaysia. Malaysia is not England. Malaysia is not Australia and Malaysia once again is not the States. There're Chinese in Malaysia, there're Malays in Malaysia, there're Indians in Malaysia. There are Bisayas in Malaysia. There are Ibans in Malaysia. There are Dayaks in Malaysia. There are Dusuns in Malaysia. There are Baba-Nyonyas in Malaysia. There are Kadazans in Malaysia. There are Muruts in Malaysia. There are Kedayans in Malaysia. There are... many more that neither I nor you know. Why must Malaysian use "English", a foreign language that it is, as the medium of communication at their home? Just because English is right now recognized as the international language that Malaysian should privilege English, putting it at the fore, spiting at our own languages? No doubt that English nowaday is a need but putting forward English up to this extent...
One word; Identity. Why didn't Tun Razak just copy the whole British Education System when he made the "Penyata Tun Razak"? A copy and paste would be so much easier since British Education was a good reference after all. France for exemple is still trying to help some of her ex-colonies in Africa to set up their education system, but as long as the African countries don't find their own model, adaptable to their culture, it would be just a waste. Tun Abdul Razak did a god damned good job for his time. Even though Malaysian nowadays keep critisizing our education system, nobody said that what Tun Razak did 30years ago was perfect. Turning back to our steps to implore the Almighty English system is just not coherant. Malaysia is still young, Malaysian Education is younger. Give her a break. Changing to English as the medium for education wouldn't solve a thing.
English because only then it would be fair for each ethnical group? Nothing is stopping us from having several national languages. In Switzerland you may find four (french, italian, german, "romanche"). In Spain, you may go from a region to another and find signboards in different languages (castellano, basque, catalan, galicien...). You may either see Malay as the national language as a privilege for Malays. You may also see it as a handicap for them, culturally.
When you learn a language, you are actually trying to possess a soul, the soul of our world heritage, the soul that have been wandering since the 1st creature exist on earth, since millions of years and it keeps evolving... It has gone through millions of tongues from different era, and survived each time... Am I the only one being "hyped" about this? In any case, as a human being, we just have to be responsible for our roots. Who is going to speak and teach our languages if it weren't us? Do you know how many languages die each year? Do you know that Chinese is not a language but are languages, and several or them are dying too?
Malay languaqe as the national language was just a choice. Eventhough I am not a Malay, I am defending Malay against English. And I am defending all other languages that we still have, and that I hope we will still have them for a long long time. So, I think that the 1st thing that I would do as a PM (even in a dream), would be calling upon a part of our national budget on the conservation of all these languages. I would assemble ethnologists and linguists, and try to promote native languages courses in universities, in terms to be teached as widely as possible in schools. (if only...)

[lyzzy]

1. Eliminate the term Non_Malay,non Bumi bullshit. Everyone who were born in Malaysia are Malays. So Chinese or Indian Your a malay too. I'll redifine the meaning of Malay. Everyone now will enjoy the special right except those who are not born in Malaysia..

Er, thanks but no thanks. I like being a Chinese Malaysian, thank you. I hope you are not suggesting that we get rid of our culture.

I think that Guest's post is interesting - he or she makes interesting points, but I think that English is also part of Malaysia's languages as is Malay and Chinese and Tamil. It is not so important as what we make it out to be, but the British did colonize Malaysia for a long time, and their education system was in English. I'm not idolizing the British or anything, but I have to remember that my parents were taught in English, and so were many of the older generation who were taught in missionary or convent schools. English was part of their lives as much as Chinese was. We don't have to model ourselves after anyone, but we can't deny our past either.
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[ToietMoi]

I think that Guest's post is interesting - he or she makes interesting points, but I think that English is also part of Malaysia's languages as is Malay and Chinese and Tamil. It is not so important as what we make it out to be, but the British did colonize Malaysia for a long time, and their education system was in English. I'm not idolizing the British or anything, but I have to remember that my parents were taught in English, and so were many of the older generation who were taught in missionary or convent schools. English was part of their lives as much as Chinese was. We don't have to model ourselves after anyone, but we can't deny our past either.

I posted it. I didn't realize that I didn't login at that time.
I am not suggesting us to deny our past. Where I come from, Malay as the administration language was implemented later than the rest of Malaysia. Even my father don't know a single word of Malay until he got married. We were still using English almost fully back then., at least in administration. Still, I can't consider English as part of "my" languages, or Malaysian languages. Simply because there are no "real" native speaker of English in Malaysia in my opinion. I know some kids speak to their parents in English all the time, but their parents aren't really native speaker of English. For exemple I know an Indian lady who speaks in English with her mother all the time, she doesn't speak Hindi/Tamil at all but her mother does. Thus, I do not consider her as a "real" native speaker of English. I would rather consider English as a footprint that British left us, and at the same time it is an "International" language but not really "Malaysian" language in a proper sense. Well, it's just a matter of different perception.

[Thirdshifter]

1. Eliminate the term Non_Malay,non Bumi bullshit. Everyone who were born in Malaysia are Malays. So Chinese or Indian Your a malay too. I'll redifine the meaning of Malay. Everyone now will enjoy the special right except those who are not born in Malaysia..

Er, thanks but no thanks. I like being a Chinese Malaysian, thank you. I hope you are not suggesting that we get rid of our culture

Well culture is subjective.. Like the American culture. We will have the Malaysian culture.

I think it is Culture that divides us and our inability to accept other culture that makes it hard for a total intergration. This is ofcourse applies to all of us. Look at france. The French Muslims, there are not intergrating because they don;t adapt and expect everyone else to adapt to their culture.

[Zeroth]

abolish bumiputera rights???
then who do you think owns this piece of land in the 1st place??

The aboriginals, i.e, the people that were here before Parameswara came from Indon.

[Thirdshifter]

abolish bumiputera rights???
then who do you think owns this piece of land in the 1st place??

The aboriginals, i.e, the people that were here before Parameswara came from Indon.

The land is owned by the Goverment of Malaysia. The goverment of Malaysia is Malay.

[Zeroth]

The land is owned by the Goverment of Malaysia. The goverment of Malaysia is Malay.

Technically, the government of malaysia is owned by you and me. Which is the chinese, malays, indians and every other citizens of the country.

Not ONE race own this country.

But, that's the theory. I guess the real world is never according to theory.

[johnleemk]

Gee, judging from remarks I've seen Tunku and Pak Lah make, I would guess it's Malaysians who own Malaysia. But then again... :roll:

[youngyew]

abolish bumiputera rights???
then who do you think owns this piece of land in the 1st place??
Eerrr... Dinosaurs? The insects? :P

Oops, you meant who, not what... Probably the Paleolithic people, Mesolithic people, Neolitihic people etc. Oh ya, they are all dead. The aborigines who live in jungle now, the best candidate?

I remember reading something in "the little prince". There was a king who was always busy counting the stars in the sky, carefully keeping count of millions of stars. He claimed that he's the king of the universe (or owner of the stars, or something like that) because he's the first one who discovered them and kept a list of them.

I would like to invite everyone to look at just how much the king accomplishes by counting his rights to the stars. And then think about Malaysia.

[lyzzy]

It's sad that racism still exists..... look at this thread...
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[__earth]

I'll make trees as citizens of Malaysia and make them bumiputras.

[da-hype]

misled_youth says:

1. Legalise marijuana
2. Legalise porn
3. Lift taxes on alcohol



thank god you're not PM.

[Thirdshifter]

It's sad that racism still exists..... look at this thread...

Yeah, a fucking surprise ain't it? Anyways i can't wait to be the Malay UMNO wants me to be!

[endymion_serene]

I were and no longer, who cares.. haha. pity seeing u people LOVE to argue about, i mean, anything. hahaha

[youngyew]

I were and no longer, who cares.. haha. pity seeing u people LOVE to argue about, i mean, anything. hahaha
Please be clear about how a discussion of "If I were the PM" is a pity. :wink: Seriously, I hate flaming.

[Rinke]

This thread has a lot of potential? but somehow, this thread has been?wasted?.

Well?.what can I say??I think Recomers should be more creative?. I think people can write quite a lot of creative suggestions here.

Rather than giving a list of just three things, why not create an exhaustive list, or better create a narrative...... You know... make up a story... a tale... to amuse ourselves and to amuse others who read our story......

Anyway, I will think more about this topic and I will come back with a long list of what I will do if I am the prime minister of Malaysia.

Watch this space !

[vseehua]

i will be watching all right...

the first thing i would do is to resign... i just want to have a peaceful life...

[Rinke]

Good, let me begin now?. This part one of many parts (I don?t know how many, but this will surely add my contributions to this forum?..)

There are so many that things I would like to do. So what I will do now is to post parts of my long list. My list of reforms covers matters concerning economics, social issues, public security and national defence. So basically I will:
1. Reform the Malaysian economy
2. Reform some aspects of Malaysia's social structure (in particular to uplift the lot of women)
3. Reform Malaysia's public security (police) and national defence (military)

So that's the three list... Simple yes... but each item is broad and in need of explanation.....

But first??..

Preambles: Strengthen the Prime Minister Department
Before doing anything else, I will first strengthen my position as the Prime Minister of Malaysia. I will create a special task force consisting of senior members of the civil service, judiciary, police and military. I have to do this because my reforms may create social upheavals. I don?t mind if the public don?t like my policies, yes? the police will keep the population in line?. but the last thing I want to experience is to have Members of Parliament from my own party (or coalition) rebelling against me when the going gets tough. (Learn that from Margaret Thatcher?s downfall).

I also don?t like to play politics and sacrifice my ideals to fat cat politicians and party faction leaders. So, I will instruct the special task force to draft a series of legislations allowing me to rule by decree and proclamations. These decrees and proclamations will be categorised as Perintah Perdana Menteri (PPM). Now, I expect the parliament to easily pass these legislations. After all, I am the prime minister.

Also, to increase my power, I would merge Ministry of Defence (MoD), Ministry of Internal Security and Home Affairs (KDN) into the Prime Minister?s Dept.

With these powers, I will introduce drastic reforms.

To be continued: Economic and Social ( esp gender )reforms

[misled_youth]

Yeah, a f*** surprise ain't it? Anyways i can't wait to be the Malay UMNO wants me to be!
The Holy Roman Empire, Great Islamic Empire and Ghengis Khan's empire all crumbled under their own weight.

Umno needs to be saved, but not from within.

[PJKru]

Yeah, a f*** surprise ain't it? Anyways i can't wait to be the Malay UMNO wants me to be!
The Holy Roman Empire, Great Islamic Empire and Ghengis Khan's empire all crumbled under their own weight.

Umno needs to be saved, but not from within.
why does umno need to be saved?

[Rinke]

He he he? So what do readers think of my first instalment? I think I can write a novel here??You see?I am seriously thinking of a career as a writer? I cannot imagine myself in finance company or bank shuffling papers?? By the way?. does any anybody here watch Commander in Chief (Geena Davis) ?

All right? lets continue with my story?.


So the story continues: In the first instalment I say that I will explain what I will do with regards to economics and social (esp gender) issues. Now, I find these two issues require lengthy discussions, so in this post and the following posts, I will focus on economic issues.

But before I do that there is this lingering question. Must I change Malaysia totally to suit what I think an ideal country should be? Or should I reform certain aspects of the country and its society and preserve the rest?


Destroy the Old and Build Anew?

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?Demolish !??.. that is the meaning of the character ?chai? above. Indeed many of the so called Malaysian cyber-identities want to demolish the very fabric of the Malaysian nation. [This statement is made from my unscientific observations in internet forums and discussions].

To demolish or to preserve? This is certainly a tough question. I think I will let readers to decide??Perhaps some readers may find that I am too willing to destroy the present and build anew?. But yet?some others may find that I do not endorse too much change. What ever it is? that is for the readers to decide.

Oh yes? also?.this posting is to notify readers that my tale may sound radical to some?..It may sound overly offensive to some too. But I dearly hope people will not be too offended or hurt by my postings. I prefer to see my postings as a social critique?. Perhaps a lampoon (satire): both to the establishment and to the opposition, and to those out there who promote the demolition of many aspects of the fundamental fabric of Malaysia. After all we need a bit of laugh...... especially to students in Recom who are bored of studying and reading the ?same stuff? in the textbooks or watching the ?same stuff? in the TV shows or TV news? etc, etc, etc?

That?s the story for now?.

The next instalment of my tale: What I will do if I am the Prime Minister of Malaysia will continue after this weekend or any time which suits me??

[Rinke]

For Now I Will Wait

Dear readers?. At first I thought of continuing with my story?on what I will do if I become the prime minister of Malaysia? but then an interesting development happened.

Perhaps some may be aware that Loh Seng Kok - BN/MCA - Kelana Jaya ? made a ?seditious? statement regarding about ? ?imbalanced? history textbooks, new prayer recital guidelines and the problems faced by non-Muslims with regards to places of worship?. See Jeff Ooi?s Parliament Speech: MP Loh Seng Kok gets 'ultimatum' (http://www.jeffooi.com/2006/03/parliament_speech_mp_loh_seng.php#more) for the complete story.

From my readings and understanding, the reaction of UMNO politicians is expected?. But I think I want to look at the full extent of the reaction and Loh Seng Kok?s future moves? will he retract his speech or will he publicly ask for forgiveness or will the whole affair the ?forgotten?? And more importantly what will his friends in MCA and other BN party components do? Will they support Loh Seng Kok? Or will they leave him to the wolves? Or will they be divided i.e some will support him and some others will ignore or be against him?

Now? more interesting is Jeff Ooi not allowing comments about this issue in his blog. Is Jeff Ooi being safe? After all, the typical Non-Malay comment on such issue would be nothing short of disgust and contempt? i.e. calling the govt racist, stupid, fools monkeys?and what more??..oh?these people at Jeff Ooi have such bad manners!

But whatever it is, the gravity of this issue has implications for my fiction: what will I do if I become prime minister?.

So?..As for now I will wait?..

And wonder?.. hypothetically of course??

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What will Loh Seng Kok do if he becomes the prime minister of Malaysia? Yes? what will he do?

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Will he demolish the present Malaysia and re-build a new Malaysia according his ideals?

[sunshine88]

if i'm the prime minister.....
I 'm honoured to be given the privilege of demolishing the present education system....he..he..he....then i would abolish the quota system happily..Next,is that i would urge all of the schools in malaysia to put up school lockers so as to reduce the student's burden on their back.
I shall build new bridge to replace the old and crowded penang bridge.
And this is the most fav. part...he..he..he.....i shall abolish the system where students have to wear school uniforms to school... :twisted:

[name]

If I were the M'sian's PM, this is the list of things that I'll do:

1) Eradicate all Sekolah Asrama Penuh (SAP)
reasoning: The existence of SAP is an obstacle towards a unified country. Why? Plain and simple. The school teachers in SAP have the tendency to sow the seeds of hatred towards non-Malays. It has an explicit quota that limits non-Malays entrance; even though it is funded by taxpayers money which includes all races in M'sia. Malays educated in SAP tend to be "single-dimension", obsessed with "Ketuanan Melayu" and "katak di bawah tempurung". Note that Vernacular, Independent and International schools are never funded by taxpayers money. They should have only 2 distinctions: Public School or Private School. That's all. Nothing based on race.

2) Restructure Barisan National. Abolish UMNO, MCA and MIC.
reasoning: These parties are fake. They continue to use racial relation and create an imaginary racial threats to stay "relevant". What is relevant today isnt about social contract, hak istimewa, quota and whatever stupid craps. Those are absolutely irrelevant to people who are born in M'sia after 1957. We should have a party that focus on issues like
-social justice,
-corruption among ministers,
-abuse of power among policemen,
-independence of court,
-deterioration of public universities,
-racial hatred and segregation,
-wasteful allocation of taxpayers money in programs such as "khidmat negara" which serves no practical purposes other than political.
-very disgusting air pollution and deforestation that scars tourists
-increasing crimes, sexual assault and harassment
-under-performing economy
-better tax system that rewards incentives for teaching, research, environmental protection, humanitarian reliefs, and negative incentives for drugs, smoking, alcohol, etc.
-social welfare benefits for poor and senior citizens
-funding of scientific research and technological breakthrough

3) I'll lead Federal government to fund development in Terengganu, Kelantan and Sabah and Sarawak.
Reasoning: The rise of Islamic fundamentals in M'sia is unfortunate. Malays have nothing in common whatsoever to the Arabian conflicts. Islam is derived from the Arabic root "Salema": peace and submission. And Malays are the descendants of peribumi Riau, Jambi, Bugis, Jawa and Sumatra, who migrated to Peninsula and accepted Islam in the early 15th century. Letting a state down to poverty will invite radicalists.

ALL in all, if only I'm the PM of M'sia.. I will launch a complete social, political and economical revamp because.. I'm getting sick of Malaysia because the current adminstration lacks purity, sincerity and will power to foster a positive change. Ironically, no one will do anything until of course "race" was the issue... SIGH...

[youngyew]

If we want to be a PM of Malaysia, we would have to climb up the political ladder by hiding our ambition of revamping the whole quota / boarding school / etc system, or else we would be out of the ladder before we even knew it.

And when we are there, we can't really do much - if we do a major revamp, we would either be overturned on the second day or be shot on the head.

I might sound far-fetched, but I guess this is really how it would go. I support revamping the system, but having a PM revamp it in a generation is too ideal to be practical - extremists and racists abound in our country.

[Thirdshifter]

Youngyew,

are you suggesting that you will be dishonest to the entire population of Malaysia about your political goals? If so how are you going to climb the ladder?

Youngyew,

are you suggesting that you will be dishonest to the entire population of Malaysia about your political goals? If so how are you going to climb the ladder?
Thirdshifter, the first word of my post is "if", so it's entirely hypothetical.

You took my post out of context, third... you are right that nobody is going to succeed in hiding your ambitions in climbing the ladder, hence that's the exact reason why nobody's going to succeed in implementing drastic changes proposed in this thread.

It's either

Jaga hak istimewa --> be supported

or

Think about revamping the system --> be kicked out even before you are on the ladder.


So proposals of having drastic changes are pointless, because they won't happen.

[youngyew]

That was me, I got logged out earlier without me knowing.

[CyberJaya]

I would invest in millitary domestic research and development. Have a government public/private millitary research and development company. I would invest in pharmaceuticals/biotechnology. I would invest in renewable energy sources. such as hydrogen economy. i would look for a partner for proton in europe or abroad. I would improve the standard of universities in malaysia. I would increase the number of universities in malaysia. i would improve the universitiy lecturers pay. i'll be back later with some more ideas.

I'd send scholarship students abroad to take cutting edge courses. And learn the latest technologies so that they can bring their expertise home. courses such as nanotechnology, biotech and energy engineering. After completing their phd they can come back and work in a government run university offering these cutting edge courses to the public. Then they can do further research in their fields. And eventually our universities will be having graduates capable of providing the work force with jobs in these cutting edge industries.

[slumber]

i will collect all my properties as much as i can n keep them for myself...then after i retired i ll use all the money to travel all around the world.hahahahahaha

[CyberJaya]

i tell you what. why dont i buy some pigs. and sell it to singapore. they want malaysian water sand and air why not malaysian malaysian pigs heheh.