MALAYSIAN GOVERNMENT WASTE BILLIONS OF RINGGIT ON MALAY STUDENTS ABROAD EDUCATION

Malaysian Government waste billions of Tax Payers’ RINGGIT
on foreign education for Malays.

I wish to clarify from the very out set of this discussion post that morally at least the Malaysian Government has no right, to dump huge sums of Malaysian ringgit for the education of Malay students alone. These riggints come from tax payers, and that means Chinese (the biggest contributors of tax ringgit), Indians & Malays. There is the common Malay misconception that all the resources that are held by the Malaysian Government belong to the Malays, and this is wrong because Government money & assets belong to all Malaysians; it therefore cannot be morally correct to heap ALL ON THE MALAYS alone, as it has been done through out the whole of Malaysian history as a federation. Put this proposition blandly, what do the Malays care what is or is not right, BECAUSE WE(Malays) CAN DO WHAT WE PLEASE so what are you going to do about it ? This is the Malay attitude, demonstrated by the arrogance of Hishamudin bin Hussein Onn who brandished his KRIS in obvious provocation of the Chinese & Indians.

Every year hundreds or thousands (I really do not know)of Malay students go abroad to study at the expense of the Malaysian Government. This education bill goes into billions of ringgit but who is counting ? Having said that, what benefits has Malaysia gained by this unthinking wastage of precious foreign exchange; really if the Malays will admit the truth of it all, Malaysia is not really all that “rich”; and I dare say this money will be better spent on more productive enterprises. The reason why I say this money has been and is still being wasted is because, most Malay students who come for an education CHOOSE STUDY COURSES THAT ARE NOT PRODUCTIVE, eg. Most of them will choose courses that are ARTS based minus subjects like maths & Sciences. There must be as many Malay graduates in the arts as are the numbers of students that come to study in Australia. These are easy subjects that are best suited taken by “distance education”, you know like study for a hobby. They do not do anything for you.

What I mean by productive courses of study are courses of study that have practical application as for example, Malaysia had touted (I believe it was all hype) their famous “IT SUPER CORRIDOR”, like everything from Malaysia it sounds like so much excitement and fantastic prospects, but when put into the world of reality, it fizzles out like wet fire crackers. The many years since the “super-corridor” was built (was it in fact ever built at all?) NOTHING HAS COME OF IT BECAUSE MALAYSIA LACKED THE REQUIRED TALENTS TO FILL VACANCY THAT ARE NEEDED FOR THE IT SUPER-CORRIDOR. This Shortage could have been filled by targeted Malaysian scholars who are recruited for that purpose alone. This is what I mean Malaysia waste billions in “DREAMS” that never come to fruition; did Malaysia put a targeted group of students into training to fill the places that call for skilled workers to work the project ? Better than merely to say it, why not compare the Malaysian super-corridor project with the Singapore China Suchou project or the Indian Bangalore IT Park that Singapore built for the Indians; I believe that the Indian Government gave a vote of thanks to Singapore by inviting Mr Goh Chok Tong to take the SALUTE AT THE PARADE to mark Indian Independence Day. I saw Mr Goh Chok Tong on the saluting dais together with the Prime Minister of India. This was a very thoughtful gesture. Of course we all know that both Singapore planned and built IT Parks in both Bangalore & Suchou are great successes. WHAT HAS BECOME OF THE SUPER CORRIDOR? Let me relate a true case in point. One of my daughter’s friend who was barely 22 years graduated with a 1st class honours degree in IT, and he obtained at the age of 22 years old his second degree that was an MBA from Melbourne University. He came to visit my daughter and in our chit chat I suggested to him that he might try to get a job at the super corridor; and he did. GUESS WHAT HAPPENED ! The Malay who interviewed him told him that he will be contacted when the super corridor is ready. NOTHING HAPPENED TO THIS DAY. That was 20 years ago. Anyway, as things turned out he was very lucky not to get employment in Malaysia because he was grabbed up by Esso and he has since then lived & works in Australia. Such a candidate comes only on very rare occasion; I think if it had been another Malay candidate with lesser qualification he would have got the job; what do you think ? The truth be said that he was refused because he was not Malay. This man has gone to much bigger and better things.

I read in an Australian (The financial Review) newspaper about two or three months ago that Johore has approved to Singapore developers a project that is tourist related and the amount was something like US13 billion. I can’t remember the exact sum but it was in the US$billions. That is the problem is it not, that you do not have the money and above all you do not have the talents. On the other hand Singapore is going thunders. The Singaporeans have got another US$multibillion project that was launched just about a week or two ago; I heard it on CCTV9 (English Channel on China’s TV). The nature of the project was not revealed. Therein lies the difference between Singapore vs. Malaysia. Singapore is a true meritocracy, while the Malaysia that your Malay Ministers like to describe as a meritocracy is in truth A MICKY MOUSE MERITOCRACY, because like everything that is Malaysian you are not what you want to be; you are a “wannabe”.

Let the truth be said, Malaysia is a shambles. You Malays want to think biggg ! but you can only do small things. What about your wonderful PROTON ? What has come of that dream project ? You say Malaysia build cars but in truth you only assemble cars you do not build them because the main components are built in Japan. China build their own cars because every component is designed and built in China. The Chery had exported over 1 million cars to Europe & the USA this year and they expect to increase their export numbers. They are the chosen partners of Chrysler.

You Malays also think bigggg and want to go into space travel; it is touted in Malaysia that you will go into the space industry. This is thinking bigggg ! In all the world only the USA, Russia & now China can achieve this feat of human ingenuity. Do you Malays think you are in the same league ? I believe you do but think again, for Malaysia this is an impossibility. It is really comical to hear you Malays describe this dentist fellow who went into space in a Russian space module. In Malaysia he is called an Astronaught, but I saw him appear on Russian TV together with the other two Russian Cosmonaughts who flew on the same filght, on the RT(Russia Today)Channel. The two proper Russian Cosmonaughts wore powder blue “jumpsuits”, while this Malay man wore dark blue jumpsuits. At the interview the two Russians seated at one table while the Malay sat at another table by himself. This Malay dentist was called a “space traveler” by the TV anchor, because he does nothing for the space trip except enjoy the view from the space capsule. He is not an astronaught, he is a space traveler. There you go again a wannabe Malay astronaught.
An astronaught is the “softwear” of a spacecraft, he maneuvers the craft and is the necessary brains of the craft. This Malay dentist does nothing of the sort. There were two other space travelers before this Dentist. One was an Iranian woman, and it was said that she paid US$25 million for the trip; that is MR.75million. Did Malaysian dentist pay the same amount in Palm oil ? Another biggggg waste of scarce resource, I do not think it was like anything near worth it at all.

Yes ! What I have written may seem I am rubbishing the Malay race, which by the way I am but then I am safe in Australia; but all the same what I say is true. I want you Malays to see yourselves for what you truly are. I try to remove that self deception that is so common among your people. There is the more important point that I want to make. I will in my next paragraph dissect the truth that has evaded the Malays in respect of the illusion that you Malays created in your minds of yourselves. Most undeservedly I might add.