Nothing in particular

I have not written any post here for quite a while already.First of all, I must confess that I am lazy, but really I can't find any thing positive to write about Malaysia lately. Those events which caught my attention are mostly negative ones. Just to name a few,refer to the list below:

• Fresh trained Chinese medium teachers are not posted to Chinese medium secondary schools where they should be
• Jalan Imbi-Jalan Pudu intersection sink hole
• Frequent kidnapping at Semporna despite of the setting up of ESSCOM
• DBKL ordered the soup kitchens to stop operation or move out of city
• Arrest of the leaders for the anti Lynas greenies group
• Disappearance of MAS MH370 flight aircraft

	MCA deputy president Datuk Dr Wee Ka Siong taking the Assistant Minister of Education to task for posting 51 freshly graduated Chinese language teachers to non Chinese medium schools. It is rare in Malaysian political scene that a senior leader of a BN component party hitting out at a government Minister.
A cave-in (sink hole) appeared at the Jalan Imbi-Jalan Pudu intersection, the busiest spot in the capital of the Nation. Construction works for an under ground tunnel is in progress where the cave-in occurred. It is easy to put two and two together, needless for the writer to explain.
	Soldiers of the East Sabah security Command(ESSCOM) standing guard at water village at Semporna Island off Tawau.Kidnappers from southern Philippines come and go as they like treating the ESSCOM as non existent.
Volunteers of non profitable organizations (commonly called soup kitchens) distributing food to the homeless and disabled.	DBKL announced that these activities have to stop or move out of the city. Does the government have a heart?
The leaders of the anti Lynas Corp,the Australian company which operates a rare-earth refinery in Kuantan, were arrested for protesting against such operations.
	Where is it now? What actually happened?

Every single one of the above events is enough to make Malaysia a laughing stock in the international arena.
If I write on the above topics, I will definitely look like an anti government activist, which I am not. Therefore I let my pen take a rest.

Fishermen to sell directly to consumers?

The agriculture and agro-based industry minister Datuk Seri Ismail Sabri Yaakob urged fishermen in Malaysia to sell thier catch directly to the consumers and stop depending on middlemen. He stressed that the ministry will wipe out the role played by the middlemen who have been exploiting the fishermen for years.

Bravo,YB! But did you know that what you proposed had already been tried some 28 years ago, and failed miserably?

At that time the middlemen(majority of them are Chinese,incidentally) had been harshly accused as "blood suckers". Co-operatives were set up in every state with the help of the government.Fishermen rushed to join these co-operatives as members. They believed that they will be free from the iron grip of the Chinese middlemen. Little did they realized it was just the beginning of their nightmares.

Although these co-operatives were housed in big offices, with complex refrigeration system and manned by personnel with high qualifications,but the efficiency was extremely low.When the fishermen returned from the sea there was no one at the jetty to wait for them.They had to find their own transportation to ferry their catch to the office of the co-operatives.Worse still, when arrived at the office, it was closed.When the officers were confronted later, they gave tons of excuses.What could the poor fishermen do? They were officers!

The consumers were not happy either. The price remained high,, but the freshness of the fishes were not maintained. On top of that, the supply was also erratic.

Mean while the middlemen suddenly found themselves out of job.They had to eat, right? So they bought their own boats and employed workers to go to sea for them. Their big regular customers like restaurants still preferred to buy from them due to long standing good-will rather than the arrogant co-operative officers.

In the good old days the fishermen could easily get a loan from the middlemen by signing a simple IOU,for emergency like someone in the family suddenly fallen sick, or paying for children books or other expenditures incurred in extra curriculum activities.
But now to obtain a loan from the co-operatives,they had to fill in many forms and wait for days,or weeks,or months to know the result of the application.

In the end, the fishermen went back to "blood suckers" willingly. It was not clear what were the functions of the co-operatives all these years after the fishermen abandoned them. If they were doing their job, the minister would not have hit out at the middlemen the way he did. He was obviously not happy with the situation.

If the minister is thinking of asking the fishermen to man their stalls after returning from the sea, then he should leave his air-contioned office and go down to the field and get his feet wet.

The fishermen have a lot of chores to attend to, cleaning up their boats so that they do not stint; remove tiny fishes and sea-shells which are stuck to the nets, wash and mend the holes in the nets. They have not much time left for the stalls.

If the selling of the fisherman's catch are left to the officers in government owned agencies, it will surely fail. The officers would not care to do a good job, they will say, "Kerja tak kerja, gaji jalan juga."

As regards to the suggestion for the fishermen to get involved with fishing related business like ice factories, fishing boat servicing and value added fish products, the same applied. They do not have time, these business need a lot of attention, even experienced businessmen also shun away from these businesses. Moreover, from where do they get the capital? Provide them with easy loans? Come on, don't lead them into heavy debts as a result if these ventures fail.

Shooting spree in Malaysia

The recent spate of shooting spree in Malaysia really caught everyone by surprise. The frequency, the brutality is far far out of everyone's expectation. Not that it never happened before, but those were few and far in between, often being the result of quarrels or sometimes between the Police and criminals. Malaysians are not used to killers coolly walking up to the unsuspecting victims and shot them at close range in cold blood.
In just 5 months this year, more than 32 cases are reported, more than the grand total of several years in the past.

Below is the list of shootings in the past few months:

List of shootings in Malaysia 2013

No	Date	Place	Victim	Victim's Occupation	Attackers	Status
1	12-Apr	Inside car,Taman Sri Labu,Seremban	James John. Age 45		2 men on motorcycle	Dead
2	14-Apr	With family at restaurant,Oatland Commercial Centre	Tan Kok Soon.Age 56		1 man	Dead
3	16-Apr	Restaurant,Taiping	K.Muthazagen.Age 47		1 man	Dead
4	25-Apr	Inside car,Outside JPJ office,Tampin	N. Ragunathan.Age 39	Runner at JPJ	2 men on motorcycle	Dead
5	26-Apr	Together with mother,Cheras	R.Karikaalan.Age 29,Mother age 60.		2 men on motorcycle	Dead, Mother wounded
6	30-Apr	Victim's residnce,Simpang,Taiping	Age 26		2 men on motorcycle	Missed
7	8-May	Oil Palm Plantation,Tangkak	Muthu Pillai.Age 41	Engineer	Unknown	Dead
8	9-May	Near victim's flat,Taman Setia Jaya,Alor Setar	M.Nagenthiran.age 30	Tow truck operator	Unknown	Dead
9	11-May	Inside car,at an intersection,Taman Kucai,Lunas	Thangaraja.Age 31	Shop assistant	Unknown	Dead
10	11-May	Inside 4-wheel drive,at traffic lights junction,Seremban	Chalidass.Age 29 & G.Surentharan.Age 31			Dead
11	12-May	Cheras	N.Saravanan & Tamil Selvam	Police Volunteers		Injured
12	12-May	Inside car at traffic light junction,Bukit Tambun,Butterworth	S.Kannan.Age 37 & G.Suresh.Age 28 & 2 friends			Dead, friends seriously injured
13	29-May	Bandar Rahman Putra,Sg Buloh,KL.	A businessman	Businessman	2 men on motorcycle	Injured
14	4-Jun	In restarant,Taman Kota Raya,Taiping	Govindaraju @ Murthy.Age 36 & A.Manivannan	Garage owner	1 man	Dead, friend injured
15	6-Jun	30 meters from victim's house,Muar	Tan Chai Heng.Age 51			Dead
16	14-Jun	Bus station,Kuala Kurau	Lim Kong Hai.Age 52	Businessman		Injured seriously.Died of heart attack in hospital 2 weeks later
17	15-Jun	Inside car at traffic junction,Putrajaya	Datuk Shaharuddin Ibrahim.Age 52	Dep Director-General,Royal Malaysian Customs Dept.	2 men on motorcycle	Dead
18	5-Jul	Inside car,Kg Kubang Panjang,Pasir Mas	Mat Zaki Hashim.Age 35	Teacher		Neck seriously injured
19	8-Jul	While leaving school,Tawang,Bachok,Kelantan	Hashim Mat Zain.Age 43	Students Affairs Sr. Asst.		Dead
20	12-Jul	In front victim's home,Bukit Jambu,George Town	A man & his 4-year-old son	Car Re-possessor	1 man	Father unhurt,son injured
21	15-Jul	Victim's home,Taman Sejahtera,Kampar	Father age 51 & Son age 13		2 men	Both critically injured
22	18-Jul	Inside car at traffic junction,Simpang Empat Keladi,Kulim	Age 45	Teacher.	1 Man	Dead
23	26-Jul	Inside lorry, Temerloh		Lorry Driver,(PPK)		Wounded in the arm
24	27-Jul	Inside car,Bahau,Jempol	Sri Sanjeevan Ramakrishan. Chairman,MyWatch			Injured
25	28-Jul	At restaurant,Kg Simee, Ipoh	Jasrafveenderjeet Singh.Age 25. & 2 friends Age 28,55.			Dead, Friends injured.
26	29-Jul	Parking area at Lorong Ceylon, Kuala Lumpur	Hussain Ahmad Najadi.Age 75 & Wife	Founder of Arab-Malaysian Development Bank	1 Man	Dead, Wife injured
27	29-Jul	At traffic junction,Bukit Mertajam	G.Santhanasamy.Age 30			Injured in the legs
28	30-Jul	Victim's house,Mentakab				Back window of victim's car shattered
29	31-Jul	Inside car at traffic junction,Jalan Permai Utama ,Parit Buntar	N.Jeevandran.Age 26	Former EO detainee,who was wanted by the Police	1 man	Dead
30	2-Aug	Inside car,at traffic lights junction,Pandan Indah	Wong Foo Yui	Gold dealer	1 man	Injured in the shoulder,escaped from the shooter
31	3-Aug	At victim's home while he was taking a nap, Kajang	Balamurali Balakrishnan	Just released from prison one month ago.		Dead
32	3-Aug	Parking lot outside restaurant,Beverly Hills Commercial Complex,Penampang,Kota Kinabalu	Tiong Choon Kwong. Age 44	Businessman	1 man inside car	Dead

It seems that the criminals are rushing to do their shootings before the Police force are awaken from their day dreaming.

The biggest joke is that the IGP said,"It is not that the nation has become unsafe, it is just that many gun-shooting incidences happening at the same time." Come on, a traffic jam is a traffic jam.Don't say," it just happened many cars are on the road at the same time." A war is a war, don't say,"Just that many bombs,cannons,guns are fired at the same time."

I think this is one of the contributing factors that the BN lose the hearts of urban voters.Coupled with the never ending "ragot" cases, house break-ins,the urban voters decided that the government is not doing what they are supposed to do, that is: give them a safe enviroment to seek employment, to live in, to shop, to dine, to go out with family. They think these things are far more important than the government's grand grand manifestors and visions.

It is a pity that our Prime Minister does not see this, instead he blamed the drop in supports on the "Chinese Tsunami". It is the urban voters aganist the rural voters, not the Chinese voters against the Malays voters, it just so happened that most Chinese voters are corwded at the urban areas. If he can not see this and retify it, don't be surprised that the urban voters will desert him again in the next general election.

BN is not confident for the 13th General Election

Malaysia ruling coalition,Barisan National (BN) is worried about the impending 13th general election.
Prime Minister,Datuk Seri Najib was doing quite well to change the image of the ruling coalition by efforts like BR1M,abolishing the infamous ISA and giving out candy bars to non bumiputra communities.However, he faced two major set backs:

• The Lynas Rare Earth factory
• The Illegal immigrants presence

These two issues may very well contra all of Najib's efforts to win back the voters hearts.
Let's wait and see.

Do It For Home and Country

Snatch robbery victim in Penang

Malaysia is SICK!!!

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The robbers are heartless,
The rakyat are cold, unfeeling,
The Police Dept is indifferent, ineffective,
The Wakil Rakyat are busy making money,
The Ministers are more busy to make more money,
The Opposition is utterly busy creating issues,
The Government is sleeping,
Thinking that with their measly BR1M payouts,
Will be able to cure all the ills of the society.

Crimes in Malaysia do not need the cover of the darkness of the night,
they do not only take place at small lonely alleys,
they are occurring in the busiest streets.
When approached by the public for help,
all the police can do is to shrug their shoulders,
and say, "We need the co-operation from the public."
But when they receive their gaji,
do they need our co-operation to use it?
Therefore people did not bother to report the cases,
And the authority jumped out and jelled,
"The crime rate is down!"

I remember I had once asked a young colleague from Kelantan,
"Why do you vote for the opposition? No progress, no development one."
He replied, "What progress? What for development?"
I was speechless.I did not understand him then.
Now I understand him perfectly well,
if this is the price we have to pay for progress and developments,
I rather vote for the opposition like they did in Kelantan!
Won't you agree?

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Happy Harvest Festival

To all KDM friends, Happy Harvest Festival!

Lynas Corporation & Rare Earths

I have until now kept away from blogging on the Rare Earths issue which is one of the hottest topics currently in Malaysia. I know very well that my faint voice will be drown in the loud noises in the wave after wave of protests coming out daily, therefore there is no point of blogging about it, no one will ever read it.
But I must blog now before it is too late, just to be on record that I am not without my opinion on this issue. Lynas Corporation, the company which has obtained a temporary permit of operations to process Rare Earths on Malaysian soils, had recently applied in the court for an injunction from stopping all Malaysians to discuss about the Rare Earths issue.Fortunately their application has been rejected by the court, but they will not give up so easily.They will try and try again and eventually get what they want, you know how it is in Malaysia.
So I have to blog about it now.
Actually, the Lynas issue is very simple and straight forward, either you take the foreign investment in the expense of the health of Malaysian citizen or reject it. It has been dragged on for so long despite the series of criticism from various NGOs and the public demonstrations is because the government has committed, already wet their foot as the saying goes (Cantonese say:洗湿咗个头) and there is no turning back. That is why it is in a stalemate now.
The government's argument is that there is no "scientific proof" that Rare Earths processing in Lynas Corporation's factory will be unsafe. If anyone can produce such proof, the government will stop the project. Wah, that is an over generalized statement by any standard! How scientific is considered scientific? The simple fact that Lynas Corporation does not set up shop in their own country and have to come all the way to Malaysia is a clear indication that Australian government does not find it safe to have the factory in their own country.
Are we more scientific that the Australian government? I am not looking down upon ourselves, we send the best of our youths to study in Australia, to learn from them. Don't we?
Also on the question of dumping the residues from Rare Earths factory, it was suggested that the residues be sent back to Australia for safe dumping because they have better expertise than us. But the Australian government rejected the proposal flatly. What does it mean? It means the Australian does not want it, why,why,why?
Then there came the suggestions that with proper control and monitoring, it is safe to have the factory here.Then again, can we trust the Malaysian Public Service Department with our health and well being? Sorry to say that the confidence level of the public is extremely low!
Of course the top management of Lynas Corp had came forward to claim that it is safe and that Australian government had in fact approved the setting up of their factory in Australia - deep in the desert of the Australian Out Backs! If it is safe why can't they have their factory in the urban areas? Why in the Out Backs,is it because the inhabitants there are the aborigines and not the white?
Lynas Corp comes to Malaysia is not because they sincerely want to invest here, but because they know no white men will like to work in the Out Backs and also they can't trust the natives there to run the factory.Malaysia therefore becomes a very practical alternative. Simple as that.
China is the largest producer of Rare Earths in the world, but they have decided to limit the rate of production for the sake of good health of the people.Super powers of the world like USA are angry about this and try to pressure China to lift the limit. But China does not give in. Malaysia should take a hint from China, if we want scientific proof.
History, though not scientific, is a good teacher. The tragedy of radio active Rare Earths is not new in Malaysia. About 30 years ago, in 1982, Asian Rare Earths Sdn Bhd (ARE) started operations in Bukit Merah New Village in Perak to extract yttrium, a category of Rare Earths. Few years later, physical defects were found in newborns in the village. It is linked to the ARE operations nearby. It was stopped after much publicity and investigations.
Do we have to wait until history to repeat itself before some thing is done to prevent it from happening?

Malaysian Students Protest Against PTPTN

In response to the demonstration staged by the students from Malaysian colleges and universities at Dataran Merdeka whcich enters the 15th day, the Deputy Prime Minister of Malaysia,Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin, reiterated that the National Higher Education Fund Corporation (PTPTN)will not be abolished.

These students have demanded that the PTPTN (Perbadanan Tabung Pendidikan Tinggi Nasional)to be abolished.
PTPTN is set up by the government to provide loans to poor students who performed well in their SPM (Form 5) or STPM (Form 6) examinations, yet not good enough to be admitted into government run colleges and universities, in order to continue their higher education in private run colleges.
They have to repay the loans by installments once they start working when graduate. This system has its implementation pitfalls (common with government agencies), but in my personal opinion, this is still a god send opportunity for the children from poor families in MALAYSIA to break free from poverty.
During my generation,we were not so lucky. I had to find a job, to study by correspondence courses (now it is called distant learning)to obtain my 1st professional qualification after 6 years.I don't claim to be hard working or smart, all my peers were doing it except those rich few.Some took more than 10-15 years to complete due to various factors like work loads,love & family problems, financial problems, etc; don't forget correspondence courses cost money, too.
I couldn't read the minds of those who protested against it, maybe they are from very rich families and don't see the need of it but at the same time couldn't bear to see others using it.
Or maybe they are the lucky ones who receive scholarships and studying in government universities and don't need PTPTN. Then again, if you are lucky and blessed with free education, you should be grateful and not try to block those less fortunate ones from pursuing their dreams of higher education.
You want to be an elite group? Therefore you can't stand the idea of so many people becoming graduates? So selfish!

These students are hoping that by abolishing the PTPTN loans, the government will introduce free higher education for everyone.
They are so naive!
Don't tear down the house you are living before you find an alternative place to stay.Similarly,wait until the government implement free education, then only do away with the PTPTN loans.Until then, many people still need it to continue their higher educations.Otherwise many will be shut out of the doors to the universities and colleges.
If the government were to accept their demands and do it, it is tantamount to abolishing the special privileges of the bumiputras because all will be equal by then.
Otherwise, it will be back to the good old days again, the bumi children will receive scholarships, while the non bumi children will go back to the streets to find their own ways of furthering their studies. Is this what they want?
It is a puzzle why the non bumi students are so enthusiastic about it. Free education for ALL? Come on, be real.

Cabotage Shipping Policy

Prime Minister of Malaysia, Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak, in response to a reader named K.C.Jong on his blog - Ah Jib Goh, regarding the Cabotage Shipping Policy which governs the cargo vessels plying between Peninsula Malaysia and East Malaysia since 1980, stressed that all foreign cargo vessels are free to berth at any harbour in Malaysia, and that shipping companies are also free to ship out goods from any port out of the country.
Najib said that the transportation of goods are decided by the shipping companies, which is based on commercial considerations.
The main factor affecting the decision where to unload the cargo is the logistic volume. It is not decided by the government, and government does not get involved.
Najib is repeating the answer given by the Transport Minister, Dato' Seri Kong Cho Ha. When queried by Datuk Seri Panglima Wong Khen Thau, the president of Federation of Sabah Manufacturers (FSM) earlier on,Dato Seri Kong gave the exact answer,word for word.
Datuk Seri Panglima Wong was seeking the help of the transport minister in amending the Cabotage Policy in order to allow foreign vessels to load goods which are destined for Sabah at Port Klang if there is any space left after finished loading goods meant for foreign countries.These vessels can then make a detour to Sabah on their way to foreign countries.After unloading at Sabah ports, they can up load goods from Sabah ports to fill up any empty space.Then they can continue on their journey home.
Similarly, incoming vessels would first come to Sabah, unload imported goods then upload goods for export to fill up any empty space.Then these vessels would proceed to travel to Port Klang.
Datuk Seri Panglima Wong claimed that this is not possible with the existing policy, it requires that all goods arriving at Port Klang to be unloaded, any goods destinations of which are the 2 East Malaysia states have to be handled by local companies which charge handling fees 10 times higher than those for foreign countries.Similarly, goods for export will have to be sent to Port Klang first, again handled by local companies.
Why is this so? Maybe the original motive was to protect the local companies, which is fine, but they should not take advantage of the monopoly and charge unreasonable rates.
I feel that the request by Datuk Seri Panglima Wong is very reasonable if what he claimed is true.
However, the transport minister seemed to have misunderstood Datuk Seri Panglima Wong's request. He told the press that the government has allowed foreign cargo vessels to stop at any port in Malaysia freely all along, implying that Datuk Seri Panglima Wong had wrongly accused the transport ministry. Datuk Seri Panglima Wong was furious on reading this reply, and vowed to bypass the transport minister and go straight to the prime minister for assistance.
But now that the prime minister himself is giving the exact answer as that of the transport minister, what's next?
The government is playing the words game. They keep saying the decision is made by the shipping companies on their own free will. But many a time, these so called "shipping" companies are merely forwarding agents, they do not own a single ship.They may rent one once in a blue moon, but they are not ship owners.If they are, these are small in number as compared to the total number of local shipping companies.They deal with the foreign ships' owners for maximum profits, that is all that is to it.
The FSM should counter this by writing a clear letter purging any ambiguous words and present their case clearly again. They should specifically request that foreign cargo vessels which chose to come direct to East Malaysia, be allowed to pick up goods meant for export, HANDLED by forwarding companies of the goods owners' choice, then proceed to travel to Port Klang.Do not force these vessels to leave for foreign countries from here. Similarly, vessels berthed at Port Klang be allowed to pick up goods meant for East Malaysia, HANDLED by forwarding companies of the owners' choice.
Also do not force them to leave for foreign countries directly. FSM should specifically mention that their president did not request for vessels to be allowed to berth at East Malaysia ports, which he knew very well they are allowed to do so already.
What he asked for is to allow the foreign vessels to make a DETOUR to East Malaysia when they leave Pork Klang for home, and vice versa.

I have been wondering why is it commercially viable for local agents to send goods between Peninsula Malaysia & East Malaysia, while it is not viable for foreign companies? Is it because the vessels traveling
between Peninsula Malaysia and East Malaysia are smaller in capacity? If that is the case, why don't the foreign companies use these smaller vessels for transporting goods to East Malaysia only? The FSM should
take the initiative to persuade the foreign shipping companies to employ these smaller vessels to transport their products directly in order to stop been squeezed by the local forwarding agents. An another alternative is to form forwarding companies under the control of the FSM, certainly these companies will have the best interests of FSM in mind. Then only you will be free from the iron grip of the so called "shipping" companies.
If you think this is too troublesome, then pay for it and have an easy life.

Posting comments

I changed the settings of ALL my blogs allowing only my followers to post comments on my blogs. And every comment needs my moderation, this is to control the content of the comments.
Therefore you need to do 2 things in order to post on any of my blogs from now on:

1. Click the "Follow" button on the blog to be a follower
2. Post non adults contents only, else you wont get my approval.

Producing Pharmacists

I read in the news that there is a shortage of pharmacists in Malaysia recently and out of curiosity I checked on the internet for the colleges and universities in Malaysia offering courses in pharmacy.
The results show there are 24 private and government colleges and universities offering courses in pharmacy at different levels,ie. Diploma, Degree, Master and Doctorate in Malaysia.With so many colleges and universities conducting courses in pharmacy, why is there still a shortage in pharmacists? Is it because it is too costly? Too difficult to study or the entry qualification requirement too high? Or simply due to lack of interests on the part of the students?
Below is the list of colleges and universities conducting pharmacy courses in Malaysia:

1. Sunway University, Malaysia
2. SEGi University College, Malaysia
3. AIMST University, Malaysia
4. Taylor's University, Malaysia
5. INTI International University, Malaysia
6. Monash University Sunway Campus, Malaysia
7. UCSI University, Malaysia
8. University of Nottingham Malaysia Campus (UNIM), Malaysia
9. Universiti Teknologi Mara (UITM), Malaysia
10. Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM), Malaysia
11. International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM), Malaysia
12. Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM), Malaysia
13. International Medical University (IMU), Malaysia
14. Mahsa University College, Malaysia
15. Universiti Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
16. Management and Science University (MSU), Malaysia
17. Kpj International College of Nursing And Health Sciences, Malaysia
18. Lincoln College, Malaysia
19. Kolej Teknologi Geomatika, Malaysia
20. Kolej Masterskill Kampus Ipoh, Malaysia
21. Universiti Sultan Zainal Abidin, Malaysia
22. Kuala Lumpur Metropolitan University College (KLMUC), Malaysia
23. Masterskill University College of Health Sciences, Malaysia
24. Victoria International College (KUALA LUMPUR), Malaysia

My daughter is a student of KPJ International college of Nursing and Health Sciences, Malaysia, which is situated at Nilai, Negeri Sembilan. This college offers other courses in Nursing, Physiology, Medical Imaging,etc. If you intend to pursue a career in the medical field, try this college. It is specially suited for students from not so well to do background because it will not chase you for tuition fees until your PTPTN loan is disbursed which may take 9 months to 2 years ( my niece received her PTPTN loan payment after she graduated from UMS, and my own son got his payment 9 months after commencing his course). Also KPJ group owns more than 20 medical centers through out Malaysia, you may apply for sponsorship from one of them which is close by your home town.Then you do not have to worry about repaying the PTPTN loan later.
Free hostels are provided for all students.The hostels are segregated for boys and girls.

Kill that cow quick!

There is a cow by the name of NFC(Najib Falling Cow)running wild right now.Many fear that if the government is not sincere in dealing with it, the Barisan Nasional(BN) coalition would be run down by this cow.

Apparently various efforts have been put to sidetrack the issues. First a businessman is blamed for the mismanagement of NFC by accusing him of giving unsound advices to the Chairman of NFC by posing as a consultant.

Then the Auditor General Department denied using the words "in a mess" in describing the status of the operations of NFC.

The public really do not give a damn to all these, they only want to know why the close relative of a senior Federal Minister is awarded such lucrative concessions?
And they are also awed by the unabashed way the said minister responded when confronted by the public. Is this confident or arrogant?

Come next general election, surprises await.

Last day of Chinese New Year 2012

Today is the last day of the Lunar calender new year celebrations.
Happy new year, GONG XI FA CAI!

Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas!

The 13th general election will be any time now

In the UMNO general assembly yesterday,Prime Minister Datuk Najib gave very strong indication that the general election is very near.He said UMNO will field many new faces this time, and called on senior members who are not selected to remain loyal and support the new candidates. The name list will not be released too early to avoid possible problems.He is confident that the National Coalition (BN)will win back the few states lost to the opposition during the last election March 2008(308 election).

I am afraid the Prime Minister might be over confident, it might very well be the repeat of the 308 election this time also. In that election BN did not bother to clear up some issues which had been dragging on quite some time like the "Istana" house of Selangor Menteri Besar, the "close one eye" case of Jasin member of parliament. BN leaders ignored them without realizing that these are the "triggers" that hurt most during an election.
This time around there are issues always, the hottest is of course the NFC issue, the RM56,250/ pair night vision binoculars, the diamond order etc. Nobody is held responsible for all these. BN leaders are treating the voters like dumb-dumbos, by giving some lame explanations.

For example in the NFC case, Datuk Shahrizat, the Wanita UMNO Head, whose husband is involved in it, declared that it had got nothing to do with her. Her husband minds the cattle business while she minds the UMNO affairs, the two are not connected. But just answer one simple question," why her husband got the project in the first place, and not people like me and you got it?"

As for the purchase of the binoculars,the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission declared that there was no irregularities in the purchase of the binoculars by the Marine Department, just that the officials were not following the Treasury order to do a market survey before hand. That means if the officials involved had followed the Treasury order, they might be charged in court now. Therefore it is always wise not to adhere to the Treasury order because facing a disciplinary action is better than facing a jail term any time!
If these type of explanations are acceptable, you can be sure that all the politicians will rush to have their relatives grabbing whatever government tenders available and make tons of money!
If that happens, Malaysia will definitely top the list of corrupted nations in the region.
Until now, many top level leaders still think these are petty issues and advise grassroots leaders to forget them!The rakyat may be silent now, but the votes in their hands speak louder than any thing!
So be forewarned.

Cows,cows,cows.

The hottest news in malaysia these days is related to cows.

The husband of a Federal minister owns a company which aims to grow cattle in the interior district of Gemas for the purpose of proving to the world that Malaysia is capable of producing premium beef.The company,the National Feedlot Corporation(NFC), has obtained a government loan (the opposition argued that it is a grant) of RM250 millions for the project.But after 2 years, the project has fallen far far behind target. It was discovered that portion of the loan(or grant?) was used to purchase 2 PREMIUM condominium units in prime area within the Federal capital, Kuala Lumpur.

The excuse for doing this action was because the money are idling, so it was invested in property which is, in the company's opinion, better than putting it in bank fixed deposit.NCP chairman (the husband of the said minister)had called a press conference to explain why the money is idle. I could not understand what he explained, nor could many Malaysians, I guess.

PPSMI - To stay or not?

Personally I feel the issue with teaching science and mathematics in English(PPSMI) needs to be handled with care.


Now the sentiments on both sides involved in the argument are that of wanting to gain a totally win, one side wants to do away with it completely, while the other wants to embrace it stock and barrels.


They should meet half way, let the subjects to be taught in the children's mother tongue for Primary schools because they need full concentration to master their mother tongue and National Language at this stage. English should be taught as a second language.


Then when they reach Secondary school, they would have acquired enough skills in English to be able to understand the internationalization of the subjects in English fully. I strongly urge the use of English at this level because it is a very important international language.


But the government seeks the easy way out by simply abolishing it in both Primary and Secondary levels. While some English-speaking parents want it to be implemented right from the beginning stage of a child's schooling days disregarding the weakness of English of most children, especially those from the kampongs. This is pure selfishness because they know their own children are good at English and have a clear advantage over others in the class if these subjects are taught in English.


Then there are the politicians. Please don't politicize this issue for our future generation's sake.

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