Posted by Fortunebull > 2013-10-12 00:57 | Report Abuse

Ha! Work in Singapore, live in Johor! Singasia!

Posted by tjhldg > 2013-10-12 00:59 | Report Abuse

live in johor , judi in singapore . haha

Posted by Fortunebull > 2013-10-12 01:00 | Report Abuse

Maybe 15 years from now 60% malaysians become johoreans! Earn sing dollar live cheap malai!

Posted by akito > 2013-10-12 01:39 | Report Abuse

‘Why I had to leave Malaysia’

http://www.freemalaysiatoday.com/category/opinion/2013/10/11/why-i-had-to-leave-malaysia/

Posted by akito > 2013-10-12 02:59 | Report Abuse

Shinzo Abe and the greedy Malays

http://www.theantdaily.com/news/2013/10/10/shinzo-abe-and-greedy-malays

Posted by Fortunebull > 2013-10-12 10:24 | Report Abuse

Akito! Now malai hate us chinese! Very hard to get contracts! Now Syed Mokhtar malai cronies getting priorities! My son business really suffer!

Posted by akito > 2013-10-12 13:37 | Report Abuse

In Malaysia, it pays to be stupid
October 12, 2013

FMT LETTER: From Ravinder Singh. via e-mail

Malaysia is truly a land of endless possibilities where civil servants can buy laptops for RM40,000 a piece, wall clocks at RM3,800 a piece, spend public money as if it is falling from the sky like snowflakes, and claim they were doing it out of stupidity or ignorance. And the MACC says it cannot act against stupid, careless or inefficient people. What a lovely present to the stupid people.

Could the MACC tell us whether these stupid people are also stupid enough to let the suppliers enjoy the fruits of their stupidity? For instance, if a stupid civil servant pays RM40,000 for a laptop, which he must know from experience or advertisements all over the place, costs about RM3,000, will his stupidity extend to letting the supplier enjoy the RM37,000 overpaid?

By the way, what tests did the MACC carry out to diagnose the over-spending epidemic as being the result of civil servants’ stupidity and carelessness? Is it not an insult to say that our civil servants are stupid people? They include heads of departments and Ministries.

The disease has its roots in the 70s. The then Auditor General Ahmad Nordin’s audit reports had started chronicling the stupidity. Why did it take the MACC 50 years to acknowledge the existence of the disease and only when it had turned into an epidemic?

Can stupid people arrange to get quotations of around RM40,000 per laptop from at least three suppliers and then pick the lowest priced which is about 13 times above the market price? And what makes the suppliers so confident that their sky-high quotations would be successful?

The MACC blames the rules about government procurement, i.e. get quotations from at least three suppliers and accept the lowest, regardless that the lowest is tens or hundreds of times above the market price of the goods. Can the MACC tell us if the rules make it compulsory that when a quotation has been called, the lowest quotation received must be accepted?

I thought the people in charge had the discretion to reject all the quotations if the prices quoted were above the market prices and re-call the quotation? Have the civil servants no duty of due diligence? What is the inference when they pay prices that are so much higher than the market prices for the same goods?

The ‘stupidity and carelessness’ story is a tall story. If they were stupid, they should have been thrown out of their jobs long ago. If they were careless they should have been penalised to teach them to be careful the next time. But no, the stupid and the careless were given a free reign.

Was it not stupid to give them a free reign? So if the whole chain of command is stupid, the MACC can only stand by with folded arms and say “the law does not allow us to act against stupid people, although we see them, and see them robbing the nation”!

The MACC’s job includes taking action for “abuse of power”. Is it not abuse of power to abuse the tender process to make purchases at prices that are tens or even hundreds of times higher than the actual cost of the goods, or purchase goods not fit for the purpose, etc?

Stupidity and carelessness are easy to feign, just like forgetfulness or amnesia, and especially so if it is to one’s advantage to do so. What was the MACC’s methodology of study that concluded that stupidity and carelessness were the cause of the misappropriations reported by the Auditor General?

It would appear that all those responsible are bending backwards to save the stupid and careless people from accountability.


http://www.freemalaysiatoday.com/category/opinion/2013/10/12/in-malaysia-it-pays-to-be-stupid/

Posted by akito > 2013-10-12 13:55 | Report Abuse

If Najib is really serious…
Selena Tay
| October 12, 2013

The prime minister ought to strike the whip at those leaders who are hellbent on derailing his 1Malaysia concept.
COMMENT

Racism and stupidity should be booted out of the Malaysian political scenario besides corruption and cronyism. Post GE13, we have been hearing statements such as ‘If you don’t like it here, you can leave’ and also threats of shutting down a certain Chinese newspaper.

This has gone on for far too long.

Here we have Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak trying to build up the image of Malaysia as a fair, just and moderate nation but his very own ministers are trying to derail his plans.

PM Najib should immediately censure them for issuing statements that jeopardise racial harmony and destroy the very fabric of the nation. Enough is enough. He must act tough with his own people who are working hard to portray the nation as a Third World Nation when we the citizens are trying hard to shed that image.

Although the threat of shutting down a particular Chinese newspaper will not be carried out, this threat coming from a senior minister nonetheless shows the type of mentality that the minister has.

Stereotyping criminals as belonging to a certain race is also a big blunder. How would this minister like it if one were to say, “Such and such a group of people are always the gullible voters?”.

Clearly the time has come for Najib to give a tongue-lashing to those in his cabinet who are hellbent on derailing his 1Malaysia concept. Or is this concept just a ploy to woo the non-Malay voters?

The BN government will definitely not be regarded in high esteem if the BN ministers continue to issue racist statements or harebrained statements that are illogical or factually incorrect or just plain stupid.

These days, citizens are smarter and will certainly evaluate whether the government is talking sense or nonsense instead of simply accepting the government’s words at face-value or as absolute truth.

Take for instance the explanation that some police guns have fallen into the sea. This is rubbish. There is no way such a thing could have happened unless the policemen went swimming in full uniform.

At the end of the day, the government will lose credibility in the eyes of its citizens if blunders like these are part and parcel of the administration.

Reconciliation process

Racist statements, the threat of clamping down on factual reporting, wastage and leakage in administration and management, corruption and cronyism are bad enough but if there is any attempt to sideline the Chinese for voting the opposition during GE13, then this takes the cake as the most terrible mistake in government policy.

Hopefully this will not happen as it is a detrimental move towards the efforts of nation-building.

It must be said that the Chinese Premier, Xi Jinping has high regard for Malaysia and one of the reasons is that the Chinese diaspora here have contributed a lot to Malaysia’s progress.

(The Chinese government have voiced out that they do take a keen interest in the contributions of the Chinese worldwide and they do encourage the Chinese diaspora to be good citizens.)

Therefore it is time for PM Najib to launch or put into effect his National Reconciliation Plan.

Shah Alam’s PAS MP, Khalid Samad pointed out that “statements telling the Chinese to ‘leave’ or ‘get out’ are not only racist in nature but also plain ignorant as the Chinese have as much right to this country as anyone else as this forms part of the basis for the Independence negotiations. Moreover, the Chinese have accepted the Federal Constitution and all within it as a basis for nation-building.”

Thus the ‘balik China’ statements hurled at the Malaysian Chinese are clearly out of line and the same goes for the ‘balik India’ statements hurled at the Malaysian Indians.

We cannot run away from our ethnicity but all attempts to emphasise on one’s ‘Malaysianness’ seems to have failed due to the Chinese and Indians constantly being reminded that we are ‘immigrants’ or ‘pendatang’.

Our seemingly secondary status is also highlighted when we have been stereotyped as this type of criminal or that type of criminal.

In the end, 1Malaysia is nothing but a Utopian concept and like Utopia, it does not exist.

This means that if PM Najib is really serious in wanting to leave behind a legacy of a united Malaysia, he has to start by censuring those in his own camp who derail his 1Malaysia slogan and he must remember to implement policies that are fair, just and inclusive to all.

Selena Tay is a DAP member and a FMT columnist.

http://www.freemalaysiatoday.com/category/opinion/2013/10/12/if-najib-is-really-serious/