Arrogant Politician.

I am disgusted by the arrogance shown by the Prime Minister in his speech yesterday. He was commenting on the call for a particular minister to resign for underperforming his duties. While I am indifference as to the minister’s performance, I felt shocked that the Prime Minister’s remarks that his decisions cannot be questioned. He went on to say that as the Prime Minister, he knows what is best for the country and therefore no one can ever doubt his decisions. He also went as far as saying that as the Prime Minister, it is his to right to decide whatever he deems fit for the people.

Mainstream media describe the Prime Minister’s statement as charismatic. I describe it as downright arrogant.

In short, the Prime Minister is describing himself as a prophet, who is sent by God for the betterment of mankind – or in this case, the Malaysians. Therefore, people are supposed to just sit quietly and listen to whatever he is saying and obey his decree to the letter.

To give the Prime Minister the benefit of the doubt, he might have meant something else, but the words that he had chosen pictured him just like what I had described earlier.

I hope he does realize that he is not elected as a Prime Minister by Malaysians. He was elected by a handful of warlords to lead a political party that happens to lead a coalition of parties. And none of that matters if he was not elected as a representative for his constituency.

And honestly, please stop thinking as if you know what’s best for the people because to tell you the truth, you don’t.

S****D Politicians.

When are they going to realize this? It does not matter who brought, stepped, and spat on the cow head. It does not matter if they are UMNO members. It does not matter if they are PKR members. It does not matter if they are PAS member. It does not matter if they are DAP, MCA, MIC members. What matters is, the media has their pictures and videos. What matters is, from those pictures and videos, we can charge them in court. What matters is that the court has to find them guilty and they have to be punished.

I personally do not give a damn from which party they came from. I especially do not give a damn if they are not even residences of Section 23. But I give a damn if they are not punished for their insensitive actions. So please stop all these drama on which party was behind the whole thing because that is not even the issue at hand.

Our politicians have this habit of deviating from the real issue at hand. That is one trademark – apart from corrupted – of our politicians that I despise so much.

Merdeka. Are We Really?

Happy Merdeka Day.

After 52 years of independence, we still have not moved from not respecting other races and religions. This year’s Merdeka Day was tarnished by an appalled act by some residences of a certain city in Malaysia. I can try to understand the frustration of the residences over the plan to build a Hindu Temple within the vicinity of their homes. But, does that justify their actions? I seriously do not think so, especially the Hindus are not the party to blame in this issue. The Hindus in the area has as much rights as their Muslim neighbours for a place of worship. That is one fact that no one could deny.

But, it is the authority that has the power to decide where and the places of worship can and cannot be built. Of course this is a delicate matter, but an intelligent authority would definitely be able to handle this matter swiftly without this turned into a racial issue. I honestly have no solution because I have no access to population data of the area. And I certainly cannot use the data provided by the media because the numbers are contradicting. Some media says that Hindus’ population is only less then 10%, some says it is more than a third. The truthfulness of the data can only be answered by the local authority. They should know it at the back of their head.

I’m not going to argue whether the temple should be built or not because that is not my job. But I do feel that the super-insensitive act by the residences few days ago is sickening. How could people who claimed to be well-educated do something like that?

I also feel disgusted by Pakatan Rakyat leaders’ statement that kept on blaming UMNO as the party behind the demonstration. Don’t they see what is happening? It does not matter who was behind it because that would not solve the problem. They failed to see that this issue has become quite deep and needs quick solution. Instead, they chose to blame other people. Granted, let us just say UMNO was indeed behind it. Does that solve the problem? No.

From the way I see it, the authority has two choices. Either go back to the grass root and explain why the construction of the temple was approved or they could halt the plan altogether. Both options have its own repercussion and as a government, it is impossible to keep everyone happy. But the most important thing is, go and resolve the issue and stop blaming other people. Regardless it was your fault or not, wouldn’t it be better if you actually became part of the solution?

In the mean time, whoever that was in the demonstration the other day, shame on you! There was nothing Islamic about what you did. Shame on you!

Revert to Bahasa Melayu/Malaysia

So now we are back to square one. Deputy Prime Minister announced today that the teaching of science and maths will revert to Bahasa Melayu or Bahasa Malaysia (I still don’t know what they call it these days because the keep changing it every time we have a new Information Minister). The reason for the flip-flop was because the gap between rural and urban students have widen since the introduction of the policy in 2003. Let me get this straight, is the Deputy Prime Minister trying to tell everyone that before the teaching of science and maths in English, the performance of the rural students are at par with the urban students? If that is true, I think our education system must have been the best in the world.

So, basically the teaching of maths and science in English policy had ruined our education system. Hail to the government for making things right for everybody. From 2012 onwards, we would see the equal performance of both rural and urban students in public examinations. Parents will be happy and live happily ever after.

Sadly, that was not the case. Urban students tend – read tend – to perform better than rural students because they usually have better resources. Therefore, regardless of English or Bahasa, urban students have always performed better than their colleague in rural areas. So, basically the policy of teaching maths and science in English is not the reason behind the gap. At least we have established that.

Next, Dr. Mahathir’s greatest mistake when he introduced the policy was actually not ensuring the education system is well equipped with qualified teachers. The policy was introduced at a time when the teachers themselves learned maths and science in Bahasa. So, it is quite absurd to expect them to teach in English overnight. However, it is equally absurd to say that within the 6-year period, teachers are still unable to grasp the skills to teach Maths and Science in English.

The problems that have been plaguing the policy can be rectified if and only if there is a political will for it. Unfortunately the political will here is to win the Manik Urai By-Election (BN will definitely without a doubt lose in Manik Urai regardless of their actions). Policy can be perfected with adjustment here and there and not through abolishment altogether.

With public and private education institutions using English as medium of communication, what the government is doing is just helping the English-haters to delay their encounter with the language. By which time, they would be struggling with their new subjects and language altogether. Or maybe by then, the government can order all universities to use Bahasa as medium of communication. Then they can order all private sector companies to use Bahasa. Or why not ban English and make life easier for everyone?

Spontaneous? Really?

When Datuk Seri Nizar just shouted in the parliament on Monday, I just thought that the former Mentri Besar had just found a new low in his behaviour – even lower than the attempted hunger strike a month ago. However, when Datuk Seri Nizar said, his action in the Parliament was spontaneous, I just realize that this so-called Datuk Seri can actually go lower than any dirt can go (pardon the language).

I honestly do not mind if any of our MPs would want to convey their message by wearing a badge or a headband. I can also tolerate some sub-intelligent actions by them such as shouting in the august house because that’s what our MPs do. I did have an entry in this blog labelling our MPs as monkeys. But, to actually tell the press that whatever you did in the parliament on Monday was purely spontaneous, that’s just…well…lets just not go there shall we?

If its not for the hypocrisy, I would have noted his actions in the parliament as bold (though that doesn’t mean I approve it). But, since Datuk Seri Nizar is willing to cover himself with filth lets just give him the credit that he is just full of filth (again, pardon the language). He could’ve just said that that was the only way for him to convey his message. He wanted to uphold the constitutions or to bring attention to the plight of Perak in the parliament. But he chose to say that his actions were spontaneous.

In that case, I would like to say that this entry is a spontaneous reaction by me after reading about his spontaneity.

P.S. A true leader would defend his actions when his conscience tells him that he is right and acknowledge his mistakes when he made them. A so-called leader would invent excuses.