I am not An Indian

I am not an Indian. I was not an Indian because I was born in this land. My father was from India. So, he is an Indian and not me. How I can be an Indian when I was born in this country? I am a Malaysian. When come to race, than I consider myself as a Tamil. So, in overall, I am a Malaysian Tamil.

No one should be calling a Tamil (Indian) who born in Malaysian as an Indian. Only those from or who was born in India should be addressed as an Indian. Yes again, my late father can be an Indian but I am proud to be a Malaysian. I am proud to call this land as my mother land, indeed it was my motherland. “Tanah Tumpahnya darahku…..”

When come to race base policy, no one who was born in Malaysia should be address as an Indian. Yes, even a Malaysian born Chinese shouldn’t be address as a Chinese cause he is not from China. So, why Malaysian born Chinese should be called as Chinese?

Maybe Chinese’s fore fathers was from China but the generation who was born in Malaysia should be address as Malaysian Chinese, Malaysian Hakka or a Malaysian Cantonese base on their language spoken.

When we are talking about being One Malaysia and One Malaysian, why Malaysians are talking about differences between one another, base on race? Race base policy and politic?

I am a Hindu; I am a Hindu who practice the teaching of Veda and a Hindu who is related with Bhagavad-Gita and Ramayana. Every Hindus should be proud of the teaching. To be more specific, Hindu as the oldest religion was the father of all religion and shouldn’t be outline but to be cast as a guideline.

If anyone wanted to know what is the greatest religion is all about, than he or she should be into it. You don’t have to convert to know the religion. I never heard anyone can be converted to become an HINDU. It is in ones heart that determined him or her as an Hindu. Not by converting.

Hindu is a liberal religion. No enforcement to correct you to be a Hindu. No identity to be hold to become a Hindu. No category to become a Hindu. It was a religion that harmony with the nature. No qualification needed to be a Hindu. You simply have to believe in it. By believing you can be a Hindu. Not by converting.

I am considered myself as lucky because I am free to convert and free to practice my religion. I felt I am doubled luckier too, because I am not controlled by the Federal Constitution that I must practise certain religion base on my race. Unlike certain quarter people in Malaysia must be muslim when they are born as a Malay.

The question is how one determine his race as Malay? Can anyone share with me my doubt?

Hindu is a religion that enhance with nature’s aura and harmony with the force of the universe. No killing of another soul. To be a Hindu is to be a vegetarian. Understand this shall be the basic in Hinduism. No killing of another soul.

Talking about the “GITA” as known as the song of GOD, teaches us the pure science of the evolution and remind us that we a part of it. We are part of nature that evolved with it.

“Why do you worry without cause? Whom do you fear without reason? Who can kill you? The soul is neither born, nor does it die. Whatever happened, happened for the good; whatever is happening, is happening for the good; whatever will happen, will also happen for the good only” Lord Krishna

“What did you produce, which you think got destroyed? You did not bring anything, whatever you have, you received from here. Whatever you have given, you have given only here. Whatever you took, you took from God. Whatever you gave, you gave to Him. You came empty handed, you will leave empty handed” Lord Krishna

Talking about “RAMAYANA”, teaches us how to live as a human with dignity and honor. At the same time Ramayana teach us to put GOD above all, above everything beyond.

I am not talking about the greatness in Hinduism, but if anyone wanted to comment about Hinduism, please learn or read about it in a first place. Don’t simply talk what you think is right and comment base on comparison.

I am not preaching, but simply requesting to all Malaysian to be more sensitive about others as well. If we are talking about others religion, make sure we know what we are talking about.

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lvbala

P/S,

Surprising announcement from PM today for his 100th day in office. This is one of the reasons why we are hoping for by election, if possible every month.

The 11 measures are:

1) From Sept 1, motorists who use tolls 80 times or more in one month will enjoy a 20-percent discount.

2) Tenants in the Federal Territory will be given the opportunity to buy their own houses from the 44,000 units offered by the government.

3) Small traders and vendors in the Federal Territory will be given a 50-percent discount for their licence renewal fees. Meanwhile, the government will also allocate RM150 million to Tabung Ekonomi Kumpulan Usaha Niaga (Tekun) and RM15 million to Indian young entrepreneurs.

4) The government will add more taxi permits. As of now, 70,000 individual taxi permits have been offered and 3,000 more permits will be approved in the next three months.

5) The government will take some drastic measures to fight crime and corruption, the details of which will be revealed at the end of this month.

6) The government is also in the midst of overcoming the birth certificates issue in Sabah and Sarawak. Since 2005, Sabah has 36,000 applications and 92 percent of which have been approved. At the same time, Sarawak has 19,000 applications and 80 percent of which have also been approved. The rest will be resolved in the near future.

7) As of June 2009, the government has also resolved 46 percent of 34,000 delayed citizenship applications. The rest of it will be settled at the end of the year.

8) The government will build more roads in Sabah and Sarawak - from 750km to 1,500km - and this will be addressed in the 10th Malaysian Plan.

9) Water and electric supply in Sabah and Sarawak will also be improved, the details of which will be revealed at the end of the month.


10) Driving license fees for motorcyclists will be reduced from the existing RM500-RM700 to RM211.

11) 20,000 family members of hardcore poverty in urban area will be given 10,000 houses under the trust fund, Skim Amanah Saham Wawasan. In addition to this scheme, a new '1Malaysia' trust fund will be set up and is open to Malaysians aged 18 years and above.

Cheers.

Malaysia Dilutes Its System of Ethnic Preferences

BANGKOK — Najib Razak, Malaysia's prime minister, announced Tuesday a major rollback in the system of ethnic preferences that has defined the country's political system for almost four decades.

The new policy would severely weaken a requirement that companies reserve 30 percent of their shares for ethnic Malays, the country's dominant ethnic group.The 30-percent rule was once considered politically untouchable, and Mr. Najib described the change in policy as a "tricky balancing act.

"Malaysia has long given ethnic Malays and members of other indigenous ethnic groups — known as bumiputra, or sons of the soil — political and economic privileges. But that system has come under strain amid growing resentment by minority groups and poorer Malays.

The government offers bumiputra discounts on houses, scholarships and other perks. But some benefits, like government contracts and stock-market allocations, have been beyond the reach of working-class Malays.Anger among Chinese and Indians, the country's main minority groups, over the ethnic preferences was perhaps the main reason that the opposition made large gains in elections last year that nearly dismantled the governing coalition led by Mr. Najib's party, the United Malays National Organization.

"We want to be fair to all communities," Mr. Najib said in a speech in Kuala Lumpur, the Malaysian capital. "No one must feel marginalized."Mr. Najib's success in rolling back the ethnic preferences will depend in large part on his ability to hold together his coalition and fend off a resurgent opposition led by Anwar Ibrahim, a former finance minister.

Mr. Anwar, who leads a diverse group of opposition parties, has promised to undo the system of ethnic preferences.By positioning himself as a reformer, Mr. Najib, who came to power in April, appears to be calculating that he can stave off opposition advances and be seen as an agent of change."The world is changing quickly, and we must be ready to change with it or risk being left behind," he said Tuesday.

The change would leave some ethnic preferences intact and come with caveats. But it would dilute one of the most important components of what is known as the New Economic Policy, introduced in 1971: the requirement that companies listing on the stock exchange sell 30 percent of their shares to ethnic Malays.

That requirement was scrapped for companies already listed on the stock exchange and reduced to 12.5 percent for initial public offerings. The requirement will remain in place for "strategic industries" like telecommunications, water, ports and energy.Mr. Najib also said he would lower barriers for foreign investors.

The government would eliminate a special vetting process for foreign companies wanting to invest in, merge or take over a Malaysian company, he said."The global economic crisis is amplifying the need to be a preferred investment destination," he added.Malaysia's trade-dependent economy is expected to contract by 5 percent this year.
Source : NY Times

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This article was cut/paste from 1malaysia. Good to hear, nice to feel. But PM, when will be the day NEP will be abolish totally? Soon will be better, precisely before the next GE13.

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lvbala

Where is the money gone? Tun Dr M

Where has the money gone to? I reproduce here the payments made by Petronas to the Federal Government since 1976. That year the Government received RM300 million. The amount increased to RM2 billion in 1981. By 2003 it paid RM15.6 billion to the Federal Government. The total from 1981 to 2003 is RM168.8 billion in 22 years.From then onwards it increased from RM19 billion in 2004 to RM67.8 billion in 2009. The total for six years is RM253.6 billion.I am sure the Government had spent the money wisely. It would be interesting to know what the RM253.6 billion was spent on.

Tun M / chedet / 03-07-09

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Such an interesting figure from Tun M. Looking at the total figure, so many improvement should have been done. And all Malaysian should have been benefited. But was this money was really spent wisely? Does all Malaysian benefited or only certain race and certain connected people have benefited?

While we Malaysian are busy with all the concept such as "Bersih Cekap Amanah", "Cermerlang, Gemilang dan Terbilang" and now "1Malaysia", we still have to be busy looking at the figure spent for Malaysia and for the people.

Who controlled this money? How did this money spent? Who or how does this money were channelled?

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lvbala

Micheal Jackson ~ Rest In Peace 1958-2009

Rest In Peace Micheal Jackson. You are a legend and you will always be. The King of the Pop. The inventor of Moonwalk. The black that ruled the world of entertaiment.

You are one of the most widely beloved entertainer and profoundly influential artist of all time, leaves and indelible imprint on popular music and culture.

You are great and will always remain as the greatest. RIP MJ.

Sir Howard Tringer, Chairman, CEO and President, ony Corporation, said: "Michael Jackson was a briliant troubadour for his generation, a genius whose music ferlected the passion and creativity of an era.

Quincy Jones (Producer of Thriller Album", Said: "I lost my Brother"

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lvbala

English ~ Mind Your Language

I consider myself as lucky. Lucky can be considered in many ways. I am lucky because I am having beautiful family and having a good healthy life. Another lucky I always admired was being born as a human especially in this soil.

But as non Malay I felt not lucky because I was treated with quota system as a second class citizen.

As a Non Malay, I felt lucky because I can speak more language than the Malays friends. I speak Tamil as my mother language, Bahasa as a National language and English as a communication and knowledge language for the millennium. I am familiar with Cantonese and can understand very well on Malayalam (Language of the Malayalam’s from karalla India)

I feel the Chinese should be lucky too cause basically there can speak 3 languages as the Tamils. In this multiracial country, Malaysia of cause has all the facilities and walking language dictionary. The people themselves.

If anyone interested in learning languages in Malaysia, I think it is easier than going to classes compare to other country. We have all the sources besides us. Our friends can always be the information centre.

Currently, again Malaysians are talking about English language. From Minister to Professors are busy giving all type of ideas and pointing finger who to be blame for the failure of Malaysian students to concur English.

Logically, Malaysian Malays are the one who are lack in mastering English language. Not the Chinese or the Tamils problem. Solely this was our Malay friend’s problem. Don’t miss-understand me cause I am not finger pointing to Malays for the failure but this was the fact.

They hold the majority. If the majority failed, than everyone should felt the failure.

Let’s talk logic. Is that so hard for one to learn to speak English? I don’t think so. It was the attitude. The attitude that fails to foresee the future and the success what English can bring to someone.

It was the attitude that Bahasa should be the number one and English is number two. No way to let Bahasa to be number two. The national language must be number one and it was so sacred to let Bahasa to be number two.

This was a good nationalism and patriotism. But failure to adopt English can lead us to be number two. Even when English happens to be number one, but one should understand by neglecting it can lead us to be number two.

Many Malay brilliant top students fail to make it to the top because they fail to concur English. And there are students gave up offers to the Harvard because they simply can’t adopt English. It will be a waste of nation’s productivity in building a high tech country by producing high tech citizen who obviously need English to adopt high technology.

Making English as a must subject is not enough to improve the whole English subject in schools. English language should not be considered as a subject. It was not a subject indeed. It was a language. A language that used to communicate to each other. A language similar to our mother tongue.

Can we remember how we learn our mother tongue? Do we need a PHD holder to understand this? Learning language in classes is not enough for one to master English. The classes are only for technical terms for certain subject include English but it should be used consistently in order to master it.

English should be used everyday or at least the schools must practice English speaking day. Not a day in a month or a day in a week but at least half of the school hours.

English should start from home indeed. But it was not logic. How do we aspect English speaking from home of a fisherman in Kelantan but implementing half of the school hours is possible even in Kelantan rural areas.

Most of the Tamils and the Chinese student never have this problem because English were spoken at home. At least among brothers and sisters. Both of my parents never known a word in English. But somehow English was spoken in my house in my younger days among brothers and sisters and it goes on.

So, as a Malaysian this is something we must work together. We must communicate in English so that our Malay friends can catch with us. Let’s correct each other. My bosses do correct my spelling as well. I always take it as a credit for free lesson. And I am still learning.

So, don’t let the Malays left behind or the education system is going to be changed again and again. If they are slowing in growing than we are going to be affected. We are going backwards than. We have to wait in order for them to catch up. It will slow us down.

This later will be a similar failure of the Malays to achieve the target as per drawn in DEB (Dasar Ekonimi Baru). Once this happens, the others will have to wait. The others have to wait for the Malays to be success in order to proceed. The non Malays have to scarify their own growth in order to wait for others to catch up.

Than, the country will slowdown in growing. Everyone will be left behind. Malaysians will loose if we never achieve the target of vision 2020 to become a High Tech country.

Let us learn together, let us change the attitude of learning English can make Bahasa Malaysia become number two, let us starts from the school hours on English. Let us learn to familiarize the language. Let us start from speaking than we go into more technically. Make it as a habit indeed.

Thought for the day