Patience for you, sir?
Just going through the weeks and I find myself thinking about patience and prayed the 'silly' prayer to God asking Him to teach me patience. Boy, did He taught me well!!
Definition: The effort or will, not to pick up anger or frustration and let one's emotions run wild in any given situation. "Patience is a verb, not a noun".
Much is spoken about patience throughout the Holy Book, and I wana share some thoughts here.
1) Proverbs 15:18 - "... but a patient man calms a quarrel" <--- That my friend, is so important.
2) Galatians 5:22 - Speaks about Patience as one of the Fruit of the Spirit
3) 1 Corinthians 13:4 - Note the First thing Paul talks about love:- "Love is Patience ...."
4) 1 Thessolonians 5:14 - Be Patient with everyone
Another note is, I tried asking God, "I want patience... NOW". Err... That didn't work. ya... That brings me to my point which is:
Patience needs time to develop. It ain't a theory. It has to be lived out and put on the spot most of the time to really know whether you have it or not. I get my 'not really' daily dose of testing when I'm driving. Noob drivers can get so irritating... >.<"
Then I realize that patience is not the end of the story... It's normally followed-up by forgiveness or mercy or both. In many situations I try to think of, it normally just doesn't end with me being patient and just do nothing.
But well, over all... Love is Patient therefore love your neighbour as yourself = be patient with your neighbour and like what 1 Thesselonians puts it "be patient with everyone".
Patience is a choice, Choose Patient! =.="
Definition: The effort or will, not to pick up anger or frustration and let one's emotions run wild in any given situation. "Patience is a verb, not a noun".
Much is spoken about patience throughout the Holy Book, and I wana share some thoughts here.
1) Proverbs 15:18 - "... but a patient man calms a quarrel" <--- That my friend, is so important.
2) Galatians 5:22 - Speaks about Patience as one of the Fruit of the Spirit
3) 1 Corinthians 13:4 - Note the First thing Paul talks about love:- "Love is Patience ...."
4) 1 Thessolonians 5:14 - Be Patient with everyone
Another note is, I tried asking God, "I want patience... NOW". Err... That didn't work. ya... That brings me to my point which is:
Patience needs time to develop. It ain't a theory. It has to be lived out and put on the spot most of the time to really know whether you have it or not. I get my 'not really' daily dose of testing when I'm driving. Noob drivers can get so irritating... >.<"
Then I realize that patience is not the end of the story... It's normally followed-up by forgiveness or mercy or both. In many situations I try to think of, it normally just doesn't end with me being patient and just do nothing.
But well, over all... Love is Patient therefore love your neighbour as yourself = be patient with your neighbour and like what 1 Thesselonians puts it "be patient with everyone".
Patience is a choice, Choose Patient! =.="
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heh heh heh. oxyMORONius expression.
So deep rooted the damage in instilling the bribery as a culture such that no wonder Pak Lah and gang find it so difficult to disentangle.
People life is getting more and more difficult and yet all the parasites and cronies still need to be fed. What country is this go? It is truly amazing to know there are so many crooks in our govt. From the very top to the very bottom there are crooks.
The sky is full of black crows and a couple of white crows if any exist, they will be pecked to death. The white crows hence have to watch their backs alertly.
Pak Lah has at times to nod his head as the saying goes, "If you can't fight them, you join them; for survival." What can we do, we taxpayers are the losers. We are advised to change our life style to suit their stupidity or rather greed.
Unfortunately, in the growing global economy, this would devolution and we'd be left far behind. We are behind already, with companies like MAS and Proton and white elephants like the crook bridge and Putrajaya.
Essentially, we have to accept that the Chinese and Indians, and even Malays, who have the opportunity to leave the country, will partly due to the government's policies. You can either change it and attempt to stem the outflow, or accept it and attempt to evolve.
Someone I know is somewhere outside London now, trying to lay the foundation for a better future. He is a Malaysian Chinese just like me. He has just relayed to me his thoughts and concerns about how this future will unfold.
I feel his anxiety, I know it. What is it about Malaysia which drives its people away, to rebuild something which has taken years to successfully create, in Malaysia?
My point? I don't know if given the current rate of development in Malaysia, there would soon be introduced malay quota for parking spaces. Or places for overseas education even. I don't know.
I often think these mongrels are capable of the most stupid and unfair policies, as decades of policies have proven. Yes, it is painful but I guess Malaysians who are tired of fighting stupid battles like these will go, to save their future generations from strives.
You members of a perfect religion of fairness, equality, justice, say: very fair, very Islamic and very just!
You rule by force, you grabbed power by force, and will remain where you are until greater force is applied; after all one does say: "……….never antagonize the malays and the Muslims…………"
Why? Is it because you guys are a bunch retards and uncivilised people who will go amok and grab the parang because you do not know how to debate like intelligent people, and when you cannot rationalise your unfair and unjust positions, you chop off necks - like you did on May 13 1969.
You guys are evil and the good news is that history is replete with examples of evil being defeated. It might take a while in the end you will be defeated.
Yes right!
How wonderful if those twin evils (the NEP and the Ketuanan Melayu) do one day disappear as predicts. Alas, however, got so many things wrong before, I do hope is right on this occasion.
And why not go back to the "stone age" instead and really start all over again! It won't make any difference you know, you guys already have a stone age mentality, so you'll fit in nicely.
Actually this is what was meant when it used to be said: "Balik kampung" alas it is not politically correct to say such things, but since you really want to, be my guest!
LOL!
Why complain when some the top rich people in Malaysia are still non-malays?
Why? Why? Why? Because emigrating to Australia/China/US has not helped you much, has it, dog?……….a few swallows make a spring, not! That is why.
I suppose that just went over your scalp - whiz!
Hello is anybody home!
See yes!
In the world where knowledge and skills is increasing the determinant of economic gains, the NEP policy essentially is a surgical cut-off for most non-malays. Where one knowledge and skills is not afforded legal protection is basically exploitation and indenture.
As long as government practice racial policies, our country will not only be slowed in progress but sink deeper into the mud.
Malaysians were made to think BN is the only party that could bring unity, progress and harmony to the country.
Based on their past performance, the country is more divided than ever before. There were gross neglect and abuse of public resources and taxpayers monies. Proper, efficient and effective administration of government ministry, departments and agencies were neglected. The country has become more religious with strong emphasis on religion and morals but the crimes rate, including white collar crimes have increased significantly. And more……….
BN had lost its plot. Politic and business are a bad mix. With serious and ugly internal power struggles within its component parties, in particular Umno, it has grossly distracted their attention to properly run the country in the best interest of the ordinary people, will take a long time to resolve and heal.
In consideration of the many urgent and critical challenges confronting Malaysia and the inability of BN to lead due to its internal problems, an alternative government must be formed to meet these challenges to safeguard and protect Malaysia and its ordinary people.
BN ministers must be encouraged to cross over to form an alternative government with fresh, new, practical and workable ideas to clean up the mess and make it work in the best interest of Malaysia!
Great leader in Malaysia achieved greatness in the transformation of the minds of the people, in a unique way, by transforming a clear mind to third world mentality, amidst the slogan of Malaysia Boleh.
First class infrastructure but grossly underutilised and maintained!
A gross waste of public resources and taxpayers monies which could have been better spent on upgrading universities, schools, social welfare for the very poor and desperate, increase public servants salaries and facilities including police, etc.
What we have now in Malaysia are the lower class infrastructure, thus it looks only nice from outside but cannot stand the test of time.
Why? Because it were built by third fourth class mentality. We may come up with more list but every time our country move backward compare to Thailand. Another disaster was Indonesia take over us in the palm oil export. One day Malaysia will be the last one in South-East Asia.
The only way we can change is to vote them out. I hope and pray that fellow Malaysians will vote for the opposition to form a government instead of just a barking dog. This is always being the perception of opposition supporter.
Indeed 35 years since the advent of the NEP, an undisputable basis for computing that 30% share has yet not been established. This shows that the 30% was not a necessary condition for peace in Malaysia.
The government might argue that the need for NEP was in response to the disparity between economic status of malays and non-malays. In other words it was a case of jealousy where the malays were envious of the rich Chinese and Indians. It is a case of emotion.
True, there are a few rich Chinese and rich Indians, but there are many more poor Chinese and Indians. Similarly there are also a few rich and prosperous malays.
Are we to believe that poor malays will only harbour envious feelings against the rich non-malays, but not against the rich malays!
Umno used the NEP genie to perpetuate their hold to power. Once released, the malays masses were made to believe that NEP is good for them. Little do the ordinary malays realise that although hard work is needed to compete against non-malays, but hard work alone would not be enough for them to compete against malays who are connected to Umno.
There cannot be fair play in the name of the NEP, since it is the government minister, or senior government official who could use their discretions to favour whoever they please.
Some malays may think that they might become Umno-malays. To them I would say think about fairness to other ordinary malays, if not Malaysians in general.
For that to happen, the NEP should cease although non-malays should now be the beneficiary under the new NEP. Politicians should stop making race an issue; they should stop sowing the seed of hatred and suspicion between people of different races.
The prime minister has degenerated to a pathetic figure, devoid of any direction and authority to bring our Malaysia nation of diverse culture and religion to a harmonious conclusion.
Racial and religious harmony is being replaced in stages, by racial and religious insecurity and animosity.
Can Malaysia afford to have its people facing these uncertainties over and over again without its attendant consequences?
This is in fact, a serious issue with magnifying effects that could determine the dynamics and the maturity of the Malaysian civilisation. Please someone do something. Where a Spiderman suit and climb on to the top of the Twin Towers shouting Malaysia Boleh!
In the past few months I have seen weakness seeping into Pak Lah leadership. He seems to be unable to resolve shortcomings in the Malaysian society. He seems to be all talk but when push comes to shove, he routes towards the usual malay Malaysian way to please all other relations.
Why no change? Simple. No guts. The man has no stomach for real change. He is hopeless.
In the era of no guts Pak Lah, you can't expect him to change what is culturally entrenched. He will cave, he don't have what to lead these people.
Their ambition grows everyday not less with the more that they have. Hence there is no way these people will change anything unless we ourselves are willing to sink into their level of abuse, self-destruction and unfairness.
I am not into psychoanalyzing what the prime minister does or does not do. Suffice for me to state the guy is clueless as to what the issue is and what the fuss (according to him) is all about. He is more like the head of state of a third world country rather than head of the executive.
The characteristic that Pak Lah portrayed only exists in third world and pariah nation. An advanced and respected nation does not have this type of people to lead a country. Bolehland at the moment fulfill all the requirements as a pariah nation. Give him a job with the snoop squad.
They need to replace him - and soon.
Therein lies the problem. We shout to the whole world that we have this and that, everything in place, but we do not actually 'walk our talk or shouting'. We don't even live up to our own expectations even.
Much can be and has been said as to how to improve this low and sad situation we are in. If we don't even follow the advice and standards as put forth and the Integrity Institute of Malaysia, what are they set up for?
They have identified where the problems of our low score are so is it very difficult then to take the necessary actions?
It is like the THES indicating to our Malaysia universities where their shortcomings are, so all they need to do is to perhaps focus on improving their weaknesses.
All we now need is action not talk, talk, talk. The man should have no difficulty in knowing what needs to be done. So all the other institutions too. But do they and will they have the courage, determination and willpower?
This is more so as we aspire to be a developed nation by year 2020. A condition of being a developed nation is a very low level of corruption and high level of transparency and accountability.
Allegations of corruption instances such as this one continue to undermine the integrity and rocked the core foundation of the nation's aspiration of realizing this dream Vision 2020.
What utter rubbish from the supposedly clean angelic saintly Pak Lah. Of course this is all fake. Look at all this filth and his feeble response towards it - deafening silence or weak whimpers.
What is he so scared? Is he also part of the whole nonsense? Food for thought.
This case is just one strand of the knot that has tied up Umno, the government and money politics since the day the highway was given to an Umno-linked company.
Unless we can have a clear separation between the government-linked business, all this kind of secret deals will abound.
Even the stalled "crooked bridge" project was awarded in a shroud of mystery. If we are really serious about fighting money politics, we must get rid of such secret deals.
Cause once the initial cost is spends on building the highway, money keep flowing in. Fools can run the company. No investment strategies required. So they said.
They spoke too soon. The whole cost went under before our eyes. Unimaginable! Losses pile up, cash were depleted faster than they were received. With all these crooks running the company, more will surface soon. We need more people to expose them point blank.
In this Bolehland, we can stop wasting public money to generate this sort of "tradition" Bolehland. They are not ready to change and they are not inspired as well.
As Pak Lah said, he did thing different from Mahathir, of course with so much empty can promise.
In Malaysia, politics is to benefit those who hold position and you can see that day in day out members of Umno, MIC, MCA and Gerakan are fighting among themselves due to money and wealth not being equally distributed.
Their main agenda is how to generate more money through wasting public money. Country concern comes second.
Here the ruling would like to thank all suckers who put them into power.
Think hard fellow, our population is small by comparison to our natural resources. But look at the economy now. Most people in business are suffering from a cash shortage.
We are force to tighten our belts. We live in fear every year for our children education, life hood, discrimination in jobs. We hesitate to invest further in this country. We are not sure when this government will change policies mid streams.
Foreign investors are shying away. Those that already here are pulling the hand brakes except for those with connections (or better with corruption link connections).
Well if you don't trust the DAP with a whole country yet why not let them run a few states and compare the result. I am sure they will be better that PAS. At least they don't look down on women and make them feel useless. I think they are more inclined towards Islamic way of governing a country.
Please when the next election comes around don't feel softhearted. Don't fall for tricks like having a new surface roads, new lamppost, new bridges, etc. Anybody in government can do that. Give opposition a land strike victory and put them in government. Then we can compare who is better.
Wake up! Fellow Malaysians.
I personally think that Malaysia is heading to a dead end, where it will meet Indonesia. Both of them might have taken separate ways, but the navigator (government) shares the exact same blood, teaching and thinking.
This Malaysia country is along the way of 48 years of independence has sideline the basic foundation of our government. Won't be surprise that many of our ministers do not even understand our constitution yet even knowing the Rukun Negara.
The purpose of Article 153 of the constitution and the National Economic Policy was to protect the interests of the bumis, in the fields of civil service, public education and public scholarships, as well as empower them economically.
Has this policy translated into tangible benefits for the non-malay bumi communities in Sabah and Sarawak? Not yet, if the economic disparity and the income figures, between the rich Chinese timber tycoons and their malay sidekicks are anything to go by.
We have double standards everywhere. One for the Umno and one for the non-Umno, I weep for the fools who think that their minister is fighting for their right. With every RM1 they give to you, they are taking RM100 away from your kids. Your son will grow up to become suicide bombers, trust me. Because they will think that the West robbed them.
Long-name Isa got kick off of the club for corruption, he was never prosecuted in court. Long-name Osu gambled millions away, in debt and nothing happens. The Rafidah-APs scandal? Last I heard she is still a minister.
Conclusion? We have a bunch of criminals in the parliament, and guess who is the head?
Well, you know what they say. Power corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely - given the chance, should he not watch himself, any politician (or most) would abandon his mission for money and status.
In summary - Malaysians enjoy the being multi-racial, love the country and not hung up on mixing with other races. The politicians (Malays, Indians, Chinese, and others) screw us all up, play up the racial card to protect themselves so that they can plunder the nation and put the blame on the people.
But anyways, it is sad to see the state of the modern Malaysia. I for one believe that Malaysians are very talented, and we can literally take the world by storm. If only we were given the chance and the support to do so!
Being an undergraduate, I have been advised time and time again by my elders, that if it were possible, attain a job oversea (currently in Australia). And don't come back. Except for holiday and the food.
But I still would really like to see its betterment. Fine, perhaps not in my lifetime.
My honest advise to my fellow countryman, no matter what race you are, save enough money and emigrate. You are doing yourself and your future generation a big favour.
Goodbye Malaysia. I guess there is no longer hope for a better country as long as it is a Muslim country and is governed by the ever corrupted malay system. They suck big time.
Argentina used to be the top 10 nations in the early 20th centuries. Their elitist government focuses only on higher education and neglected the lower level education.
Whereas Japan, Korea and Taiwan came out from the bottom by emphasising education from ground up.
While we are arguing how to set the quota for bumis and non-bumis in our higher institution, our kids at primary and secondary are rotting away providing poor intake to the tertiary level.
Our public institutions of higher learning suffer from a policy which sets different pre-university standards for the different communities, effectively continuing the old quota system.
Public funds, most of which have been contributed by taxpayers, mainly by Chinese businesses and individuals, should therefore not be used without re-thinking about the approach. I recommend a more performance-based or incentive type system.
There are various ways of helping the malays. The present approaches which have been used since 1970s have proven to be dysfunctional and wasteful.
How about self-help? The malays must learn to stand on their own feet, the sooner the better. Why not use that Singapore which allows the community to develop itself with matching financial help from the government?
In this way, malay dignity and self-esteem can be restored. Over-dependence on a government has actually weakened the malays.
The real objective should have been to improve the capability and capacity of the malays to participate in the economy.
Yet, at the same time, no one should be blind to the failures and abuse of the NEP.
A culture of dependence and subsidy has fostered a continuous belief that malays can only survive in an increasingly challenging world by government handouts and preference.
Those in the majority should take into consideration the interests of the minority for a harmonious atmosphere to prevail.
I believe the majority of the malays in this country is also embarrassed by the current situation and wish to put in place some remedies for the aggrieved minority. This would work towards a truly harmonious multi-cultural, multi-racial and multi-religious Malaysian community.
The country needs to move forward. At the moment, beneath the issue of improving the fortunes of the malays, a lot of abuse has been committed by a small group of elites while the real capability of ordinary Malaysians have been largely ignored.
But the failure of the status quo will be borne by all Malaysians.
For long years ago, the Malaysia prime minister was asked by Lee Kuan Yew, "Are you concern that there is a massive brain drain happening in the country, and most of them are Chinese?"
Surprise surprise, the Malaysia counterpart told Lee Kuan Yew, "Let them go if they want to………." That is the attitude of this country.
They don't realised that for a country to be prosper and advance, they need brains. That is why Singapore is doing all it could to attract brains all over the world. However it is different over here.
Singapore does not have a national car and the world tallest building. For a small country, much smaller like Singapore, they still shine brighter.
I think many fatal and non-fatal accidents are cause by Proton vulnerable car. Why do we have Proton? If not, we would be driving a brand new car at the price of a low. True!
Well, Mahathir wanted it just like he wanted the Twin Towers - to let the world know we are here. It is like when people ask where is the Malaysia? We would use Singapore and Thailand to point out where we are - in the middle of it.
Would you like to know the true fact about the malay language? There isn't any in the first place. All the vocals are translated from all sorts of other languages like English, Indonesian, Mandarin, Portuguese, Tamil……….etc.
Once upon a time, I have an Indonesian maid. When she started to work, she has only a working visa. Later she informed us that she got a "red IC" (citizens of Malaysia have blue IC) meaning she is a permanent resident. The last general election she was standing inline with me to cast votes and I did ask her, rather surprisingly elections are for citizens and why are you here. She just showed me her blue IC. Meaning to say she is a citizen.
The other part of a story, a local woman married a professional from Australia. Due to our funny system, her husband cannot work in Malaysia because he could not obtain a permanent resident. They were happy to stay in this country of the weather and environment but because of the visa thingy, they went back to Australia.
Now the story is, the bureaucrats would happily grant citizenship to those that are of the same religion (not Buddhist, Christian or Hindu) or the same race. I am not sure what is the policy of the country. Maybe the policy is to maintain labour intensive industry but not people with brains.
I totally agree with emigrate. If given the chance to flee out of this country, I would do.
All of them were Chinese. Reason for rejection is unknown. Certainly it is unfair to blame everything unjust in Malaysia on racism. But I cannot be helped but think that racism is the only explanation that I could cite for this blatantly biased situation.
Many of those rejected top students filed an appeal and some managed to get what they deserved, while others could only sigh in frustration and continue crying out loud, and grabbing more attention in the national media.
Malaysia and Singapore have been competing against each other for years. It does not take a PhD to tell which country is making better progress over the other. While Singapore is aggressively building up its talent pool and making quiet efforts while 'paddling fiercely under the water', the Malaysia government is complacent enough to allow brain drain and declare to the world that it aspires to turn itself into a knowledge-based economy concurrently.
It seems to me that the Malaysian leaders do not understand that the simplest idea is often the best solution.
In my opinion, this simplest idea is to capture the right people and nurture them into the leaders of tomorrow for the country. Unfortunately, politics and money have blinded the very people who are behind the nation's education system.
We Malaysians don't have a competitive, fair and transparent education system. We Malaysians don't have a government committing its full support for the nation's deserving bright people. We Malaysians don't have a Malaysia for Malaysians.
Now, what is the next best thing to do when the country that you love and respect denies you an opportunity to make contributions? I say, have love and respect for yourself and move to a place where talents are well-appreciated.
I would weep and at the same time say goodbye.