She has been living in fear of the police and thugs ever since her house was raided two years ago.
The raid in early 2005 was to arrest her ex-husband Abdul Karim Abdullah, suspected to be a member of the notorious Bentong Kali gang.
Although she informed the raiding party that Karim was no longer living with her as they were divorced in 2000, the police continued to search her house.
When nothing was found, she was taken to the Brickfields police station where she was molested while being questioned. She claimed that a police officer held her head, grabbed her breasts and uttered insults at her.
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My argument in favor of the multi-faceted approach initiated by the Malaysia prime minister would repeat the contention that corruption permeates every level of society and transcends all existing social boundaries.
Transparency International Malaysia's statement on corruption as the root cause of road accidents has hit the nail on the head, echoing what I have felt for many years as a citizen of Malaysia. Corruption affects the rakyat in more ways than we care to realize.
What about driving licences? We often hear the term 'kopi-o licence' used in reference to a person who obtained their driver's licence by palming out 'kopi-o' money (bribe).
It is a pervasive problem, but unfortunately not easily proven because not always do we carry a tape recorder when stopped by the police, or when passing through immigration checkpoints, or when applying for permits. The public knows and lives with it. Will Pak Lah be able to free us from the shackles of corruption and graft?
The Anti-Corruption Agency should be the kingpin in the drive to rid us of corruption. Unfortunately, it is a caged lame duck. Nay, worse than that - it has not only failed to fight corruption but has actually promoted corruption, in the sense that it has provided camouflage to shield the corrupt leaders in the ruling clique from prosecution.
Sad to say, the Malaysia press is world-renowned for its total subservience and sycophancy to the ruling party, brought about by repressive laws and regulations.
If Pak Lah is serious about wiping out corruption, the minimum he should do is abolish or amend the Official Secrets Act and the Printing Presses and Publications Act. At least then, journalists can at least honestly report misdeeds in high places without fearing arbitrary reprisals.
It is not difficult to implement this idea. Though it is only a small step towards transparency, it will nevertheless be an encouraging gesture if elected representatives make an honest effort to comply. Is there any reason why the prime minister should not take up this suggestion?
Education in Bolehland is a big joke. It is systematically being damaged, degraded, destroyed and impaired by the BN government ever since after Tunku. Why? So that the BN leaders kids can be comparatively better than common plebeians.
Why do you think they send their kids to overseas or private schools at a young age! They have no intention of sharing the rubbish education here period. Badawi like the big fool that he is blindly following it but christened it as his way. What joke!
It seems that the NEP is just an excuse for the share recipients to buy their equities at discounted prices in order to realize fast money by selling them to others.
How else could one explain how 'untuk-bumi-sahaja' scripts land in the hands of other less fortunate buyers who have had to pay market rates?
That being the norm, would anyone be surprised if the targets of the NEP continue to be a shifting goalpost, so as to give ammo to Umno to fire another salvo against the other communities, bringing the country down the deep end? Is their higher population growth rate also taken into consideration when doing the mathematics?
Are their policies to disillusion the non-malays and non-Muslims also taken into consideration so that productive and laws biding citizens don't have to conclude that the final consistently-applied agenda of Umno, the only one thing they do unfailingly - is to discourage you and you and you from staying?
Furthermore, some of the foreign investors have walked away when told they have to allocate that quantum of their shares at special discounted rates to this group! Why should they when they have so many other markets for the picking?
A lot of things go on in this country which brings us closer to sunset. And the apologists don't help one bit to make the situation any more palatable.
Shameless denial, medicine man evasion, lazy man rent seeking, crony corruption, creative excuses, close-one-eye enforcement, bureaucratic smoke screening, vague accounting - all the things that can be done except face up to reality and the need for hard work and sacrifice.
This country could have been one of the shining lights of Asia, if not the world. Now it remains the global hub for one thing - the uncanny ability to give frigging excuses again and again for screwing the people and Malaysia.
So what say the members of Umno, past, present, future?
The 12 realities ---
1. On paper, citizenship is secure - in reality, they say if you don't like it here, you can go away
2. On paper, even the NEP is good - in reality, it sucks
3. On paper, Malaysia can be great - in reality, 'Malaysia Boleh' remains just a word, an empty cry, devoid of any life and spirit to ensure the nation's survival
4. On paper, Pak Lah is fighting corruption - in reality, no Umno member is standing together with him
5. On paper, we are a multiracial country - in reality, we have one community which is more equal than other communities
6. On paper, we are a peaceful country - in reality, the absence of conflict is superficial, very fragile
7. On paper, we had the report, and 125 recommendations of the Royal Commission on the police - in reality, we have just a book, non-act upon
8. On paper, we have a police force to look after our security - in reality, we need some protection from the police
9. On paper, we have the meritocracy system - in reality, quota system is still running
10. On paper, we have the national agenda - in reality, it is the malay agenda
11. On paper, we have the parliamentarians - in reality, we have a zoo, and only a few are ministers, the majority being exhibited specimens
12. On paper, we solve intercommunity issues by win-win consultation - in reality, issues are silenced by subtle threats of unrest made on grounds of the supremacy, of one community master and their unquestionable agenda
I am a person who has never really liked to get involved in politics but I do feel that one must pay attention to the game as it does dictate the way we Malaysians live.
I work in the field of human resources and I know that a university degree does not help one perform. The academic ballot only opens the door for interviews and opportunities. At the end of the day, the individual has to perform.
Employers are profit-oriented. They above all, must be objective and rational.
Today, the competitive business environment and discriminatory government policies in Malaysia make it deadly not to focus on results, even for a short period.
Not only does the NEP provide a disincentive for market-demanded work and enterprise for the malays, it causes the non-malays to distrust the system and look for short-term gains rather than work for long-term gains.
Graduates do not develop long-term market-oriented skills and goals, they look at short-term pay, do not take any risks and avoid responsibilities and challenges.
Generally, the better their education, the less the problems.
We cannot be in business for social causes. It is bad enough that the government has wrong policies that we have to cope with.
It has already been stated many times, that the higher proportion of unemployed malays is mainly due to the incompatibility of skills possessed by them and those actually required by employers.
How can you force job market demands to change to suit another race quota system?
Anyway, we already have enough of these quotas in the education, government civil service, housing and other sectors. The whole idea is to try to move away from this quota system, not add to it.
The key thing is to be adaptable and move with the times. Many unemployed graduates are static and complacent - that is the real problem.
Employers, be they from the private or public sector, need to hire candidates on merit to provide superior service and to compete effectively in the increasingly global marketplace, and 'churning out better graduates' would certainly help.
While the quantity of graduates continues an upward trend, the same cannot be said of their quality - lowering of entrance qualification requirements coupled with inadequate teaching staff have produced graduates of insufficient quality.
Furthermore, many non-teaching obligations have caused lecturers and teachers to lose focus and therefore be unable to provide quality teaching.
To speed up the process of creating qualified graduates will mean upgrading Malaysia education at all levels. From young, students should be exposed to a more holistic and critical education.
The current bias towards science and math and the craze regarding examinations have created a generation of bookworms who memorise rather than understand.
Universities can choose to concentrate in certain disciplines to provide depth and quality, which in turn will attract good students from the region to study those disciplines. These local universities will then become universities of choice.
Teaching awards, better pay and remuneration schemes and a less non-teaching workload will not only inspire teachers to provide better a higher standard of education, but will also attract intelligent and talented people to the teaching profession.
We believe that with the active participation from students and teachers, constant reviewing and monitoring efforts by the government and with the foresight of our industries and the support of the general public, we come together to create a synergy that will inevitably improve our Malaysia education system.
One of the most glaring and blatant distortion of the "social contract" was the secular character of nation-building, that Malaysia is a secular nation but not an Islamic state - a position publicly reaffirmed by the first three prime ministers, but which was unilaterally and unconstitutionally abandoned by the Barisan Nasional government in the "929 Declaration" that Malaysia is an Islamic state.
Another example of the distortion of the "social contract" happened in parliament when the Umno minister accused the opposition, of questioning the sensitive issue of malay special rights when touching on the controversy over bumi corporate equity during the debate.
In my statement, I said this was an unconstitutional rewriting of the "social contract" as the New Economic Policy target for bumi corporate equity is not protected by Article 153 of the constitution on "special position" of the malays and the natives of Sabah and Sarawak, and questioning the NEP targets is not questioning Article 153 of the constitution.
Bravo, man. You have compiled a good post there. And I think this post is part of what was on Lee Kuan Yew's mind when he commented that Malaysians of Chinese descents are being marginalised in Malaysia.
And someone, I beg to differ. Some of us are not complacent people who accept all these discriminatory nonsense as part of a 'fair deal' (my foot!) in order to live in Malaysia.
Many of the Malaysian youngsters today (below the age of 20) - be they pribumis, Malays, Indians, Chinese etc - do not really know what and how much the Chinese had contributed towards our independence, politically and economic-wise.
The world community condemns Japan for rewriting their history. How different are we Malaysians from the Japan when the history books in schools now claim that Yap Ah Loy, Loke Yew, HS Lee etc, did not play any roles in building what we now call Malaysia?
First, history books for use in all Malaysia schools can only be published by Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, DBP (again, a malay-controlled agency). I know this as a fact as I myself is in the educational publishing line.
It is damned easy to twist/change the facts in a paragraph or two, and the future generation shall know nothing of the contribution of Malaysian Chinese towards nation building and economic prosperity.
The future generation of malays will continue to think that we Chinese are the leeches that encroach on their land, instead of partners (well, actually in most cases, the leaders) in developing our nation! Thus, the malays think we can be treated as inhumanely and as discriminatorily as they please.
As and when the older generation of historians, like professor Dr Khoo Khay Khim pass on, so will the rich history of the hardworking Chinese in Malaysia.
We the young generation of Malaysian Chinese should soldier on, instead of saying, 'It is ok, I just want to live happily in Malaysia and not stir up anything because I am afraid the malays will beat me up.'
That in itself have shown how weak our minds are, and we can never stand up united to fight the stupid unwritten/written laws created by the malays to suppress us.
We should educate our Malaysian Chinese community and tell ourselves that it is 'not' ok to be treated worse than a second class citizen in our own birthplace! What an insult! (By the way, I can speak flawless bahasa melayu, and many malays themselves were stunned to hear me speak their language!)
And yet, I am not sure this discrimination-riddled place is the one I would want my future children to call home……….
Indirect employment discrimination based on racism is not something new in Malaysia and it tends to grow rapidly day by day. This will eventually lead to an uncompetitive situation for the organisation in the long run as the best talents are not sourced for the particular position advertised.
Najib request for the private sector to stop Mandarin-language discrimination shows how poorly informed he is about the way the Chinese are balancing the discrimination of the government against them by hiring their own people.
'Oh, my God.' I said to myself.
Who is perpetrating the big discrimination against Malaysians of Chinese origin here? How do we feel when all around us we see 'For bumis only'?
Such hypocrisy is so easy to forget when you are not the victim and so nice to enjoy when you are one of those in positions of superiority.
Apart from that, the Mandarin language is the world's most spoken language and with China emergence as a global market, it is imperative that we learn and equip ourselves with Mandarin.
I am working for a MNC in Manchester and the whites here (who are very proud of their English) has recognised that Mandarin is an important business language and are urging their staff to learn the language.
The current Malaysian government needs to change their attitude first with regards to discrimination before requesting someone else to do so.
We all now know that Umno is a racist party in the mold of the apartheid regime of South Africa in the last century, and also practices a big part of Hitler politics (master race).
These are the salient aspects of Umno politics.
Without these racist politics, where else is the strength of Umno! How can they win elections if they don't show and shout racist and discriminatory remarks to their voters and audiences?
The events of May 13, 1969 are largely documented via second and even third hand reports. One really does not know whether there have been exaggerations and distortions as such information gets passed on.
I believe that social historians, both local and foreign, should be encouraged to perform research into May 13. The nation should have now matured sufficiently not to be swayed by the influence of certain charismatic politicians whose prime goal is to suppress knowledge in order to remain in control.
Such research may actually bring Malaysia to a new level of awareness and even inspire better integration in moving forward as opposed to the appalling polarisation seen today courtesy of money and religious politics amongst others.
What is worrying is that after 40 years, we have many indications that the NEP's negatives may have already overtaken the positives a long time ago. If after 40 years, say 20 percent of middle-income malays would be jobless in an unprotected market, then they are certainly in dire straits.
The truth is that the NEP policy has already been undertaken so it is pointless to argue whether its positive has outweighed its negative. The point is that even if this had been the case, it cannot go on indefinitely and that its removal must be the eventual outcome.
As a nation, Malaysia will never move forward with the NEP or any re-engineered replacement. Many have written about such reasons and continue to do so.
One needs to go back to the drawing board and ask why the simplicity of being ruled and subdued in the colonial era led to peace and harmony and little envy, whilst apparent 'freedom' has not.
Now, we are only just discovering the wonders of globalisation but sadly, thanks again to the evolution of Malaysian society norms and practices, not every Malaysian is eligible to be a global citizen.
Malaysians, who now play on the British playing field according to their rules, usually find it level.
The question to ask is when would the playing field be level again and why should it not be made level now? And, when will the goal posts also be fixed? After all, it will harmonize us with the rest of the world and will select those who can vote with their feet (i.e. those who can emigrate) as well as those who cannot.
As stated, humans will always migrate but if a person's own country cannot actively retain its own skilled and semi-skilled sons and daughters, then the government of that country really ought to look hard at itself in the mirror and ask why - that is, if it really cares about its citizens.
So, perhaps, now with the dawn of an era of increasing transparency and accountability, I now ask: 'How about a royal commission on reducing emigration?'
Why can't we see everyone in Malaysia as Malaysians, rather than to note the racial identity of each person?
All are Malaysians of various descents. At national level they are no different, nor should be seen as different, no matter what their dress, language, race, religion or uniform.
Please wake up to the call for unity, or start feeling sorry for yourself for getting lost in the mad rush towards development, which has probably misplaced the Malaysian in you.
Unity in a multi-racial society can only be experienced if all races are seen as 'one' under the same flag. Therefore start calling yourselves Malaysians and accept nothing less!
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