Nail the GST to the Coffin

Mar 182010

It was reported in the news that the government has decided to postpone the tabling of the GST bill in the parliament.

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To me, it’s as the same thing as nailing the bill down into a coffin of political convenience. It was obvious from the start that the government was only talking of rhetoric and trying to gain political mileage from the middle classes by talking about improvement to the source of the government’s revenue, and potential reduction in personal income tax once the GST system has taken it’s place in the hearts of our economy system.

And to the same middle class plus the high class citizens, the supposed implementation of GST will bring the impact of self-regulation in taxes and it will help the country a lot especially with the distorted impression that our people are corrupted by birth and everything is governed by the rule of ‘grease money’ or ‘duit kopi’, so to speak. But no, our so-called 1Malaysia government does not seriously taking that into account.

It looks like they are looking more at the backlash that they might get from their own supporters – most of whom the businesses, the ali babas, the ungrateful bastards that have milked the taxpayers money with substandard services and products, the corrupted officials at various government agencies, and definitely from MPs that are only thinking of their own personal gains and losses.

The opposition, being a constant ulcer in the back side, did not help much with the threat of mass demonstration by stupid supporter of theirs that could not even comprehend the basic understanding on how government revenue works – only that they know how to look like idiots on the street, shouting like madmen that does not have an inch resemblance to the ‘adab’ and ‘tatasusila’ of our Malaysian heritage that we are so proud of.

We are in such a sad state of political situation that I’ve lost hope for us being able to rise up out of this ‘middle income’ trap.

Chin Peng

Jun 042009

Can you understand the sentiment of wanting to allow Chin Peng, former Parti Komunis Malaya (PKM) leader, to come back to Malaysia?

Because I don’t. I couldn’t fathom the logic behind this insane, stupid, irrelevent, insensitive proposal. He was a leader of an organisation that had cause terror to many on our homeland.

Yet, not even three decades after they finally gave up their armed struggle, we have hippies out there that preach of  ‘personal freedom’ and ‘human rights’, and succumb to his personal plea of ‘wanting to visit his father’s grave’ before he meets that father of his in another realm.

Then tell me this – who can answer this question by a victim of PKM brutality, in response to Chin Peng’s plea: “tell me where my father’s grave is”. Many have lost their lives during the emergency, some without a known resting place of their own.

To be ignorant of your own county’s history is a sin of a big magnitude.

Limit

May 282009

There is a limit to everything, even when the sky is your limit.

It is a good news indeed that our dear Deputy PM spoke of a 10-subject limit for SPM from next year. I do hope that they will go through with this noble idea. It is about time they do something about it.

I have firmly believed that it is not about the quantity, but the wholesomeness of an individual that SPM should reflect. I am not surprised if those who got 14 or 15 A’s and failed to get a scholarship, is a dork who can’t speak fluently during an interview. I’ve met people like this and trust me, you don’t want them to be your doctor if they managed to book-wormed themselves through medical school.

And may the government stick with their PPMSI policy, for the betterment of our Malaysian society.

I Call It...

May 012009

I call it by a name that is easy to remember, and as easy to relate to.

Hence, to me it is  “Swine Flu”. Let others call it by any other names out there: the politically-correct H1N1 Virus, the geographically-savvy Mexican Flu, the other geo-savvy North American Flu, the straight-to-the-point Pig Flu, the in-denial Eurasian Flu, the drama-queen Deadly Flu.

What’s in a name, if it just to confuse us.

Let us not get tangled in this name business and concentrate our effort in mitigating the spread of the disease.

The Lamp That Guide Us

Apr 192009

They are the lamp that guide us. Through thick and through thin, since the dawn of British imperialism, they were here as a beacon of hope.

“Jangan terlalu cepat membuang pelita, kerana riang melihatkan fajar akan menyingsing; kerana hari siang juga akan berakhir. Jangan nanti bila malam mendakap senja, warga dan bangsa akan hidup teraba-raba – hilang haluan, kerana diselimuti kegelapan malam tanpa pelita.”

The words of The Raja Muda of Perak Raja Dr Nazrin Shah is deep in meaning, and is clear in message. “The people must be conscious not to be hasty to throw the lamp away, happy with the dawn of daylight; as daylight too will end. Let it not be that as night falls, people grope about directionless, blanketed in darkness without a lamp”.

The so-called street democracy freedom that we enjoyed so far is akin to the daylight; what we have seen is the beautiful scenery that it bought as the sun rise from the east. What we have not seen however are the things that will stripped us of what we are now. For good or for bad is up for debate, but to throw away the lamp shall the night falls will only make us the ultimate loser.