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Tuesday, August 31, 2004


Midnight in Malaysia

::It is once again midnight in Malaysia as we move into the 48th year of our Independence. But have we really got out of our midnights and found Daylight in this Malaysia of ours. Dr. Mahathir Mohammad (now Tun) has stepped down as Prime Minister of Malaysia in October 2003, after about twenty-three years in power, the Mahathir Era had ended?
We now have a new PM, one who has in his early days imbued us with hope that Daylight may once again be descending on this Malaysia of ours. On taking over, Pak Lah had asked for the TRUTH and had requested that we work with him and not for him. By now many would have realised that it is not easy to tell him the truth. He said he was finally going to go all out to reduce corruption to ZERO; as if that was possible. A few smaller fishes were charged for corruption, presently the Eric Chia case is on-going and has gone to HongKong and is expected to move to Switzerland soon. A Royal Commission with the difficult-to-mention-exceptionally-long name of The Special Commission to Enhance the Operations and Management of the Royal Malaysia Police [SCEOM-RMP] has been set up. It has even come out with a controversial interim report, what it had to report, many Malaysians may have already known.
2004 also saw Malaysians participating in the 11th general election, what was new? There was the usual complaints of the BN caretaker government and the EC not ensuring a level playing field. Hopes of a fair election failed to be realised. The BN Poll Merchandise scandal appeared in July. These merchandise even surfaced during the recently concluded Kuala Berang by-election! This by-election, as in most by-elections, was won handsomely by the BN, scoring a bigger majority and has been called a Merdeka Gift to the BN by none other than the former PM, Tun Dr Mahathir. We can expect the BN to win the next by-election and can expect the said poll merchandise, which were not BN ordered to surface in Ba’Kelalan
Has there been changes in our students entering tertiary education instituitions for their further studies? The usual hue and cry regarding "guided meritocracy" or "meritocracy ala BolehLand" was still to be heard. What's so special this year was the case of 128 top students not being able to gain entry to study medicine. The new PM finally came out with "the solution" which was not really a solution.
Like the years before, patriotism has once again been equated with flying the Jalur Gemilang. This year there has been a request by you-know-who for there to be a "sea of Jalur Gemilang". That "Bow-Tied" man is still around like before.
One could just go on and on with the little or no change which have taken place since the last Merdeka day and since the new PM took over. We are still waiting to come out of the midnights and still looking for Daylight.
Happy Merdeka all the same and one of these days Daylight will surely come to those who dream like you know who does. Cheers and Good Morning.


      



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