And yes, outflow of talent. A lot of our talented people prefer to work outside of Malaysia where they can get more benefits, have stronger buying power and basically lead a better life. These people include those who our gov is sponsoring…those under gov scholarship.

As for the Malay government or not, in a way, it is but that’s a totally different issue which is a little bit sensitive. I do personally feel that there are opportunities here and people should not blame the government just because they can’t do it. A lot of people have made it, and they found a way to ‘change’ or ‘adapt’ to this kind of policy. Why can’t the rest follow? In the end, it’s a matter of opinion and mindset.

I have been here about 2 months now (combining vacation and online work) and I have developed a somewhat biased point of view. Oh by the way, I am from UK so I had no particular point of view on this matter until coming to stay here in Kuching.

1. First off, I don’t think its so much to do with the education system, although education has a lot to answer for in most countries, in my opinion – I feel in general, education systems lack in a number of key areas. No time to go into it though, so this may seem kinda like a pointless statement – but its food for thought.

2. Outflow of talent – yup, most definitely! If there are more incentives on offer to Malaysians to entrepreneurs and highly educated people coming from other countries, then why not get out of your own country and go elsewhere where quality of life is superior?

3. Malay Government – I talk to Chinese Malaysians very regularly (most often over a delicious bowl of laksa in a local hawker center or cafe), so again this point is biased to some degree, perhaps. But, I get a very strong impression that the Malay Gov are very pro Malay people to the cost of the Chinese Malaysian population. So obviously and again, if a Chinese is entrepreneurial or highly educated, why stay here in Malaysia where you will be suppressed by your own government? May as well head to the likes of Singapore, Australia, UK etc where you will receive a much more level playing field. And to be honest, its pretty obvious that the Chinese are the business people here – the ones with the real get-up-and-go type of thinking… I hardly see a single Malay shop owner. I hear that if a Chinese person wants to get into business they should first seek a powerful Malay backer because otherwise the government will not accept the proposal. How is that going to aid an entrepreneurial and forward-thinking attitude???

In bried – thats it from me!

Joseph

@jamy
auntie jamy, i won’t block off your ISP one la. u’re one of the ppl that i’ve learnt a lot from…and i’m still learning a lot from u as we speak.

yea, i must admit i was a bit defensive. maybe because i’ve encountered some people who dont respect my beliefs and keep asking me to convert.
i know to them, it might be something good…they are doing something good by trying to convert me, but for me, i prefer people to respect my beliefs.

that’s why most of the time, i don’t want to discuss religion. i have my own beliefs. i want people to respect mine and not offend me. i also want to respect people.
and if i hv no idea how open-minded the person can be, i opt not to discuss because discussion on religions can cause a lot of misunderstandings if we’re not careful

yeap. i’m afraid of ISA. I dont want to mess with them by saying the wrong thing which to me and everyone else is RIGHT, but to them is WRONG.

since the beginning, i’ve said that this blog is not about politics and religions. you can discuss with other readers but i do have the right not to discuss them. no?
it’s like you r asking someone to talk about something, but the person chose not to voice out his opinions……and u call him immature.

ignorant, yes. immature? i doubt. i thought we should respect people’s decision? how mature is it, by calling people immature and not respecting them?

it’s all about the way we look at things. having different perspective, different opinion don’t mean i am immature and you are mature or vice versa.

i chose to be ignorant in some things. i care…but i feel it’s a bit hopeless. i only talk about things that i think i have the power to change. else, i wont. that’s me.

maybe it’s not the “RIGHT” thing in your opinion.

p/s… i started this blog to learn from other people. if every readers who come here drop their comments and asked me to close the blog because i don discuss politics/religions,
then i’ll close the blog.

Because you are brought up in a society that there is only right and wrong and if you are wrong, I put you in prison with an ultimate weapon, ISA. No, we don’t operate like that, we discuss, we disagree and we respect.

Nop, I won’t call you coward :”u can call me coward, afraid, whatever…but my blog, ever since the beginning, is not bout religion or politics” but I call you ignorant. Ignorant does not necessary mean bliss.

Just because you do not want to talk about religion, politics in your blog does not mean you can ignore it from your readers. If you set up a blog, it is for open to the floor for public opinions unless your blog is set to only log in via invitation, then that is a different matters. If your blog is open for public , you cannot have the attitude that “Ok, this is my blog, you like it or leave it.”

You will bound to have opinionated readers like me who want to put in her/his opinions and you cannot burried your heads and said I am not going to talk about religion and politics. You might not necessary have religion and politics as your blog theme but to say you don’t want to talk or discuss is very immature !

Cheers and have a good weekend.

Jamy

FIY: One of my best friends is a Silk Indian girl and we talk about our faith and religion often times and we still remain as best of friends.

too shallow minded. ah well, if they’re not shallow, they will not be in ‘there’.

@Natalie
yeap, Malaysia has a lot of talented people. jz that we have a lot of restrictions here and there. i believe if there are
no such restrictions…..Malaysia will definitely achieve greater heights and maybe we’ll b able to compete with the likes of
Singapore, Jap or Korea……….. okok,i’m jz dreaming.

I think most people wanna be their own boss (for donno what reason). thus they started off as some veyr low level staff to learn,
and in turn treats their company/job as a stepping stone.

jamy, not reading text books DOES NOT mean people been brought up “without reading books”. TEXT BOOKS are just a small subset of BOOKS.
and BOOKS are not 100% correct. some people prefer to read articles, magazines, bla bla bla. does this mean they’re going to b bad because they are those who have been brought up
“without reading books”?

why should i talk about religion then? my beliefs are different from yours. different people have different beliefs. i believe in all religions but i don’t like to compare which is good
or which is bad…or this is better n that is worse. IMHO, religion is a very sensitive subject. just respect other people’s beliefs, and tat’s good enough. nothing much to discuss.

politics on the other hand, has a lot of stuff to be discussed. but can something be done? is there a solution after all these discussions? nope. if i wanna discuss, i wouldnt discuss it here.
i’ll go to Jeff Ooi or somewhere to discuss because their blogs are about politics and current issues. mine is not.

u can call me coward, afraid, whatever…but my blog, ever since the beginning, is not bout religion or politics.

and i’m still living in Malaysia where freedom of speech is not really tat…. ______ *fill in the blank*.

i hope i’ve made myself clear.

This is not what I mean. “maybe that’s why i’ve heard of people who wanna fly before they learn to walk. they wanna b the genius and also the money keepers…but this goal of theirs appeared to be too much…and they ended up nowhere.”

What I mean is that the M. government workers are worst than monkey.

When I said what I agree with Shadowfox, I mean an environment play a big part in business. Environment in business include government policies, business facilities, people(workers) and market(consumers).

You might have a lot of smart people around (like what shadowfox said about people he/she knew, I don’t know the sex of shadowfox so I use generic here) but if the environment is not ripe or conducive , you hit yourself into the brick wall.

One of the the reason why I like America so much is I am a true capitalist. I believe in free market., America provide a very rich soil for my entrepreneur spirit. I think my kind of personality suit the personality of this country. I hate talking to money because I don’t understand monkey language. It waste my time and energy talking to monkeys.

I can identity myself with an environment which is pro-business, anti-socialism and so I thrive well in that kind of environment.

I remembered reading an article about a guy from Spain. He is a brilliant guy, very creative. He has this brilliant idea about making baju. He said it would probably take him 3 years to get approved from the bureaucracy craps from Span government but he said from getting the application form to getting his shop set up in US only took him less than 3 months.

I won’t be surprise to read this because it is a reflection of Malaysia education system : “In my uni time, i’ve never touched the text books before. I relied on lecturers’ notes and i managed to do quite well.” but it is very frightening what kind of people would an education system bring up “without reading books”.

Politics and religions are 2 things that reflect your identity and culture, I don’t see why you are so afraid to talk about : “I regard this topic as a little bit sensitive since i might touch on Politics if i discuss further.”

Jamy