The Malaysian Mindset needs to change

The Malaysian Mindset needs to change Posted by: woody_invincible

I have always wondered, why do we have to create slogans and mottos to encourage us to strive?

And yearly slogans to help us unite as one.

Things like 'Memimpin melaui Teladan' (lead by Example). 'One Malaysia',  'Wawasan 2020' , KeranaMu Malaysia, etc, etc.

If, in the first place we already are united, do we ever need to say 'We are'? . Imagine a rich man keep on braging about he is rich? Imagine a professor keep on bragging that he is a professor? Isn't that bullshit?

Look at the way we buy houses. You pay for something you've just seen on the papers, or maybe based on a scaled-down model, artists impression, and thelikes.

You run the risk of not going to own one if ever that company is going to have moron shareholders. Or you end-up getting one that has many cracks/defects.

Maybe once in a lifetime, you happen to be so lucky, you got your 'dream' home. But before you move in, you hack the s*** out of it, reshaped the whole building structure, put in all sorts of glamorous finishings, italian tiles, marbles, stainless steel, wrought iron, plaster , chandelier-lights, remote-controls here and there, and end up with four loadfuls of rubble, that we called 'Waste'.

You might have a newly installed kitchen with something like ion-activated water filters, health water filters, but you seldom do your cooking. There might be one or two foreign maids to help. That doesn't matter, you might at worst go out frequently to feed on meals prepared by roadside stalls (those that have tables- or merely cheap-plastic panels on metal stilts- placed on tarred-road), directly from the stove just beside a fishy-smelling drain. Wait, did you bring along any 'haelth- water' from your tap to be cooked with your dish? No, I bet.

Have you ever buy a proton Saga and hacked the s*** out of it, changed its shape, put in all sorts of finishing before you drive it?

Or maybe do that sort of thing to a BMW? a Mercedes? after all they sometimes cost less than your house. Do you see cracks in the cars? Do you ever buy a car just buy looking at an artist rendering, or a 1:12 scale model?

Then a look at education.

 People send their kids to schools for education. But look at the type of education we are giving them future leaders by parking haphazardly when we go and fetch them.

We hire foreign maids to take care fo the house chores. but then husband and wife have to work to pay for the big house and plush car. So, we leave the foreign maids to teach your kids all sorts of manners. Not our type, or is it the better type? You mean they could nurture our kids better than us?

Then another look at cost of living.

If 290 million can only buy a Court house that has so many defects, if 70 million ringgit can only buy non-bulletproof vests, if 200 million can only build a collapsible bridge, if 7 billion can only build a non-functioning Port Trade Zone, imagine those of us who earn anything less than that.

 

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