The REAL Vision 2020!

Where is our direction for our next generation..?
For those who started work around 1973, a 1.3 Litre Japaness car was RM 7000
Today the equivalent is.... let's say RM 60000...........8.5 times
In 1973 a double storey house was about RM 45,000..or less
Today it is about RM 300,000............6.6 times
(It was advertised in a school magazine at 37,000, Taman Lumba Kuda) This makes it 8.1 times

In 1973 an Engineer's pay was RM 1000
Today it is about RM 2000 +/-............2 times....
From 1973 to 2008........35 years......what is the Trend.?

Bearish !!!!
In a stock market when the trend is bearish , what do we do?..

Exit !!!
When a country's trend is bearish what do we do?
This Bearish trend is more difficult to turn around as compared to the stock market.

I have used these 3 items House, Car & Salary as a measurement of the country' s performance for the past 35 years....
Foreigners also ask about these 3 items to gauge our standard of living.

There is a book I saw in MPH bookshop entitled :Malaysia : The Failed Nation
some of you may be interested to read it. I agreed with the writer.....

This morning I was having Coffee at McDonald. I asked how much per hour is their pay? RM 3.00 ! x 8 hours = RM 24 per day... x 25 days = RM 600 per month

My daughter works part-time during her University days..she worked at Gloria Jeans Coffee.... the pay ? Australian $ 14.00 ( @ 3.15 = RM 44per hour.....x 8 = RM 352 per day !!! x 25 days = RM 8800

13.3 times more !!!!! ......Price of houses in Perth is about the same in KL Price of cars are about 23 % cheaper...in Perth. ( Australia )

I think more and more people are becoming aware of this Bearish trend.
Developed country by 2020?...means High income country
Let's look at some as of year 2005 ( Financial Times )
USA GNP per capita US$ 35400
UK GNP per capita US$ 25510
Australia GNP per capita US$ 19530
Singapore GNP per capita US $ 20690

These are developed countries by income measurement
Malaysia 's GNP per capita US$ 3540
Year 2020..developed country?

Really...a sad story.
Worrying Trends, isn't it??
Ringgit sliding further and further under BN Rule.
Recently, I interviewed some fresh graduates applying for jobs with my engineering company.

I accepted two applicants on a starting salary of RM1600.
It struck me as odd that 15 years ago, I myself started workas a fresh graduate engineer for the same pay.

Indeed, if you compare the salaries of graduates now and 15 or even 20 years ago, you'll find little difference but that their purchasing power is vastly different.

It's the same story when you compare salaries of shop assistants, office staff, factory workers and others.
To compound the effect of inflation, the ringgit has depreciated greatly against all major currencies.

The real income of most Malaysians has moved backwards.

This is why many Malaysians suffer under the petrol hike. The root of the problem is that our real incomes have shrunk in the face of inflation and depreciated currency

Malaysians have not been spoiledby subsidy but are unable to move out of the time lock of stagnated and depreciated incomes.

If you compare the per capita incomes of Singapore , Hong Kong , Taiwan and South Korea , they are a few multiples of ours although at independence all these countries were the on the same economic level as Malaysia .

What has gone wrong? We were the rising star of East Asia , a countryrich in natural resources with the most promising potential.

The reason is massive corruption, plundering of resources, wastage of funds for huge non- economic projects, anti-public interest deals with politically-linked companies and passing-of-the -buck to the man in the street..

Four decades of NEP where education, economic and employment policies are defined by race ensured that meritocracy took a back seat.

Our university standard has declined and the today best and brightest of our youths emigrate to escape the racial inequility only to contribute to the economies of foreign lands.

The reputation of our judiciary which was held in high esteem worldwide has sunk so low that foreign investors now insist on arbitration in Singapore in case of any dispute.

We also have a slew of oppressive laws such as the ISA, OSA, Uuca and PPPA which stifle free speech and are designed to keep the ruling parties in power.

We have become less attractive to foreign investors and now lag behindour neighbours in Asean for foreign direct investment. Even some corporations who have established themselves here are moving out.

All the economic and social malaise cannot help but affect the value of our currency. The strength of a country's currency is after all, a reflection of its fundamentals.

Furthermore, Bank Negara has a policy of weak ringgit to help exporters, never mind the burden on the common folk. The government is pro-corporation, not pro-rakyat.

While the poor and middle-class are squeezed, an elite group gets breathtakingly rich. We have the distinction of having the worse income disparity in Asean. A re-distribution of wealth is under way from the poor and middle-class to a select group of politically-connected elite.

The end result of this re-distribution will be a small group of super-rich while the majority are pushed into poverty and themiddle-class shrinks. This is what happens when the rich gets richer and the poor get poorer.

There is much that is wrong with Malaysia . The responsibility for pulling the country backwards can be laid squarely at the door of the ruling regime. It is BN's mis-governance, racial politics and cultureof patronage which has seen the country regress economically and socially.

We seem to be sliding down a slippery slope, further down with each passing year of BN's rule. Another five years of BN rule and we'll beat Indonesia 's standard under Suharto. Another 10 years and we'll be touching the African standard.

ARE YOU GETTING THE REAL VISION 2020 NOW?!??!?

Is there any hope for Malaysia ?
Faced with the reality that BN will never change, many Malaysians desperate for change turn their lonely eyes to Anwar Ibrahim.
Pakatan Raykat has promised to treat all races fairly, to plug wastage, fight corruption, reform the judiciary and make Malaysia more competitive.
But some have questioned whether we can trust Anwar and his loose coalition of disparate parties..

The question is not whether we can trust Anwar and Pakatan Rakyat but whether we can afford not to.

Can we afford another ten years of BN's misrule?

THIS IS SCARY STUFF!!

Got this scary news from Malaysiakini...

Two PKR leaders want an independent commission to probe the death of Indian Malaysians while in police custody!! The duo claimed to have received 11 complaints over the last two years from families of Indian remand prisoners who have died in police lock-ups nationwide!!

"I am sure there are more unreported cases. We have not heard about remand prisoners of other ethnic groups dying in lock-ups, at least not that many. The community wants answers from the authorities,” said Arumugam.Kalaivanar, who said he has handled four complaints, claimed that police investigations have remained open-ended or classified as ‘suicide’.

Two of the cases were in Selangor, he said, involving a 32-year-old in Klang in 2004 and a 22-year-old in Bukit Beruntong in 2006."

'Until today police have not revealed their findings and reportedly told the families that the investigations are still on," he said.

The duo were speaking journalists today at the Sultan Abdul Halim Hospital mortuary in Sungai Petani, Kedah, where a second post-mortem examination was conducted by pathologist Dr Bhupinder Singh on a remand prisoner S Suria Ramesh, 29.

He had been arrested in Kulim last Thursday in connection with several alleged robbery cases, but died in the Kota Setar district police lock-up on Saturday.

His uncle S Ganesan, 45, believes his nephew, who leaves wife Vimala and a seven-year-old son, did not commit suicide.

Police usually investigate death in custody if the post-mortem report raises suspicion of foul play or if the next-of-kin obtain a court order.

1. What exactly does "open-ended" mean???

2. Is it not basic police procedure to remove everything that can be use as a suicide weapon from the prisoner first before putting him/her in a cell??

3.Then how come still got so many suicide case within police custody??

4. Does this reflect the police competency/ negligence or is there some conspiracy theory behind this??

5. Is it not the police responsibility to make sure the prisoner are safe while in their custody??

6. If this is true, then will the police take responsibility for the death and pay some kind of compensation or etc?!?

7. I wonder how many Malays also die while in police custody???

8. Does all this information scared the crap out of you??

9. Issit not the Police job to protect us and not scared the crap out of us?!?

10. Do you think (if it is indeed a policeman killed the prisoners) that the policeman will get purnished???

Is lowering your EPF contribution really good for you?!?

LOWERING the rate of employees’ contribution to the Employees Provident Fund (EPF) temporarily is part of the Government’s bag of tricks to rouse the economy.

This time around, an employee can reduce his EPF contribution from 11% of his salary to 8% for two years from Jan 1. The idea is to boost private consumption by putting more money in workers’ pockets.

Unlike the last two occasions, the next rate cut will be on a voluntary basis. The Government has estimated that RM4.8bil a year will be freed up for spending in the economy if all EPF contributors opt for the rate cut.

We are clear about the argument that increasing workers’ disposable income is good for the economy.

BUT THE REAL QUESTION IS..."IS THE EPF CUT GOOD FOR THE WORKERS?!?"

The EPF has often said that for most workers, their savings are already insufficient to see them comfortably through their old age. There will even be less available when the contributions are reduced. Taking into consideration that at retirement age, the worker will find it more difficult to get a job, it is better that he tries to manage with the present take home pay than to have less savings upon retirement.

Considering the cost of living has gone up and our purchasing power has been significantly reduced in recent times, there is little this magical three percentage points can do for the individual per se.

And the most important thing is......... there is now a tax-free limit on EPF savings and insurance premiums amounting to RM8,000. If, by reducing our contributions, we go below the limit, it can also have implications on our tax bracket.

This means while it may look like we may have extra disposable income from the EPF cuts......what actually may happen is that the govt will take back the extra income through taxing back your higher disposable income!!!

(Mark my words! Lets see if the govt will raise income tax rate next year!)

QUESTION OF THE DAY!
Is the goverment being sneaky about this lower EPF scheme!
(source Malaysiakini and TheStar)

The prophecy is TUHMAM and not RAHMAN! hahaha!!!

read this on Malaysiakini from a guy commenting on the RAHMAN prophecy. I thought it was funny! Take 5 mins to entertain yourself lah! Hahahaha!!!

Mat Al-Jajawi: I have never heard of a more imbecilic 'prophecy' than this and wonder who was the smart Alec who started it, as if Malaysia does not have enough follies already.

The first prime minister was not Rahman, but Tunku Abdul Rahman. So his name starts with a ‘T' and not R. Even if one drops the Tunku part, his name will start with an ‘A'.

Granted that in the case of the second PM, his name was Abdul Razak Hussein; so the first letter of his name is obviously ‘A'. Similarly, Hussein Onn's name fits into the ‘prophecy' as it starts with an ‘H. 'So do the two succeeding PM's Dr Mahathir Mohamed and Abdullah Ahmad Badawi.

When it comes to Najib, his name is Mohammed Najib Abdul Razak, so his first letter is an ‘M', not an ‘N'.

In summary, the prophecy is correct only in four out of six cases - or two-thirds correct. Granted this fraction happens to coincide with the parliamentary majority required to amend the Malaysian constitution. But to use this ‘performance' to justify the prophecy is ridiculous and shows how naive we Malaysians can be.

I would have thought that for a country that boasts of having launched a man into space, this kind of prophecy would have been nipped in the bud, when it first appeared in the 1970s. Using the true first letters of the five names who have been prime ministers, and Najib who is tipped to be the next one, their first letters spell ‘Tahmam'. The nearest Arabic word that comes closest to this is tuhmah. It means an accusation. (hmmmm...... I wonder how is getting so many accusation!....hehehehhe)

Readers please check other languages.

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Can we also consider Anwar Ibrahim and just say his nick name is Nwar?

hehehehehehe!!

Some people say that with the completion of the "Rahman" prophecy.....UMNO reign of terror will also be finish!!

WHAT DO YOU THINK?!?

2 demonstration in KL today! Guess which one the police stop!

Today there were 2 separate gathering in KL.
First one was pro-ISA the second was anti-ISA
NO points for guessing the right one!!!

YOU GOT IT!!! Of course it was the Anti-ISA one!!!
You have got to be an idiot or living under a rock to get that one wrong!!!

The police today moved in to disperse a group of people who had gathered at a field in Ampang Jaya since 8pm for the launch of an anti-ISA campaign. (you won't get this news on TheStar or NST)

In the process, it is learnt that about seven people have been arrested for failing to disperse.

But on the same day!!!!!
About 500 of the Pewaris (and gang) members held a peaceful gathering outside their meeting place at Wisma Sejarah before going to the Jalan Tun Razak police station to lodge their reports.

Did the police do anything about it?!?!

Was there any arrest??!!?
Worse of all was the way TheStar reported it!!
(hidden at the back end of an article "Malay, Muslim NGOs lodge police reports")

Below is taken for the last part of the article....

Later, about 500 of the coalition’s members held a peaceful gathering outside their meeting place at Wisma Sejarah before going to the Jalan Tun Razak police station to lodge their reports.
During the gathering, a woman who was standing at an overhead pedestrian bridge shouted obscenities at the group.
Some members of the group responded with shouts while others chased her before they were stopped by policemen.
The group lodged another report against the woman at the police station.

Even what was written above is full of crap and contradicting itself.
First!!! they say it was a peaceful gathering.....then they said the group shouted back and chased her.

Second!!! The Star newspaper reported that the lady "shouted obscenities at the group", but only reported that "the group responded with shouts".

This is a very cowardly way of reporting the news!!!
The group responded in shouts only?!? NO OBSCENITIES OF THEIR OWN!!?!?
(This type of reporting only makes me believe that TheStar is own by MCA and MCA is own by UMNO!!!)

ANYWAY THE REPORT WAS NOT THE TRUE PICTURE OF WHAT REALLY HAPPEN!

I saw the real footage on NTV7 and it showed a group of violent MOB yelling at a poor lady. They chase her, tried to beat her and EVEN STOMP ON HER CAR!!!!

The police did only minimal restrain. (OK Thank God police were there, or else they might just kill her!)

But again NO ARREST?!?!? OR EVEN DISPERSING THE GROUP?!?!
They even had the guts to lodge a police report?!? This is CRAZY!!!

BIGGEST JOKE IS THAT STAR NEWSPAPER CAN CALL IT PEACEFUL GATHERING!!!

1.How many of you out there still believe in what TheStar reports on these days!?!?
2.HOW CAN THE POLICE SHOW THAT MUCH DOUBLE STANDARD ON THE SAME DAY?!?!

More news you won't get from STAR and NST

Here is a direct news clip from Malaysiakini.

I am quite sure you will not get this reported from the Star or NST!

Seized Mkini video tampered with
Andrew Ong Nov 21, 08 11:19am

The videotape recording of the Nov 9 candlelight vigil in Petaling Jaya, Selangor which was seized by police has been found to have been tampered with.

The videotape and video camera were seized by police at the tail-end of the vigil, held to protest against the Internal Security Act (ISA) and commemorate the first anniversary of the Nov 10 Bersih rally, when 23 participants were arrested.

Malaysiakini videographer Shukri Mohammad, 28, was also arrested. He was later freed on police bail and is required to report back to the Petaling Jaya police station on Nov 24. Police returned the videotape and video camera to Malaysiakini on Tuesday evening. Upon viewing the 36-minute clip, a total of three minutes and 42 seconds of visuals from the vigil were ‘missing' in two instances. The first instance was at the 10 minute and 54 second mark of the tape, when footage of Selangor police chief Khalid Abu Bakar telling vigil participants to disperse was abruptly overwritten with new footage.

May have legal implications

The new footage appeared to be filmed inside a police vehicle by the front passenger. Three minutes and 36 seconds later, the original footage appeared again, this time depicting riot police in front of Amcorp Mall where the vigil participants were gathering. The second tampering occurred 10 seconds later at the 14 minute and 40 seconds mark, where visuals of the riot police in formation were overwritten with footage of a clothing cabinet which lasted for about six seconds. The contents of the 'missing' footage has yet to be ascertained. Shukri yesterday made a report at the Jalan Travers police station on the tampered videotape as it could be used as evidence should he be charged in court. "We are not accusing the police of tampering with evidence as there is the possibility that the footage could be accidentally overwritten when it was in police possession," said Malaysiakini editor-in-chief Steven Gan."Nevertheless, the police should treat potential evidence with the utmost care and not go around playing with our camera."

On another note, one comment from Malaysiakini readers stick out to me.

I paste his comment below!

Ranjeet: Razak Baginda, since you can vouch for Najib and Rosmah, then I assume that you know the full story behind the murder of Altantunya.

Don't tell us who is not involved. I know that I am not involved, everybody else is also not involved. The real murderer too is not involved as he would never admit his involvement.

Then, Razak Baginda, tell us who is involved. Tell us also where is Balasubramaniam. If you do not know, then we are not interested in you. Just thank your luck that you're acquitted and that you were lucky enough to be born in Malaysia the Bolehland.

Candlelight vigil turn violent thanks to Cops!

Malaysiakini Team Nov 9, 08 7:46pm
Riot police today dispersed about 300 people and arrested 24 people who had gathered at the Petaling Jaya Civic Centre.

The police moved into the crowd just as they were singing the national anthem and getting ready to leave. Before that they have heard short speeches from several politicians.

The crowd had walked over to the PJ Civic Centre shortly after 9.30pm after they had been originally dispersed from the Padang Timur, about a kilometre away, where they had gathered to take part in a candlelight vigil. Just as the crowd started re-gathering at the Civic Centre, a team of anti-riot squad and a water cannon truck had arrived. Shortly afterwards the police started dispersing the crowd using their shields. In the ensuing melee, police arrested PJ Utara member of parliament and DAP leader Tony Pua, Kampung Tunku state representative Lau Weng San and 22 others. Also arrested was Malaysiakini videographer Shukri Mohamad. (Please see link to see how violent the cops were at man handling our MPs!)

Family man Tony Pua treated like a common criminal!

"I was shooting the water cannon truck when a policeman told me to stop that. He ordered me to hand over the camera and tape. I turned and walked away when I was arrested," Shukri said when contacted.

Eyewitnesses said that Pua was physically manhandled and thrown into a waiting Black Maria. The police were also seen chasing the crowd into an Indian restaurant located opposite the Civic Centre.

Those arrested have been taken to the PJ police station. A small group of people have gathered outside in support of those arrested under the watchful eyes of a team of police anti-riot squad.

Earlier, at about 9.35pm, a candlelight vigil organised by polls reform group Bersih was hampered by police insistence on the gathered crowd to disperse. The vigil was to have started at 9.30pm at Padang Timur opposite Amcorp Mall, Petaling Jaya. However, the police had started blocking the roads leading to the venue as early as 7pm. And as the scheduled 9.30pm approached, the police urged the gathered crowd in the field to disperse. The crowd had then moved into the nearby Amcorp mall, engaged in a ‘wait-and-see' game with the police.

Among those in the crowd were recently court-released ISA detainee Raja Petra Kamaruddin, Selangor exco member Ronnie Liu and DAP leaders Lau Weng San and Pua. At about 9.30pm, the organisers told the crowd to disperse so as to avoid any trouble with the police. Some of the people then decided to hold a mini-procession from the field to the PJ Civic Centre, about a kilometre away.

Roads blocked Eyewitnesses told Malaysiakini that roads leading to the PJ field have earlier been blocked by the police from about 7pm. Some have complained that the roadblocks had stopped them from going to a famous fast-food outlet in the vicinity. Many had resorted to park their vehicles in PJ new town - some two-kilometres away -to walk to the field to take part in the vigil. At about 8pm, eye-witnesses said that about 100 people had gathered at the venue. The police meanwhile had began asking the crowd to leave the place. By 8.30pm - with only an hour away from the planned vigil - the police managed to turn away most of the people from the field. The crowd, by now around 200, moved closer to the Amcorp mall, waiting for the organisers to start the vigil.

At the same time, about 20 federal reserve unit personnel took position just outside the shopping mall. The candlelight vigil did not taken place as planned at 9.30pm. The field was totally deserted, with the crowd waiting in the mall for signs of a possible vigil. Tonight's vigil was to have featured speakers from both civil society groups and political parties. Bersih - or in full the Coalition for Clean and Fair Elections - organised the rally to call for electoral reform as well as the abolition of the ISA.A similar rally was also held in Ipoh tonight to commemorate the first anniversary of the Bersih rally in Kuala Lumpur last year.

That rally, attended by 350 people, proceeded without a hitch.

Question of the day?!?!

How come we don't see this kind of reaction from Police whenever UMNO's people conduct their demostration?!?!?!

MCA, GERAKAN, PBS and etc all talk no action!

The MCA, Gerakan, PBS and etc may have come out against the Internal Security Act (ISA) but to date, none of their parliamentary representatives have signed an opposition-initiated petition against the act.

The petition, started by the Repeal ISA Parliamentary Caucus that was spearheaded by the Pakatan Rakyat on 21 Oct, seeks the prime minister’s permission to allow a debate on the act in Parliament.

As of 23 Oct, the caucus collected 85 signatures, including one signature from a BN component party representative.
Parti Bangsa Dayak Sarawak’s Member of Parliament (MP) for Hulu Rejang, Billy Abit Joo, was the only BN representative who signed the petition before it was submitted to the Prime Minister’s Office.
(article taken and modified from Bangsa Malaysia! site) - Another good site on this issue is The Nut Graph!

All this MCA and Gerakan ppl talk big during their election on getting BN to review ISA!
But won't even support a simple debate on the matter!!! Cowards!!!
New leaders! Same crap!! Should change MCA's name to Malaysia's Coward Association

191 UMNO divisions decide the fate of Malaysia!

Today's breaking news it that Najib has been confirm as the next UMNO president (UNCONTESTED!) All this thanks to the 134 nominations from the various UMNO divisions!

As we all know whoever becomes the UMNO president automatically becomes the next Prime Minister of Malaysia and leads our country!

QUESTIONS!!

1. WHY IS IT THAT WE ALLOW 191 UMNO Division branch leader to decide the next head of our country?!?

2. Does UMNO represent all Malaysian?!?

3. Does UMNO even represent all Malays?!?!?

4. Why can't we have a system (Like in America) where every citizens have a say in who their next Prime Minister will be?!?!

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5.If the fate of the next Prime Minister lays in the hands of a bunch of UMNO division leaders, how can we say that our Prime Minister represent all Malaysian and is supported by all Malaysian?!?!?

6. Since Najib owe his appointment to the UMNO division leaders, who do you think he will work for and make sure they are happy....????

All the people of Malaysia??? ......or just a bunch of UMNO division leaders!!


Malaysia has over 24.5million people from many race and religious background.......but we let a bunch of UMNO leaders to decide our next Prime Minister!!...( While the rest of us have no say in the matter!!)

IS THIS FAIR AND DEMOCRATIC?!?!?