Please save Malaysia


There are many things gone wrong in Malaysia. Our government do not hire the best people to serve the government. T here is not a lack of good people in Malaysia just that lack of good people in the government. Why cant our ministry be run by technocrat rather that politician who dont have a vision for what they want to achieve for Malaysia. Many of the minister dont know their stuff and get someone else to prepare their speech. If you dont know the direction that you want your ministry to go, dont expect that your subordinate will be able to come out with good policies when you want to draft a good masterplan.

I truly support the idea to have the election of the Major of Kuala Lumpur, only then we can have someone who really have a vision for Kuala Lumpur to walk the talk rather than the current rotation system of the major which dont really deliver.

Broadband penetration is very important to Malaysia. A case in point is the development of MSC before even developing the broadband infrastructure. What can we achieve after 10 yrs?

In the western countries their officer in the ministry are professionals but I dont think we have much of that in Malaysia. If you check in the EPU we are currently suffering from a brain drain in terms of the staff so when you form policy what good policies you can think of with not enough good human capital.

Tun Ismail once said that sports is one of the arena in Malaysia that only the best can be there. Why? If you promote someone who cant bring glory to the country, you only make the country loose face. So the government have no choice (not because they dont want to pull strings but the string is just not good enough for the international events) when you are watched by millions of eyes. Regardless of race if you win you will get a gold medal. But the same doesnt happen in other fields in Malaysia.

No doubt we spend millions to send our students to overseas for education but we didnt pay them well when we ask them to come back to serve the country. In this globalised world, some corporation will just buyout your bond if you are really good. Hence since our government have already paid million of ringgit to send the students then why are they trying to save up on this little monthly salary. My view is that Malaysia is just trying to provide their students to other western countries for free. This group of people are the best but they will never work for the country in the end.

Why did we finish the ipoh rawang railway but dont have trains in the end? Cant we plan ahead? If this small project of electrification also take so many years, will we have any confidence for the country to finish implementing its RMK 9 using RM 200 billion?

Poor planning is a norm in Malaysia and its really memalukan. It doesnt take a genius to highlight to the minister what needs to be done. If they open their eyes wider they can see what needs to be done. Unfortunately their are more interested in their self interest than the people’s plight.

A case in Johor. If you really want IDR to be successful just get them to build a mrt line from kranji to ciq to the second link. I am confident it will bring in more people to stay and consume in JB. Singapore cost of living is going up really fast but our reaction to opportunity is so slow. There are so many over supply housing in JB, have the government thought of instead of selling it, they can rent it to Singaporeans if they are willing to do a gated community with good security. When you want to sell a product you need to think what your customers want.

Or another project the government can do it the big old folks home village for Singaporeans. Why? Because thats how you can attract FDI, solve your over supply , create jobs and boost consumption. But what sort of policies are we making? Sometimes simple things can do wonders not mega corridor.

How long will the JB CIQ will be completed? Samy vellu mentioned many a times that the CIQ will be opened but until now the people do not believe anymore what the minister say because the minister are more like a parrot which repeat what other people say without checking if the facts are true.

Another point i wish to highlight is if our currency is weak or devalued, we can never ever compete with other countries to attract talent. This is because just imagine Singapore will tweak its currency up a bit when you try to attract talent and it doesnt hurt them much since they have bigger buffer to shift their forex than us. Weak currency is just a short sighted solution, in the end it will just create more misery for the rakyat. Malaysia is not getting better by the day in fact we are really falling behind.

Malaysia has a tendency to do hit and run. We have some many competition in our local industries until no economy of scaled is obtain. A case in point; KL is one of the place the world which has a LRT, monorail, commuter, and automated LRT in the same city. Why cant we standardised it? Do you know the maintanance cost will be very high. Singapore SMRT only use the most efficient way to solve problem but we like to try and error. Hence we are left with so many legacy issue.

The rapid kl project will not be successful also in the future because they use too many different bus from different manufacturer. In the future maintanance will be an issue and the bus will break down and then we will get another company to clean up the mess of rapid kl. All this inefficency just burden the tax payer with many more white elephant projects.

We never really think of how we want to develop Malaysia ie no focus. Imagine if we invest all those money to develop broadband like South Korea now which has 1000 Mbps network, Malaysia is just at 10 Mbps. We have petronas money but we dont spend it wisely.

I really pray to God and I hope God can save Malaysia. Malaysian and Singaporeans are from the same stock but the difference boils down to implementation policy. I think one day only when Thailand or Vietnam overtake Malaysia in terms of development will we actually wake up and realise what is the problem. Perhaps if we never discover much natural resources, we will be more resilient and will not do so many trial and error projects.