From my piece of land to our.

We live in a very fast world now. Eventhough time is always relative, time now are not the same as ten years ago. More people has came to this country to find work. Only a few stayed in this country. Many left to other countries such as the UK, France, the States and other parts of the world such as Nigeria and many other oil producing countries in the world. Life in Malaysia is too modern for the standard of Malaysians. Many cannot even afford to own a laptop. A laptop is a personal thing today. Just like handphones. It is the source of knowledge, information and you can do almost anything with your laptop. The good, the bad and the ugly.

Things here are so expensive when you compare it with the amount of salary that you earned for the month. For example, a pack of cigarettes here is around RM 8.20. Its even much more expensive than the UK (number wise -5.50 per pack {in pounds}). Of course its cheaper here in Malaysia when you compare it with the UK. But we are not earning pounds here. But an average Civil servant will earn about RM 1000-5000 per year, and to reach the later digit is quite hard for a civil servant. That is the nominal income. After income tax, EPF (The Employees Provident Fund ) and pension funds, how much money do you have to spend or to save for your children and for maintainence of your house. Talking about house, you even need to pay for mortgages-house cars and ETC.

I have shown only cigarettes as an example. How about other household products. Many were not made in Malaysia itself. Foriegn investors tend to set-up their business abroad in countries such as Vietnam, Thailand (Pringles in Malaysia is made in Thailand) and many others Indochina countries where labour are cheaper and where they are willing to work just for the sake of the future.

From what I have seen in my observation so far, the malay malaysians are emotional. They do not know how to let things go away. No matter how good or bad they have been. They like to think more about today and yesterday rather than tomorrow. The future. That is what important. Being good for today is good enough for them. They dont know that people can change overnight. From being religious to a totally complat “weng”. Sustainability is not there. We were not brought up to know. We were forced to know. What our interest is we do not even know. We are not confident when we are alone. We are too confident when we are in a pack. [this is what I have seen so far and I am unable to make comparisson nor write about other races in Malaysia as I was unable to as we are too segregated among each other (what a shame?)]

YES we are segregated between each other. That is the reality of this so called harmony in this country. I cannot even name a chinese nor an Indian whom I know just like I know my Malay friends. The gap are just too far. Of course many will have many friends that they can list down. But the truth is that we Malaysians feel so insecure. We are too concern about our politics, our piece of land (like we have one), our reputation as the “indians (native)” of Malaya and we are too proud of our religion. The first three things that were mentioned need to be forgotten. We need also to know what is religion. A religion is not something you can force someone about. It is a personal thing. At the end of the day, you won’t even know your own parents when you are there (end of time).

 We need to clear from our mind from politics because its useless, we need to stop to talk about our ancestors land because we do not own one(many of us now are X breed{some may have ancestor from chinese bloodline, Indian bloodline, Indonesian bloodline and even from the northern part of Indochina such as Mongolia, Pakistan, Arabs and many other) {just because we are born Islam, it does not mean that we are Malay|-if you want to argue about our history. We don’t even know who we are-|} and we need to forgot about our luxury of being the “indians -native” of Malaya. Because this is Malaysia. Not Malaya anymore. Each of us need to know how to live together just like a family. United under one umbrella. We must sing the same song. And share the same idea. What is it? the idea of the future. We all know what is it. It is the success of the family. Our parents cannot set the idea of the future for the children. Of course they cannot. They can only educate their children. Let the children choose what they want. If not we will rebel.

We have the potential to be so powerful on our piece of land. Yes we can. But first we need to educate ourself to be one. There are so many of us here in this country. We have been fighting for the same reason. But we we will never win because we are fighting for the same reason. It is much simpler if we intergrate among each other and solve our problem. Hating your own family will not take you anywhere.