made in malaysia

Malaysia wishes to become a high-income country.

 The following are true stories: A Malaysian political leader had a heart surgery in Singapore. The operation was successful.

During his recuperation period, the political leader would like to thank 3 skilful doctors, including an anesthesiologist. He said: “Thanks to the Singaporean doctors..........”

 “I'm sorry, Sir. I'm from Malaysia,” interrupted a doctor. “Me too.” “Me as well.” x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x A Malaysian company wanted to develop a new town abroad, it entrusted the project to a Singapore multinational company. The first time when they met, the Singapore company sent a team of seven people, including the Chief Executive Officer, Chief Architect and Chief Finance Executive. The meeting went smoothly. They relaxed and chatted.

The Malaysian company's Director said, “Durians from my hometown Kuala Pilah, Seremban taste the best. I'll treat you all next time when you come.” “Really? What area in Kuala Pilah? I'm from Kuala Pilah, too!” said the Singapore company's Chief Executive Officer. Next, one by one, the other six from the Singaporean team revealed their identities “I'm from Malacca.” “I'm from Kuala Kangsar, Perak.” “I grew up in Segamat.”

“My hometown is...” And all of them were actually “Made in Malaysia ”. x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x There are countless similar stories around us. And there is always another story behind each story. Some were rejected by domestic universities while some were rejected by the government scholarship. They couldn't get it even with 10 As while others got only 10 Bs. As leaving might be better than staying, they just went to a different world after crossing the bridge. There is a deep feeling for every story. x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x

According to the Malaysian Employers Federation (MEF) statistics, a total of about 785,000 Malaysians are currently working abroad and 44% of them are working in Singapore, while the rest are working in other countries, including Hong Kong, China, Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States. And two-thirds of them are professionals. At the same time, most of the 2 million guest workers in Malaysia are from Indonesia, Bangladesh, Myanmar, India and Vietnam.

They are engaged in labour industry which does not require high educational background but just a little bit of brains. Low skill, low knowledge and of course, low wages. Malaysia has become a country that exports brains while importing labours, resulting in a serious deficit in knowledge trade.

This is What A Malaysian Should Know

This is What A Malaysian Should Know

 NATIONAL EXCUSE FOR HAIR LOSS: Ajinomoto

 NATIONAL INSTANT FOOD : Maggi Mee

 NATIONAL BREAKFAST : Nasi Lemak

 NATIONAL LUNCH : Nasi Ayam

 NATIONAL SUPPER : Roti Canai & Teh Tarik

 NATIONAL EXCUSE FOR BEING LATE: Traffic Jam

 NATIONAL FRUIT FOR INDUCING MENSTRUATION : Pineapple

 NATIONAL APHRODISIAC DRINK: Stout. Many Malaysian men swear by it. But then after a few pints they start swearing at everything.. .

 NATIONAL FAKE ILLNESS FOR GETTING MC (MEN): Food Poisoning

 NATIONAL FAKE ILLNESS FOR GETTING MC (WOMEN): Menstrual Pain

 NATIONAL CURE FOR DIARRHOEA : Cap Kaki Tiga.

 NATIONAL CURE FOR HEADACHES: Panadol.

 NATIONAL CURE FOR DIZZINESS: Minyak Angin Cap Kapak.

 NATIONAL CAUSE OF DIZZINESS (FOR YUPPIES): Happy Hours.

NATIONAL INSTANT CURE FOR DIZZINESS (FOR YUPPIES): The sight of a police road block. 

NATIONAL RICE COOKER : NATIONAL Rice Cooker

 NATIONAL RUBBISH DUMP: Anywhere, as long as it is not your house.

 NATIONAL MOST MIS-PRONOUNCED NAME: Carrefour.

 NATIONAL ANSWER FOR 'WHERE ARE YOU?' On the way.

 NATIONAL OFFICIAL TIME FOR BEING LATE -10 minutes

 NATIONAL REASON FOR PRICE INCREASE Petrol naik

 NATIONAL REASON FOR PETROL INCREASE Still cheaper than other country

 NATIONAL EXCUSE FOR CAUSING TRAFFIC JAM: There was accident on the other side of the road

NATIONAL REASON WHEN REJECTING INVITATION : 'I got some work to do..u all go first' 

NATIONAL REASON FOR COLLAPSED BUILDINGS & LEAKY PARLIAMENT ROOFS: An act of God.

 NATIONAL EXCUSE FOR IRRESPONSIBLE POLITICAL STATEMENTS: None. We were misquoted.

 NATIONAL MINISTERIAL REASON FOR INCREASING TOLL RATES: Lu ingat ini jalan saya punya bapak punya kah?

 NATIONAL EXCUSE FOR JUMPING QUEUE: Everybody jumping what!

 NATIONAL EXCUSE NOT PAYING SAMAN ACCORDING TO DUE DATE: Government will give discount one of these days

 NATIONAL EXCUSE TO BRIBE: Minum kopi

 NATIONAL GOD Allah only for Muslims

Utusan mahu Malaysiakini minta maa

Utusan mahu Malaysiakini minta maaf

6:26PM Sep 30 2012

Utusan Malaysia hari ini menuntut Malaysiakini memohon maaf kepada semua rakyat Malaysia atas dakwaan bahawa portal berita itu dibiaya jutawan George Soros.

Dalam edisi hujung minggunya hari ini, Awang Selamat – nama samaran untuk pengarang akhbar tersebut – juga mempersoalkan jika Malaysiakini berniat untuk menjadi "alat pihak asing".

"Dengan sekian banyak bukti, jangan lagi berulang kali mendakwa portal itu bersifat bebas, itu hanya menghina diri sendiri.

"Belum terlewat lagi untuk kembali ke pangkal jalan, lebih-lebih lagi ini adalah soal kedaulatan," kata penulis tanpa nama itu.

Penulis berkenaan menyalahkan pembiaya asing yang didakwanya "menjadi ancaman kepada keselamatan dan kedaulatan negara" atas laporan "memburuk-burukkan kerajaan" dan menyokong ketua pembangkang Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim.

Dalam kempennya sebelum ini, Utusan turut melaporkan dakwaan seorang bekas editor Malaysiakini yang mendakwa salah seorang pengarah portal itu, Harlan M Mandel merupakan "orang Soros".

Bagaimanapun, akhbar milik Umno itu tidak melaporkan kenyataan dan penjelasan ketua pegawai eksekutif Malaysiakini Premesh Chandran berhubung isu tersebut.

Akhbar itu juga tidak melaporkan bahawa Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad sudah berbaik-baik dengan Soros dan turut meminta jutawan itu menyokong projek anti-perang Forum Keamanan Dunia yang diusahakan bekas perdana menteri itu.

Malaysiakini sebelum ini mendedahkan bahawa Mandel menjadi salah seorang pengarah Mkini Dotcom Sdn Bhd selepas mengetuai Media Development Loan Fund pada tahun lalu.

http://www.malaysiakini.com/news/210354

Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin unhappy with Najib Razak’s 2013 Budget

From the Desk of Lim Kit Siang

Deputy Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin’s barefaced denial yesterday that Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak’s 2013 Budget was an “election budget” illustrated what is wrong with the UMNO/Barisan Nasional government after 55 years in power – that the Umno/BN government leaders suffer from the dual terminal ailments of denial complex and unprecedented credibility gap.

Even UMNO/Barisan Nasional Ministers, MPs and members would not believe Muhyiddin’s brazen denial that Najib’s 2013 Budget was not an “election budget”.

Why then is the Deputy Prime Minister making a denial that is completely bereft of credibility, whether in Pakatan Rakyat or Barisan Nasional camps?

The only answer is that UMNO/BN leaders continue to suffer from the false sense that they could transform Malaysian politics into a world of make-believe and get ordinary Malaysians to believe what the UMNO/BN leaders decreed, although totally divorced from the world of reality.
It is because of this misguided and misplaced complex that caused UMNO/BN leaders to continue to deny that the growing fear of crime among Malaysians as well as rampant corruption in the country are major problems in the country, falling back on discredited GTP and NKRA statistics and claims of falling crime index and progress in the war against corruption.

But this is false sense of make-believe and denial is not sustainable in the real world, especially in the era of Internet and information technology where information travels at the speed of light and could no more be buried by the BN mainstream media.

Najib had put his finger on the pulse of the problem when he became Prime Minister in April 2009, when he declared that “the era that the government knows best is over”, but the tragedy is that Najib had demonstrated in his 42 months as Prime Minister that he could diagnose the problem afflicting UMNO/BN government but he could not act on the diagnosis, either for lack of political will or personal convictions.
Najib made dubious history yesterday when he transformed his 2013 Budget – which had goodies for almost every sector of the electorate – into a brazen electioneering speech.

Despite Muhyiddin’s post-budget claim that the 2013 Budget is not an “election budget”, Najib devoted more than 10 per cent of his budget speech in a blatant electioneering appeal for continued support for Umno/BN while launching a most improper attack on Pakatan Rakyat.
Najib took MPs and the listening Malaysian public by surprise when he devoted the first six paragraphs of his 2013 Budget speech appealing to Malaysians for continued electoral support for Umno/BN government after 55 years, and hurled charges and insinuations against Pakatan Rakyat.

But he outdid himself at the end of the budget speech when he devoted the last 14 paragraphs of his 174-paragraph budget speech on a unashamed glorification of Umno/BN rule and condemned Pakatan Rakyat, causing many on both sides of the political divide to shake their heads with the common complaint that the 2013 Budget presentation was a poor reflection on the “class” and “standard” both on the Prime Minister and the annual budget.

It is evident that the 2013 Budget hides a very unconfident Najib who is haunted and hounded by the phobia that his fourth budget speech as Finance Minister may be the last Umno/BN budget in Parliament in the nation’s history.

This is why despite all the chest-thumping and braggadocio of supreme confidence that Malaysia will witness six more budgets to be tabled by the Umno/BN Government to transform Malaysia from middle to a high-income developed country, Najib has continued to play the role of Shakespeare’s Hamlet, “To Be or Not To Be”, agonizing over whether “To dissolve or not to dissolve Parliament” since last year.
The reason is simple – Najib has no confidence that he would not be the last Umno Prime Minister in Malaysia or that he would not be toppled as UMNO President and Prime Minister in a repeat scenario like what happened to Tun Abdullah in 2009, becoming the latest “trophy” of Tun Mahathir with the scalps of three DPMs and two PMs!

http://www.kualalumpurpost.net/tan-sri-muhyiddin-yassin-unhappy-with-najib-razaks-2013-budget/