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A glimpse of what might have been, but for UMNO/BN, Mahathir, Pak Lah and now Najib Posted on September 29, 20122

Every Malaysian must read this for what might have been but it is still not too late to turn the tides of corruption, abuses, looting, plundering and malpractices by those in the corridors of power the last 55 years. Isn't it bloody time for a change of guards???

Please share and spread this information to effect a change in Malaysia in the coming General Election 13.

A glimpse of what might have been, but for UMNO/BN, Mahathir, Pak Lah and now Najib

Singapore River in the 60s

On 9th August, 47 years ago, Singapore was expelled from the newly formed Malaysia.

Blogger KTemoc reports, and many haveconfirmed this, that “When LKY had no further choice but to accept the expulsion he actually broke down during a televised press conference, stating emotionally:

Singapore in the 70s and 80s

“For me, it is a moment of anguish. All my life, my whole adult life, I … I believed in Malaysian merger and unity of the two territories. You know that we, as a people are connected by geography, economics, by ties of kinship … It broke everything we stood for ……. “

Forty-five years later, in 2010, in an interview with the New York Times, LKY had this to say :

“Well, first I regret having been turfed out of Malaysia. I think if the Tunku had kept us together,what we did in Singapore, had Malaysia accepted a multiracial base for their society, much of what we’ve achieved in Singapore would be achieved in Malaysia. But not as much because it’s a much broader base. We would have improved inter-racial relations and an improved holistic situation. Now we have a very polarized Malaysia, Malays, Chinese and Indians in separate schools, living separate lives and not really getting on with one another”.

So, what did Singapore achieve, that LKY asserts we in Malaysia did not, and, if he is right, why did we not?

In my view, four recent reports say it all.

                                                            Singapore today 2012

On 15th August, this year, The Wall Street Journal, relying on a report released by Knight Frank and Citi Private Wealth, reported that Singapore is “the wealthiest nation in the world by GDP per capita, beating out Norway, the U.S., Hong Kong and Switzerland”.

The-Wealth-Report-2012

This, the islanders south of Johor achieved notwithstanding the island nation state being, as described by The New York Times, in its edited report of that interview with LKY, a ‘resource-poor island’.

Below are excerpts from that LKY interview that give an insight on his views on some of the things that Singapore did right to get to where they are now.

“We made quite sure whatever your race, language or religion, you are an equal citizen and we’ll drum that into the people and I think our Chinese understand and today we have an integrated society. Our Malays are English-educated, they’re no longer like the Malays in Malaysia and you can see there are some still wearing headscarves but very modern looking.”

…if you chose the easy way… and switch to racial politics, this society is finished. The easiest way to get majority vote is vote for me, we’re Chinese, they’re Indians, they’re Malays. Our society will be ripped apart. If you do not have a cohesive society, you cannot make progress.”

…All are thoroughly mixed. Willy-nilly, your neighbours are Indians, Malays, you go to the same shopping malls, you go to the same schools, the same playing fields, you go up and down the same lifts. We cannot allow segregation.”

…don’t play race, language, religion. We’ve got here, we’ve become cohesive, keep it that way. We’ve not used Chinese as a majority language because it will split the population. We have English as our working language, it’s equal for everybody, and it’s given us the progress because we’re connected to the world”.

And his thoughts on where we went wrong?

“Malaysia took the different line; Malaysians saw it as a Malay country, all others are lodgers, “orang tumpangan”, and they the Bumiputras, sons of the soil, run the show. So the Sultans, the Chief Justice and judges, generals, police commissioner, the whole hierarchy is Malay. All the big contracts for Malays. Malay is the language of the schools although it does not get them into modern knowledge. So the Chinese build and find their own independent schools to teach Chinese, the Tamils create their own Tamil schools, which do not get them jobs. It’s a most unhappy situation”.

The three other reports I will refer to after this, I believe, will bear out that the short excerpt below from LKY’s interview puts in sharp contrast Mahathir, Pak Lah and Najib, on the one hand, and their Singapore counterparts, on the other, and best explains why, even as Singapore is today touted as the world’s richest nation, we may be on the brink of financial disaster, if not bankruptcy.

“We are non-corrupt. We lead modest lives”.

Whilst Singapore, with scant natural resources at its disposal, has made it to the top, Sabah, probably the most blessed resources-wise, is

Impoverished household in Sabah. 40% of poor households in Malaysia are to be found in Sabah

reported by the World Bank in a report in November, 2010, as the poorest. The report, in PDF, is linked below. Read from page 64 on if you want to get straight to the part in question.

World Bank Malaysian Economic Monitor

Awang Abdillah, in his comment in FMTearlier this month, offers one very important perspective.

First, both Sabah and Sarawak were duped, the former, it seems by means most foul, to part with their oil for a miserly royalty of 5% of all the oil that rightfully belongs to the people of Sabah and Sarawak.

Then, quoting Awang, “the oil revenues allocated to Sarawak and Sabah are meagre sums. However, the actual development funds returned and allocated to the two states from the petroleum revenue earned by the federal government fall far below the requirements of the two states. This can be judged by the slow development of the state transport and infrastructure projects such as highways and bridges ,and the state of poverty prevalent in the rural areas. Even if there are substantial allocations of funds for development projects, most of them would go to the BN crony companies with very much inflated, unreasonable contract prices”.

Extreme poverty in Sarawak drives young children into the labour force

The third and fourth reports probably sum up all that is wrong in Malaya, Sabah and Sarawak today and why, even as Singapore sits on the pinnacle, we languish at the bottom on almost all fronts.

On 2nd August, this year, FMT reported that Sabah Chief Minister Musa Aman was the subject of simultaneous investigations in 4 countries over alleged money laundering of funds that run into billions, if not trillions.

And last week, the Bruno Manser Fund released a report that Sarawak Chief Minister is worth US$15 billion, making him the richest man in Malaysia.

To-date, the Najib administration has not moved to take any action.

He will not.

During Pak Lah’s term, when the scandal broke linking Najib to the RM500 million commission in the Scorpene deal, no action was taken.

And during Mahathir’s watch, it was the same.

No action.

Such is the way of UMNO.

What was it LKY said?

“We are non-corrupt. We lead modest lives”.

LKY said one other thing towards the end of that interview.

“I’m not saying that everything I did was right, but everything I did was for an honourable purpose”.

Can Mahathir, Pak Lah and Najib, in all good conscience, say the same?

Where did we go wrong?

At the risk of stating the case too simplistically, I will touch on just two points.

First, as LKY put it, we allowed UMNO to divide us along racial lines and, when they saw the need, to pit us one against the other.

Once divided, they would rule us ad infinitum.

Then, in my view, the NEP, quite in order conceptually, provided the perfect vehicle, from the days of Mahathir to the present, to facilitate huge and surreptitious leakages from the national coffers.

Today, they have become so accustomed to helping themselves to whatever they will, that little shame is felt even as scandal upon financial scandal is exposed.

Will we not learn?

Will we not put in place a system that never allows this dark episode in our national history to ever repeat, should we succeed, come the 13th General Election, of removing the UMNO / BN scourge from Putrajaya and installing a new pro-reform government?

In a few hours from now, starting at 10am, a civil society initiative called the Social Inclusion Agenda will be discussed at a dialogue convened at the Rumah Anak Bangsa Malaysia and to which political parties on both side of the divide have been invited.

A daft bill to give effect to the fullest aspirations of this effort has also been drawn up for the consideration of the political parties.

In my honest view, it seeks to address all that went wrong in the implementation of the NEP since the era of Mahathir up to the present.

And it will set the platform for a comprehensive program to address the needs of those long marginalised in this country, without considerations of ethnicity.

I call on the Pakatan parties and all other non-BN parties to give this effort their fullest support and to pledge that if the people mandate you to administer the nation from Putrajaya post the 13th GE, you will make the Social Inclusion Agenda a reality.

To my fellow anak bangsa Malaysia, I urge you to make every effort to familiarise yourselves with the Social Inclusion Agenda and, if, as I do, you see its worth, to lend it your fullest support.

A media statement was issued on 14th August when this effort was first launched. You can read the sameHERE.

Farida has written up a report of that launch. You can read that HERE.

The draft Social Inclusion Agenda bill, in PDF, is linked below.

DraftSocialInclusionAct

It is never too late to do right by our people.

Wanna Enjoy a Romantic & Quiet Holiday in China...???
 Here's your dream....places...!!!

  The best one was a friend who went up some mountains by cable car and couldn't come down because everyone stayed there until dark when service also stops!
So kena stayed one night ($$$$) and have to find way home himself.($$$$$$$$$$$$$) because the tour bus also disappeared.

One has to be warned if you think about travelling or touring China....

 

Ask the tour or travel agency about the public holidays in China...or you'll

be engulfed by the millions of local people... think about the problem of

being lost, pick-pocketed, molested and worse... if you need to use a toilet!!!

Just view the photographs and you will understand... God help you if you're there!!

 

Will you want to be hit by the mass of the people everywhere you go??

"Did you know this?...John Leon"

 Hello Sore Losers - here's how the Chinese wins swimming gold!!!

SUCCESS STORIES: Redcliffe swim coach Ken Wood and some of his Chinese swimmers.Source: The Sunday Mail (Qld)

Jones, Coutts enter record books

Sun smashes 1500m world record

Change of itinerary for bad boys

THIS is the medal factory that churns out champion Chinese swimmers - and it's on the outskirts of humble Brisbane , not Beijing .

Aussie swim coach Ken Wood's Redcliffe City High Performance Centre is one of the secrets behind China 's success at the London Olympics.

China has sent so many of its swimmers to Wood's Olympic production line, paying big money for the privilege, that the 82-year-old has lost count.

"I couldn't tell you, but it's a lot," he said. "I had 20 on the Olympic team - 15 individual swimmers and five in relays.

"The money is obviously no object to them. The Chinese Government wants to put China back as the No.1 swimming nation in the world.

POWER protege: Chinese powerhouse Ye Shiwen's photo on the wall of Ken Wood's office. Source: The Sunday Mail (Qld)

"They're on a mission now . . . it's not a matter of if they're going to be No.1 swimming nation in the world, it's just a matter of when."

With gold medal bonuses of up to $250,000, Wood is set for a big windfall after China 's impressive London performances.

Double gold medallist Ye Shiwen, the 16-year-old record-breaking sensation, is among the wave of foreign opponents who have trained here.

But it's a controversial payday as Australian swimming descends into recriminations over the failure to win individual gold in the pool for the first time since 1976.

CENTRE of excellence: The Redcliffe swimming high performance centre. PIC: Jamie Hanson Source: The Sunday Mail (Qld)

Swim boss Leigh Nugent blames our "easy life" society, and pool legend Shane Gould accused coaches of putting statistical analysis over technique. But Wood, who caused a storm last week when he said Australian swimmers were "too fat", says discipline and tough love is China 's "X factor".

A dozen Chinese swimmers arrive at his centre at a time with their own doctor, physiotherapist, chef, masseuse and four coaches in a precision operation. They rent luxurious three-bedroom apartments on the Redcliffe foreshore, then dismantle the plush rooms, rearrange the furniture and put mattresses on the floor so each has their own sleeping space.

One owner says: "They are very quiet, very well-mannered and the perfect tenants."

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Aussies need their heads read

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They use the pool and local gym and hire two mini-vans to take them to Sunshine Coast and Gold Coast beaches and theme parks on a Saturday afternoon. But this is no holiday. They don't even sample our cuisine, with Redcliffe's famed fish and chip shops not getting a look in.

LANGUAGE barrier: A translation chart helps in the teaching process. Source: The Sunday Mail (Qld)

"They have their cooking utensils waiting out the back," Wood says.

"They don't cook by electricity, they cook by gas only in the woks and all their food is purchased at Chinatown . The fish, the vegetables, everything. They just do not eat any of our food at all."

Training begins at 5am daily with a two-hour session written by Wood. Before the last lap is complete, the Chinese coaches have already emailed the session back home for their provincial coaches to use on the other athletes still in China . There are 10 pool sessions and two gym workouts a week.

WALL of winners:: Ken Wood's office wall. PIC: Jamie Hanson Source: The Sunday Mail (Qld)

While only the top echelon of China 's elite get to work directly with Wood, back home the numbers are mind-blowing. There are 28 provinces that share a rivalry as fierce as State of Origin and each has more than 100 swimmers between the ages of seven and 12. There are five coaches to every 20 swimmers.

"Our job was to educate the coaches. They don't know anything about physiology, energy systems, biomechanics. They think threshold is a doorway," Wood says.

What the Chinese coaches do have, however, is discipline. The coaches might be lax with a stop-watch, or duck outside for a cigarette every 10 minutes, but they rule the pool with an iron fist.

MR MEDALS: Ken Wood in his office. PIC: Jamie Hanson Source: The Sunday Mail (Qld)

Wood has broken cultural barriers. When Ye won the world 200m medley title in Shanghai last year, she climbed into the stand to embrace Wood. Victory changes the swimmers' lives. Everything is performance-based. Before international success, the best in each province earns $1000 a month and has their own bedroom. It's a sliding scale to almost nothing for the slowest swimmer in each squad.

"With a world record, she is a millionaire now," Wood said. "When Liu Zige won (200m butterfly) in Beijing she gave her coach a brand new four-wheel-drive. They took her to Hong Kong and they gave her a kilo of gold."

 

Politicians are like diapers, they should be changed frequently and for the same reasons.

Leadership Quotes - Compiled by Mac Anderson

Leadership Quotes "Though leadership may be hard to define, the one characteristic common to all leaders is the ability to make things happen." -Ted W. Engstrom I've always been fascinated by the topic of leadership. What traits, or qualities, do most great leaders possess? Thus, the inspiration for this book! My goal was to find the very best quotes on the most important traits of leadership...like vision, passion, serving, integrity and commitment to excellence...to name a few. 50% off shipping on orders of $250 US or more! Shop now!

I love what Zig Ziglar said about quotes: "Great quotes make the light bulb go off in my mind. If you're like me, you'll jump at the chance to bypass all the churning and scoop the cream right off the top—that is what quotes are...the cream of our learning!" Therefore, if you're a leader, or aspire to become one, it is my hope that Leadership Quotes will inspire you...to inspire others. There are over 250 great quotes and today, I'd like to share a small sampling:

"Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality." -Warren G. Bennis "Management is doing things right. Leadership is doing the right things." -Peter Drucker "One of the true tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency." -Arnold H. Glasgow "Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced." -James Baldwin "If you want to know why your people are not performing well, step up to the mirror and take a peek." -Ken Blanchard "The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality, the last is to say 'Thank you.' In between the two, the leader must become a servant." -Max De Pree "They don't care how much you know until they know how much you care." -Theodore Roosevelt "The greatest management principle in the world is: 'the things that get rewarded and appreciated get done.'" -Michael LeBoeuf "Excellence is...caring more than others think is wise; Risking more than others think is safe; Dreaming more than others think is practical. Expecting more than others think is possible." -Winston Churchill "You get the best efforts from others not by lighting a fire beneath them, but by building a fire within." -Bob Nelson "Quality is never an accident: It is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, intelligent direction and skillful execution. It represents the wise choice of many alternatives." -William A. Foster "Values are critical guides for making decisions. When in doubt, they cut through the fog like a beacon in the night." -Robert Townsend "A leader's job is to look into the future and see the organization not as it is, but as it should be." -Jack Welch "Giving people a little more than they expect is a good way to get back a lot more than you'd expect." -Robert Half "The most important persuasion tool you have in your entire arsenal is integrity." -Zig Ziglar "To lead the people, walk behind them." -Lao Tzu

The Tapping Solution: 7 Weeks to Financial Success and Personal Fulfillment

A Journey of Financial Transformation...

I want to invite you on a journey that I’m going to be taking with a select group of people starting on Monday July 16th…

A 7 week total financial transformation journey designed specifically to take you from where you are right now when it comes to your finances, to money, to your career, and to your level of personal and spiritual fulfillment, to exactly where you WANT to be.

I want to invite you to allow me to be your coach and your guide along a journey similar to the one that I underwent all those years ago when I was a million dollars in debt that completely transformed my life...only this one will be about YOU and reaching the financial goals that YOU want to achieve.

This journey and these 7 weeks are going to be unlike anything you’ve ever experienced before, even if you think you can’t possibly change, or that Tapping couldn’t work for you, or that you don’t think you have what it takes to succeed…you can still see life-changing results with this program.

I’m going to break down what I’ll be guiding you through in this unique process in just a minute, but before I do that I want to explain what this program is not.

This is NOT a program where we’re going to just focus on the positive and expect everything to be better.
This is NOT a program that is going to teach you some secret get rich quick technique that’s nothing more than an empty promise, you know, like some program that says you’ll make more in the first month then you did all of last year.

If that’s the type of program that you’re looking for, then I would suggest not continuing any further. The truth is that those programs all miss what’s really going on unconsciously that is preventing you from succeeding or growing at the speed that you’d like and they all ignore the stress that is having a neurological effect on your body and brain.

This program is for men and women who are ready to finally be able to succeed no matter what they’re doing, who are ready to be able to take on any challenge and succeed financially, who are ready to make their lives easier and more enjoyable than ever before.

The reality is that there is no magic bullet technique to become successful, happy and wealthy without any effort, yet I’ve designed this program to make it as easy, enjoyable and effortless as possible.

I’ve made it so that you don’t have to go through the journey of creating your financial success alone wondering if you’re making the right decision at every turn.

Here's what Kris Carr, New York Times Best-Selilng Author has to say about working with Nick... "Nick Ortner is my personal coach. I work with him every week and plan to for the rest of my glorious days. From transformative and healing EFT sessions to coaching on finances and brand building, Nick is one stop shopping for all my Crazy Sexy needs. My life is truly better with Nick in it. If you get a chance to work with him, dive in, say yes, show up and sign up for the adventure."

What This Program Consists Of...

First off, it’s important for you to know that I’ve designed this program so that you have different options in terms of the level of participation you want to undertake.

I know that different people learn differently and want different things, and the last thing I want is for you to feel like there’s too much to the program, or too little, or anything like that. So I’ve designed it in a way so that you can get results doing it the way you want to do it, while putting in the amount of time that is right for you.

These 7 weeks are about taking you through a process using Tapping that covers the most important topics that need to be addressed in order for you to eliminate the things blocking your success (like the stress we talked about). And to create the unconscious patterns that need to be developed so that every decision and action you take on a daily basis is leading you towards exactly what YOU want.

There are three main weekly components that you
should know about first...

#1 – Weekly Tapping Webinar Presentations with Nick Ortner

Every week there will be a weekly webinar presentation that will take place every Monday at 8pm EST. Don’t worry if you can’t make that specific time, we’ll record it all for you and it’ll be available whenever you want it, to listen again and again.

#2 – Weekly Tapping Meditation to be Used Daily with Jessica Ortner

Immediately after the webinar you’ll get access to a 10 to 15 minute “Daily Tapping Meditation”, recorded by Jessica Ortner, the host of the 2009 to 2012 Tapping World Summits. You’ll use this every day the rest of the week to reinforce the lessons from the webinar as well as to work on new issues that come up.

#3 – Weekly Live Q & A Calls with Nick Ortner

Then, later in the week on Thursday I’ll be available to you personally, LIVE, to answer your questions, to tap with you on your specific issues, and to help you and the whole group get the breakthroughs you’re looking for. This will be a great opportunity to get feedback on the things you’ve been tapping on since the Monday webinar, and again if you can’t be there for the call you’ll have the opportunity to submit your questions, have them answered on the call and then listen to the recording later.

Along with those three main components you’ll also have…

Optional Workbook Exercises

Each week you'll have optional workbook exercises that will help you to continue your growth. You'll get to use these workbook exercises to supercharge your results and continue to work on the lessons covered in the weekly presentations.

The 7 Weeks to Financial Success Group Forum

You'll get access to a one of a kind group forum throughout the 7 weeks to keep you on track. This is of course optional depending on how involved you want to get but I highly recommend it as it’s an amazing support structure and a great place to get answers during the 7 weeks…

What You'll Learn Each Week...

So let’s take a look at what you’ll discover during the 7 week process. Remember, these are some of the major big picture topics. You’ll also get to work on the specifics of what’s going on for you…

Here’s what we’ll cover…

Week 1: How to Overcome the Overwhelm

In week one we'll work on quieting the mental noise, dealing with over-committing, and on how to make better decisions. You can't have big dreams or a clear vision with the amount of "noise" most people have. Sometimes this might be noise in other parts of your life too, so don't ignore this.

Week 2: How to Gain Extreme Clarity on What You Really Want

Here you’ll figure out exactly what your goals, dreams and vision are. You’ll also get to understand what’s stopping them from happening or slowing them down. I'm sure you've heard a lot about goals and goal setting. We're going to throw everything you've learned about goals out the window and take a look at a couple of very specific aspects to this process that are going to transform how quickly they come into your life. It's one thing to have a goal written down on a piece of paper, it's another thing to actually make it happen. We're about making it happen. And some of the very specific ideas and concepts covered this week are really going to blow you away! These things have transformed how quickly I've been able to achive my goals and I know they'll do the same for you.

Week 3: How to Silence the Critical Voice

You know what I mean, the “I’m not good enough, I’m not lovable, life is hard, I have to work hard to be successful voice.” Even if you think you don’t have a critical voice, you’d be surprised by how your unconscious is programmed. Unfortunately this critical voice can constantly stop you from moving forward, being the person you want to be, and achieving the things you want to achieve. In this week 3 presentation I'm going to show you the exact steps to use Tapping to silence this critical voice so that you can get to living the life you've always wanted to live!

Week 4: How to Get Past the Events and Patterns that Haunt You

In this week we’ll figure out exactly what events or beliefs you have that are limiting your growth. And we’ll delve into how the people around you like your parents, grandparents and other family members affected your experience of money. Past events and traumas can have a serious effect on you both consciously and unconsciously. Luckily Tapping is extremely effective at allowing you to make changes that were so difficult before seem easy.

Week 5: How to End Procrastination and Self-Sabotage

I think all of us have dealth with procrastination and self-sabotage. It's unfortunately too easy to do the easy "to do" things in a day and not the ones that actually take you in the direction of your goals. Here you’ll learn systems and strategies that you can use to get to a place of peace when making decisions so that you can end the procrastination and self-sabotage forever…

Week 6: How to Overcome the Fear of Standing Out in the World...

Growing past the people around you can be tough, and the more you grow, the more difficult it can become. If I asked you right now...What would your family and friends think if you were twice as successful, twice as wealthy and had a car and house twice as nice as them? How would you feel about standing out to them? And how would you feel if you stood out in the world because of your success? In this week's presentation and Tapping you’ll learn exactly how to feel congruent and safe with growth using EFT.

Week 7: How to Make Outrageous Dreams and Actually Make Them Happen!

I’m sure you’ve heard things before like…”shoot for the stars” and “dream big”, but does that just feel like pie in the sky thinking to you? How many outrageous dreams have you made happen?

In this final week you’ll discover how to make reaching your outrageous dreams a regular occurrence and not an everyone once in a while thing.