Atas Nama Demokrasi
Bangsa Kita
Di Malaysia, sikda satu parti politik pun boleh claim yang sidaknya adalah truly-multiracial. Rata-rata mereka didominasi oleh oleh sesuatu bangsa, baik Melayu, Bumiputera, Cina atau India. Setiap rakyat di pelbagai lapisan, perlukan wakil di peringkat nasional. Seandainya sesuatu bangsa ataupun etnik di Malaysia mengharapkan suara mereka diwakili di peringkat tertinggi pemerintahan, secara logik mudahnya, mereka perlulah mengangkat pemimpin mereka yang dirasakan LAYAK dan KUAT untuk mengetengahkan agenda masing-masing. Dan berdasarkan prinsip demokrasi, mereka yang paling banyak perwakilan, akan membentuk dan mengetuai sebuah kerajaan.
Dalam negara yang berbilang kaum, pada pendapat akulah, menjadi satu cabaran untuk kesemua parti mengharapkan suara mereka menjadi agenda utama negara. Atas dasar perkongsian kuasa, mestilah ada give and take, ada beberapa perkara yang perlu dikongsi, ada perkara yang perlu dikorbankan. Kesediaan untuk berkongsi dan memberi sebenarnya adalah tulang belakang kepada aturcara politik Malaysia, pada masa sekarang.
Benar, politik Malaysia didominasi oleh bangsa Melayu, tetapi atas dasar perkongsian, ianya diseimbangkan oleh penguasaan lebih 70% bukan bumiputera dalam bidang ekonomi. Setelah 50 tahun, masyarakat Melayu/Bumiputera yang pada asalnya dipecah-perintah masih lagi bertatih dalam mengejar penguasaan ekonomi. Tetapi sikap orang kita yang sudah terdidik bersederhana, bila mendapat gaji RM3000, terus merasa bahawa bangsa kita sudah maju. Walhal kita baru belajar berniaga MLM/online, tapi bangsa lain dah berdagang secara global. Kita masih ketinggalan jauh. Di mata kasar kita mungkin kita sik nampak, kerana dalam kita makan gaji, mempelopori sektor awam, mempelopori dunia hiburan, kurang simpanan, kebergantungan pada subsidi, kita masih boleh hidup glamor pada definisi “sederhana” kita. Hasilnya, kita “complacent”. Sikap bersenang-lenang ini menyebabkan kita merasakan agenda bangsa itu sesuatu yang “racism”. Ingat kembali kepada asas kenapa kita menghantar perwakilan di pihak pentadbiran? Kerana kita perlukan suara kita di dengar. Hakikat ini di sedari oleh penyokong DAP. Mereka sedar DAP mampu menjadi suara yang lantang. Kesannya, sokongan terhadap DAP meningkat. Tapi jika ingin dibuat kesimpulan, kita mesti melihat pada komposisi undi. Pengundi mana yang menang di hati DAP? Tepuk dada, tanya iman.
Jika ada satu parti yang bergembira selesa dengan tahap pencapaian mereka, maknanya terdapat sesuatu kesilapanlah dalam perkongsian-pentadbiran. Bagi kerajaan yang adil, ini merupakan satu masalah nasional, iaitu menyamatarakan penguasaan semua bangsa dalam mana-mana bidang sekalipun, lebih-lebih lagi ekonomi. Ini diterjemahkan dalam dasar-dasar kerajaan ke arah pembangunan. Pada pandangan aku, tok adalah asas kepada pemerintahan kerajaan Malaysia sekarang.
By the same token, sik akan ada parti di dalam Barisan Nasional yang akan berpuas hati dengan jumlah perwakilan mereka di peringkat kerajaan. Di sialah lekuk kelemahan pada perisai Barisan Nasional yang menjadi asas propaganda pembangkang dalam pilihanraya. Kita tidak dapat menidakkan bahawa isu yang dimainkan dalam kempen, rata-ratanya isu ketidakpuasan hati sesuatu bangsa. Refleksi kembali kepada kenapa kita menghantar perwakilan? Mewakili suara rakyat setempat.
The so called Malay privileges diseimbangkan dengan keistimewaan-keistimewaan yang lain. Walaupun Bahasa Melayu diangkat menjadi bahasa kebangsaan, tetap bahasa lain boleh dipraktikkan tanpa halangan. Istimewanya pun cuma keutamaan pada dokumen-dokumen rasmi kerajaan. Walaupun Bahasa Melayu adalah bahasa kebanggsaan, penggunaannya pun kian terhakis. Islam sebagai agama rasmi, rasanya tiada paksaan bagi penganut lain untuk mengamalkan agama masing-masing. Islam tidak pernah menentang penganut lain untuk beribadat, jika benar keberadaan Islam sebagai agama rasmi itu satu tentangan kepada agama lain, kenapa jumlah rumah ibadat agama lain berpuluh ribu lebih banyak berbanding jumlah Surau dan Masjid? Siapa yang menentang? Sila semak statistik, kerana realitinya berbeza dari yang dicanangkan. Sekarang, umat Islam, agama rasmi sebuah negara menghadapi tuntutan ke atas penggunaan nama “Allah”. Apa niat mereka, itu Tuhan saja yang tahu. Tetapi umat Islam Malaysia perlu menilai ini sebagai satu mesej yang tersirat.
Rasanya kita jelas bahawa di Malaysia, membentuk parti yang berbilang bangsa tetapi bersatu melalui perikatan adalah sesautu yang boleh dilakukan. Tetapi parti yang benar-benar multi-racial adalah hampir mustahil untuk dibentuk, kerana rakyat Malaysia masih lagi mengidentitikan masing-masing berdasarkan apa bangsa nenek moyang mereka. Hatta di Singapura sekalipun, bangsa Cina dan Melayu masih mengenal diri mereka melalui bangsa masing-masing, bukan sebagai bangsa Singapura. Dalam konteks ini, kita tidak dapat mengambil contoh Thailand & Indonesia, mungkin boleh diperbincangkan di ruang yang lain.
Selagi rakyat Malaysia masih lagi mengidentitikan mereka berdasarkan asal nenek moyang mereka, non-racial party cannot be viable or accepted in Malaysia. Memang ada wujud parti yang mengakui mereka multi-racial, tetapi jika dilihat dari segi isu kempen, rata-rata kembali ke agenda bangsa. Maka, coalition model ini akan masih relevan sehingga semua bangsa di Malaysia mengenal diri mereka sebagai bangsa Malaysia yang satu, dan cuma eksklusif untuk Malaysia.
Tis' is Matt Ashkeroth
Just saying.
p/s: Bila Najib sebut “Tsunami Cina” nampaknya Kit Siang tidak bersetuju. Mungkin beliau terlupa dengan racial remarks beliau terhadap Melayu yang jelas mengguris rakan senegara. Lupa kerana faktor usia, mungkin.
Saya Pilih
GRASPING THE GOLDEN RING: TRUTH & TAKE AWAYS
History have proof to us that the economic recessions and depressions have always produced enermous opportunity for people willing to ignore the nevativity.
People choose to live in financial chaos and they have no idea that they can choose a different path. Some just hate the fact that they are in a job that they hate. Some are still searching and kept focusing on only one avenue thinking that that is the only options. Discover more options that can brings you to your dream life.
Attracting money requires inspired action and total focus. These can't be pushed aside or compromised. No good read, good idol that can make it happen, only you can take the action for you. No one else. Other people can just help or hope, but you can't expect much from them, but you can always expect more from yourself.
A problem to one person maybe a blessing to another. It depends on your intention - which direct your perspective.
When you face a challenge in your life, it's only because you weren't accepting what you have and are focused on what you want, with a feeling of lack or even desperation. Once you have achieve that acceptance phase, you will come to understand that whatever shortcoming or lacking that you experience in your life, that doesn't really kills you, it's just a phase. As I always said to myself, as long as you have cloth on your back, roof above your head, and food to eat, that too are blessing. We just found it easy to look pass that. Or in other word, count your blessing, but in the same time, shoot for the stars. So that there'll be more blessing that you can count and the better you realize that your life is a total blessing from the divine.
The idea that money is in the mind highlights the fact that what you feel, think and know about money determines your ability to attract it.
Attracting money is not about getting lucky. It's not about the perfect once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. It's an understanding of how money works and what attracts money to you versusu what repels it. For us to achieve more money, we need to first understand about the flow of money. We need to understand that money is constantly flowing in our daily lives, but are we aligning ourselves in that flow or are we surrounding ourselves with things/activity/attitude that repels ourselves from the flow? Once we understand how the money works and how to get into the flow, money will comes in handy in no time and without we noticing them.
Remember, you will attract money in alignment with you mindset. If your mindset said to you that you can only attract money by working 9-5 job, then that is what you going to get, A 9-5 job. But if your mindset tells you that you will attract more money if you do business, that that is where the money will comes to you. But first, align your mindset and be firm about it/
Understanding this is easy, but how to put it into action?
Now start with these severel steps:
ACTION STEPS
1. Write down what you beliefs about money.
2. Ask yourself if those belief serve you or stop you in attracting money.
3. What are FIVE positive reasons for you to want to attract more money now?
4. Write down a problem or current complaint you have.
5. Write out a way to turn that problem or complaint into a product or service.
This is Matt Ashkeroth
It's 2013. Im doing these now, so lets!
**credits to Dr. Joe Vitale - author of Attract Money Now
The Animal School
Once upon a time the animals decided they must do something heroic to meet the problems of a “new world” so they organized a school. They had adopted an activity curriculum consisting of running, climbing, swimming and flying. To make it easier to administer the curriculum, all the animals took all the subjects.
The duck was excellent in swimming. In fact, better than his instructor. But he made only passing grades in flying and was very poor in running.
Since he was slow in running, he had to stay after school and also drop swimming in order to practice running. This was kept up until his webbed feet were badly worn and he was only average in swimming. But average was acceptable in school so nobody worried about that, except the duck.
The rabbit started at the top of the class in running but had a nervous breakdown because of so much extensive training work in swimming.
The squirrel was excellent in climbing until he developed frustration in the flying class, especially when his teacher made him start from the ground up instead of the treetop down.
He also developed a “charlie horse” from overexertion and then got a C in climbing and D in running.
The eagle was a problem child and was disciplined severely. In the climbing class, he beat all the others to the top of the tree but insisted on using his own way to get there.
At the end of the year, an abnormal eel that could swim well and also run, climb and fly a little had the highest average and was conferred as " The Best Students".
The prairie dogs stayed out of school and fought the tax levy because the administration would not add digging and burrowing to the curriculum.
They apprenticed their children to a badger and later joined the groundhogs and gophers to start a successful private school.
Tis' is Matt Ashkeroth
Does this fable have a moral?
(ref: George Reavis, 1940)
Proton Spy Shots
Browse thru the internet last few days and bumped into these spy shots of new Proton's model.
1 is the supercar model inspired by Lamborghini (betol ka ejaan?), and the other one is the SUV model.
Mun benar laa, nang bestlaaaa.
PTPTN : Is free the Future?
Nikmat Yang Kian Pudar
Jangan Monyet Jangan!
kau tek nang negatif jak 24 jam.
Bak kata kawan ku, mok ko laher time bulan gelap kali nak?
Sik pun, ko lahir time ari gunto.
Apa nak alah-alah sik puas hati jak kerja.
Janganlaa diteruskan, sampe mati ko sik merasa kebahagiaan hidup eyh.....