Nice-Gook and you have mentioned about the cluelessness of our government which captures my interest and reminds me of this conversation I had at a gathering with my friends and business associates some time ago. My Singaporean peers and I were lamenting and disgusted about how our government have run out of ideas and have to resort to opening casinos to open new grounds. One of us even commented that the end of Singapore is nearing. My Malaysian friend, however, was complimenting about the progress he has seen in Penang ever since Lim Guan Eng took over. He said in pride about how he can foresee Penang to be the next Singapore under Lim Guan Eng's leadership. He likened Lim Guan Eng's DAP with our PAP leaders. He also went on to chastised the Barisan National and particularly MCA (he is Chinese) for their incompetency in running a Country that is rich in natural resources and yet the Country's progress is nothing in comparison with Singapore. He firmly believed that if every state in Malaysia has a Lim Guan Eng in charge and do away with the bumiputra policies, Malaysia will definitely reached far greater heights than it is today. In the midst of the conversation, a business associate and friend from Canada or Australia commented that Singapore is far from over, looking at how he sees the Country's business environment is continuing to evolve aggressively. He went on to say that Countries such as Singapore will continue to survive and prosper.
I felt I obliged to butt in here.You see,I am also following Malaysian politics quite closely.Hence I m quite aware of the latest happenings there.Hence must put down some misconceptions.I shall try be very brief.
If one is to read blogs such as Malaysia Today,Malaysia Insider,Malaysiakini and etc.You are right that Malaysian Chinese bitch a lot about Malaysia.But the fact is 90% of Malaysian Chinese who works in Singapore chose to go back to Malaysia rather than take Singapore citizenship...Which begets the question that if they love PAP style of governance so much why go beck to the hell hole which they claim Malaysia is?
In fact bulk of of our racial and other problem arises because of Malaysian Chinese working in our civil service and police.PAP uses them to the hilt and they use us like hell and discard us as a used condom after they had their fling here.Because each Malaysian Chinese carry their emotional baggage of Malaysian racial politics and spill it on our minority races.
Now here is the fact sheet.DAP was founded as the mirror image of PAP by our ex president Devan Nair.Hence DAP 's open admiration for PAP is nothing surprising.In fact Lim Kit Sing the de facto secretary general of DAP and the father of LIm Eng Guan had publicly declared LKY as his mentor and leader.
Again,DAP itself had been rejected by Chinese voters for more than 40 years since their numero unos such as Lim Kit Sing and Karpal Singh had been thoroughly thrashed in past elections.It was only in their 2008 GE a miracle happened.Again this credit goes to HINDRAF--the Iindian NGO.Who publicly took to the streets in a unprecedented street demonstration of nearly 50k.The Indian community were traditionally BN voters who now opposed BN and MIC...this flagged open defiance and soon Malaysian Chinese followed.Hence for the first time in Malaysian history BN lost two third majority in their parliament and along with that 5 states,of which 1 is penang.
Lim Eng Guan became the CM of Penang.What followed exposed DAP.Now Malays claimed they are being marginalized in Penang.But what too the cake is HINDRAF distanced itself from DAP because the Indian community were left in the lurch.The incident was one Buah Pala kampong.The only Indian heritage village that was destined to be demolished by the previous UMNO government.Buah Pala kampong belonged to the British planter who bequeath it in a will to the Indian community who lived and worked on it some 120 yrs ago.UMNO somehow changed the law and sold it to their MCA(Malaysin Chinese Party) crony.But DAP politicized this iisue to boiling eviction level and once in power signed and executed the land to the very same Chinese towkays.....that revealed the racism in DAP.
In fact,the racil politics PAP practices belong entirely to Malaysia.We never had politics divided long racial basis before whereas Malaysia had.It was because of the very entry of Malaysian Chinese within PAP we started having GRC,HDB racial quota and etc.The old PAP guards though many were born in Malaya never incorporated racial politics.But the fresh Malaysian Chinese blood who joined PAP later tainted PAP with racism.
