Thursday, May 13, 2010

马来西亚文化我见

有人说‘吃猪肉能团结华人, 有华人的地方就有猪肉吃!吃猪肉者等于华人’。

那么不吃猪肉可不等於不是华人,反而吃猪肉者不一定等於是华人;其实猪肉与华
人 根本是两麻子事。

中华文化才是等於华人的定义。

就好像马来人
= 马来文化一样。

以此类推,马来西亚人应该等于
中华文化+印度文化
+ 马来文化+卡达山文化+其他少数民族的文化=马来西亚文化才对呀。

马来西亚人应该在毫无人为阻扰下,可以及自由地共享彼此的文化。

现在争执的正是以那一种文化应该占多少的争拗。

也许教育
部,或文化部,应该设立一个‘全国文化咨询理事会’来制定一个各方都能接受的方案。

像现在的情况,
真是有如‘瞎子摸象’,一点目标和方向都没有。

因此,我
的感觉就是在厘定国家文化的根基上,我们华人是‘被动’‘无助’‘无奈’。

作为政治团体,马华是否有尽到责任?

Thursday, May 6, 2010

Is it legal to have two (2) Deputy Chairmen in State Liaison Line-up?

The Star Online / Thursday May 6, 2010
Title: Two deputy chairmen for Sabah MCA
http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2010/5/6/nation/6202643&sec=nation


Question: Is it legal to have two (2) Deputy Chairmen in State Liaison Line-up?
Answer: No, it's illegal.
(refer to page 22 onwards of Party Constitution at http://www.mca.org.my/English/Party%20Constitution/Pages/default.aspx)

You can't simply appoint another Deputy Chairman with a lame excuse like shouldering the increasing workload.

If the appointment of additional Deputy Chairman were legal, then we could have more committee members, more Vice Chairmen, etc..

This is an outrageous act of total disregard of the party constitution, or the law.

In the first place, the State Chairman has the power to appoint up to twenty (20) committee members. The reason to appoint additional Deputy chairman is simply laughable, naive, and near ignorant of the party constitution by the State Liaison Committee, led by the State Liaison Chairman who was earlier appointed by the President of the party.

Should someone reports this irregularity to the Registrar of Society, the party may have to answer to queries from the authority, and worse that could happen is that the party will be suspended, or struck out of registration as a result of dissatisfaction by the authority.

The State Chairman should simply, or rightly, appoint all the necessary positions with people of his desired, free from fear or favour. Those, who are not
being appointed to any position, might as well to sit in the committee and perform their deeds as committee members.

Why deliberately create the illegal position just to 'please' the other faction, or with the motive of 'diluting' the importance, or power, of that position by sharing, or splitting, the power?

The leadership must quickly call a EGM to amend the constitution in order to legalize this sort of appointment.

By the way, on the Boards that set up, the committee has not tackle the medical issues of Sabah head-on by at least having a Board dedicated for Health Services. Being the State-appointed minister to oversee the medical affairs in Sabah, Datuk Edward Khoo should have set up a vehicle, or team, to look at the various issues concerning the Sabah people's health, especially the medical service problems have been reaching critical situation most of the time.

The State Chairman has, so far, not briefed Sabah people the progress and the status of the health services in Sabah, in particular of the Queen Elizabeth hospital, ever since the crisis of QEH began in November, 2009. A special team, or a Board, should help him out in handling the matter. But, unfortunately, it's still not justifiable enough to call for a second Deputy Chairman.

Anyway, my congratulation to all appointees, I wish you all the bests, even though you have only one (1) year and a half to go.

Bearing in mind that people are watching you guys closely for performance.

Remember that MCA owes Sabah people the medical services they deserve for years. We should have had the courage to apologise for the short delivery during our times here in Sabah since 1991.


So, I beg you, please don't let them down again.

Tuesday, May 4, 2010

The emergence of new Malay race in Sabah



Sabah used to have 30 plus different ethnic races, and hardly any Malay during the independence day in 1963.

But with the efforts of government and islamic influence, quite a number of local ethnic groups, either they were muslim originally or those converted, are slowly, and gradually, claiming themselves as 'Malay'; perhaps in line with the trend of the nation building, and the strong influence of the Malay presence in Semenanjung, and most importantly, the extension of UMNO in Sabah since 1994.

The news attached is the proof of the UMNO leaders claiming to woo more Malay voters to the constituency of Sepanggar.

If going by logic, these Malay in Sabah should be rightly called Bajau Malay, Suluk Malay, Ilanun Malay, Dusun Malay, Brunei Malay etc...Now they all call themselves simply as 'Malay'.

What puzzling me is that why specifically wooing the Malay, and not other bumiputra of other ethnic groups who are not muslim to the constituency?

Maybe, they rather prefer to be officially grouped as Malay for many reasons.