Alejandro Alemannia On the flight to KL from Kuching last Thursday 23rd Sept 2010, I met a young 21 year old Bidayuh chap who could barely speak Bahasa Malaysia. He was only familiar with the Bidayuh dialect spoken in his kampung. This surely must be the last straw that broke the camel's back! Malaysia supposedly a modern country? Malaysia education? Where has all the Sarawakian money gone?

• • Patrick Song

    A lot of people are being blinded by the opposition's propaganda on how the rural communities are deprived of development under the current BN government. I took some time off recently and went to Bario and Long Lama, the month before I wen...t to the coastal areas of Mukah, Daro and Bruit. There are several schools, clinics, email, in those areas, I was surfing the net on my Black berry. The Penans and alot of the local kids chose not to attend school, that is why they end up in the poverty trap, without education. The biggest problem is that the government gives too much freedom of choice. Imagine if our parents did not force us to go to school everyday, we would all end up being farmers and fisherman....sometimes a bit of force is good...
    

    Saturday at 5:51pm ·
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  • Alejandro Alemannia Kampung Gita next to the CM house has pockets of houses running only generator power from 6pm to 6am. Is this propaganda?

    Saturday at 6:53pm ·
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  • Jeremy Lee ‎1Malaysia is not about racial equality. Then what is it? Just another pointless propaganda?

    Saturday at 7:32pm ·
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    Patrick Song

    There are similar issues in Sg Apong and Foochow rd as well but the reason for the electricity and water not being connected is due to the fact that those residences are illegal squatters on private Land. The politicians have resettled the...se squatters several times into low cost housing schemes but as soon as one group move out another move in. The catch 22 is that the authorities are not allowed to destroy the vacated illegal premises as they are on private land, only the land owner can do that. Utilities can only be connected to titled and registered lots. SESCO although is quasi govt, it is not a father christmas coy, It all boils down to the fact that the people you mention are illegally residing on someones property. You need to ask the smart question "if SESCO can make money why not connect these residences into the grid,? There must be a logical answer? The opposition mentality will be to politicise this but there is a logical reason and a practical solution is underway, but definitely not just a bandaid panadol solution normally prescribed by opposition groups.
    

    Saturday at 7:56pm ·
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    Patrick Song Fiji and Solomon island had racial equality until the native islanders were displaced in both economics and politics, until they took up arms and nationalise everything. I prefer an equality which allow me to live peacefully and do my business profitably and all races live comfortably even if it means one lending a hand to the other, ofcourse there will be some individuals who will not be able to compete but sometimes we need to look pass the individual for the greater good for the country as a whole.

    Saturday at 8:05pm
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  • Alejandro Alemannia

    hahaha.. Patrick.. ok3.. got the point... we have many reasons for this and that... and the only place with no reason for any issues is a mansion with horse range, liberace piano and rolls royce... Question: Why are there so many squatters?... They choose to do so?
    Jeremy: Agreed fully with your point.
    

    Saturday at 8:05pm ·
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    Alejandro Alemannia Footnote: The young bidayuh guy is searching for new opportunities in KL. The agent that received him at LCCT told me that the group of Sarawakian he is receiving will be working as baggage handlers at KLIA. If not for anything else, I believe that this guy will soon pick up quick enough together with the rest of the group and move onto bigger and better things. A sliver lining!

    Saturday at 8:17pm ·
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    Patrick Song

    Unfortunately there is always the preconcieved idea that cities have more opportunity and wealth. A good example is yourself, heading to KL to look for more money. I on the other hand see more opportunities back in the jungles of Sarawak. A...lthough the earnings are better in the towns and cities, many forgot about the cost of living are also higher. No longer can they pick midin to eat in their backyard, eat tapioca, shoot wild boar etc, without high education level, they cannot earn enough, so they have to resort to squatting on land which belonging to others to make ends meet. That is why rural projects such as SCORE, dam project, oil palm plantations new rice fields are so important.
    

    Saturday at 8:37pm ·
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  • Alejandro Alemannia New rice fields: AGREE 100%. SCORE? propaganda to korek funds for individual use..... same as Samajaya.

    Saturday at 8:56pm ·
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  • Alejandro Alemannia hahhaha.. yes3.. we should confine the land owner to their midin, rice, wild boar, tapioca etc so they don't become squatters. :)

    Saturday at 9:06pm ·
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  • Alejandro Alemannia ‎.... and meanwhile our educated can built their palatial homes and enjoy the rolls royce, liberace piano, ferraris, bmw 6 series, canadian homes, australian homes, british homes etc.. for the EDUCATED. hahahahahaha.... I get it! TQ

    Saturday at 9:09pm ·
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  • Patrick Song

    SCORE is important so those who are educated can have the choice of either working in near their homes or migrate to the cities, for whatever reasons. The rice fields, plantations are for those like myself who are not so good academically, ...so we can also survive well, without being forced to join the urban migration. We must never be jealous or bitter about others who own Rolls Royce, Liberace Pianos, Ferraris and what not, because, they managed to get these because they worked "smart", they must have done something right, no body is going to give them all these things for nothing, so whether they worked hard, schemed or planned, what ever, they have the ability beyond those who do not have these assets. We should be envious and strive to attained this level of wealth as well. We all have our own strategies of how to get it. Their way we may feel is wrong, so we will have our own way, as long as it produces the desired results we will have reached our objectives.
    We must never be jealous, it is destructive, we should always be constructive and have an optimist, outlook otherwise everthing you do will fail and everything will seem so difficult.
    

    Sunday at 9:45am ·
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  • Alejandro Alemannia Envy and jealousy would be way beyond the Sarawak Dayaks who have been robbed of their native land, denied basic services like electric and water, for the benefit of others to buy their Rolls Royces, Liberace pianos, Ferraris and what not. The word WEALTH is not even in their dictionary even though they are the rightful land owners.

    Sunday at 10:44am ·
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    Alejandro Alemannia A politician is PAID to do their job by the Rakyat and in this case as state CM and as such is accountable to the Rakyat. The Rakyat has the right to know how the state funds have been spent and why and how their EMPLOYEE has accumulated his wealth while they are left to ponder where the next meal is coming from.

    Sunday at 10:55am ·
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    Patrick Song

    The rhetoric that you have just made is an indication of an armchair politician and the success of the opposition's disinformation and misinformation. I was just like everyone in our generation and younger, reading, believing and trusting w...ithout question, all the news on the ' alternative media' sources. The BN government in Sarawak are by no means angels, we want so much to believe the government is bad that we no longer objectively evaluate opposition propaganda, this is dangerous. I decided to go to the ground to see for myself recently and found a lot of the opposition news are half truths designed to misinform the public. The government sources are no better, but we are more critical of them and more aware of lies and trickery, while we take the opposition as gospel truth all the time but I personnaly discovered some are outright lies and many such as yourself who have no means to verify the truth except to rely on the oppositions broadcast. You need to be careful in assessing the information from boyh the government and opposition sources before coming to a decision. Eg. Taib is super rich, but Anwar is no pauper either, just wondering where he got his money from? We like to believe Anwar and family is surviving on the Rm2 I pay to buy the Rocket newspaper every month, or the Rm20 per ticket for the PKR dinner. Think about it. Our parents didn't spend so much money for us to study in overseas to be non thinkers and swallow all and any shit that comes our way.......
    

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    Alejandro Alemannia Then we need the people who are accused to correct these misconceptions and propaganda and we would dearly love to be corrected. The example in my status did not come from any alternative media but a personal encounter and wondering how in modern Malaysia/Sarawak a young Bidayuh chap in this day and age is unable to speak the National Language and the gap between our White Rajah & him.

    Sunday at 4:39pm ·
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    Alejandro Alemannia Let us put aside BN, PKR or any other political parties here (which has not been mentioned in any of the above postings) and let us focus on the issue raised originally about modern Malaysia education system, the product from it (the young Bidayuh chap name Alan) and what the government (irregardless of whichever political party was, is or will be in power) implement to resolve it.

    Sunday at 4:50pm ·
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  • Patrick Song

    Well, the implementation of more rural economic projects like SCORE is the most important factor in increasing the level and quality of education and living standards in the rural sector. An example is Labuan. In the 80's the locals were ha...ppy to go to Form 3 or Form 5 as the only job opportunities on the island at that time were low level clerical jobs. In 1991 when Labuan was made into an International Financial Centre, the locals realise the need for a higher level of education. The kids were sent to Singapore, KL and overseas to pursue degrees so as to be employable in high level jobs on the island. That is why I strongly support such projects. Just because some parties may gain more than others from the project , does it mean we oppose it? Why do we go for a lose-lose situation. If it is a Rm100M, someone siphon Rm50M, so what, we the rakyat have still have the remainder Rm50M, better than ZERO ......We do not live in a perfect world, we make the best of what we got. Only in Haven is everything perfect, even there, bad hat bastards like us will have a hard time competing with the church going, god fearing, goody two shoes from earth. They are sure to have an advantage over us.....
    

    Sunday at 11:31pm ·