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Alright, before I start ranting let me fill you in about the company I am currently attached to for my Industrial Training. My company is Chinese owned electronics factory and they are very very stingy. They also want to squeeze every single worker dry. Heck, they even go as far as rationing A4 papers for office usage. Let's not even go as far as the boss rejecting to buy AutoCAD for his engineers because it costs RM8000+. He even suggested to go buy the RM5 version from our "friendly local software retailers" instead of buying the original ones. I hope some law enforcers better read this because this will be a real "money making oppoturnity" here. If you guys want to make that quick buck, you can always send me a message and I am glad to be the whistleblower ^_^. I can go on and on about how fucked up my company is but I think you get my point so I will just stop here.
So today there's this hungry ghost worship thingy going on in my company to pray for the spirits that are vacationing here in this realm during their one month long public holiday. For the past few days the boss had all the Chinese who celebrate the 7th month to do his dirty work for him. By buying those "hell" money, paper clothings, incense and candles. He even spent a few thousand bucks on food for the spirits. He even import in 2 goats which cost RM2000 each just for this occasion. In my 2 months in the company, I had never ever seen my bosses (its a partnership) being so fucking generous before. Which made me to think..
It is so fucked up that my bosses prefer to spent such a huge amount of money on spirits than using it on his employees. As much as I respect the dead, but honestly, will those spirit make him money? No! EMPLOYEES make him money. EMPLOYEES work for him. You can worship the dead all you want but at the same time you must show the same respect to the dead as much as to living people. They are the people who work their asses off for the company so they should deserve some amount of respect. If burning paper money can make you rich, then why people like Bill Gates that do not follow this tradition are way richer than my jackass bosses?
No point "belanja" the dead "makan" a huge feast when you can't even treat your workers like humans instead of machines.
In Malaysia, transparency is a BIG word. How big exactly? Big enough to win you 92% of the parliament and also nearly the whole rakyat's confidence. So what does it really mean to us Malaysian? Most importantly what does transparency means to ever blogger's favourite Prime Minister, Abdullah Badawi?
You see, back when Pak Lah first step into the "throne" of the Prime Minister, he pledge to the whole nation that he wants a clean, corrupt-free and transparent country. Everyone believed him. Even me, the opposition supporter is touched by his shit (Datuk Fu said we must practice self-censorship you know ^_^) speech. Everyone says he will bring Malaysia to new heights and shit like that. By everyone I mean the mainstream press since they always thought they know what we think.
The PM did all he could (since the Elections are coming). Releasing the Air Pollution Index to the public to show that he is no Mahathir. Next he catch a few Datuks and charge them with corruption (with their cases never to be heard of again in the papers). When the elections came he won a whooping 92%. After that all hell breaks loose. Everything that the PM once pledge seems to go down the toilet bowl called Malaysian politics. It seems the fight for corruption seem to stopped suddenly and transparency took a back seat.
Two years after the elections, scandals seem to sprout out one after another. Scandals like squat-gate, APs, Proton, MAS, Half-ass Bridge and Mahathir's several accusations on Pak Lah are all half-assly censored off. Most of them seems to follow a format like these:
Step 1: Headline the news.
Step 2: Have every single editors in the newspaper having their say on the issues.
Step 3: When the issues/scandals seems to reach it's peak and Malaysia finally had press freedom and the government is pissed.....
Step 4: With a full potong-stim way of doing things, it seems there are no such issues at all after that. There are no more reports on the issues or what so ever and finally...
Step 5: The very same reporters and editors that once condemned the issues and scandals to hell, start to defend the government.
So is that transparency in Malaysia? When something new comes up the press can report everything they want and when everything seems to reach it's climax the next thing you know it, it became silent again. Even the most transparent place in Malaysia (which is the Internet) is not spared by the higher ups. Bloggers now are threatened so that we can't have our say on the issues because to them that is misreporting. We can't have our opinions too because that is defamatory. We can't speculate too because that is called rumours. So can anyone tell me what is Pak Lah's definition of transparency?
Please read this before reading on.
What on earth is ZAM trying to tell us here? That the media is to be blame for the violence and hideous crimes in Malaysia? I wonder which jungle did he crawled out from. The only way for the media to tone down reports on crime is when there are no crimes to be reported at all! Security in Malaysia is horrible at best and the police or the good-for-nothing ministers are doing nothing about it. Everyday there are people getting robbed in broad daylight and everyday you see people getting murdered senselessly and ZAM thinks that it is the media's fault?
Why can't those higher ups use their brains for once? We the rakyat especially the ones living in highly populated areas such as Johor Bahru or Kuala Lumpur are constantly living in fear. Most of us do not even fear of losing our possesions but our lifes. What had the GOVERNMENT had done to tighten up security? What had the POLICE FORCE had done to ensure that our taman-taman are safe to live in? Absolutely nothing. We see police patrols all the time and most of the time they are there to prey on us and our money for breaking minor traffic laws instead of doing their duty and ensure the safety of an area. We see Ministers threatening Bloggers and corporate buildings instead of doing what they should do: SERVE THE PEOPLE.
Wake up ZAM... stop insulting all rakyat's intelligence with your fourth World propaganda and misinformation.
