Why Do People Who Can't Vote Say They Vote?

View From the Top of Pei Mei

Books are donated. Salaries of the staff? From donations as well.

Pictures in the Headmistresses' Office

There is a dilemma,
To assimilate themselves into Indian society, or to continue to uphold the Chinese culture and language?
They are the minority, and they are all moving out in droves. It seems there is very little reason left to stay back. This place holds no memory worth revisiting, no place worth reminiscing about, your loved ones are either dead or off to another place.
Yet once in a while, some of them come back, some of them are drawn back, it seems hard to let go of the place you were born in.

Will Malaysia look like this in the near future?

Home Is So Sad

A Paradigm Shift, For Better Or For Worse

Questions we will have to eventually asks ourselves, as Chinese Malaysians. I shall not be called a Malaysian because such things as Bangsa Malaysia does not exist, and we jolly well should not be kidding ourselves that racial barriers have been dissolved, because it has not, and it's far from happening.

Question 1 : How important is vernacular education to you?

Question 2 : Is it possible to achieve national INTEGRATION and bangsa MALAYSIA if vernacular education still exists?

Question 3 : Would you be willing to give up vernacular education if it is the only way we can achieve what Mahatir and Najib have been advocating(Bangsa Malaysia, 1 Malaysia)?

Question 4 : What does interracial marriage mean to you?

Question 5 : If interracial marriages were the only way to bring this country together, would you partake in it? Or at least show your support?(Religion plays a vital and problematic role in this)

Question 6 : How do you define being 'Chinese'?

Question 7 : Is being 'Chinese' important to you?

Question 8 : How much of 'Chinese-ness' would you be willing to sacrifice for this country, more specifically, national integration?

Question 9 : None of the above might not concern you at all, because some Chinese Malaysians say we can live in a state of tolerance(merely tolerating each other, imagine that!) with other races in this country, is that fine with you?

Question 10 : Many Chinese Malaysians have opted for migration(to escape the prevailing problems in this country), are you planning to migrate?

Question 11 : There are those who can't afford to migrate, what happens then? What happens to them?

These are some questions I can think about, but they basically sum up the grim future that Chinese Malaysians face. Maybe it's not that grim, maybe problems like race will be solved by just leaving it alone. You know, like when free market advocates told us let the market run along by itself, no need for government intervention, but then we had the 2008 Financial Crisis, hm.....(Alan Greenspan's biography seems to have disappeared from the display tables of Borders)

I have no answers to any of the questions myself. I am in a state of limbo and will be remaining there for quite some time.

Sepet is fiction.

My camera can make birds swim.

I'm just doing this to annoy Keenen. How dare he score an A for Chinese in PMR while i have to be content with a B?

Life ain't fair i tell you. FYI, i scored higher than him.....by 4 marks....

Why do guys like boobs?

He's been to many functions held during my primary days.
Even now, in my secondary days. Although I've not seen him since last year.
He has even taught at my secondary school.
He is hailed as the man championing the Chinese in Malaysia.
He was featured in the Star newspaper, taking the front cover, for sitting the LRT to work.
Recently, there was a book about him, written by god knows who. The book featured a bunch of quotes from him, and of course lots more of pictures.
He even has a wikipedia page.

I've seen him speak. In school, press conferences, whatever.
He's got that voice, that monotonous voice, it puts you to sleep.
Not very inspiring to begin with.
His contributions towards the Chinese society? Felt by some, left out many.

How do you feel towards him? To me, it's all so distant, he's never really touch what's at heart. Let me say this, what the Chinese Malaysians(yes, I will continue to call myself that until I gain the bumiputra status, I AM A SON OF THE SOIL) need is action, not talk.



Who will walk through this calamity with us Chinese? Him?