Sunday, February 26, 2006

Random Ramblings...閑談...つまらない話

Recently, i went around checking out the rates for a friend who's korean friend is coming over to melbourne for a month to travel...got a chance to have a look at the various backpacker accomodations in melbourne. It was really interesting what i found in one of the places.....there was a poster of an island with the korean flag behind it and stating 'I love Dokdo'! For those who don't know, korea and japan had a big fight, a HUGE one, last year when both claimed sovereignty over a group of barren islands off the coast of korea. Koreans reacted angrily when a japanese prefecture passed a law stating that dokdo/takeshima island was japanese and the entire korean nation went into a frenzy with street demonstrations, special classes in schools, internet wars all defending korean right's to dokdo which is effectively occupied by south korean troops. Thus i was amazed to see someone had put a poster proclaiming dokdo/takeshima as korea's in a bakpak accom in melbourne!
further, in one of the places, i was mistaken for a korean again, my 2nd time this yr! but thats cos the place had alot of korean tourists staying so i guess its easy to mix up...
And today i went to help a japanese friend whose here to study criminology expense paid by the japanese govt to move house. Her new place is really neat and nice, a studio with cable tv as well and internet but its expensive too...like $240 per week...but fully furnished...met her japanese friends...mostly post grads here for 1 to 2 yrs...they all had really good english to my surprise and i took the opportunity to talk some japanese and also tell them about my experiences in Tokyo last yr given that they were mostly all from Tokyo as well..there was also one guy who was really cute which further reconfirms my belief that some japanese men are handsome. This guy had that 'masculine aura' and when he was eating ice-cream and licking it, it was attractive too...i had to look away as i stole two glances and felt something...blushing...(i pondered whether to incl. so much detail but i thought what the heck!) We had dinner at Ying Thai on Lygon St which was good and it was paid by my friend who asked us to help her move....

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List of racial discriminations in Malaysia, practiced by government as well as government agencies. This list is an open secret. Best verified by government itself because it got the statistics.

This list is not in the order of importance, that means the first one on the list is not the most important and the last one on the list does not mean least important.

This list is a common knowledge to a lot of Malaysians, especially those non-malays (Chinese, Ibans, Kadazans, Orang Asli, Tamils, etc) who were being racially discriminated.

Figures in this list are estimates only and please take it as a guide only. Government of Malaysia has the most correct figures. Is government of Malaysia too ashamed to publish their racist acts by publishing racial statistics?

This list cover a period of about 48 years since independence (1957).

List of racial discriminations (Malaysia):

(1) Out of all the 5 major banks, only one bank is multi-racial, the rest are controlled by malays

(2) 99% of Petronas directors are malays

(3) 3% of Petronas employees are Chinese

(4) 99% of 2000 Petronas gasoline stations are owned by malays

(5) 100% all contractors working under Petronas projects must be bumis status

(6) 0% of non-malay staffs is legally required in malay companies. But there must be 30% malay staffs in Chinese companies.

(7) 5% of all new intake for government police, nurses, army, is non-malays.

(8) 2% is the present Chinese staff in Royal Malaysian Air Force (RMAF), drop from 40% in 1960

(9) 2% is the percentage of non-malay government servants in Putrajaya. But malays make up 98%

(10) 7% is the percentage of Chinese government servants in the whole government (in 2004), drop from 30% in 1960

(11) 95% of government contracts are given to malays

(12) 100% all business licensees are controlled by malay government e.g. Taxi permits, Approved permits, etc

(13) 80% of the Chinese rice millers in Kedah had to be sold to malay controlled Bernas in 1980s. Otherwise, life is make difficult for Chinese rice millers

(14) 100 big companies set up, owned and managed by Chinese Malaysians were taken over by government, and later managed by malays since 1970s e.g. UTC, UMBC, MISC, etc

(15) At least 10 Chinese owned bus companies (throughout Malaysia, throughout 40 years) had to be sold to MARA or other malay transport companies due to rejection by malay authority to Chinese application for bus routes and rejection for their application for new buses

(16) 2 Chinese taxi drivers were barred from driving in Johor Larkin bus station. There are about 30 taxi drivers and 3 are Chinese in October 2004. Spoiling taxi club properties was the reason given

(17) 0 non-malays are allowed to get shop lots in the new Muar bus station (November 2004)

(18) 8000 billions ringgit is the total amount the government channeled to malay pockets through ASB, ASN, MARA, privatisation of government agencies, Tabung Haji etc, through NEP over 34 years period

(19) 48 Chinese primary schools closed down since 1968 - 2000

(20) 144 Indian primary schools closed down since 1968 - 2000

(21) 2637 malay primary schools built since 1968 - 2000

(22) 2.5% is government budget for Chinese primary schools. Indian schools got only 1%, malay schools got 96.5%

(23) While a Chinese parent with RM1000 salary (monthly) cannot get school-text-book-loan, a malay parent with RM2000 salary is eligible

(24) 10 all public universities vice chancellors are malays

(25) 5% - the government universities lecturers of non-malay origins had been reduced from about 70% in 1965 to only 5% in 2004

(26) Only 5% is given to non-malays for government scholarships over 40 years

(27) 0 Chinese or Indians were sent to Japan and Korea under "Look East Policy"

(28) 128 STPM Chinese top students could not get into the course that they aspired i.e. Medicine (in 2004)

(29) 10% place for non-bumi students for MARA science schools beginning from year 2003, but only 7% are filled. Before that it was 100% malays

(30) 50 cases whereby Chinese and Indian Malaysians, are beaten up in the National Service program in 2003

(31) 25% is Malaysian Chinese population in 2004, drop from 45% in 1957

(32) 7% is the present Malaysian Indians population (2004), a drop from 12% in 1957

(33) 2 millions Chinese Malaysians had emigrated to overseas since 40 years ago

(34) 0.5 million Indian Malaysians had emigrated to overseas

(35) 3 millions Indonesians had migrated into Malaysia and became Malaysian citizens with bumis status.

(36) 600000 are the Chinese and Indian Malaysians with red IC and were rejected repeatedly when applying for citizenship for 40 years. Perhaps 60% of them had already passed away due to old age. This shows racism of how easily Indonesians got their citizenships compare with the Chinese and Indians

(37) 5% - 15% discount for a malay to buy a house, regardless whether the malay is rich or poor

(38) 2% is what Chinese new villages get compare with 98% of what malay villages got for rural development budget

(39) 50 road names (at least) had been changed from Chinese names to other names

(40) 1 Dewan Gan Boon Leong (in Malacca) was altered to other name (e.g. Dewan Serbaguna or sort) when it was being officially used for a few days. Government try to shun Chinese names. This racism happened in around year 2000 or sort

(41) 0 temples/churches were built for each housing estate. But every housing estate got at least one mosque/surau built

(42) 3000 mosques/surau were built in all housing estates throughout Malaysia since 1970. No temples, no churches are required to be built in housing estates

(43) 1 Catholic church in Shah Alam took 20 years to apply to be constructed. But told by malay authority that it must look like a factory and not look like a church. Still not yet approved in 2004

(44) 1 publishing of Bible in Iban language banned (in 2002)

(45) 0 of the government TV stations (RTM1, RTM2, TV3) are directors of non-malay origins

(46) 30 government produced TV dramas and films always showed that the bad guys had Chinese face, and the good guys had malay face. You can check it out since 1970s. Recent years, this tendency becomes less

(47) 10 times, at least, malays (especially Umno) had threatened to massacre the Chinese Malaysians using May 13 since 1969

(48) 20 constituencies won by DAP would not get funds from the government to develop. Or these Chinese majority constituencies would be the last to be developed

(49) 100 constituencies (parliaments and states) had been racistly re-delineated so Chinese voters were diluted that Chinese candidates, particularly DAP candidates lost in election since 1970s

(50) Only 3 out of 12 human rights items are ratified by Malaysia government since 1960

(51) 0 - elimination of all forms of racial discrimination (UN Human Rights) is not ratified by Malaysia government since 1960s

(52) 20 reported cases whereby malay ambulance attendances treated Chinese patients inhumanely, and malay government hospital staffs purposely delay attending to Chinese patients in 2003. Unreported cases may be 200

(53) 50 cases each year whereby Chinese, especially Chinese youths being beaten up by malay youths in public places. We may check at police reports provided the police took the report, otherwise there will be no record

(54) 20 cases every year whereby Chinese drivers who accidentally knocked down malays were seriously assaulted or killed by malays

(55) 12% is what ASB/ASN got per annum while banks fixed deposit is only about 3.5% per annum

There are hundreds more racial discriminations in Malaysia to add to this list of "colossal" racism. It is hope that the victims of racism will write in to expose racism.

Malaysia government should publish statistics showing how much malays had benefited from the "special rights" of malays and at the same time tell the statistics of how much other minority races are being discriminated.

Hence, the responsibility lies in the Malaysia government itself to publish unadulterated statistics of racial discrimination.

If the Malaysia government hides the statistics above, then there must be some evil doings, immoral doings, shameful doings and sinful doings, like the Nazi, going on onto the non-malays of Malaysia.

Civilized nation, unlike evil Nazi, must publish statistics to show its treatment on its minority races. This is what Malaysia must publish……….

We are asking for the publication of the statistics showing how "implementation of special rights of malays" had inflicted colossal racial discrimination onto non-malays.

hcpen said...

Human book: OMG!! Are u just posting this pre-typed comment on all malaysian blogs?? It is sooo long...i agree many foreigners are unaware of the racially unequal policies still in place in malaysia now and i myself learnt a thing or two from ur list...it is unfair but then it could also be a way to lift the majority malays up so that there will be no huge gap b/w the races in malaysia which could lead to resentment and race riots such as in Indonesia with the horrific anti-Chinese riots of 1998. In fact, all these policies only came in place after the 1969 race riots due to the wide class divide b/w the Malays and the Chinese then...but i agree it is still unfair...

Anonymous said...

I agree with u that most Japanese guys are really cute and that they have this something about them that makes them really attractive (can't really pinpoint it but it's not a masculine aura to me)
I have dated Korean, Japanese and Chinese guys and I think that Japanese guys make the best bfs IMO.
They have beautiful manners and are extremely gentlelmanly (guys from chauvinistic societies usually are).
That said, if given a choice,I will not like to be a woman in either Japan or Korea.
(I ought to know cos I'm Korean myself)

hcpen said...

Florence: Thanks so much for ur comment, fantastic to finally have a korean woman comment, i LOVED how u were so spot on when u say men from chauvinistic countries are usually very gentlemanly, that is really true in my opinion....yeah i think some japanese and korean guys are really handsome...i just love their humbleness/politeness or as u put it gentlemanliness...pls do come bck often!

hcpen said...

Plunge: thanks alot! i must thank you for mentioning me in your blog cos ur blog gets tons of attention..i dun have time to write alot given my tough law workload but it is fantastic to get a compliment from a blogger whose blog is in my llist of top favourite blogs..

Alex said...

A guy with 'masculine aura' and licking ice-cream? Wow.... like the first the few minutes from a gay porn!

hcpen said...

Alex: He was really attractive whilst licking his ice-cream, blushing....

savante said...

Where do you find these hot men?

Paul

hcpen said...

Paul:hehe....