Salam
I remembered 1993/94 the time when I got a letter to undergo BTN course in IAB, Sri Layang , Selangor. Biro Tata Negara. A course to instill the love of Malaysia into the heart of the cream malay officers (that time ..). He..he..
Usually if you got government sponsorship (scholarship) , you are required to attend a b-t-n course. BIRO TATA NEGARA.
Why?
The answers are easy:
1. So
that you become good citizen in this country/ overseas
2. You
know your real job overseas – to study and get your masters/ PhD
3. You
can become a ‘small’ diplomat for our
country
4. You
will return home after your course is over/
medicine scholar sometimes over stay and may be got married to a mat
salleh and never return again/ they say ..Malaysia .. not good any more – if
you pay pea nuts meant for the monkeys then don’t expect we want to come
back to work for the nation any more.
They just like ‘kacang lupakan kulit’ – ungrateful lot.
You
know how to appreciate the publics’ money and their expectation.
But life was not that simple when you were abroad.
I was in Grantham and Birmingham once upon a
time.
I met few students .. I knew they were Malaysians but they
confessed they were Singaporeans/ Hong Kong guys.
They always feel
reluctant to attend (Malaysian Students Depertment ) MSD’s annual, monthly,
weekly event especially if any big minister came with their wives, children and
clans. They will say they are so busy.
By not attending many events, they lost contact with their
roots. Soon they started ‘hating’ anything about Malaysians.
What are the things?
-
The wages
in Malaysia so low compared to UK, USA, Europe, Singapore
-
The system politically – not fair to some people
-
The system – legal – no justice
-
The teaching quality in Malaysian universities,
schools etc so lagging behind as
compared to Singapore, Hong Kong, South Korea
-
Public toilets in Malaysia – so dirty – like cows shed
24/7;
-
Malaysians are uncivilized/ in fact everything Malaysian is so lousy to
their eyes.
-
Chinese /
Indians so much discriminated/ not many
in the government sector/ no promotion – they claimed
-
In fact 99 percent Malaysia is so bad to their
eyes/
As a result, the
government created this BTN course since 50 years ago.
I saw the students were very good during the BTN
course/ soon after 2 years in UK .. few
of them changed from being so obedient to be so different as Malaysians.
They regret being born in Malaysia/ they told their English lecturers, friends,
.. the Malays are so cruel. The Malays
never give any chance such as them gaining admission into boarding schools, scholarships, get
better jobs once they graduated. They
could easily spread hatred because they can go discotiques, football grounds ,
pubs 24/7 overseas. According to my
reading if 20% Malaysian were there as sponsored students , then 80% of them
were FAMA sponsored. (FAMA = father mother’s own money). If there were 10,000 sponsored students then
there could be 100,000 non-sponsored students. Ten times more! They forgot one
important thing - their parents business
flourished in a peaceful but multi cultural country. they didn’t compare other countries which use
1 language ..but they ended killing each other.
Alas.. They always see the small
snails , butterflies and mosquitoes that
disrupted their daily sleep when a
big elephant in front of their eyes ..they failed to see .
Pity melayu! We were
limited to the compound of the universities, mosques, hostels, MSD, halal
Pakistani sundry shops etc etc. We
avoided discos, womenizing, hard drinks etc etc .. and most of the time
..malays stay together all the time when they were overseas. Mind you few Malays drove expensive cars like BMW and Merx while golf sticks may be may be in the boots. Any way It was quite tough to invite non-malays to join any
social activities like dakwah, usrah .. may be may be .. religion differences. Soon the spirit of
BTN is lost once and for all.
In STAR(Malaysia) papers, every day we can read ..educated
people complain so many things about Malaysia.
Not only our Bahasa got criticism, but also our universities because 60%
staff are malays etc. They
belittle us a lot by saying that Singapore is too advance than Malaysian
universities because there many professor are not malays. See?
The daily debate is non Malays
much cleverer than the Malays. In fact
they should be the leaders in all sectors!
To prevent this ill feeling , BTN is introduced,
re-introduced, invent , re-invented and innovate. Why> because we love Malaysia. (Malays - in
action).
p/s: If they can
rename this country and replaced it /
just ask .. is there any possibility the new branded country .. be able to get on the map of this
world? Ceylon = sri langka.
Sekian. Wallah hu
aklam / God knows Best. After some time
due to meritocracy .. Malays is losing their big cake proportions from NEP
1970’s. I heard out of 10 chances
overseas , Malays getting 4 – 6 seats only;
the rest goes to non-malays. Last
time 50 years ago, out of 10 chances ,
the Malays got at least 8. That is why
we are now here . Be thankful please
once and for all. Don’t oppose the
government too much. if we oppose .. we are biting the masters' hands in one way or other.
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