Malaysian will never allow DAP, PAS and PKR (very loose coalition) to have a taste of ruling the goverment not even a minute…!! Your coalition is only based on the marriage of convenience rather than deep understanding of common objectives.

You are championing for plural society Malaysian Malaysia, but your actions, your words in ceramah and your party’s representatives failed to reflect the multi racial ingredients.

Dont waste your time, energy and money in trying to change the government of today by offering your alternative front(DAP, PAS & PKR)….Because you will never ever achieve that…

You look at what BN is doing….You can see that the goverment is making progress in becoming more transparence, giving more freedom for rakyat to express their grouses (legal means but not through illegal and stupid street demonstrations), reducing corruptions and many more. Of course do not expect that everyting can be changed overnight. You also cannot do that…

So if you want to continue fighting for election victory in one or two states and parlimentary seats…You can go ahead but dont even dream to win 12th and furture general elections when you and your very own partners do not reflect the MUHIBBAH spirits…

Taxpayers are paying for the development of university and education. Why this fuss for profit from develop the land of the campus? Profit ending up in whose pockets?

No No!

Nothing is sacred anymore with this corrupt Badawi regime - stealing public money in broad daylight. Soon they will privatise the EPF so that they can get their hands on the contributors’ money too.

“…..Dear Sir,
I would like to wholeheartedly thank the Prime minister for stating firmly that that the University Malaya will remain and will not make way for a multi billion dollar commercial development. It is timely that the Government demonstrate some morality in its pursuit of economic and social development of our country. By allowing the UM to stay, we are saying that we value history, culture and our tradition. It will be a sad day indeed, if everything that represents our history and cultural heritage is destroyed, because a businessman thinks he can make billions out of the land on which our history stands. In no time at all, all our playing fields, forest reserves, historical buildings, and even low cost apartments will make way for “development” as the lands are worth billions for commerce and business. We must not let a few utterly selfish individuals destroy Malaysia’s soul.. Thank you Dato Seri, the citizens will appreciate you for this commitment, for now, and for the future….”

Now, I cannot understand why 27.5 acres of UM’s main campus will be developed into a gated community of condominiums and villas. Pray tell us common citizens how a gated community of snobbish and arrogant ‘elites’ will contribute to the education and intellectual development of our future children, and will having a gated community smack in the middle of the UM main campus will propel UM to be among the top 100 universities in the world? Does the assurance of the Prime Minister mean nothing but just hot air? The public must be given the right to express an opinion on this imminent project, which I repeat, if allowed to proceed, will destroy the soul of UM. Take heed, all ye UM graduates!

According to some debate, the ‘killing off of English medium schools’ laid the foundation for the current deteriorating racial relations. I find this point of view very naive, superficial and unconvincing. Do people discriminate and hate against other races simply because they don’t speak the same language?

Ethnic French, German and Italians speak their own languages in Switzerland with three official languages but has anyone heard of racial riots in Switzerland? I suppose the current deteriorating racial relations here is due to the institutionalised racism and racial inequality rather than the language people speak.

Does a good English proficiency guarantee employment upon graduation? Is the English proficiency of our graduates being over-emphasised with regards to the unemployment problem?

Malaysia and Philippines general populations have a better English proficiency than Korea and Taiwan, but the former two can in no way compete (whether in competitiveness, GDP or technology) with the two newly industrialised countries although we actually started better off than them after our independence.

Korea and Taiwan never had English medium schools and yet their high school students always top the list for the world’s mathematics and physics Olympiad.

The success of Hong Kong and Singapore as regional financial and trade hubs rests entirely on their competitive business environment, good governance and highly efficient administration. English is just an added advantage, not the sole sufficient condition for their success.

The so-called globalised world is always misunderstood in that everything has to be in English in order to succeed. Again, I find that naive, simple-minded and superficial. Globalisation demands for a broader worldview, critical thought and understanding of more cultures and languages rather than a monotonic all-English mantra.

Shortsighted policies such as not having vernacular schools will eventually kill off Malaysia rich diversity of culture that is supposed to be a strong advantage amid the rise of China and India as the world cultural and economic superpowers.

If one ever notices, upon gaining power after independence, elites of Third World Countries (including Malaysia) trained by the colonial education system usually tend to look to their former colonial masters, rather than global models as their reference in running a country.

Summing up my point of view, thinking that English medium schools will solve all our problems and help us succeed is simply too naive and simple-minded.