We have lost two generations of proficient English-speaking Malaysians, thanks to our “wise” leaders.
Read below SM Lee’s explanation for our divided society which is not attributed to vernacular schools.
Muhkriz Mahathir, eat your heart out.!
Hisap-pudding don’t just speak for political mileage.
Yes, UMNO go raise hell for SM Lee’s comments.
Pay heed to his words, “Look at whose wives are dripping with gold
and diamonds.”

Subject: Excerpts from Special Lecture by Lee Kuan Yew

Lee Kuan Yew

Let me start by outlining how I see the world. Singapore survives and
prospers only if there is international order, regional peace and
stability, and growth instead of wars and conflicts. The region has
grown in the last 50 years because there was an umbrella that provided
that security and enabled countries to live peacefully together, and
then Japan, followed by Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Singapore
blossomed. That spilled into other countries. Henry Kissinger and
Richard Nixon visited China and opened the door. Deng Xiaoping came to
Bangkok, Kuala Lumpur and Singapore in November 1978 to have us join
forces and stand up to the Vietnamese when they were about to capture
Cambodia.
ordon Wilson

Minister Mentor, could I take you back for Singapore itself? Thank you
very much for your address. For someone who was frequently in
Singapore in the 1960s and 1970s and returning there now 40 years
later, the prosperity and dynamism are phenomenal and the change into
a prosperous city state is extraordinary. Has there been a price to be
paid? Is there as much freedom of expression as perhaps could be
allowed in a modern state, as we have today, and is there some
disquiet that ministers and prime ministers now have salaries
commensurate with captains of industry? Is that a good thing? Do they
take their eye off the ball for the rewards they get rather than being
altruistic political leaders?

Lee Kuan Yew

I start from first principles. What did I have to do to turn this
improbable country into a country and eventually a nation? It took me
a very long time. We were a disparate group of people rioting with
each other just a few years before we became independent, because
Malay extremist forces stirred up problems. You have to work from
first principles and to pay no mind to what political scientists say
in terms of doing this or that, following this prescription, with
free-market democracy according to Fukuyama. I needed a stable,
peaceful society, so I had strict laws against inciting racial or
religious tensions. At the same time, I made quite sure that everybody
was treated equally. Religions were respected but we made all
loudspeakers in mosques face inwards because we did not want trouble.
Does everyone need to wake up at five o’clock in the morning? It is
now an accepted way of life.

We also mixed everybody up in high-rise buildings, no longer in
enclaves. We have no ghettoes or qasbas. Every constituency has its
quota of the less successful.. Everybody has the same chances in
education and we chose a neutral language – English. Rather than
legislatinng, we just said that you either go to an English school
where you learn your mother tongue as a second language, or you go to
a Chinese, Malay or Tamil school and learn English as a second
language. After a few years, parents discovered that having English as
a first language led to better job opportunities, so that solved
itself. Malaysia went the other way by throwing out English and
adopting Malay. The Chinese and Indians decided to have their own
schools, teaching in Chinese and Tamil, and now they have a divided
society.

These are basics that you have to get right: a level playing field and
a meritocracy regardless of race, language or religion. That is part
of our national pledge. Now we have arrived, why do we not run a
liberal democracy? Why should we? I got a clear mandate. The lowest
turnout we had was 60% of the electorate. Nobody alleged chicanery or
malpractice. People wondered whether the press was controlled.
Everything can be reported, but no crusading is allowed. The internet
is there and you can do what you like, but we try to prevent becoming
sidetracked. Western political scientists, NGOs and even some US
Government officials believe in a prescribed route for success.

Our success then becomes a challenge to that, such that we are an
example to China, which is absurd. The Chinese are not fools. They
study us as a little cameo in terms of what they can learn from
Singapore. They then pick and choose and do it their way. China is not
going to become a liberal democracy; if it did, it would collapse. Of
that, I am quite sure, and the Chinese intelligentsia also understand
that. If you believe that there is going to be a revolution of some
sort in China for democracy, you are wrong.. Where are the students of
Tiananmen now? They are irrelevant. The Chinese people want a revived
China. We have a coherent Singapore. Do we want an incoherent
Singapore and have the whole thing fall apart? Think about it
carefully.

At every election, I used to tell people to think carefully: ‘In the
next five years, do you want your homes to be worth more or less?’ The
smallest taxi driver or hawker has a home worth S$150,000. They are
stakeholders. If they vote the wrong government in, property prices
drop and they are in trouble. If you produce the right government,
there will be more infrastructure and connectivity, a better
environment and clean water, thereby allowing you to improve your
assets. Why should we change that? The western media and political
scientists say that that is wrong, but is it?

I have any number of unsolicited testimonials from visitors who say,
‘I love your country – I am going to settle here’. Look at the
peeople
who are settling there. In the last few years, 30,000 Indian
professionals have taken up residence and started three Indian schools
to teach their children in line with the Indian syllabus so that they
can return to India. We welcome them. We have 4,000 Chinese and 4,000
Indian companies. They have come to Singapore, not because we are a
liberal democracy, but because we offer them a platform from which
they can leap. They can market their wares throughout Southeast Asia
to China and India, and vice versa. Would we want to risk that?

What is $1.5 million dollars to our law minister when he gave up a
practice worth $4 million? Look at whose wives are dripping with gold
and diamonds. We are the poorest ministers of any ASEAN country. Do
you want that to change? Am I not worth $1 million? I can earn
$100,000-200, 000 by giving a talk to a group of bankers who have
brought their clients together. This is the reality. At every
election, it is an issue, but we do not dodge it – we justify it. As
long as we have clean, honest and effective government, it will hold.
The day we become dishonest, ineffective or incapable, we are out.

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If you noticed the heading on this page :
http://www.jpn.gov.my/BI/1_4_2_penghargaan.php

It should correctly read as , “Director-General’s Message” and not as “Director’s General Message”. Isn’t that so?

More atrocious English with “campurisation” of Bahasa Malaysia.

Check out the first paragraph.
Next under “Objective” – “adopted son”. “child adoption” is better
Under “Function” – “…base fixed functions per unit in it which have been identified that this class work was walking with orderly and systematic.”
What gibberish! I rest my case….

http://www.jpn.gov.my/BI/1_6_2_dasar.php
Organization and Division

Coordinating Policy & Monitoring
:: Background::
Coordination of policy part and monitoring was established by 28th of January 2008 after Civil Service Department (PSD) approve restructuring process National Registration Department (NRD). Half the battle entrust is formerly perform by Bahagian Penyelarasan, Perundangan, training and Internal Audit. Role as steadily improving NRD, top management side decide to break Bahagian Penyelarasan, Perundangan, Latihan and Internal Audit that each Bahagian becomes more focused for duties entrust.

Main focus for Coordination of Policy and Monitoring Division is to plan department policy and monitoring stated policy implementation so it together with the vision, NRD’s mission and objective. Apart from that, this division will coordinate all increase activity service quality and act as secretariat for major meetings NRD meeting as management committee, directors meeting, planning and development committee meeting and implementation coordination meetings manage main business. .
:: Objective ::
Collect and maintain birth records, death, adopted son, identity card, marriage and divorce and citizen for all people of Malaysia to meet security needs and national development.
:: Function ::
Coordination Of Policy And Monitoring Division, National Registration Department Malaysia (JPNM) undertake the task with base fixed functions per unit in it which have been identified that this class work was walking with orderly and systematic. For stated purpose as many as 2 section was established namely:-

(A)Planning Section And Coordination Of Policy:
• Become secretariat for major meetings department as following;
• Management Meeting ;
• Planning and Development Committee Meeting JPN;
• Directors Meeting ;
• Implementation Coordination Meetings Main Business;
• Planning Strategic department Meeting ; and
• Implementation Committee Meetings Quality Programme.
• Responsible setting working paper (Memo to YB Minister, memorandum, cabinet note, respond cabinet) ;
• Coordinate business relating law between the parts as law amendment for acts, regulations and methods those governed by the department.
• Responsible advance and act as secretariat supply programmes service quality.
• Monitoring development project implementation those carried out by the department.

(B) Monitoring of and Evaluation Section
• Managing business relating divisional administration as management file, officer and staff leave and arrival system part.
• Handle matters in connection with the business divisional level finance .
• Responsible issue Departmental Annual Report.
• Responsible issue department bulletin .
• Coordinate and monitoring quality implementation MS ISO divisional level .
• Coordinate answer to questions parliament and schedule duty officer in parliament .
• Update report statisik main business activities accepted department monthly from BSM .