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Malaysia must not only produce world champions again but play a significant role contributing to global peace, understanding, and diversity, and prevent a clash of civilisations
Posted by Kit in nation building on Thursday, 8 June 2023
I must thank the longest-serving Inspector-General of Police, Tun Hanif Omar, for the declassification of a 1969 Official Secrets Act document — the statement which I made to the police while in police custody at the Kuala Selangor Police Station lock-up under the Internal Security Act after I rejected advice not to return to Malaysia and flew back to Malaysia on 18th May 1969.
Malaysia depends on youths to save it from continuing its national decline, to reset and return to the original nation-building principles to again become world champions and a world-class nation in excellence and achievements in various fields of human endeavour
Posted by Kit in nation building, Youth on Sunday, 4 June 2023
I attended the launching of DAP State Assemblywoman for Subang Jaya Michelle Ng’s book, “Beneath Calm Waters” by DAP Secretary-General and Minister for Transport, Anthony Loke at Sunway yesterday.
Malaysian youths of all races and religions should be encouraged to have a vision to be world beaters or champions and not be stuck in time on race and religious issues of the last century
Posted by Kit in nation building on Wednesday, 17 May 2023
Malaysian youths of all races and religions should be encouraged to have a vision to be world beaters or champions and not be stuck in time on race and religious issues of the last century.
As commitment to reset and return to the original nation-building principles of a plural Malaysia agreed to by nation’s founding fathers, MPs’ oath should be amended to include uphold and advance the Rukun Negara principles
Posted by Kit in nation building, Parliament on Tuesday, 16 May 2023
The Unity Government Convention on Sunday has created a new political beginning for the country and the three-week Parliament beginning next Monday should flesh out further the steps to develop into a united, progressive, and prosperous Malaysia where we can be a role model to the world of inter-ethnic, inter-religious, inter-cultural and inter-civilisation dialogue, understanding, tolerance, and harmony.
The Anwar-Mahathir war will enthral all Malaysians but the most important question in Malaysia today is whether all political parties and Malaysians will compete to race Malaysia to the top as a successful world-class nation and not to compete to race Malaysia to the bottom as a failed, divided, and kleptocratic state
Posted by Kit in Anwar Ibrahim, Mahathir, nation building on Tuesday, 9 May 2023
The Anwar-Mahathir war will enthral all Malaysians but the most important question in Malaysia today is whether all political parties and Malaysians will compete to race Malaysia to the top as a successful world-class nation and not to compete to race Malaysia to the bottom as a failed, divided, and kleptocratic state.
Malaysia is the only OIC country which celebrates the religious festivals of four major religions which makes it specially suited to be a role model for the world for inter-ethnic, inter-religious, inter-cultural and inter-civilisation dialogue, understanding, tolerance, and harmony
Posted by Kit in nation building, Religion on Wednesday, 3 May 2023
Tomorrow Buddhists in Malaysia celebrate the Vesak Day to commemorate the birth, enlightenment, and death of the Gautama Buddha.
Malaysia can fulfil Tunku Abdul Rahman’s aspiration for the country to be role model for the world in at least five ways
Posted by Kit in nation building on Saturday, 29 April 2023
I believe Malaysia can fulfil Bapa Malaysia, Tunku Abdul Rahman’s aspiration for the country to be a “a beacon of light in a difficult and distracted world” by being a role model for the world in at least five ways, viz:
Is there a replacement for Vision 2020 and Bangsa Malaysia, which had inspired and united Malaysians for over a decade, to inspire and unite Malaysians for the next three decades to world-class standards and achievements?
Posted by Kit in nation building on Friday, 21 April 2023
Is there a replacement for Vision 2020 and a Bangsa Malaysa, which had inspired and united Malaysians for over a decade, to inspire and unite Malaysians, regardless of race, religion or region, for the next three decades to world-class standards and achievements?
It is sad and tragic that Vision 2020 and Bangsa Malaysia have failed, but it is sadder and more tragic that the creator of Vision 2020 and the concept of Bangsa Malaysia has repudiated them, relapsing to very racist rhetorics which could only end up in Malaysia becoming a divided, failed, and kleptocratic state in the future.
Future of Malaysia — to be a model state for the world of a successful plural nation or be to a divided, failed, and kleptocratic state
Posted by Kit in nation building on Sunday, 16 April 2023
All Malaysians, regardless of race, religion or region, should be concerned about the future of Malaysia — is it to be a model state for the world as a successful plural nation or to be a divided, failed, and kleptocratic state.
Malaysia can, in Tunku’s words, be “a beacon of light in a difficult and distracted world” by being an example of how four great civilisations can build understanding, tolerance, and peace and avoid War of Races or War of Religions
Posted by Kit in nation building on Sunday, 12 March 2023
I am happy to be here in Kluang for the launching of my good friend of over half a century K. Siladass’ writings in Tamil in “Sinthanai Sei Maname” (Think).
After six decades of Malaysian nation-building and half a century of Rukun Negara, we should be talking about the “Malaysian Dilemma” instead of the “Malay Dilemma” or the “Non-Malay Dilemma”
Posted by Kit in nation building on Friday, 3 March 2023
After six decades of Malaysian nation-building and half a century of Rukun Negara, we should be talking about the “Malaysian Dilemma” instead of the “Malay Dilemma” or the “Non-Malay Dilemma”.
This thought came to me when I read the report “Mahathir ramps up race rhetoric after joining Putra”.
Anwar’s admission that Malaysia is losing out to Indonesia, Thailand, and Vietnam is a good sign that Malaysia is coming out of the denial syndrome that the country has straggled behind other countries after six decades of nation-building and that there must a reset and return to the original nation-building principles of the nation’s founding fathers for Malaysia to be a first-rate world-class nation
Posted by Kit in nation building on Thursday, 9 February 2023
The 10th Prime Minister, Anwar Ibrahim’s admission that Malaysia is losing out to Indonesia, Thailand, and Vietnam is a good sign that Malaysia is coming out of the denial syndrome that the country has straggled behind other countries after six decades of nation-building and that there must a reset and return to the original nation-building principles of the nation’s founding fathers for Malaysia to be a first-rate world-class nation.
I have sounded like a broken record in my reiteration that after six decades of nation-building, Malaysia has fallen from the status of a first-rate world-class nation to become a second-rate mediocre country, and unless the country reset and return to the original nation-building principles entrenched in the Constitution and the Rukun Negara by the nation’s founding fathers, the present trajectory will end up with Malaysia as a divided, failed, and kleptocratic state in the next few decades.
Let Parliament honour Bapa Malaysia Tunku Abdul Rahman’s 120th birthday today and achieve his aspiration for Malaysia to be “a beacon of light in difficult and distracted world”
Posted by Kit in nation building on Wednesday, 8 February 2023
Today is the 120th birthday of Bapa Malaysia, Tunku Abdul Rahman.
Let Parliament honour Tunku’s 120th birthday and achieve Tunku’s aspiration for Malaysia to be “a beacon of light in a difficult and distracted world”.
Indonesia is one step ahead of Malaysia in giving a new meaning to “Unity in Diversity” with people celebrating the great ethnic, religious, and cultural festivals of the world to bring about civilizational understanding and harmony in the world
Posted by Kit in nation building on Monday, 6 February 2023
In my joint Thaipusam-Chap Goh Mei message yesterday, I ventured the view that Malaysia can lead the world in giving a new meaning to “Unity in Diversity” where Malaysians celebrate the great ethnic and religious festivals and cultures of the world while keeping their own ethnic, religious, and cultural identities.
Malaysia can lead the world in giving a new meaning to “Unity in Diversity” where Malaysians celebrate the great ethnic, religious, and cultural festivals of the world while keeping their own ethnic, religious, and cultural identities
Posted by Kit in nation building, Thaipusam on Sunday, 5 February 2023
Thaipusam and Chap Goh Mei falls on the same day today.
Malaysia can lead the world in giving a new meaning to “Unity in Diversity” where Malaysians celebrate the great ethnic and religious festivals and cultures of the world while keeping their own ethnic, religious, and cultural identities.
Malaysian youths and school children must be encouraged to dream the Malaysian Dream — to be a first-rate world-class nation to contribute to global progress or to be a divided, failed, and kleptocratic state
Posted by Kit in Malaysian Dream, nation building on Friday, 3 February 2023
Malaysian youths, those between 18 to 21 years old, and even younger ones, the school children, should be encouraged to dream the Malaysian Dream — to be a first-rate world-class nation to contribute to global progress or to be a divided, failed or kleptocratic state.
This is what struck me when I read the media reports that academician Mohammad Agus Yusoff had been appointed the director-general of the Community Communications Department (Jkom) under the Prime Minister’s Department to propel the Malaysia Madani concept with three thrusts to cultivate knowledge, create a society with digital skills and strengthen the people’s patriotic spirit; the digital dream of the Communications and Digital Minister Fahmi Fadzil to create a new golden digital decade of the country; and the Nationl Unity Week programmes being formulated by the National Unity Minister Aaron Ago Dagang based on the theme of “Unity in Diversity” in multi-racial, multi-lingual, multi-religious and multi-cultural Malaysia.
Anwar’s two reassuring speeches yesterday that he will focus on the Malaysia returning to the basics where the people know what is right and wrong, how to unite Malaysians in a plural society, and what should be the Malaysian Dream of all Malaysians
Posted by Kit in nation building on Tuesday, 24 January 2023
I attended two Chinese New Year (CNY) events in Penang yesterday — one the CNY Open House of the Penang Chief Minister, Chow Kon Yeow at SPICE, and the other Kenduri Rakyat Bersama Perdana Menteri in Bukit Mertajam — where the Prime Minister, Anwar Ibrahim was the main speaker.
A Royal Commission of Inquiry on how Malaysia can, in Tunku Abdul Rahman’s words, be “a beacon of light in a difficult and distracted world”
Posted by Kit in nation building on Sunday, 22 January 2023
Bapa Malaysia Tunku Abdul Rahman had hoped that Malaysia, with its multi-racial, multi-lingual, multi-religious, and multi-cultural characteristics can be “a beacon of light in a difficult and distracted world”.
Malaysia is at the confluence of four great civilisations — Malay/Islamic, Chinese, Indian, and Western — and there is no reason if Malaysians can leverage on the values and virtues of the four great human civilisations in the world, why Malaysia cannot be “a beacon of light in a difficult and distracted world”.
Restore the National Compass lost after six decades of nationhood
Posted by Kit in nation building on Sunday, 22 January 2023
Happy Chinese New Year to all Malaysians.
The biggest challenge in the Chinese New Year and in all ethnic and religious festivities for this year is to restore the National Compass lost after six decades of nationhood.
DAP’s challenge is to ensure that Malaysia’s “masyarakat madani” under the Anwar unity government is one that will make Malaysia a first-rate world-class nation guided by democracy, the rule of law, good governance, anti-corruption, and a global economic and education system
Posted by Kit in nation building on Thursday, 19 January 2023
I wish Kepong DAP happy and productive Chinese New Year.
We are in challenging times. We must ensure that the Anwar unity government can last five years, but even more important, we must ensure that Malaysia’s “masyarakat madani” under the Anwar unity government is one that will make Malaysia a first-rate world-class nation guided by democracy, the rule of law, good governance, anti-corruption, and a global economic and education system.
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