Wednesday, April 18, 2012

CINA BUTA 2

Mula mula baca artikel ini [di sini] setuju jugak lah dengan pandangan penulisnya.

Tapi bila sampai di sini , terkedu pulak ... 

"I did not hear any anti-Lynas or anti-corruption slogans or anything against UiTM’s rejection of non-Bumiputera students nor about the pathetic academic standards of our universities today."

Masih tak reti reti jugak anak merdeka ni.

Bahawasanya, biasiswa ke, MARA ke dan yang sewaktu dengannya adalah termaktub dalam perlembagaan negara sebagai hak istimewa anak peribumi ini.

Malangnya tiada lagi lelaki Melayu di bumi ini. 

Yang tinggal hanya lah sida sida yang telah dikasi. [now wondering kasi semua ka kasi telur je]

Haihhhhhhh! [makcik tua hanya mampu mengeluh menghitung hari]

Tuesday, April 10, 2012

Hoorayyyyyy! Long Live 1Malaysia

KUALA LUMPUR, April 9 — Chinese vernacular education is guaranteed under the Barisan Nasional (BN) government, Datuk Seri Najib Razak vowed tonight following recent accusations from Chinese educationists that his administration was conspiring to end the use of Mandarin as a medium of instruction.

The prime minister also said on ntv7’s Mandarin talk show, “Chat Time With...”, that his administration was committed to ending the teacher shortage in Chinese primary schools and would consider recognising the Unified Examination Certificate (UEC), the Chinese school’s SPM equivalent.

“It (vernacular education) is provided for in the (Federal) Constitution that parents have the right to choose. I don’t think there is any need or cause for Malaysian Chinese to fear that we will close down Chinese schools.

“If we didn’t amend the Act, maybe there could be a reason. But the amendment is a clear manifestation of our commitment that Chinese schools are here to stay and education in Chinese schools is an integral part of the national education system,” Najib said, referring to the 1996 amendment to the Education Act when he was education minister.

The amendment had removed the controversial Section 21 (2), which stipulated that the minister could convert a vernacular school into a Malay-medium school. The section also specifically provided for vernacular education as part of the national education system.

“It once and for all removed fear about (the) future and survival of Chinese schools... it was a landmark decision we made,” he said on live on national television.

Vernacular education has been a longstanding issue, with Chinese educationists accusing the government of sidelining Chinese education for the past four decades despite being fully aware of the shortcomings.

During its March 25 rally, the United Chinese School Committees Association (Dong Zong) accused the government of compromising Chinese education by “deliberately” not training enough Chinese school teachers, resulting in a shortage that has lasted for up to 40 years.

Dong Zong president Yap Sin Tian told a crowd of over 5,000, who had chanted for MCA’s Deputy Education Minister Datuk Wee Ka Siong to resign, this was so the government could send in those without SPM Mandarin qualifications to fill the gap.

The MCA Youth chief was forced to defend himself last week by insisting that, when he joined the Education Ministry in 2009, there had been a shortage of 4,991 teachers in Chinese schools. This has been reduced each year to 1,870 this year, Wee added.

Najib also said tonight he was aware that “little Napoleons” in the government were a stumbling block towards solving Chinese education problems such as the shortage of teachers.

“We are aware of that... we have made a commitment... to see to it this problem is addressed once and for all,” the Umno president said.

Asked if the government would now give accreditation to the UEC since it recently recognised 146 universities from China, he said “we need to engage both sides” to discuss to what extent the curriculum can be made to be more Malaysian and the need for teachers to be proficient in Malay. [from here]

Saturday, April 7, 2012

CINA BUTA

Ini berita dilapor Harian Metro hari Sabtu 7 April 2012:-

JOHOR BAHRU: Sekumpulan lelaki menjadi pak sanggup atau cina buta semata-mata mengidamkan imbuhan lumayan mencecah RM10,000 serta berpeluang bermalam dengan isteri ekspres bagi memuaskan nafsu selama sebulan sebelum diceraikan.
Dengan imbuhan serta pelbagai barangan mewah lain diberikan isteri ekspres masing-masing, kumpulan cina buta terbabit tidak kisah dilabel dengan gelaran itu, malah memberi alasan ia bukan perkara mendatangkan kesalahan kerana segala-galanya dilakukan mengikut syarak.
Bagi memudahkan pelanggan terdesak menghubungi mereka, kumpulan cina buta terbabit mendedahkan identiti serta maklumat peribadi berserta nombor telefon masing-masing dalam laman web.
Seorang daripada cina buta yang hanya mahu dikenali sebagai Ramli, 31, berkata, dia yang berasal dari Tapah, Perak, datang ke bandar raya ini enam tahun lalu sebelum terjebak kegiatan itu setahun kemudian.
Menurutnya, dia mula terjebak kegiatan cina buta apabila menganggur lima bulan sebelum ditawarkan peluang menjadi cina buta kepada seorang kerani yang tinggal di Kuala Lumpur. [Harian Metro]

 
Bukti - cek bayaran




Ini respon AHLI agama:- 
 
Penasihat Agama Islam Johor, Datuk Noh Gadut berkata, Allah SWT melaknat lelaki yang berkahwin dengan niat begitu dan sesungguhnya perkahwinan yang dilangsungkan walau untuk tempoh sementara tidak pernah mendapat keberkatan daripada-NYA.

“Memang nikahnya sah, tetapi ingatlah sekiranya perkahwinan diasaskan dengan niat begitu, tetap dilaknat Allah dan hendaklah mereka yang terbabit bertaubat dengan kadar segera tidak kiralah sama ada lelaki cina buta atau individu lain yang mengupahnya. “Dan kegiatan ini pun tidak sepatutnya berlaku dalam kita sedang giat berdakwah mengajak dan mendidik umat Islam. Saya mahu ingatkan semua pasangan terutama suami supaya jangan bermain dengan perkahwinan dan perceraian,” katanya ketika dihubungi, semalam.

Beliau berkata demikian ketika diminta mengulas laporan muka depan Harian Metro semalam mengenai sekumpulan lelaki di Johor yang menjadi pak sanggup atau cina buta semata-mata mengidamkan imbuhan lumayan mencecah RM10,000.

Ini pula respon pihak berkuasa agama:-

“Perkhidmatan pak sanggup atau cina buta memang ada, namun ia tidak pernah dimaklumkan kepada kami,” kata Kadi Daerah Johor Bahru, Mohd Azman Mohsin ketika dihubungi di sini, semalam.
Azman mengulas berkaitan sekumpulan lelaki di bandar raya ini yang menawarkan khidmat cina buta kepada pasangan yang terlanjur bercerai dengan talak tiga.
Kumpulan cina buta terbabit menyediakan laman web khas untuk mengiklankan khidmat diberikan manakala pasangan yang mahukan khidmat mereka perlu mengikut syarat ditentukan seperti imbuhan mencecah ribuan ringgit.
Menurut Azman, pihaknya menyedari berkaitan kegiatan cina buta di negeri ini, namun tidak dapat mengambil tindakan kerana tiada sesiapa tampil memberi maklumat.
“Kami tahu ia wujud dan tiada siapa tampil kerana ia mungkin mendatangkan aib kepada pihak tertentu,” katanya.
Mengulas lanjut, Azman berkata, Islam melarang keras penggunaan khidmat cina buta, malah lelaki yang melakukannya dianggap dayus.
“Perkahwinan dan perceraian bukan perkara yang boleh dipermainkan kerana itu Islam membahagikan perceraian kepada tiga bahagian iaitu talak satu hingga tiga manakala kuasa cerai pula terletak di bahu suami.
“Nasihat saya kepada pasangan suami isteri terutama pasangan muda, jangan terburu-buru bercerai sebaliknya fikirkan kaedah terbaik untuk menyelesaikan masalah bagi keharmonian rumah tangga,” katanya.

Dah sedar tapi tunggu maklumat jatuh ke riba tu bukan namanya makan gaji buta ???

Yang ini pulak sapa yang buta?

It would be difficult not to draw an association between the proponents of vernacular schooling and the opposition parties after what happened at the rally for Chinese schools that took place last week.
ONCE again vernacular education has become an issue in Malaysian politics, though with much speculation about the date of the election going around at the moment, one cannot help but feel that the issue has been raised by some parties for the sake of gaining the popular vote above all. It would be difficult not to draw an association between the proponents of vernacular schooling and the opposition parties after what happened at the rally for Chinese schools that took place last week.
But the question remains unanswered by all: Can we seriously expect there to be some semblance of a Malaysian nation as long as young Malaysian children are taught separately, in different language streams? And are we naïve enough to think that nations invent themselves, without there having to be some form of intervention and direction by the state?
I have written about this so many times that I am close to giving up altogether, for fear that any more articles would simply amount to a waste of paper.
 But for the umpteenth time, let me repeat some of the things I have said before: If we were to look at the major developed countries of the world such as Britain, France and Germany, we will see that historically these countries used to be far more linguistically diverse than they are today. In France alone hundreds of dialects were spoken, as was the case in Germany, where each region had a dialect unique to itself.
As Robert Bartlett has argued in his work The Making Of Europe, the coming together of these small principalities and feudal states was only possible through the centralisation of power and the streamlining of language, giving birth to the national languages we know today: French, German and English. Bartlett notes, of course, that this did not happen without some degree of discomfort, but in the long run the sacrifices of the past seem to have paid off. Disparate communities (that may not have even been able to speak to each other) are now part of larger nations.
Malaysia is likewise at a stage of its history where it has to decide firmly and decisively if it wishes to be one nation or a number of nations living side-by-side but never really communicating or understanding one another. As elections draw close, my worry is that the political parties of the country will pander to the most exclusive of communitarian voices, calling for linguistic isolationism as if it was the only benchmark of identity.
Surely, in the midst of the economically troubling times we live in, there are other matters that ought to gain our attention, such as protecting Malaysia from capital flight, securing our human resources and talent, and so on.
This also means having to create the opportunity structures whereby minorities feel that they can succeed by remaining in the mainstream, and working upwards in society by using the same common national language that is the language of one and all. For more than two decades now, I have lived as a member of the minority, first in Britain, then in France, Holland, Germany and now in Singapore.
In all these countries, I found myself struggling to get into the mainstream in order to succeed and to be the best I could be; proud enough to say that at least one Malaysian managed to teach in some of the best universities of the world. In places like France and Germany it also meant trying to master at least some basic French and German. And in all these instances my struggle was for and in the mainstream of society.
My concern about what is happening in Malaysia today is that the continued existence of separate language schools means that we do not know where the mainstream is any longer. It beggars belief that in a plural society like ours, young children may spend their entire childhood in the company of other children of the same cultural-linguistic background, and need not meet or even shake hands with another Malaysian child of a different culture or religion.
Worse still, this trend towards linguistic-cultural exclusivism seems to be on the rise among all the communities of the country. So we are back to the original question: How can we build a Malaysian nation if Malaysian children don't even go to the same schools, together?
As the tone and tenor of political contestation heats up in Malaysia in the lead-up to the elections, I also hope that the parties in the country will not jump on the language bandwagon to further aggravate things and to drive a wedge between Malaysians. In other developed countries, even parties that are bitterly hostile to each other conduct themselves with one eye on the national interest, and put national interest first.
In any plural society there are bound to be both centrifugal forces and centripetal forces, at times working against each other. To build a Malaysian nation means necessarily seeking those positive centripetal forces that want there to be a Malaysian nation that we can all call home. Parties should actively seek these forces, and lend their support to Malaysians who want there to be a national language, a national educational system and a national culture that everyone can identify with.

These forces, I believe, are there and have always been there; but what baffles me is why the political parties of the country have not reached out to them in an effective manner.

 The aim, surely, has to be the creation of a common, inclusive mainstream; and then the expansion of that mainstream to make it even more inclusive and empowering for all.

Surely that is what education is for, and what smart politics is all about.