We all know that in a few days time, we will be celebrating our 50th year of independence. In view of that, I’d like to say a few words to my fellow Malaysians. Be warned that I will use some very strong language, and for that I apologize beforehand, but I feel that I really need to get these issues of my chest.
The thing is, I just can’t understand why after 50 freaking years of living with each other, racial and religious issues are becoming more and more prominent these days?!
Do we have problems with each other?
You’d think that our leaders would set an example, but NO… they’re even worse! Some of you MP fellas think you’re so big-time lah. You fellas think that because you got parliamentary privilege, you fellas can simply say whatever you want to say. Shouting, swearing, making sexist comments, uttering derogatory racial slangs… you fellas think Parliament is a marketplace issit? Pleaselah, have some dignity.
I dunno how a bunch of jokers and court jesters like some of you even get elected in the first place. Did you fill your constituencies with blind and deaf people or something?
Actuallyyy… to all politicians as whole; STOP F***ING AROUND WITH THE COUNTRY’S FUTURE.
You fellas happily using race and religion for your own needs. Cannot make it as politicians based on merit and hard-work, resort to racial warmongering. I know lah, you fellas want people to think you’re some kind of big time champion of your race, right?
You want people to compare you Hang Tuah/ Wong Fei Hung/ Rajnikanth, right?
You selfish little gluttons, STOP IT! I cannot let you gamble my future, and the country’s future just so that you can become popular enough to stop working and massage your privates all day while seeing the money multiply in your bank account.
Actually rite, I have a question for all of you fellas out there; not just politicians but everyone; why are you all so hard up about race and religion? Do you guys have sticks up your proverbial asses that you MUST get all sensitive and emotional whenever race and religion is involved? Hear something about your race that isn’t complimentary, straightaway want to jump up and fight. Sikit-sikit feel threatened, sikit-sikit wanna feel insulted.
Rilex lah bro! Yes, not all of us are the same, yes we are a diverse bunch, but SERIOUSLY, there are more similarities between us than there are differences. Look at what unites us rather than what divides us for a change.
But NO, we’re so freaking suspicious of the other fellas. Different a bit only, we start to look at him funny. And then you fellas go online, and read some blog by a guy named littlejohn1663 or something and you read about some whacked up conspiracy by the other fellas to either;
a) take over the country;
b) turn the country into a hardcore religious fundamentalist nation;
c) convert the faithful en masse;
d) take away the rights of your community;
e) any combination of the above; or
f) any other conspiracy by the other fellas that will only be bad new to your race/religion.
Either that, or you read some forwarded SMS on your handphone. Either way, you fellas bodoh-bodoh go and believe. No proof, no evidence, but still you believe the guy who blogs with a name like littlejohn1663 or Nenj, whose too scared to use his proper name. And then, you fellas, after you bodoh-bodoh go and believe, get angry and you tell your
friends. And your friends, also being the bodohs that they are, also go and believe you.
In the end, who suffers? National unity. Goodlah you fellas. Can I blame such bodohness on the education system also?
Why ah some of you fellas cannot be friends with people outside your race? You fellas shy issit? You think that we’re so different that we cannot get along issit? Pleaselah, the other fella might be a bit darker/lighter, might be fluent in a different language than you, might pray to a different god that you (or not at all), but let me guarantee you this; just like you, after that fella eat some heavy duty sambal petai, the fella is going to look for a toilet as well. And after he’s done, the toilet is still going to smell bad, no matter what race the poor bugger is.
My point is, why can’t we all look past our differences?
But NO, some of you have to be so f***ing racist. Anything wrong with the country, blame it on the other fellas. You can’t get a job, you blame it on the NEP or Mandarin-language requirement or whatever else. You say the other fellas are trying to destroy your race, as if the other fellas got nothing better to do than plot the downfall of your race.
Some of you bumi fellas, all you do is moan about how the other fellas have all the businesses and become filthy rich and become successful and whatnot. But then, you’re too stuck up and arrogant to learn on how people become successful, so what you do? You sulk and moan and sit around with like-minded little racial warmongers telling how we
must protect our ‘hak-hak’. Whatever that means.
As for some of you non-bumis, you cannot get something in life and straightaway you blame the bumi fella and say that that the government carried his privates all throughout his life. You say that you’re down and trodden and out because of the bumi fellas denying you your rights as a citizen. Conveniently you forget about the numerous non-bumis who as made it… you start a blog and you bitch and bicker and insult and blame those lazy bumi fellas.
I wanna say something to some of you supposed alim fellas; why you fellas like to every time condemn other people. Cannot do this lah, cannot do that lah, this wrong lah that wrong lah… and you thrive in catching couples in bushes… I suspect you have a voyeur streak in you. As if you fellas damn good and angelic but actually some of you fellas are even worse BUT you never admit it. In fact, you never even realize it. Hypocrites.
And pleaselah, can you stop blaming every single one of society’s ills on the West/ non-Muslims/ Jews/ Muslim ‘liberals’. Paris Hilton is not the reason why the pakcik got caught for incest and reported in the papers. There are some deep problems in the society that will never be solved by simply blaming others.
I also want to complain about some of you non-Muslim fellas; the ones who do nothing but complain about how you’re being oppressed and whatnot by the ‘nasty’ majority. You then go overseas and tell the kwai lo how Malaysia is akin to Taliban-era Afghanistan. After all that you back to Malaysia and you go to whatever place of worship and you do your prayers…. Ehhh, I thought religious freedom in Malaysia is dead?
Yeslah, we all know that there are problems in the country. But why must we blame our problems on the other fellas? Why must we be so divided? Why can’t we work together to overcome our problems? You fellas think that by blogging or bitching about the other fellas you’re going to overcome the problems ah?
You fellas think it’s easy to get this merdeka of ours issit? You think the English ‘chaps’ simply wanted to give away the country ah? Bugger, a lot of hard work you know. Those fellas back then worked together to achieve merdeka… and then 50 years down the road, we can’t even live with each other without eyeing each other with suspicion. I tell you, our founding fathers will be so bloody disappointed with us.
Please lah, open your eyes! This is not just a country for one race or one religion; it stopped being Tanah Melayu decades ago! Our country is for all Malaysian, regardless of his/her race, religion, skin colour, body odor, size of his/her house, whether he/she washes with the hand or the tissue paper and all other differences between us, big or small.
WE SHARE A COMMON DESTINY, dammit!
*this post was first published on 21 August 2007 in my old blog. It has now been reproduced here in conjunction with Merdeka Day.
