In The Minds of Young Malaysians

The story goes: A young man in his youth answered a calling to the police force not able to endure the killings of MCA leaders around the country. In the course of fighting the communist terrorist, he was shot in an operation and it was his Malay sergeant that he survived. This was because they never think in term of race, but think as one team. Another memory that is very vivid was the operation in 1952 when they were ambushed and a fellow Malay comrade died in his arm due to late arrival of rescue helicopter. he still remembered his last words: “..please tell my mom…  I wouldn’t be back for dinner….” To him, this was Malay that died fighting for the future of all Malaysians.

It was frustrating for the Malays to struggle to catch up with others race. In the other hand, it is hard for the Chinese to lend a helping hand as they rarely sincerely help others to come up: they even never help another Chinese except their own family. It was in this background that may 13 happened, sparked by the lack of proper behaviour of non-Malay parties.

If there was a choice, the Malays would not want to even give citizenship to the non-Malays as they were already a threat to their livelihood. But they do not have a choice as the British government worried that more Chinese and Indians will join the communist if citizenship was not given. In return, special rights have to be given to the Malay for protection from being marginalized in their own land. Especial after May 13, NEP need to be in place to avoid wars. There was no doubt about it.

But today, why would a community still have a under siege mentality and in fear of racial extinction when they are already 60% (soon going to be 70%) of the population and their political power has reach unprecedented height in the history of the nation?

The unfortunate was what started off as a temporary intervention has become a racial culture. Now the cure of imbalance has reversed and worked against the race.

In 1978, the assassin of Tan Sri Khoo Shong Kok was arrested. When interrogated, he was not even a communist! They were just anti-nationals who do not understand why the NEP has to come about the way it did. For they can not identify themselves with the wealthy Chinese, they were just like the poor Malay and poor Indian, why the government have rob them of their chance to survive?

Look ing at the situation now there is similar anti-national sentiment among the societies. The doomsday come when the intelligence organization only report what the political master want to hear.

Looking at the critical state of the nation now, all component party must share the blame, for compromising too much to the demands of one party. They failed their quest for national unity and national justice even though they have high economy achievement.

The oligarchy that capitalizes on racial politics has to be break at any cost. Though we have to work for our respective community but no individual community can be more important than the nation.

It is only as a nation that we can survive in the era of globalization.

The history of NGV in Malaysia is coming to 8 years now.

As most of the installation is being done on old vehicles, it was never problem free for cars in Malaysia, Thailand and Singapore. A car converted to NGV will have a minimum savings of 60% in fuel cost.

In fact, the correct term to use for the fuel is CNG (Compresses Natural Gas) whish is stored at a pressure of 2400 – 3600 PSI or 200 – 300 BAR. Prior to this, natural gas were normally burnt away in the oil rig but it was soon found out that burning it would cause green house gas, and now it was harvested for NGV use. 

Malaysia have the mostly rig that is gas based, this was due to most of our petroleum was formed by vegetation (jungles rather than animals). Now, 85% of the CNG produced here were used by IPP, 10% by commercial users and ONLY 8% by consumer. The congestions at the NGV stations are only noticed at 12 noon when taxi changes shift. At this point of time, there is only a total of 45K NGV, of which 8K is private users. This sector is increasing by 1K every month after the oil increase.

The main problem for NGV is the backyard installer. 

Even good components imported mainly from Argentina and Italy would need to obtain SIRIM approval, which in turn costs 100K. So many illegal importer skipped this process and cheats customer not to register with JPJ, who would check for SIRIM certification. On the other hand, CNG cylinder used to store the fuel must have DOSH approval but most backyard installer does not care, as these overnight self-learned installers do not knows what is the standard required. There are 4 good china maker and 8 problem ones.

Recently NTV7 has aired a show that Sarawak people use cooking gas (LPG) to be installed into cars – this is a criminal offence in Europe. It is important to note that LPG tank is not CNG tank. Any car installed with LPG can explode in front of us. Dr Thong has pointed out that CNG would not ignite even if a match as their ignition point is 593 oC, while LPG will spark at anything.

The reckless practise of backyard installers has not impaired the image of NGV but also MADE A LOT OF ILLEGAL CARS by asking their customers not to register with JPJ by tempting them to still get the RM625 subsidy which NGV do not enjoy – the car owner would be held liable because of negligence if an accident was caused by this NGV conversion.

Car owners should be warned of bad installer that is just to make money, taking advantage of this transition period while there is no regulation in NGV installation yet.

The Pulau Batu Puteh issue and also the ethnic relations in Malaysia, what is the relationship?We need a greater understanding and appreciation of the nation’s history and development.

The Pulau Batu Puteh Issue

Tracing historical events prior to period before independent, it was clear that the Johor Sultanate had sovereignty over the island.

The Johor empire was divided into two, new Johor empire and the Riau-Lingga Sultanate. During British colonies, the Sultan of Johor allowed the British to construct and upkeep the Horsburgh lighthouse on the island, solely with permission. Under the international law, the state secretary of Johor, writing in an official capacity, informed the Singapore government that the Johor Government does not claim ownership of the island.

Cited to Johor treaties with Britain which said that Johor had transferred all its rights, powers and jurisdiction on matters of defence and external affairs to the British.

Malaya and Malaysia

Before World War II, what was called Malaya was not a country, it was a term of convenience referring to several Malay kingdoms, sovereign Malay kingdoms, in the little space called the Malay Peninsula.

There were nine kingdoms with 9 Sultans. And then apart that there were these fringe settlements, Penang, Malacca, Singapore, which the British colonised in 1867.

The British used the Malay feudal system to rule the country, which means that the Malay chiefs and the sultans were the heads of the country, the British is the consultant to them on the administration, and British brought in the Chinese and the Indians to run the tin and the rubber industries respectively.  

The ethnic in Malaysia

Malaysians need to own higher degree of maturity, putting ownself in other people point of view and discuss sociopolitical matters rationally without hurting the other party.

Most important for Malaysians, is that we must treasure the peace and the stability that we now enjoy as it’s easy to take for granted what we have now. We must never again descend into conflict.