Now Will The Real 1Malaysia Please Stand Up?

This is the real 1Malaysia...and still on the topic of trying to raise the equity of the Bumis... let me digress a little to the latter first.

This fund... just for entrepreneurs for one race.... Eh! I thought in this new 1Malaysia we should give aid regardless of race. What I get is this. They are still saying in Malaysia only one race has difficulties in securing loans. Crutch is still being provided! So you need a fund for them.

I thought to secure a loan you must prove your credit worthiness, not your skin colour.This 1Malaysia is nothing more than paying lip service to create some feel feel good in people. You have some songs written, show it on TV with some touching scenes... but the policies made still smacks of racial undertones. Bah humbug, this 1Malaysia!

So where to you find this 1Malaysia? I think you find 1Malaysia in the hearts of those who are not coloured by what they see. They instead are moved by what is right. The NGO people, the people who speak out on the wrong practices.... etc, etc. I learned something about being fair and justice yesterday night.

Being fair is being self-centered. You know, when you say it's not fair, usually you mean it's not fair to you. Being fair doesn't necessarily mean justice because fairness to you come at a cost for someone. Being fair doesn't necessarily mean you are doing the right thing too. Justice, on the other hand, means doing what is right. And sometimes, doing what is right may cost you or the other party each something personally. What do we have in Malaysia now? Are we playing the being fair game or is it justice that we're espousing?

You don't need slogans or catchy songs for the oneness. You get that 1Malaysia feeling by the actions that you portray, the things you do and to see that justice is being served at all times. Not shouting the fair-game thing... like how my Son always argues with me... this or that not fair to him. It doesn't quite matter whether those 'fair' things are right or wrong, you see. That's self-centredness at work. But he can be quite sensible now sometimes.... thankfully! So, if you were to take the cow head people... these are people who keep shouting about being fair (to them!)... but not espousing justice. Cos doing right here means you have to learn to live with one another.

This after all is Earth... we cannot go elsewhere.... and every living thing use one or more of the renewable resources one way or the other. So, the right thing to do is to learn to accommodate each other... and along the way... maybe mutualism, symbioisis should be the way to go.

Every now and then, when they come out with things like the fund for only one race, you realize that slogans like 1Malaysia is more of a lip service thing than the heart thing. Action and talk still don't quite jive....