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Prince: Is this True? - From Forwarded Mail?

The day after the Politician made claims about ‘Chinese controlling 60% of Country Economic’; I subsequently received this forwarded email; though I don’t know the truthfulness of below facts. What do you think? Did government have below statistic to announce to the public?

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The email claims that the figures in the list are estimates only and require us to take it as a guide only. And, the sender also claims that Government has the updated figures.

(1) Out of all the 5 major banks, only one bank is multi-racial, the rest are controlled by Malays

(2) 99% of Petronas directors are Malays

(3) 3% of Petronas employees are Chinese

(4) 99% of 2000 Petronas gasoline stations are owned by Malays

(5) 100% all contractors working under Petronas projects must have bumi-status

(6) 0% of non-Malays staffs is legally required in Malay companies. But there must be 30% Malays staffs in Chinese companies.

(7) 5% of all new intake for government police, nurses, army, is non-Malays.

(8) 2% is the present Chinese staff in Royal Malaysian Air Force (RMAF), drop from 40% in 1960

(9) 2% is the percentage of non-Malays government servants in Putrajaya

(10) 7% is the percentage of Chinese government servants in the whole government (in 2004), drop from 30% in 1960

(11) 95% of government contracts are given to Malays

(12) 100% all business licensees are controlled by Malay government e.g. taxi permits, Approved permits, etc

(13) 80% of the Chinese rice millers in Kedah had to be sold to Malay controlled Bernas in 1980s

(14) 100 big companies set up, owned and managed by Chinese Malaysians were taken over by government, and later managed by Malays since1970s e.g. UTC, UMBC, MISC, etc

(15) At least 10 Chinese owned bus companies (throughout Malaysia, throughout 40 years) had to be sold to MARA or other Malay transport companies due to rejection by Malay authority on Chinese application for bus routes and rejection for their application for new buses

(16) 2 Chinese taxi drivers were barred from driving in Johor Larkin bus station. There are about 30 taxi drivers and 3 are Chinese in October 2004. Spoiling taxi club properties was the reason given

(17) 0 non-Malays are allowed to get shop lots in the new Muar bus station (November 2004)

(18) 8000 billions ringgit is the total amount the government channeled to Malays pockets through ASB, ASN, PNB,MARA, privatization of government agencies, Tabung Haji etc, through NEP over 34 years period

(19) 48 Chinese primary schools closed down since 1968- 2000

(20) 144 Indian primary schools closed down since 1968- 2000

(21) 2637 Malay primary schools built since 1968 - 2000

(22) 2.5% is government budget for Chinese primary schools. Indian schools got only 1%, Malay schools got 96.5%

(23) While a Chinese parent with RM1000 salary(monthly) cannot get school-text-book-loan, a Malay parent with RM2000salary is eligible

(24) all public universities vice chancellors are Malays

(25) 5% - the government universities lecturers of non-Malay origins had been reduced from about 70% in 1965 to only 5% in 2004

(26) Only 5% is given to non-Malays for government scholarships over 40 years

(27) 0 Chinese or Indians were sent to Japan and Korea under "Look East Policy"

(28) 128 STPM Chinese top students could not get into the course that they aspired i.e. Medicine (in 2004)

(29) 10% place for non-bumi students for MARA science schools beginning from year 2003, but only 7% are filled. Before that it was 100% Malays

(30) 50 cases whereby Chinese and Indian Malaysians, are beaten up in the National Service program in 2003

(31) 25% is Malaysian Chinese population in 2004, drop from 45% in 1957

(32) 7% is the present Malaysian Indians population (2004), a drop
from 12% in 1957

(33) 2 millions Chinese Malaysians had emigrated to overseas since40 years ago

(34) 0.5 million Indians Malaysians had emigrated to overseas

(35) 3 millions Indonesians had migrated into Malaysia and became Malaysian citizens with bumis status.

(36) 600000 are the Chinese and Indians Malaysians with red IC and were rejected repeatedly when applying for citizenship for 40 years. Perhaps 60% of them had already passed away due to old age. This shows racism of how easily Indonesians got their citizenships compare with the Chinese and Indians

(37) 5% - 15% discount for a Malay to buy a house, regardless whether the Malay is rich or poor

(38) 2% is what Chinese new villages received compare with 98% of what Malays villages got for rural development budget

(39) 50 road names (at least) had been change from Chinese names to other names

(40) Dewan Gan Boon Leong (in Malacca) was altered to other name (e.g.Dewan Serbaguna or sort) when it was being officially used for a few days. Government tries to shun Chinese names.

(41) 0 temples/churches were built for each housing estate. But every housing estate got at least one mosque/ surau built

(42) 3000 mosques/ surau were built in all housing estates throughout Malaysia since 1970. No temples, no churches are required to be built in housing estates

(43) 1 Catholic church in Shah Alam took 20 years to apply to be constructed. But told by Malay authority that it must look like a factory and not look like a church. Still not yet approved in 2004

(44) 1 publishing of Bible in Iban language banned (in2002)

(45) 0 of the government TV stations (RTM1, RTM2, TV3) are directors of non-Malays origin

(48) 20 constituencies won by DAP would not get funds from the government to develop. Or these Chinese majority constituencies would be the last to be developed

(50) Only 3 out of 12 human rights items are ratified by Malaysia government since 1960

(51) 0 elimination of, all forms of racial discrimination (UN Human Rights) is not ratified by Malaysia government since 1960s

(52) 20 reported cases whereby Malay ambulance attendance treated Chinese patients inhumanely, and Malay government hospital staffs purposely delay attending to Chinese patients in 2003. Unreported cases may be 200

(53) 50 cases each year whereby Chinese, especially Chinese youths being beaten up by Malay youths in public places. We may check at police reports provided the police took the report, otherwise there will be no record

(54) 20 cases every year whereby Chinese drivers who accidentally knocked down Malays were seriously assaulted or killed by Malays

(55) 12% is what ASB/ASN got per annum while banks fixed deposit is only about 3.5% per annum

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Prince: Week of Learning...

18 September 2006
you are the key…

“The real key to your influence with me is your example, your actual conduct, your actual conduct. Your example flows naturally out of your character, or the kind of person you truly are – not what others say you are or what you may want me to think you are. It is evident in how I actually experience you” – Stephen Covey

It doesn’t matter of how others see you, talk about you or paint you good or bad; it is about how you behave; your character that flows from inside-out could overturn the whole story if you are totally at the opposite of the claim.

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17 September 2006
Don’t Chase after Poisonous Snake…

“We have such an intention to rush in, to fix things up with good advice. But we often fail to take the time to diagnose, to really deeply understand the problem first.” – Stephen Covey

“Chasing after the poisonous snake that bites us will only drive the poison through our entire system.” – Stephen Covey

How many of us have ever considered a mistake as ‘my mistake’?
How many of us have ever admitted to a mistake as ‘my mistake’?
If you are not even considering or thinking about it, then you will never even admit it.

We tend to blame a mistake on others rather than sit-down quietly to retrospect.
The more often we do so, the more deeply we are being ‘poisoned’


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16 September 2006
Fulfilling promise is building commitment…

“We can make a promise and keep it, or we can set a goal and work to achieve it. As we make and keep commitment, even small commitments, we begin to establish an inner integrity that gives us the awareness of self-control and the courage and strength to accept more of the responsibility for our own lives.” – Stephen Covey

Do you know what you want in life? We must always clear of what we want in life so that we are not running around the bush looking for something that we don’t even know. Your direction in life is a manifestation of your commitment in life; by keeping it manifests your will in achieving it; your ‘will’ to achieve it manifest the strength of your inner integrity; achievement is a manifestation of your persistency which is correlated to self-control from deviation.

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15 September 2006
Are you awake…?

“Management is doing things right; leaderships doing the right things. Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.” – Stephen Covey

We have too many to see with only two eyes
We have too many to complete with only two hands
We have too many to think with only one brain
We have too many to learn with only life-time duration.

We need to ensure our resources are fully utilized for a greater impact, and ‘staying-awake’ is the key factor of success.

Climbing the ladder is the easiest way in our life; and often, we are indulge in the setting of our environment that we forgo certain important prospect, such as, we forget to ask ourselves ‘If we are climbing the correct ladder?’ or ‘Is the ladder leaning against the right wall?’

Are you awake?

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14 September 2006
Compensation is not enough…?

“Many people seem to think that success in one area can compensate for failure in other areas of life. But can it really? Can success in your profession compensate for a broken marriage, ruined health, or weakness in personal character?” – Stephen Covey

Many of us are still living in the darkness of paradigm to foster the inner selfishness.
How many of us realize the important of ‘some other things in life’?
Similarly, you can earn as much money as you could to compensate a spoiled daughter / son to becoming even a wastrel. Career & Money are interrelated, and are important but they are not everything…at the end of the day, you will be surrounded with repentant gold.

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13 September 2006
Can’t let go sometimes…?

“If you value relationship and the issue isn’t really that important, you may want to go for Lose/Win in some circumstances to genuinely affirm the other person. What I want isn’t as important to see as my relationship with you. Let’s do it your way this time”. Win/Lose is not viable because, although I appear to win in a confrontation with you, your feelings, your attitudes towards me and our relationship have been affected.” – Stephen Covey

I keep quiet in times of need as I speak only when I must.
I fall without defend in time of need as I defend myself only when I must
I lose in time of need as I win only when I must
I do all the above in time of need as I try to create trust in relationship

I give in to others when I duly consider the matter isn’t as important as relationship
I give in to others when I duly consider the matter will lead to the same outcome when either choice is taken

I personally practice all the above as I believe it isn’t matter to give in sometimes.

A Chinese proverb once taught me, “If your enemy is to inflict harm on you as you know no harm could have done on you by his/her act- Let your enemy win. If your enemy is to inflict harm on you as you know you will be killed by his/her act – Defend to the last breathe”

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12 September 2006
Lay all on the table…?

“We are open. We put our cards on the table……We are both committed to try to understand each other’s point of view deeply and to work together for the third alternative, the synergistic solution that will be a better answer for both of us.” – Stephen Covey

We need to posses certain degree of acceptance before we encourage openness. We must fully utilize our acceptance level, and expand it so as openness can expand wide in our daily communication for a better understanding.

I am a person who is always open to comment, yet certain comment is bent from emotionally biased, and can be hard to accept. But I accept it with truthfulness because I believe, there got to be a reason for the biasness to occur where my point of improvements lay.

‘There are four basic kinds of consequences that management or parents can control as reward & penalties; Financial, Psychic, Opportunity & Responsibility.’ – Stephen Covey

Parent of many children or boss with many employees can utilize the four elements to ensure a better way of management; however, as I can foresee, it could lead to catastrophe if the four elements are not utilize properly, in a balance & fair mode.

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11 September 2006
Scarcity Mentality…?

“Most People are deeply scripted in what I call the Scarcity Mentality. They see life as having only so much, as though there were only one pie out there. And if someone were to get a big piece of the pie, it would mean less for everybody else. The Scarcity Mentality is the Zero Sum paradigm of life.” – Stephen Covey

It is truly depend on how you tend to perceive your environment, and the value you place on each items in life. To become No.1 & to become a straight A student may sound similar but being perceive differently by each individual, each individual racing towards to same direction using the different way.

To become No.1, you have to eliminate the rest and stand alone at the end of the day; But to become a straight A student, you will have to work with others straight A student to learn from each others, to share with each others.

I have always preferred the latter because I prefer to be in a team.

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Prince: Merdeka...

02 September 2006
Where is Modelling future… …

This would be my first time commenting on Malaysia TV program, and I am glad I am doing so to vent out my doubt towards the future of Malaysia model industry. I had a chance watching the 8TV show-‘I want to be Model’, it is one of the Malaysia Chinese reality show, and unfortunately, participants are way OUT of expectation!

The few thought I have about them:-

a) They can’t speak proper English / Mandarin; and the way they speak become a manifestation of ‘La-La-Ah-Beng’ way

b) They are way too young; immature, and not taking the shows seriously

c) They have too much complaint over what they have got to do to become a model

d) All the above points can be improved, but this one is the most important; their behaviors is a reflection of their thought-‘Modeling is all about look & posture’, instead of passion

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30 August 2006
Busy day but holiday wants peace…

I took leave on Friday; yet many undone work in hand, and is due this week!

In order to have a peaceful vacation, it is better to ensure everything is properly delegated.

Well, I don’t expect any call when I am laze around on my bed!

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29 August 2006
2 rules …

My wifey taught me 2 office rules;

First one: - always listen to your boss & follow his instruction

When you get into trouble, or has doubt, then you must follow the 2nd rule.

2 rule is:- ‘ALWAYS FOLLOW THE FIRST RULE!

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28 August 2006
Company promoted 6 people …

6 people left in 6 months period; my company morale is in pit low.

During our monthly meeting, we were asked to fill in an A4 paper of how we feel about our company management. The suggestion will be used to create a new management system that everyone will fall in love with.

Today, our MD called an emergency meeting, and shows us our thought about the management; and put in short into 3 sentences:-

a) Unrealistic Target – target is unachievable!
b) Low employee benefit – local benefit with global expectation!
c) Low transparency in HR – unclear evaluation system!

He promised to change the management system; and in order to earn our trust, he announced 6 promotions which will be in effective from October. Unfortunately, none of the manager received any of the promotions.

It is again leads to dissatisfaction at the middle management!
Why can’t they do it right?

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