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How bumi directors' kids got scholarships

Posted: 16 Jun 2011 10:13 PM PDT

It is amazing how readers seem to waste their time 'taking on' minister Nazri Abdul Aziz for what are simply comments, like that on a long-playing cracked disc that has long been discarded. Their response is 'full of sound and fury' but signifying nothing.

The same scenario of a politically connected Malay-bumiputera elite groups continuing to manipulate the decision making process of scholarship allocation in favour of their children and then to 'muddy the waters' continues to manifest itself throughout the system to the detriment of all other groups. Alas, accordingly, their foul deeds will not rise because they will be covered from men's eyes.

One example can be cited.

A USM visiting professor research project undertaken in 2002-3 revealed that not only almost the entire first year intake of admissions (from the matriculation program) were awarded full scholarships, but also that their fathers were mostly nominated directors from the corporate sector.

Not surprisingly a few students ticked the slot 'unemployed' for them! This is obviously a limited study but was based on a random stratified sample.

As pointed out in the comments, among those who seem to have much to decry are people who themselves played pro-establishment roles in this system, and it seems a far cry now to cry over such wrongs.

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Umno' anti-Bersih rally: Send in the clowns!

Posted: 16 Jun 2011 09:23 PM PDT

With reference to the Malaysiakini article on June 16, 'July 9: Umno Youth to march as well', I find both Umno Youth's and Perkasa's decisions to walk to the Istana on the same day as both ludicrous and provocative.

And they are doing it at the same time and along the same route as the planned Bersih 2.0 march? Talk about copy-catting.

In this case we have two groups that mouthpiece each other and that are both irrelevant to the cause of clean elections and democracy for this country. What else can I say but this:

They've Sent In The Clowns
(with apologies to composer Stephen Sondheim)

Isn't it rich? Aren't they a pair?
We're here at last on the ground,
They're tearing their hair,
They've sent in the clowns.

Isn't it bliss? Don't you approve?
One who keeps trying to rise,
One whose mouth is loose,
Here are the clowns.
They've sent in the clowns.

Just when we stopped
Closing our eyes,
Fully now knowing
The ones that are telling the lies,
Making our entrance again,
With a passion for right,
Sure of our strength,
They're filled with fright.

Don't you love farce?
Their fault, we know.
They say they want what we want,
They surely don't know.
Do we need them here?
Let's send out these clowns.
To some hemisphere.

Isn't it rich?
Isn't it queer?
Losing their control of late
What's their career?
They sure are dumb clowns
Such copycat clowns.
Please, don't bother us here.

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Jumaat, 17 Jun 2011

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