End of Chinese New Year.....
Well, Chinese New Year is over and Chan Theng(my host brother) has gone back to Australia, so not as many late nights out drinking and eating (eating and drinking, the Malaysian way of life)for me anymore. There are a few sayings regarding food in Malaysia, "Malaysians were born to eat" and "Food is the religion in Malaysia", these are the ones I have heard and it's true. I will start from where I left off, last Monday back at school, tried to learn some Malay with Bilal the exchange student from Denmark as my teacher. After school I went with Chan Theng to have coffee with some of his friends. Tuesday I went out for breakfast with Chan Theng at 4am, it's amazing how many people are eating at 4am. I moved classes when I got to school, I decided I needed a class that wasn't as hard working. But I didn't spend much time in that class that day, I went to the library, attempted to learn some Malay but I just feel asleep. After school I tried durian, 'the king of the fruits', it is unusual and kinda messy, defintely not my favourite fruit. On Wednesday I went to Kuala Lumpur for the day with Chan Theng. So, I didn't go to school, wouldnt' miss anything anyway. We drove down to KL with two of Chan Theng's friends who lived there and had just been in Kuantan for Chinese New Year to see their family. As soon as we arrived in KL, you notice straight away how much hotter it is there comparded to Kuantan because of all the cars and tall buildings(heat reflecting off the windows, i found out). I also noticed there are a lot more Westerners and modern Malays(which means they don't wear the tudong(the muslim head scarf) or just cover up less. We went to get a bus ticket for that night back to Kuantan and then to McDonalds for lunch because it was the only air-conditioned food place nearby. After that, we went to Petalling Street which just sells a heap of fake stuff, from Louis Vuitton to Adidas to pirated cds and vcds. We then caught the train to the KLCC(Kuala Lumpur City Center) where there is the 2nd tallest building in the world(Petrona twin towers). Under the twin towers there is a big upperclass shopping mall, which is the place to go if you want a $10000 watch or $300 dollar t-shirt(talking in Australian money here, not ringgit). We then caught the train to quite far away from the city center and got some dinner. After that we went back to Petalling Street for some last minute CD shopping, then we went to catch the 9:30pm bus back to Kuantan which takes about 4 hours. On Thursday I went back to school and after school I went to get my hair cut and dyed. My hair is now black underneath, I also got blonde foils on top. That night, I went with Chan Theng to see him play badminton, which is a very competitive sport here. On Friday I finally chopped off my Falls Festival wristband, it was defintely overdue for coming off. That night the whole family gambled(it's a Chinese New Year thing) and I won about 50RM(divide by 2.8 or something for AUD). On Saturday I went to Megamall with Chan Theng and I bought some shoes. Later on, we met up with Ann Marie the German community service exchange student and had some coconut juice, which is pretty good. That night we (my host dad, brother, sister and me) went out for dinner, it was another Chinese New Year(CNY for short) dinner, where there was lion dancing and acrobats from Shanghai. At that dinner I tried pig's legs,which I was told what it was after I ate 
it....very unusual. After dinner we(Pei-Jia, Chan Theng and me) went out to a cafe which has fantastic, expensive coffee. After that Chan Theng and me went to 'Swing' a new nightclub in Kuantan, there we met some of his friends. On Sunday It was the last day of Chinese New Year, which means it was Chinese Valentines Day, I had never heard of that before. I got up very early on Sunday and we went to the 'Wet Market' which sells a lot of seafood, meat and vegies. After that we went out for breakfast at the 'M.S Garden Hotel', where I tried chicken feet, after being told it was just chicken. Then Chan Theng and I spent a couple of hours looking for a CD we had heard the night before at the cafe. That night we had 'Steamboat' for dinner, which just involves steaming food just before eating it, usually involves a lot of seafood. After dinner, Chan Theng and I went back to the cafe and since we didn't this CD, we bought off the people who owned the cafe, it was very lucky Chan Theng could get the CD the day before going back to Australia, where you don't find much Chinese music at all, especially jazz. Yesterday Chan Theng went back to Brisbane, so I got up super early to go to the airport, which is actually smaller than the airport in Hobart. Then head off to school, where that day the students learnt about the discipline, jail, death penalty and other nasty stuff. I just slept through it all, especially the part where they showed a video of prisoners in jails in Malaysia being slashed, something that hasn't been done in Australia for a few hundred years. Today i went to school and inter-high cross country practice where it poured with rain(as usual) to the point of flooding on the road again, and that was about it for today, no more going out after school with Chan Theng and his friends...
posted by Kathryn @ 7:15 pm
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Hey Kathryn!!!
Pretty cool stuff over there, are you gaining weight yet? I am so proud, I gained 5 kilo's in the first 6 months!! Still 5 more to go though. The most exciting thing that happended here was the AFS meeting last night. I am sure you miss them.
List of racial discriminations in Malaysia, practiced by government as well as government agencies. This list is an open secret. Best verified by government itself because it got the statistics.
This list is not in the order of importance, that means the first one on the list is not the most important and the last one on the list does not mean least important.
This list is a common knowledge to a lot of Malaysians, especially those non-malays (Chinese, Ibans, Kadazans, Orang Asli, Tamils, etc) who were being racially discriminated.
Figures in this list are estimates only and please take it as a guide only. Government of Malaysia has the most correct figures. Is government of Malaysia too ashamed to publish their racist acts by publishing racial statistics?
This list cover a period of about 48 years since independence (1957).
List of racial discriminations (Malaysia):
(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 be bumis status
(6) 0% of non-malay staffs is legally required in malay companies. But there must be 30% malay 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-malay government servants in Putrajaya. But malays make up 98%
(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. Otherwise, life is make difficult for Chinese rice millers
(14) 100 big companies set up, owned and managed by Chinese Malaysians were taken over by government, and later managed by malays since 1970s 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 to 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 malay pockets through ASB, ASN, MARA, privatisation 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 RM2000 salary is eligible
(24) 10 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 since 40 years ago
(34) 0.5 million Indian 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 Indian 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 get compare with 98% of what malay villages got for rural development budget
(39) 50 road names (at least) had been changed from Chinese names to other names
(40) 1 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 try to shun Chinese names. This racism happened in around year 2000 or sort
(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 (in 2002)
(45) 0 of the government TV stations (RTM1, RTM2, TV3) are directors of non-malay origins
(46) 30 government produced TV dramas and films always showed that the bad guys had Chinese face, and the good guys had malay face. You can check it out since 1970s. Recent years, this tendency becomes less
(47) 10 times, at least, malays (especially Umno) had threatened to massacre the Chinese Malaysians using May 13 since 1969
(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
(49) 100 constituencies (parliaments and states) had been racistly re-delineated so Chinese voters were diluted that Chinese candidates, particularly DAP candidates lost in election since 1970s
(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 attendances 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
There are hundreds more racial discriminations in Malaysia to add to this list of "colossal" racism. It is hope that the victims of racism will write in to expose racism.
Malaysia government should publish statistics showing how much malays had benefited from the "special rights" of malays and at the same time tell the statistics of how much other minority races are being discriminated.
Hence, the responsibility lies in the Malaysia government itself to publish unadulterated statistics of racial discrimination.
If the Malaysia government hides the statistics above, then there must be some evil doings, immoral doings, shameful doings and sinful doings, like the Nazi, going on onto the non-malays of Malaysia.
Civilized nation, unlike evil Nazi, must publish statistics to show its treatment on its minority races. This is what Malaysia must publish……….
We are asking for the publication of the statistics showing how "implementation of special rights of malays" had inflicted colossal racial discrimination onto non-malays.
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