1Malaysia: Is it truly making a difference?

Salam 1Malaysia.

As I type away furiously on my BlackBerry® smartphone, I observe the conditions here at the New Eve Hair Salon in PJ State, where I am waiting for my dearest Grandma to get her hair done. We've been coming here for years, and she insists that they do it better here than Cut Above.

As in most of these places, there's always lively chatter. People waving magazines and shouting quotes. They all speak the common languages: Bahasa Malaysia & English.

Its always been like this. Before Najib, before Pak Lah. Never changed while the rest of the world did. So has the 1Malaysia campaign made a difference here?

Hell no. What difference is needed here?

Indeed, Malaysia needs to be united. I get nauseous whenever I hear racial slurs or see people treat others differently. I scream when I hear the word 'Keling', in fact (you do not want to know how long I deliberated on whether I ought to type that or not).

I quote my Grandaunt from Kuantan: "Why should Malaysia spend so much on the 1Malaysia campaign? We were 1Malaysia back in 1935!"

Now, as for effects, I so far see none. The Government is, again, wasting taxpayers dollars on senseless expenses. Its not about having a logo, or a tagline. Its about instilling the need & want & desire to be united. Sure, we have Civic Education, but how can we be educated when the teachers are as 1Malaysia as a shellfish?

So, please. Stop wasting our money on unnecessary projects. We need money elsewhere, where poverty is at its highest. Or in our public transport system, to reduce congestion on the roads.

Or better still... nah, I might get arrested for defamation.


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Teen beaten (by coppers!) at an LRT station.

Muahahahaha. Another police brutality case.

Who had the wager that there'd be another before March?

Teoh Beng Hock wasn't murdered, says Govt. pathologist

Jesus Christ. It's not over.

First suicide, then murder, now back to suicide?

I think this is a shabby, Government attempt to cover-up the shiny new MACC. Seriously people, you wouldn't want to go out and say that brand new car you just bought doesn't actually move, now do you?

Let's look at the facts: 1) First examination was conducted by a Government pathologist. Concludes that TBH's death was due to suicide. 2) Body exhumed, re-examined by Dr. Pornthip Rojanasunand, Asia's leading forensic pathologist. Concludes that TBH was strangled, and there were penetrative wounds toward the anal area. This is an uncorrupted opinion. 3) Another examination conducted. Government pathologist concludes that TBH's death was, yet again, suicide.

Is it just me, or can you see the underlying pattern emerging?