Malaysia - A lovely country!?

We have a lovely country. Our leaders say we don't have earthquake, tsunami etc. They say we are lucky. The school teachers also teach the same. They tell our children, "you are very lucky!". They say all the ethnic groups in Malaysia live happily. They say the government is very fair to all races. Our children are very proud of the country. They come back and tell the parents the stories. The parents are stunned. Some parents do not know how to tell their children......

I tell my daughter these:-

We don't have earthquake but many lives lost in the road accidents and landslides.

We don't have birdflu but many people died of dengue.

Nobody has got affected or died of Melamine, but our Ministers and government are very worried. They take lots of measures to check and prevent this from happening. Hurray to them! However, dengue took away many lives in Malaysia but the government or the minister does not have any effective way to curb this.

We do not have racial riot in this country but the politicians are arguing, fighting and debating about racial issues everyday.

Our police force is one of the most efficient force in this world, but snatch thieves are found everywhere.

We have one of the best education systems in this region, but our politicians are debating about the teaching medium of Science and Maths in schools, either continue to use English or mother tongues. Politicians are busy in politicing the education issue. Suddenly there are lots of politicians who sent their children to national school stand up and fight for the vernacular (national type) schools' right, though these types of schools which have Tamil and Chinese as their medium were not of their concern before.

Our LRT network is also one of the best in the region. But if you want to take LRT, you can choose to pay by Touch n Go, cash, cuopon or getting a card from the machine. Yup, it is very efficient, but most of the people or tourists are confused. The worst part is the ticketing machines break down very often.

If you take LRT, please be aware, different LRT providers would have different stations and the stations do not link. Eg, Putra and Star stations of Masjid Jamed, Monorail does not link to Sentral Station.

Our politicians or ministers appear in Newspapers and media everyday. The interesting thing is that many of them always come up with contradicting statements.

We have members of parliament who like to make jokes of female MP, but they forget their mothers are also female. The MP teach our children not to speak vulgar words, but they speak them in the parliament house.

My daughter, do you know, our country is a lovely country!