Looking at the recent past, there appear to be little to look forward to as ordinary Malaysians. The rich will get richer and the poor will still struggle to be less deprived. Those in power will do their best to remain in power. The under privileged will continue to have lesser still.
Reading from the blogs around, we find that some Chinese Malaysians are preparing to leave the country if 'things' gets worse - of course these would be the already affluent group of the race. The poorer Chinese will still have carry on the daily struggle and hope the political party they support will one day ensure a better life for them.
The Indians had their moment in history - suing the British Government for Trillions of ringgit, getting world news headlines via the Hindraf issue. Sammy Vellu will still hold on to power.
The Malays won't be reaslising that their days are numbered - they are still split now three or four ways - politicaly, socially, religiously and philosophically. The ruling UMNO thrives on the ignorance of the rural Malays while the religious PAS find themselves bobbing between being labeled extremist and modernist. PKR Malays are apologist - trying to pacify everyone from the east, west, north and south.
As a nation who started off quite well in the early days now find itself being relegated to post developing, lost in direction, 3rd world country yet again. While the price of oil is at one of its highest in history, little of that can be translated to better living for the country's citizen. As one of the biggest producers of palm oil in the world, not having any for domestic use is simply stupid!
Presidency of OIC and NAM is more of burden rather than a plus nowadays. No one benefits from such lame leadership NOT EVEN Malaysia.
As far as world focus goes, so far almost all the news have been about scandals, bad policing, poor management and shameful scams. As the world becomes more and more a global village, there isn't much here in Malaysia if you're an ordinary citizen. The fear is will Malaysia too get herself listed with Myanmar for democracy, Zimbabwe for inflation, America for justice and Colombia for freedom? But for some, standing tall alongside America's style of say-one-thing-and-do-the-opposite isn't so bad really.
Nobody listens to the little people anyway! RIGHT GEORGE?
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