See the speck in thy neighbour's eye...

STOP! Lembu Crossing A-head!

If Desi again writes in strange tongue, it's because there are some adddicts out there arse-king for IT!


I'm always carrefool when driving in the night -- not that I'm careless driving in daylight. Am I making sense? Okay, rephrase: I am careful when driving on Malaysian roads, but increase my careful alertness at night. Better? If thou art still confused, come back on Sunday for some flee tuition.:(

I see the Sangkancil laughing at Desi for his humour,
but I hear some rumour the species called LEMBU are getting extinct.
That's why they are mullinh over Desi's proposal to erect the road signs shouting:

"STOP! Lembu Crossing A-head!"

Actually this is the moral of today's 'sermon'; badder word is Aesop's fable updated to 21st century. I'm doing IT in reverse. No, Howsy, not Brokeback Mount style.
Gostan, that's all, starting from Da End. More arrest-ing Dat Way.

So to Da Beginning~~~~~~~

From The Star, page N18,
Thursday June 1, 2006


Fong: Mandarin should be optional

PUTRAJAYA: The requirement for prospective employees to be fluent in Mandarin should be made optional.

Human Resources Minister Datuk Dr Fong Chan Onn said making it a must would limit employers to a small pool of people when searching for dedicated and hardworking staff.

“I will talk to the private sector on this and I hope this demand for Mandarin proficiency when employing new workers will stop,” he said after meeting Nepalese Deputy Prime Minister K.P. Sharma Oli at his office yesterday.

“Language proficiency can be provided as part of an in-house programme for employees and need not be for Mandarin only,” he said.

“Employees should also be conversant in English and Bahasa Malaysia.”

On Tuesday, Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak had asked the
private sector to stop making it compulsory for local graduates to be proficient in Mandarin.

In Kuala Lumpur, Bernama reported Overseas Umno Club Alumni chairman Ahmad Zaini Ismail as saying that such restrictive conditions would create problems for Malaysians in seeking jobs after completing their studies overseas.

However, Malaysian Human Rights Commissioner Prof Dr Chiam Heng Keng had a contrary view.

“From the eye of the employer, there is no discrimination,” she said, adding that the companies' management had the right to select the most appropriate candidate for a particular post.

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DESIDERATA poses this ChallengiA:
Which is MORE UNHEALTHY IN ITS DISCRIMINATION?

Class A Advertisements for Job Vacancy:

Condition: Only BUMIPUTRAS are eligible to apply.


Class B Advertisements for Job Vacancy:

Condition: Proficiency in Mandarin is requisite for this Vacancy.

OBJECTIVE TEST:

Answers
(1) Class A
(2) Class B


DESIDERATA: Look at how I have phrased the Question.

I've stated from the start that BOTH ARE DISCRIMINATORY.
The difference is that one discriminates on Political/Ethnic qualification;
the other discriminates on Language ground.

For a young nation of 49 years, and trying to foster unity among muli-racial groups that are diverse in culture, language and religion, Malaysia indeed faces many challenges that Homogeneous populated societies like Korea, Japan do not face. (Recall that one Senior Editor at a public forum said, in all seriousness, that Malaysia was unlike other Homogegeous societies like The United States of America ... Go figure who, and why, and how?

But many of our myopic politicians don't see beyond their ethnic lenses, or noses. They see the speck in the neighbour's eyes, but can't see what?
The Lembu Crossing A-head!

(So some Politikus killed the poor Sangkancil just now crossing the well-lit road because its size was a mite too small for his/her vision!)


Desi has through Blogging been trying to promote a Civil Society where there is no discrimination on grounds of ethnicity, religion, gender, and even in most fields of civil society activities where aopplicable, no discrimination on political affiliation e.g. scholarships awards, whether by PSD, or private sector's. Hence, as was done in last year's Merdeka Day Essay Series,(August 25-31, 2005) I and some mGf here have called for an early start to nation building for NegaraKU by dismantling Race-Based Parties (& in tandem, Policies), such as UMNO, MCA and MIC, as well as Religion-based parties like PAS.

OtherWISE, I hold the opinion that Malaysia -- "as a nation" -- have not even started on our slow march towards building a truly, united nation.

Our DPM has joined the ranks of one other Minister who asked us to travel by Lembu kereta commutiung KL/PP, yeah, save on petrol but taking 0ne-and-half months -- they are so out of touch with the pulse of the Malaysian common folks ekeing out a living at Chow Kit and Petaling Street, or Jalan Sambanthan, or Jalan Hang Tuah, Lebuh Carnavon, Jalan Kamunting or Jalan Tan Sri V Manickavasagam.

Of course, MCA Ministers like Fong Chan Onn would bow, say Yes, Deputy PM, I'd follow up with a directive tomorrow to ask that "... the private sector on this and I hope this demand for Mandarin proficiency when employing new workers will stop.”

He can't see the double standrads demanded that he -- poor koolie! -- had to commit.
Well, at least one shing spark in the form of Prof DR Chiam still has the guts to speak her mind. One Salute.
Just an aside, side by side in the last para was this wise challenge thrown up by out esteemed ex-PM:
"He added that the boys should buck up because the girls now made up 60% of the university student population."

Thinking allowed, if some Politikus stretch their argument to its logical conclusion, One Day We Will See The Following Advertisement worded thus?

University Admission to XYZ Science or Law Faculty:

Condition: Only MALE students need to apply.


Now where was I?
The saying that You see the speck in your neighbour's eye, but do not see the branch/plank in your own eye.

I wonder if there is a parallel in Desi's moral of~~~~~~~~. If none, never mind, it's my morn's breakfast offering.
Oh yes, preserving the Sangkancil and Lembu!

Must inform my businesss friends involved in billboarding to tender for the job. My 30% cut! Tradition in NegaraKu, hence the original tender form factors this in by upping bill by 300%. You add one zelo here, another zelo there, make so many contractors happy, YES?
Getting paid RM100million as compensation for a Job hardly started.
Now you know where the oil dollars have been floating...

Do you swim, mGf?If yes. please, go fish out some Ringgit notes for Desi...
Thinking A-HEAD for coming Sunday's CON!:(

PS: Please look out for a Bonus Post this afternoon -- I'm thinking aloud again that I have in my archives a relevant nu'es item. Not poetic, but discerning...

Chow! --myGOoDfriend, as in "Adios, Adieu, See You Later."
OR "Go eat thy breakfast of Bread&Butter, throw in some kaya if you can steal afford IT;
for Man shall not live on air, water and sunshine alone."

We shall meet a-gain. InsyaAllah. God willing.

UPDATE THE DAY AFTER

June 2, 2006 @ 10.50AM

A senior editor in The Star, WONG CHUN WAI in a Comment on page N25, devoted HALF A PAGE to the subject. I extracted jsut the first two paras, Go pay RM1.20 for the rest of the cili crab/crap!


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We need to be more marketable

COMMENT: By WONG CHUN WAI

MANY Malaysians have long complained about job vacancy advertisements that require applicants to have compulsory knowledge of written Chinese and spoken Mandarin.

For job-seekers who are only proficient in Bahasa Malaysia and English, such advertisements must be frustrating, particularly if they feel they are qualified for the jobs offered.

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He only deliberated on the Class B advertisement, taking after the big foot steps of Deputy Prime Minister whom he must really idolise. The same laments by Najib Tun Razak a few days ago regurgitated, expanded to cover international market palces like Saudi Arabia, Belgium, Switzerland, Sweden and Australia, okay nearer home Singapore, then China, Hong Kong and Taiwan -- but he alos never mentioned, not even ONCE, Class A Advertisements inviting the BUMIPUTRAS ONLY applicants.
This for someone second in line to the People's Paper's GEIC. Oh, I remember, he's a double Datuk, so it's possible he harbours Political ambitions. OR isit what you call another AP? APologist...
Therefore, journalism is far from someone's mind...
I rest my case. OR isIT RIP?
Like The Sarawak Tribune?