a chinese conundrum

It is getting harder being a Chinese nowadays in Malaysia especially during the General Election season. The community as usual, has been bombarded with countless allegations and stereotyping and being made to look like the boogeyman. From being materialistic, ungrateful and to the extent of being racist. Let’s digest this issue rationally to determine if there are any truth in those said behaviors in the community.

The Chinese is a unique race, basically the only race that can be found in every corners of the earth. There is an intrinsic characteristic within the Chinese whereby they will go, follow and stay at any place that enables them to generate wealth. To a certain extent, being materialistic could be true. How about being ungrateful and racist?

As stated, the Chinese can be found basically everywhere around the world. These countries are governed by different races. Therefore this can conclude that the Chinese has no problem to be ruled by a non-Chinese. As seen in Malaysia, since the year 1957, the Chinese community has been supporting Barisan Nasional steadfastly that is led by Malay leaders. The loyalty for decades cannot be dismissed wantonly. Only in the year 2008, the winds of change happened. Why is this so? Suddenly the community becomes ungrateful overnight? If a person is diligent enough to investigate the events months before, then the person will see all those horrible allegations of corruption that is so massive that can even give an elephant a heart attack. The change therefore has nothing to do with being ungrateful or racist but “attacked” the materialistic side of the Chinese; whereby the conducive environment of searching wealth in the country is perceived to be in danger.

Instead of addressing the perception and allaying the fears of the Chinese, the ruling BN government continued business as usual with tons and tons of corruption allegations cropping up in the domestic front and even in the international arena! The perception continued and the panic caused another political tsunami in the year 2013.

In summary, it is therefore unfair to label the Chinese community here of being ungrateful. If you attack the rice bowl of a person that is trying to feed his family, of course the person will fight back ferociously. When comes to being racist, we can crudely put it, even if an aspiring Prime Minister is purple in color, if he can bring wealth to the country the Chinese will still vote him into power.

quote of the day

"No religion can ever change your character deep down inside. Stop using religion to justify your actions."

meeting minutes of MY Ltd AGM

Shareholder #1: The company is currently lacking in capable executives to run its operations. The training and re-skilling budget for employees is being cut this year. Why?

 

CEO: We from the higher management find that we don’t need capable executives to run the company. We just need executives that are submissive and loyal to the company’s higher management in order to keep the company afloat. Less so-called smart ideas more work can be done.

 

Shareholder #2: There has been a lot of complaint from the employees that the company does not provide adequate transportation allowances to cover their daily commute. Why?

 

CEO: We from the higher management find that their complaints are not justified. If they can’t afford the fuel price, take public transportations. If that is troublesome, they should wake up early and travel on roads that are free from toll charges. Better still, they can even ride a bicycle or walk to work. Look at the Europeans.

 

Shareholder #1: The company’s cafeteria is selling food with exorbitant prices. I just got normal fried rice just now and was charged a bomb for it. Won’t the employees complain?

 

CEO: We from the higher management find that the price is justified based on the economy outlook. If the employees can’t afford the food, they can always pack from home or bring some raw meat to cook at the office. We have just signed a deal with Cronies Ltd to provide state of the art cooking utensils in the pantries.

 

Shareholder #3: We don’t quite understand some transactions in the company’s Yearly Financial Records. There is a payment of approximately billions into a personal account for some services rendered. However it is not clear what those services are and who the vendor is.

 

CEO: Security, please remove Shareholder #3 from the premises for asking stupid questions.

 

Shareholder #1: There is a plus point we can see that the operating expenses has decreased immensely. Seems that this is largely due to the annual increment and bonus payout remains nil for 3 consecutive years. Will this affect employees’ morale and subsequently affect productivity?

 

CEO: We from the higher management find that this is totally a non-issue. We have instructed HR to provide counseling to the employees at a monthly basis and tell them that if the earning is not sufficient they can always get a second job or sell some of their personal belongings online to make ends meet. We have just signed a contract with MyBrother Ltd to provide internet training to assist them.

 

Shareholder #3: What the heck is the company’s direction to increase profitability and compete effectively in the global market?

 

CEO: Security, why is this troublemaker still in the premises. Call the police and ask them to send the Chief of Police here personally to escort him out. By the way, the meeting has come to an end as I am late for a golf session with the President of Utopia. I will hand over to my deputy to close the meeting.

 

Deputy CEO: Everyone please leave. On your way out please collect a document notifying that the company plans to buy 2 private jets for the CEO and his immediate family members’ business usage. Thank you all for coming and please continue to vote us into the higher management and do hold on to our under-valued company share.