一甲子的聚会

华人有句话说：天地君亲师，教育界也流行一句话，尊师重道，可是从例年来516教师节的应时庆典中，都在推动尊师重道精神，莫不再三启示学生将来要懂得感恩，将饮水思源的教诲发扬光大。可是处身在这世态炎凉的现实社会，我仍然可以深刻体会到当年在渔乡服务时那种浓厚的人情味。回想七十年代，为了生计，毅然离乡背井，舟车劳顿，从马来西亚半岛柔佛州中部到柔佛东南端教英文，教学生活虽然清苦，但是却感觉十分快乐，乐业敬业，感到特别欣慰。

今年5月25日一甲子聚餐会由四湾育本学校第十八届毕业生发起筹办，它是由1959年出世的学生发起，号召了46位参与，师生的聚会终于顺利举办，并圆满结束。本人忝为受邀出席聚会的老师之一，我们都为学生们事业有成感到欣慰，也感觉到这群年届耳顺之年的学生用心良苦，奔波操劳筹备这次的聚会，目的就是在有生之年与当年教导他们的师长们欢聚叙旧，对饮水思源的教诲抛砖引玉的效应。

从迎接老师到民宿，到当晚在海番村餐馆的一顿美食，学生殷勤招待，在餐座上大家畅所欲言，彷佛一见如故，寒暄叙旧，话语绵绵还有学生的卡拉OK歌唱以娱乐师长，促进师生感情交流，让彼此都能在欢乐中忘了自己。

苏联作家陀思妥耶斯基说了一句话，“我们有时候应感谢某些人，确实因为他们和我们一起活着。我感谢你，因为我遇见了你。”在受邀讲话时，除了感谢已经活了一甲子的学生们的热情招待，再感谢这群离开母校48年的学生没有忘记母校老师对他们的栽培与期望，我好感动，心里要说的就是“看见你们，大家都好！”

HOW COME AFTER 60 YEARS WE ARE STILL BEHIND THE OTHER MALAYSIANS?

Are we stupid or are you – our leaders –  that after over half a century you have still not get it right?

The Malays in Singapore are by and large better off than us yet they do not have Bumiputraism. 
Why not learn from them?

The wealth gap intra the Malay community is much wider than that of the other communities. We have super rich Malays while most of us struggle to make ends meet.

Are these rich Malays so much cleverer or more hard working than the rest of us?

Or is it because they have used their positions and connections to enrich themselves at our expense?

2. WOULD IT BE TRUE THAT IF  “AFFIRMATIVE ACTION” IS BASED ON NEEDS  AND NOT ON RACE THERE WILL BE MORE FOR US POOR MALAYS?

After all since the rich Malays can afford to support their children’s education why are they taking scholarships?

Every place they take means one less place for a poor student.

And how does giving us discount on buying shares help us. Most of us cannot understand the stock market and even if we did, we have no spare money to play the share market. This benefits the rich Malays but not us.

Same for housing we can only afford one house if at all, while the rich can buy many. 

Now if house purchase discounts were given strictly on the basis of needs and not race, then perhaps house prices can come down because of the lower holding cost for developers. This will benefit us.

3. YOU KEEP TELLING US THE CHINESE ARE OUR ENEMIES; THAT THEY STEAL FROM US AND THAT IF NOT FOR YOU WE WOULD BECOME EXTINCT.

How did the Chinese steal from us and how are they going to make us extinct? Explain . . .!?!

Are you not using them to scare us so that we run to you?

4. ON EDUCATION: WHY ARE EVEN OUR FELLOW MALAYS LEAVING THE NATIONAL SCHOOLS AND GOING TO CHINESE SCHOOLS??? 
ARE THEY TELLING YOU SOMETHING?
Why is religion so much an element in our schools. Should we not have more time on subjects that prepare our children for the workplace – to cari makan?

And if as you keep telling us that we have the best education why are you sending your children to private schools and overseas universities? 
Why are our universities ranked so low?

We want good public universities led by good vice chancellors; we don’t care about his race. Yet you play politics with our children’s future by not appointing the best, but using race as a criteria.

5. TO OUR RELIGIOUS LEADERS:
WHY IS THE ISLAM PRACTISED IN MANY ISLAMIC COUNTRIES MORE LIBERAL AND OPEN THAN OURS .. ?!?
WORDS YOU FORBID THE INFIDELS TO USE ARE USED OPENLY BY NON-MUSLIMS EVEN IN ARABIC COUNTRIES.

I hear that in Indonesia there are siblings of different faiths in the same family. 
That a Muslim can marry a Christian without either converting from their religion

Explain Al Baqara 256: There is no compulsion in religion.

And why do you think we are we so weak in our faith that we can be so easily  confused, or influenced by the sign of the cross, or Christians celebrating their festivals that you forbid us to even convey our festive greetings to them? Or not allow them to enjoy their Oktober Fest as we consider it haram. Who are you/we to impose our beliefs on others. How did we become so intolerant?

Why is it that you make a fuss of how our women (or other women)  dress and trivial matters like that;
yet you close your eyes  to the corruption that goes on? 
You say nothing about how our leaders have cheated us

Has your silence been bought by the fat pay you get????

6. YOU SCOLD US FOR BEING LAZY AND CALL US USELESS – THAT WE CANNOT WALK WITHOUT A TONGKAT. YET YOU KEEP PUSHING THE TONGKAT ON US. WHY?

Is it to keep us dependent on you? Are you afraid that if we can think for ourselves and stand on our own feet without you we can make up our minds what is good or bad?

7. WHY DO THE OLDER GENERATION MALAYSIANS GET ON SO MUCH BETTER WITH EACH OTHER AND WE DO NOT? IS IT THE SCHOOL SYSTEM?

Is it the less extreme and more tolerant Islam in their day? My grandmother did not wear a tudung yet she is a good Muslim. My grandfather sat in the coffeeshops with his Chinese and Indian kakis and no one made a fuss.

Have you brainwashed us to hate the non-Malays?

I do not care about race; and religion is a personal matter – between me and Allah. I do not want to be used as a pawn to further your own selfish agenda. 
All I want is a good job and peace and harmony. I want a good education for my children so that they too can have a bright future.

I look at our Malay brothers in Sarawak and Sabah and envy them for their racial harmony and how they enjoy each other. 
My grandfather tells me that we were like that once. I want to be like that again.

It is not the non-Malays who do not want to mix with us. It’s us who want to be exclusive and that works to our detriment.

Don’t play racial politics with our lives so you can divide and rule, and enrich yourself at our expense.

You can fool some of us all the time and all us some of the time, but you cannot fool all of us all the time.

Explain why you have failed after 60 years of trying.

人格分裂的大马华人

 這幾個月的華社民間輿論，讓我懷疑大馬華社是否有許多患上人格分裂症狀的病患？鐵了心要投反對黨的華裔選民，可以一邊大聲喊改朝換代拒絕腐敗，但同時間又可以高調擁抱大馬貪腐之父的馬哈迪。這不是很矛盾嗎？
    他們口口聲聲說國陣超過60年的腐敗，卻好像看不見這60年裡有超過三分一的時間是馬哈迪當首相。如果算上馬哈迪第一次入閣當教育部長，那麼這60年的腐敗有一半時間馬哈迪都在參與。
    他們說納吉的醜聞讓國際間笑話，可是選一個醜聞比納吉還大的前獨裁者回來救國，不是更大的笑話嗎？
    同樣的，當老馬的舊班底如達因、拉菲達高調支持老馬時，華社大聲歡呼巫統末日近了，但難道他們忘了這些人在國陣60年腐敗裡都是獨當一面的貪腐者？我說過，巫統只是一個名字，他們代表的馬來霸權才是國家的毒瘤。就算整個巫統精英明天跳槽過來反對黨推翻納吉巫統，這有什麼好值得高興的？
    最好笑的，明明是政客的反复無常，卻被華社自我意淫為“政治上沒有永遠的敵人，只有永遠的利益”。這句話出自於19世紀英國外相，但他的利益是指國家利益，老馬反反复复的行為並不是為了國家利益，而是自己的利益，一般草民高興些什麼？
    我不反對和任何人合作，重點是，我的利益有被保障嗎？
    那些說馬哈迪改過自新的，他改了什麼過？他反對種族固打了嗎？他有答應以後不把人民分土著、非土著了嗎？他支持多源流教育了嗎？
    為什麼華社可以那麼窩囊？批評馬華不敢爭取華人利益，批評巫統忽略華社，但面對希盟時，連要求他們把制度化建立華小寫在宣言裡也不敢？
你說幾乎全世界都有GST，這是公平的稅收，為什麼反對？華社會告訴你，我們不反對，但國陣政府濫用GST。可是你支持的希盟政府，你卻認為他們是廉潔的，那麼幹嘛反對廉潔的希盟政府實施GST呢？
    行動黨的墮落，更是讓人痛心疾首。
    為了奪權，他們在《希望宣言》裡寫到大馬在馬哈迪卸任之前還是很美好的，只是到了納吉時候才讓國人沒有尊嚴。這是否表示，老馬以前的種族主義、朋黨至上都是好的，火箭一直堅持的全民平等是錯的嗎？等一下，如果老馬時代是好的，那麼國陣爛了60年之說又如何成立？
    更噁心的是，為了當官，行動黨為馬來主權背書。竟然說出國家經濟無法進步，是因為貪腐造成的。貪污固然是大惡，但國家經濟競爭力低落，是因為政府不實施績效制造成的！不久前，每當有許多成績優越的非馬來人被拒於國立大學門外時，林吉祥會第一個跳出來說國家必須績效制，否則我國人才都被他國搶走，國家無法進步。為什麼今天變成了貪污導致經濟競爭力低下，為什麼不敢提績效制了？
    
    華社這種接近白痴的奴才性格如果不改，永遠以領袖的立場為自己的立場，哪怕再改朝換代一百次，也永遠改變不了在這片國土上悲劇的角色。