Want an answer, ex-PM Mahathir?
Stephen NgPublished: Aug 23, 2013 9:42 AM | Updated: Aug 23, 2013 9:43 AM
Nothing angers me more than just a word uttered by this senile old man who knows no degree of shame, full of hatred and a real curse that this nation has seen.
For that old man, words are cheap but he has not realised that every word from his mouth is a drop of acid that burns yet another hole in the Barisan Nasional government which he once represented.
True, during the 1980s and 1990s, many of us were deceived by the 8 to 9 percent economic growth this country was enjoying. Not until the Asian Financial Crisis hit this part of the world did we realise that such growth was largely internally generated with billions of Petronas money being poured into mega projects that are unproductive.
The P-Pits of Mahathir the PM
This is what Dr Mahathir Mohamad has done for the nation. The huge difference between him and Lee Kuan Yew is that the other old man - respected all over the world - had at least least invested money in projects that were able to generate more income for the future, whereas our Senile Old Man has wasted away public funds on projects like the Perwaja, Putrajaya, Proton, Petronas Twin Towers, PKFZ, Privatisation - and I leave it the rest of my fellow Malaysians to add to the list.
I can only think of one monstrous museum that did not use the alphabet P, but M - the Mahathir Museum in Langkawi, where I was personally shocked to see that the entire building was probably three or maybe four times the size of the National Museum. Although this was supposedly created by one of your ‘machai’, it was largely out of proportion just to please you.
I must say that even the other P that was created during your time - the PTPTN - is now another financial burden to the younger generation. You may have enriched a few, but the rest of the average Malaysian Joe is still trying to make ends meet. The moment they graduate, they have three biggest loans to take care - the PTPTN, the car and instead of a double storey house, it is a pigeonhole apartment of less than 1,000 square feet.
By comparison, I see the public housing in Singapore, where the apartments are a couple more times larger than what the average Ali, Muthusamy and Ah Chong can afford here in Malaysia. You should be able to see this for yourself unless you are blinded by your own ego and pride.
The results are obvious after nearly 50 years: Singapore, which had hardly any natural resources, is one of the richest countries in the region with a high income per capita, while in Malaysia, we are only talking about it. In the rural states of Sabah, Sarawak, Perlis and Kelantan, the public amenities are a far cry from your Vision 2020, which has just six years to go.
It is the culture that Lee has created of a clean (by comparison) Singapore, compared to what you have done to this nation where every public project appears to have huge escalated costs!
If I may say - something which Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah had openly pointed out - all the P-money (Petrol from Petronas) had gone into the bottomless Pit.
Today, where is Perwaja? Is it one of the most successful steel manufacturing plants in the world? What was its profit for Financial Year 2012? I wonder if it even exists!
Where is Proton today? When the sales went up, two production shifts were put together in order to meet the demand. When the sales dropped substantially, and the factory in Tanjung Malim is now largely automated, has Proton shed off its manpower? Twenty years ago, had I bought a Perdana, I think I would have to scrap it by now, but I am still driving my Nissan AD Resort purchased in 1994. Till now, the power window of my old jalopy is still functional.
How successful is Putrajaya with the monstrous buildings that are a bane to the country’s economy. Ask yourself, when the country decided to go “green” and reduce carbon emission, who is the biggest consumer of electricity in this country?
No wonder when former TNB chief executive office Ani Arope refused to sign the power purchase agreement, you forced him to resign. I would be surprised if you had not done the same to Petronas chairperson Hassan Marican, who decided he would give his talents to benefit the people of Singapore!
When MAS was privatised during your time, the government sold the shares at RM8.40. After making huge losses, the government bought the shares back at RM8.40. What rationale is this, Tun? Do you think Malaysians are generally stupid? Never mind that a new kid in the block saw its profit down in the last quarter, MAS, till today, is still in the financial doldrums despite all the restructuring exercise.
The public funds that you have wasted away should have been spent to build highways instead of giving them away to concessionaires that continue to burden mine and my children’s generations.
Your privatisation has not saved the country in the billions, as Khalid Ibrahim did for Selangor, instead we are now in deep shit with a national debt level that is anything but comfortable and we have just been warned by the Fitch Ratings that the country is now moving from “stable” to “negative”.
It finally took an ‘A’ from Permatang Pauh to shake the nation out of its slumber but, although he was on his way up to become the prime minister of Malaysia, you threw him into prison. This was when you hit the rock bottom with the 10th general election in 1999. If I recall correctly, even Najib Abdul Razak barely won in Pekan. It was the Chinese and the Indian votes that still kept you and BN afloat.
You should have left by then, but with some crocodile tears, you stayed on. You had no guts to lead the ruling party into the 11th general election, so you allowed the other ‘A’ to take over. In case, BN fared poorly, you had someone to blame for all the years of squandering under your premiership.
Instead, Abdullah Ahmad Badawi managed to win back the people’s confidence for once! Relationships with countries like Australia and Singapore, which you had soured during your 22 years in power, were back to normal.
Poor performance in 2008
Although I did not vote in 2008, I am the direct product of the venom you had poured out at Abdullah. When the Tun set aside your crooked bridge, you literally went on a ‘rampage’ and throwing all poisonous darts at him.
Nearly every day in the papers, you were spewing out venom into this nation. Like a small pampered child, you resigned from Umno Baru, the very organisation that you had “corrupted” through the years by jacking up leaders who were incapable just because they are loyal to you. In my opinion, what we see today is the result of your handicraft.
Abdullah’s big win during 2004 did not last very long. I remember telling a senior editor of an English daily, “What is this old bastard still talking as though he is the prime minister of this country?” I remember even telling him that I nearly vomited when I read some of the words spewed out by this old bastard that I wanted to write and express my disgust in the open.
This was how the Mahathir bashing started in me.
Prior to that, I remember when an old primary school mate of mine was bashing you left and right, I just told him, “Friend, keep that to yourself.” But as you continued bashing my prime minister, I had to say, “Enough is enough!” I send an sms to the senior editor, “Would you even consider publishing my letter to the editor if I whacked that bastard?” Interestingly enough, the answer was: “Whack! Whack!”
From being apolitical, I became a Mahathir hater and basher. I had never like to call people ‘bastard’ but for the first time in my life, I could find no better word to describe an old bastard who does not know where he came from - or rather denied his very own lineage and instead, took on the family tree of his mother. By now, I would tell my friends that you should be known as Dr Mahathir bin Wan Tempayan, after your mother’s name.
And from being a Mahathir hater, and between the two ‘A’s, I started swinging towards the other ‘A’ - Anwar Ibrahim. For once, what PAS called you the “Pharaoh of Malaysia” and what Paul Keating described of you as ‘recalcitrant’ made sense! You were going for your crooked bridge, but deep in my heart, I said, “This old man should keep his big, crooked mouth shut!”
Had I been in Malaysia in 2008, like it or not, I would have voted against Barisan Nasional under normal circumstances. Over in Mozambique, a group of us who came from various backgrounds sat together on a long table checking out the news. I remember my friends were cheering: “Yippee, Samy Vellu lost!” One after another big name like a big rock just dropped from the sky with a thud! We were gleeful and cheering out hearts out!
“Wow! Penang fell to the opposition! And Perak!” we shouted. “And - I nearly jumped to my feet - Selangor, too!” In the wee hours of the morning, I was still reading the latest news on Malaysiakini. In my heart, I was telling myself: “This is the punishment for you!” Had the Badawi factor remained strong, Anwar Ibrahim would never stand a chance at all.
Well and good
My dear fellow Malaysians, do you know why Najib and BN performed even worse during GE13?
This is because, besides his sidekick, Najib has another baggage. He is seen as the Senile Old Man’s progeny - someone who would continue the so-called ‘legacy’ of Mahathir and his regime of 22 years. What’s going to be even worse is that he is allowing the country to go auto-pilot and a few warlords going on a ‘rampage’ with words like, “You scratch my back, I scratch yours.” This is the result of money politics in Umno, “Forget about altruism, what’s there for me?”
This is only one simple reason why BN, despite of huge advertising budgets, collapsed with only a 47.9 percent majority popularity vote for the first time in the history of this country. I won’t go further into this, but many other writers have given their fair analysis. What I can only say is that the things said by several cabinet ministers, who still carry with them Mahathir’s mentality, will further erode the support of the rakyat for what remains of BN.
The wow factor is now Anwar Ibrahim. We can all see it from the nationwide campaign that he carried out. The more the Mahathir gang try to push him down, the more people push for a new Malaysia after nearly 56 years of Independence.
If not for Mahathir, I would still be sleeping. What do you expect, at 4.38am in the morning, awakened and forced to sacrifice a few hours of my precious sleep, I have to put this straight from my heart right into your face, Senile Old Bastard, on why Abdullah Ahmad Badawi lost badly in the 12th general election, and why Najib also LOST badly with an even bigger majority in the last general election! I hope you have got the answer to your question.
Most Asians like me are generally respectful of their elders, but for you, this is one big ‘P’ I have to say it out loud: I wish you would bow out “Pissfully” and leave this nation in peace and prosperity.
For that old man, words are cheap but he has not realised that every word from his mouth is a drop of acid that burns yet another hole in the Barisan Nasional government which he once represented.
True, during the 1980s and 1990s, many of us were deceived by the 8 to 9 percent economic growth this country was enjoying. Not until the Asian Financial Crisis hit this part of the world did we realise that such growth was largely internally generated with billions of Petronas money being poured into mega projects that are unproductive.
The P-Pits of Mahathir the PM
This is what Dr Mahathir Mohamad has done for the nation. The huge difference between him and Lee Kuan Yew is that the other old man - respected all over the world - had at least least invested money in projects that were able to generate more income for the future, whereas our Senile Old Man has wasted away public funds on projects like the Perwaja, Putrajaya, Proton, Petronas Twin Towers, PKFZ, Privatisation - and I leave it the rest of my fellow Malaysians to add to the list.
I can only think of one monstrous museum that did not use the alphabet P, but M - the Mahathir Museum in Langkawi, where I was personally shocked to see that the entire building was probably three or maybe four times the size of the National Museum. Although this was supposedly created by one of your ‘machai’, it was largely out of proportion just to please you.
I must say that even the other P that was created during your time - the PTPTN - is now another financial burden to the younger generation. You may have enriched a few, but the rest of the average Malaysian Joe is still trying to make ends meet. The moment they graduate, they have three biggest loans to take care - the PTPTN, the car and instead of a double storey house, it is a pigeonhole apartment of less than 1,000 square feet.
By comparison, I see the public housing in Singapore, where the apartments are a couple more times larger than what the average Ali, Muthusamy and Ah Chong can afford here in Malaysia. You should be able to see this for yourself unless you are blinded by your own ego and pride.
The results are obvious after nearly 50 years: Singapore, which had hardly any natural resources, is one of the richest countries in the region with a high income per capita, while in Malaysia, we are only talking about it. In the rural states of Sabah, Sarawak, Perlis and Kelantan, the public amenities are a far cry from your Vision 2020, which has just six years to go.
It is the culture that Lee has created of a clean (by comparison) Singapore, compared to what you have done to this nation where every public project appears to have huge escalated costs!
If I may say - something which Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah had openly pointed out - all the P-money (Petrol from Petronas) had gone into the bottomless Pit.
Today, where is Perwaja? Is it one of the most successful steel manufacturing plants in the world? What was its profit for Financial Year 2012? I wonder if it even exists!
Where is Proton today? When the sales went up, two production shifts were put together in order to meet the demand. When the sales dropped substantially, and the factory in Tanjung Malim is now largely automated, has Proton shed off its manpower? Twenty years ago, had I bought a Perdana, I think I would have to scrap it by now, but I am still driving my Nissan AD Resort purchased in 1994. Till now, the power window of my old jalopy is still functional.
How successful is Putrajaya with the monstrous buildings that are a bane to the country’s economy. Ask yourself, when the country decided to go “green” and reduce carbon emission, who is the biggest consumer of electricity in this country?
No wonder when former TNB chief executive office Ani Arope refused to sign the power purchase agreement, you forced him to resign. I would be surprised if you had not done the same to Petronas chairperson Hassan Marican, who decided he would give his talents to benefit the people of Singapore!
When MAS was privatised during your time, the government sold the shares at RM8.40. After making huge losses, the government bought the shares back at RM8.40. What rationale is this, Tun? Do you think Malaysians are generally stupid? Never mind that a new kid in the block saw its profit down in the last quarter, MAS, till today, is still in the financial doldrums despite all the restructuring exercise.
The public funds that you have wasted away should have been spent to build highways instead of giving them away to concessionaires that continue to burden mine and my children’s generations.
Your privatisation has not saved the country in the billions, as Khalid Ibrahim did for Selangor, instead we are now in deep shit with a national debt level that is anything but comfortable and we have just been warned by the Fitch Ratings that the country is now moving from “stable” to “negative”.
It finally took an ‘A’ from Permatang Pauh to shake the nation out of its slumber but, although he was on his way up to become the prime minister of Malaysia, you threw him into prison. This was when you hit the rock bottom with the 10th general election in 1999. If I recall correctly, even Najib Abdul Razak barely won in Pekan. It was the Chinese and the Indian votes that still kept you and BN afloat.
You should have left by then, but with some crocodile tears, you stayed on. You had no guts to lead the ruling party into the 11th general election, so you allowed the other ‘A’ to take over. In case, BN fared poorly, you had someone to blame for all the years of squandering under your premiership.
Instead, Abdullah Ahmad Badawi managed to win back the people’s confidence for once! Relationships with countries like Australia and Singapore, which you had soured during your 22 years in power, were back to normal.
Poor performance in 2008
Although I did not vote in 2008, I am the direct product of the venom you had poured out at Abdullah. When the Tun set aside your crooked bridge, you literally went on a ‘rampage’ and throwing all poisonous darts at him.
Nearly every day in the papers, you were spewing out venom into this nation. Like a small pampered child, you resigned from Umno Baru, the very organisation that you had “corrupted” through the years by jacking up leaders who were incapable just because they are loyal to you. In my opinion, what we see today is the result of your handicraft.
Abdullah’s big win during 2004 did not last very long. I remember telling a senior editor of an English daily, “What is this old bastard still talking as though he is the prime minister of this country?” I remember even telling him that I nearly vomited when I read some of the words spewed out by this old bastard that I wanted to write and express my disgust in the open.
This was how the Mahathir bashing started in me.
Prior to that, I remember when an old primary school mate of mine was bashing you left and right, I just told him, “Friend, keep that to yourself.” But as you continued bashing my prime minister, I had to say, “Enough is enough!” I send an sms to the senior editor, “Would you even consider publishing my letter to the editor if I whacked that bastard?” Interestingly enough, the answer was: “Whack! Whack!”
From being apolitical, I became a Mahathir hater and basher. I had never like to call people ‘bastard’ but for the first time in my life, I could find no better word to describe an old bastard who does not know where he came from - or rather denied his very own lineage and instead, took on the family tree of his mother. By now, I would tell my friends that you should be known as Dr Mahathir bin Wan Tempayan, after your mother’s name.
And from being a Mahathir hater, and between the two ‘A’s, I started swinging towards the other ‘A’ - Anwar Ibrahim. For once, what PAS called you the “Pharaoh of Malaysia” and what Paul Keating described of you as ‘recalcitrant’ made sense! You were going for your crooked bridge, but deep in my heart, I said, “This old man should keep his big, crooked mouth shut!”
Had I been in Malaysia in 2008, like it or not, I would have voted against Barisan Nasional under normal circumstances. Over in Mozambique, a group of us who came from various backgrounds sat together on a long table checking out the news. I remember my friends were cheering: “Yippee, Samy Vellu lost!” One after another big name like a big rock just dropped from the sky with a thud! We were gleeful and cheering out hearts out!
“Wow! Penang fell to the opposition! And Perak!” we shouted. “And - I nearly jumped to my feet - Selangor, too!” In the wee hours of the morning, I was still reading the latest news on Malaysiakini. In my heart, I was telling myself: “This is the punishment for you!” Had the Badawi factor remained strong, Anwar Ibrahim would never stand a chance at all.
Well and good
My dear fellow Malaysians, do you know why Najib and BN performed even worse during GE13?
This is because, besides his sidekick, Najib has another baggage. He is seen as the Senile Old Man’s progeny - someone who would continue the so-called ‘legacy’ of Mahathir and his regime of 22 years. What’s going to be even worse is that he is allowing the country to go auto-pilot and a few warlords going on a ‘rampage’ with words like, “You scratch my back, I scratch yours.” This is the result of money politics in Umno, “Forget about altruism, what’s there for me?”
This is only one simple reason why BN, despite of huge advertising budgets, collapsed with only a 47.9 percent majority popularity vote for the first time in the history of this country. I won’t go further into this, but many other writers have given their fair analysis. What I can only say is that the things said by several cabinet ministers, who still carry with them Mahathir’s mentality, will further erode the support of the rakyat for what remains of BN.
The wow factor is now Anwar Ibrahim. We can all see it from the nationwide campaign that he carried out. The more the Mahathir gang try to push him down, the more people push for a new Malaysia after nearly 56 years of Independence.
If not for Mahathir, I would still be sleeping. What do you expect, at 4.38am in the morning, awakened and forced to sacrifice a few hours of my precious sleep, I have to put this straight from my heart right into your face, Senile Old Bastard, on why Abdullah Ahmad Badawi lost badly in the 12th general election, and why Najib also LOST badly with an even bigger majority in the last general election! I hope you have got the answer to your question.
Most Asians like me are generally respectful of their elders, but for you, this is one big ‘P’ I have to say it out loud: I wish you would bow out “Pissfully” and leave this nation in peace and prosperity.
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