Special Privileges afforded to MALAYsians

The kongsi raya season is here again! (Okay, no one tell the Perak Mufti we are celebrating an unIslamic thingy ok?)

So, in the spirit of kongsi raya, the Government has come up with ingenious ideas to benefit the rakyat!

No.1: Reducing the speed limit on federal roads.
See? This is exactly what I mean by Government not looking beneath the surface of the problem. Okay, its obvious that the reason why there are so many road accidents during festive seasons is because the volume of cars increase triplefold and therefore when u have more of one thing, naturally you have more of another, right? How does the speed limit actually cause more accidents? Does it mean that just because you are driving at 90kmph instead of 45kmph, you're more likely to get involved in an accident? Doesnt it depend on your driving skills(or lack of)? My father's theory is that when festive season comes along, all kampung folks decide to hit the highways and federal roads and make their balik kampung or lawat bandar trips. These people have not the skills to drive on these roads, hence they drive much too slow and make very sudden turns thereby causing other roadusers to have to jam on their brakes to avoid hitting them THEREBY causing an accident.

So you see? If only the Government have tried to determine how accidents occur, they would have come up with a better idea. Such as placing more policemen on duty (not to take bribes but to actually work to ensure smooth traffic flow) at federal roads and highways to ensure that there are no unecessary jams and unauthorised parkings at the side of the roads. Actually come to think of it, the root cause of the problem is, eliminate corruption in the driving schools and driving examinations and we will produce better and more competent drives hence reducing reckless driving and thereby reducing traffic accidents. There simple logical solution.

No.2 Declaring it a public holiday on the 23rd. ONLY for government servants.
Okay, its not a PUBLIC holiday if only the government servants are given the holiday OK?
The PUBLIC consists of both public and private sectors, like hello? If you are going to declare it a holiday, why discriminate? Obviously there are more Bumiputras than non Bumiputras in the Government, so now we know why it only applies to the Government servants only. I wonder if they will make it a public holiday on Monday if CNY falls on a Tues. Probably not. And why is it that Deepavali is only given ONE day as a holiday? And Christmas? When asked why, they say oh, you know, we cant have so many holidays, its bad for business,yada yada. But when Hari Raya arrives, HOLIDAY is declared for the government servants!ALRITE! Oh wait, I do not benefit. Oh well, its normal.

Okay, moving on from kongsi raya ideas, I always wondered to myself...why is it that Muslims who go for prayers on Fridays are allowed to park indiscriminately near the mosque? Why are they not given summons? IS it okay to park wherever you like if it is for prayer sessions? So does that mean that if the Christians have mass, they too can park everywhere as they like? Or that if the Buddhist want to go to the temple, they too can park at every nook and corner as their heart pleases? What is the rationale of this parking everywhere you like system? Why cant these people park in the parking lots or paid parkings like everyone else? Ahh, therein lies the mystery....

And why is it that just because the Muslims puasa, they can go back early without being required to come in early to work?(okay some have to come in earlier, but most do not) They still come in the same time as Non- Muslims but yet they go back much earlier to allow them to make it back in time to buka puasa. The whole point of doing the puasa thing is to learn to "suffer" hunger and thirst like those who are worse off, right? Then why are they given the priviliges of coming in the usual time and going back earlier? Doesnt that mean technically, they are working less but getting paid the same amount as those who work more? They work less on Fridays too right? Cos my lunch hour is still only one hour. Not 12-2.45 like the others. Hmm...

Anyways, in the spirit of being Malaysian (but not Malay), I shall not grumble and make racist statements and cause racial tensions, I shall stick to ignoring the obvious and keeping my fingers crossed that one day, Maybe, things will be different.