A great plan
Hi there! It’s been a while since I last wrote here. Not that I’m dead, but education took their tolls from me. hahaha. well, anyway, since you are reading this, that mean I have something to say and it got nothing to do with politics… just plain old people’s life. So, what’s the gos?
In the light of recent budget for 2011, the head of the country announced that he plans to build a 100 storey-RM 5 billion worth of tower. It is a sign of a develop country and a total neccesity… reah right. Before you jump into any conclusion, let I remind you that this blog does not support any form political ideology, it is just a question from a normal regular citizen of a country. Ok, let’s get the heat up shall we?
First of all, what is actually the rationale of building that tower? Purely as a symbol? pfft~ do you even know what a symbol means? A symbol is a representation of something that exists but too big/hard to describe in words of show. The main core of symbols is to represent something that EXISTS. The tower that’s being suggested is said to symbolize a DEVELOP COUNTRY… WTF?? Ok, 1st of all I know that we are indeed somewhat develop from all the building etc. etc. But what about the people? Don’t they count in the definition of ‘develop’? Of 24million citizen in this country, how many percent have the a household worth more than RM4000 per-month? How many are homeless? How many have home, but in a very pitiable condition? and how many have to beg from their neighbours and friends just to have a pot of rice and a fried fish????
Next, I’ll take you to one of my old post, read it 1st. Just read the first few paragraphs. Sigh~ when the subsidy for oil was taken back slowly on the ground that it has become a burden for the government, I understand that. Unaviodably prices of other stuff rise as well. That’s unavoidable. BUT, SUDDENLY you have 5BILLION to spare to build a tower that would be nothing but an empty sight and more burden. sigh~ great plan. Let me give you an insight of average people’s life. 1st, we cannot claim any money from anyone everytime we pump the gas for our car or whenever we went for a vacation… but YOU can. 2nd, the price of groceries are ridiculous!!!! A bottle of 1 litre milk costs around RM6. That’s triple the price of UNRENEWABLE petroleum. You spend the money on campaign for us to live a healthy life and yet things that are suppose to keep us healthy CAN KILL US JUST USING THEIR PRICE!!! A second campaign is to encourage the citizen to read and gain more knowledge… what a wonderful campaign… NOT!!! the price of a good book as I mentioned before is at least RM50!!! That’s not cheap mind you, unless of course if you can claim back that money… la la la… Use that 5billion to do something else!!! lower the price of groceries, lower the price of books!!!! Aren’t the citizen especially the younger generations the most valuable asset a country have?? NOT a building!!!!
Talking about books… how about the schools?? Did you know that there are still many schools that use hazardous chalkboard??? Did you know that some students in many schools have to wear the same cloth everyday just because they cannot afford a new one??? Did you know that some students have to risk their lives crossing rivers just because there is no other SAFER option to go to school??? Did you know that some students have to forget about schooling at all because they have to help their poor parents by working so that the family could eat??!!! And I still haven’t touch about teachers’ salary vs. their workload.
Talk about a safer option, what about the public transportation? Have you ever been in Rapid buses at peak our WITHOUT your escorts and reporters following you around?? Have ever board one of those mini buses now?? when the price of public transportation was raised, you said its for better service. PLEASE… I don’t want to be redundant, read here.
You see, there’s a lot of IMPROVEMENT that can be made using that 5billion, significant ones too!!! Sigh~
Did you know that as a leader, you are accountable for all of this?? If not here, in the afterlife??
