Do you believe this, 20 years old buildings could be maintained in such a manner they look like newly built! Look at the landscapes, the green lung that ever surround the high-rise buildings, creating such a freshly and healthy environment which could only be a fancy for us, the Malaysians, we are staying in the congested, disorderly flats, more of sort of a slump for the illegal immigrants! In Penang, we can see more slumps of these kinds likened war torn buildings I had seen in the Country of Laos 15 years ago!
Why Singaporean can do this and Malaysian cannot?! Aren't we 'Boleh' in all fields, we could even send a Scientist to the Space (by taking a ride in other's rocket)that far, the good practices and good works undertaken just across the causeway could be shunned without the worth of even a side glance by our honourable 'Bolehish' officials? Are we now looking East, or West, or nowhere but into the toilet bowl?!
Wouldn't it enough shame when Singaporean had said, they are easily 20 years ahead of us when we consider ourselves advance, they are 20 years ahead of us, more advance! Though it sounded sarcastic, I personally was dumb in speech and my neck cringed like a snail, when agitated, shy away with the neck cringed! In bahasa Malaysia, this is a feel of 'malu'!
Seeing is believing, Singapore is indeed a spectacular well planned modern township qualifies to be a world class metropolitan country with only, in the recent decade, Dubai is the closest competitor which can match and even overtake Singapore in terms of township development! All these due to the infinity focus into the future by the leaders of these two Nations to propel their Countries to greater height, to rank themselves at the top of the world renowned list of glory - the most admirable cities to live in!
To the contrary, what have our leaders done for us and for the Country, other than their ever shriek out- 'Malaysia Boleh, Ketuanan Melayu Boleh'?! They are still behaving like the turtles tailing behind the rabbits, slow and clumsy and complacently lazy! How it would be nice if they can just practice with some self-constraint, abate on the arrogance of self-approbation, be subservient to learn from the more successful paradigm of good governance from the neighbour, who says Malaysia cannot become as advance as Singapore, or even more advance?!
Pessimistically, by looking at the bunch of leaders we have at helm the power that be, I am not that hopeful of to see any difference that may pull in the distance for our Country to match Singapore any nearer than the current exchange rate - 2.50 times higher than MR, given another 25 years, can our Country regain the position of being one time a taiko in this ASEAN region? Can our RM anything nearer to those days' currency exchange rate of equilibrium?! I doubt so, how about you guys?!
There are much more Malaysia can learn from Singapore. Only the mediocre Government is reluctant and they are always thinking of they are the best without knowing they are tailing behind others, given another 30 years, Malaysia also cannot match up with Singapore!
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