Kepandaian dan Politik

Seandainya anda melihat sebuah negeri di Malaysia yang buat waktu ini boleh saya katakan paling maju, anda mampu melihat urus tadbir yang bagus. Namun jika anda berada di sebelah sokongan yang membangkang perkara ini, anda mungkin tidak mampu melihatnya. People see what they want to see. Dalam kes ini, sudah tentu yang membangkang akan terus membangkang. Ini adalah perkara paling bodoh yang berlaku dalam sistem politik negara apabila semua yang salah perlu dijadikan sat benda yang betul jika berada di pihak kawan, namun semua perkara betul perlu dikatakan salah jika berlaku di pihak lawan.

Dalam kes negeri paling maju di Malaysia ini, saya akan merujuk kepada The Pale Blues dan The Reds. Jika anda tidak memahami perkara ini, terdapat banyak blog-blog lain yang boleh membicarakan hal ini dengan lebig terbuka. Saya masih tertakluk di bawah satu akta sebagai seorang pelajar.

Gaji Minimum

Dalam bajet dan polisi negeri maju ini, saya amat kagum dengan ketegasan Pengetua Negeri (harap faham) yang mewakili The Pale Blues. Sementara Kerajaan Belly Button ('belly button' bermaksud 'pusat' di perut anda) masih bergelut untuk melaksanakannya, beliau sudah berjaya melakukannya. Gaji minimum RM1500 itu memberi maksud besar untuk golongan berpendapatan rendah. Mengapa ini perlu dibangkang? 

Surplus dalam bajet 

Perkara ini adalah yang paling penting. Saya begitu berharap negeri Makang Ikang saya beralih seketika untuk melihat pengurusan kewangan negeri paling maju ini. Bukan saya mahu negeri Makang Ikang ini bertukar kerajaan (bertukar Pengetua amat saya harapkan, tapi bukan parti) namun tolonglah lihat ke arah negeri paling maju ini. Surplus, yakni lebihan atau keuntungan dari pendapatan memberi maksud pengurusan kewangan yang cekap. Surplus di negeri maju ini menyebabkan simpanan (reserves) di negeri ini berada pada tahap RM918 juta pada tahun 2010. Pada masa yang sama, negara berada dalam keadaan defisit. Defisit adalah antonim kepada surplus.

Cuba tanya negeri Makang Ikang berapa jumlah simpanannya. Janganlah berharap duit royalti minyak sahaja, carilah sumber pendapatan lain. 

Bilakah anda bekerja untuk rakyat?

Untuk semua ahli politik dari semua parti, soalan yang perlu ditanya ialah- Bilakah anda bekerja untuk rakyat? Jika anda bekerja untuk rakyat, perkara yang baik perlu anda sokong. Kita belajar dari sekolah rendah untuk menjustifikasi mana yang betul dan mana yang salah, bukannya parti mana yang betul dan parti mana yang salah. Jika anda memperjuangkan agama, mengapa perkara yang baik untuk agama (meningkatkan taraf hidup, rezeki) perlu anda halang? 

Perbandingan

Jika dibandingkan Pengetua Negeri yang menghina hamba Allah SWT yang lain dengan memberi batang penyapu dan seorang Pengetua Negeri yang meletakkan gaji minimum RM1500, sudah tentu anda tahu yang mana lagi baik. Satu lagi perbandingan, seorang Pengetua Negeri yang kontroversi dengan rumah banglonya (The Chukai Insider- How do you live your life, Mr Khir Toyo) dan seorang pemimpin yang menguntungkan negeri, mana satu anda mahu? 

Ciri-ciri korporat

Pengetua Negeri paling maju ini bekas tokoh korporat yang memegang jawatan tinggi dalam sebuah syarikat berkaitan kerajaan dulu. Apabila masuk dalam arena politik, beliau tentulah bergelut untuk memuaskan hati penyokong bawahan yang juga termasuk The Rockets. Sudah tentu, The Reds yang sentiasa membangkang walaupun mereka tahu mereka kurang pandai untuk melawan beliau. 

Saya berdoa negeri Makang Ikang saya mendapat seorang Pengetua Negeri yang boleh membawa Ulul Albab ke negerinya dan bukan sekadar pandai memberi duit percuma kepada rakyatnya. Sekian.-The Chukai Insider

*The Chukai Insider really wants his state to be led by someone of a corporate-like and maintains Islamic concepts held by most citizens of the state. He does not normally write in Malay. Forgive him for sounding skema and unnatural.

At least we are exposed to English. And understanding comes straight after that.

I was educated in a daily school in a place where urbanisation transcends the village-look of the district. Worth to mention, that my place is located in a state in which education is a very serious thing. Another thing worth to mention, the parents of most of the students are not educated in the sense that majority of them only pass primary school level. As in the case of my father. 

More importantly, it is a stupid thing to mention again and again that when we want to apply for high-income jobs (which could eradicate poverty of the parents),  they interview and ask for your level of proficiency in English. Well, I was born a Trengganu, with minimal-educated parents, never speak English at home, exposed to Sesame Street as a kid (but failed to understand most of the words, except for One, Two, Three and A, B, C, D, E ...). Then, in what sense will I get exposed to English so that my Trengganu tongue is flexible enough to say 'the' the correct way? Or flexible enough to say 'What is your name?' instead of 'Wak is yor neng?'. 

Some quarter of people say you cannot master the English even you are exposed to the language through Science and Mathematics. Boo ya! 

I made efforts to understand the language so that I will not be left behind in those subjects. Only Allah SWT knows how many Goosebumps I read when I was in Form 1 just to build up my confidence in the language. When others read the books when they were in Primary school, I crawled when reading them. 

My parents made efforts to make sure that I really focused on my studies. And surprisingly they are very very supportive. And so was other parents. Because they know the importance of English. To them, this is their access for their children to be 'on-par' with the children of the West Coast. To them, most parents in West Coast speak English to their children, and so the language is really their Second Language. To us, there was only One Language.

Teachers made tremendous efforts to master their teaching in the language, although some failed but their efforts were shown, and the students felt the urge to study and even become better than their teachers in English. Most importantly, we did not learn English. We learn sciences and mathematics, but our mind was set in English and hence, words of 'increase, decrease, set instead of sex' came out of our mouths. Even to those who were 'considered' back-class students (students kelas belakang). Oh, maybe because of your school, it's located in an urban area where most of the people can speak English. Boo ya! This is Chukai where most parents don't speak English, and do not allow their children to be exposed to excessive entertainment (hence less English language exposure!), no English ads whatsoever but they are made in Jawi!

So, yeah we can learn from the environment! Boo boo ya!- bullshit that comes never end from politicians.

* My father's word- It does not matter what language they are teaching you, it depends on you to succeed or not. If others can do it, why not you? 


He was right, hence the issue of students dropping performance because of English, is stupid because they are not on numerical basis. Numbers cannot deceive. In common sense, if students cannot even motivate themselves to study in English, how much better they are motivated to study in Malay? For Trengganu, the so-called bahasa baku is sometimes different than our Mother Tongue. So, whatcha say?

Thus, it should be Dr. Mahathir that I should thank.

*Read the cat's line. You can find the message there. The Truth is always the best!

To those who said English dropped the student's performance, what can you say to the reports during my examination result that says 'student's performance increase' which implies 'PPSMI worked for students, even for the rural ones'. 

Where is the numbers? I thought previously you said
students are performing even the teaching
is in English.

There was no studies conducted and then BANG, you switched again. 

What's the fuss with English? Well, to the most uneducated parents of Trengganu, it matters.

They want their kids to get exposed to the language, because they cannot provide the environment, and they want them to get used to the language, and so they can get jobs which are high-income from Shell, Schlumberger, Petronas, Exxon Mobil (from what they see in Kerteh probably) which requires you to SPEAK, WRITE, LEARN ENGLISH. 

Barbers, farmers, fishermen, pembuat keropok lekor, satar, otok-otok, pembuat lemang Kijal will ask their sons and daughters to do this "Gi wat keje mu, gi belajo" (go do your work, go study) because in their minds that is the only way for their sons and daughters to succeed and help them later on. Hence, if you educate them the wrong way, don't you think that you deny their rights of access to good education? 

If you want to switch back, ask not international companies, but your local companies such as Petronas, Bank Negara, Khazanah or TNB to speak in Malay during their functionaries because so far as I can remember, they always say 'I will proceed in English because we are a multinational company and we have employees from many different countries' and not just that, even the companies which are confirmed to have most Malaysians working for them like the Bank, still English is the medium language.

How can you answer that Mister TPM M? I know, the same old crap we are strengthening the English teaching bla bla bla. 

Wait wait, where are the politicians' sons and daughters educated? I think PM's son was sent to an English school in UK and then sent to America. Why my Trengganu people cannot get that?-The Chukai Insider

I was born Malaysian

Location: Kundasang. Photo: The Chukai Insider

Malaysia Day has passed us. I do not know how your version of celebrating Merdeka and Malaysia Day but surely is something that we have always taken for granted.

I leave the space to tell about our histories to the newspapers, documentaries and to some both clever and stupid politicians. Besides, there are lots of versions of the history of Malaysia than any other time in the media today. Go to The Star, you will have the snippets of its own version of history and The Malaysian Insider features many articles with many different opinions. Watch a politician’s Youtube video, you will totally get another different version. Aren’t they enough for you to get interactive learning of your nation’s history? Duhh.

However, we must take stand to so that we know we are heading in our process of understanding. It does not mean we are closed for discussion and further corrections when we take our stand. For me, the notion that our nation had never been colonised before is just playing with semantics. Why not? (You can read all the legal stuffs portrayed by the historians at other websites). Colonisation was not just about playing with legal words, agreements and paper works. It is beyond that. So, when some quarter of people saying that we were not colonised before made me think of how we view our dijajah era. Was it just about the technical details that marked the colonisation period? Was there no penjajahan (colonisation) to the minds of the people?  Or as in Malay ‘penjajahan minda’?

But it is good that we have this kind of thing in Malaysia. Our society has begun to mature and able to accept people’s views and synthesise from it. From there, we would be able to judge which are the best opinions and the most perfect version. Mind you that we live in a democratic society and open discussion and projection of ideas are things that make us a blooming democracy. In my Trengganu words- gining baru kelas, nampok pandai-pandai orang Malaysia. Dok la ikut belake cakap orang! Hok mane betul tu betul gok! Nampok macang negare maju skit! Dok ke kelas gitu?

How can it be more interesting than to live in today’s political landscape? Many things are happening in our political world which we cannot run away from since it shapes our society and consequently shaping us. Don’t you think we would have been a different person if we were born in a communist country? Yes, Mat Sabu. Anything to add? Or the pain on your right/left leg come again and you are not able to answer that? I thought the expensive medicine made the pain gone? No?

Enough of that.

Or would it be different if we were born in a nation where there was only one religion, one race or even one party? That would be worse for Muslims in Malaysia. Where would there be space for you to get to know each of different people when our religion says that we must get to know each other?

Overall, Alhamdulillah that I was born in Malaysia. Alhamdulillah too that I was born in 1990 when after 21 years after that was the most interesting period of the political landscape of my beloved nation. Let's do something good for Malaysia!-The Chukai Insider

Of Trengganu-speak, Berat Nanang and Soalan Bodo

These videos are of Trengganu-speak and kuliah agama. If you want to listen to these or just want to polish your Trengganu slang, then these videos are for you. Haha, learning Islam while polishing your Trengganu-speak! Thank you Apek.

These videos are highly recommended. The ustaz answers simple questions that we keep asking in daily lives.

Meh kite bllajo, nok?

I'm currently reading Awang Goneng's 'A Map of Trengganu' which I think will be The Chukai Insider book of the year. Hahaha bajet star!


There are two pantuns inside the book and I would like to share them. Dokleh ke? Ikut panda aku la blog aku..-The Chukai Insider


Terang bulan bintang berseri,
Ombak memukul ke pantai landai;
Rajinlah belajar setiap hari,
Supaya cepat menjadi pandai.


Terang bulan bintang berbanjar,
Kapal belayar di laut jawa;
Masa budak wajib belajar,
Bila besar tidak kecewa.


Pasa buku tu, aku brahi baca. Aku memang brahi baca mende-mende gitu sebab menarek. Aku dok penoh jupe gi penulis hok tules pasal Tranung best-best gitu. Sape-sape nok pinjang kekgo buleh la ambek.