To go or not to go

Source: To go or not to go CONTRADICTHEORY By DZOF ADZMI in StarOnline

Recently, a friend of mine posted an announcement on Facebook that she was leaving Malaysia. She was sick and tired of its failings as a country, and she saw no progress at all.

My initial reaction when reading this was sadness, followed by an urge to ask her to stay and help make this country better – forgetting that she has basically been trying to do that for the last few years in her own way.

Another part of me wanted to say “Never mind the idiots”, but I suspect she believes that it is the idiots who get the most press coverage, and evidence of their idiocy is prevalent 24/7.

But why should I try to stop her, if at the end of the day she believes that leaving the country is what’s needed to be better? I myself advocate going abroad to study or for work experience as it develops a more rounded view of the world with all its eccentricities and foibles.

Tun Dr Mahathir: Myanmar Politics Interview

Source_Interview with Former Prime Minister of Malaysia: His Excellency Tun Dr Mahathir about Myanmar Politics from Perdana Leadership Foundation Library interviewed by Dr Abdul Rahman @ Ko Ko Gyi with the Pseudonym, Dr San Oo Aung

Introduction 

We easterners look up at H.E. Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad with respect and praises and sometimes even jealously because Burma  lack a good leader with vision and ability like him.   H.E. Tun kindly allows Burma Digest to tap his Intellectual legacy and had given us some valuable advice on how to attain economic social and political progress of future Burma. Burma Digest hereby thanks Tun for being kind and generous enough to provide and share his huge invaluable thoughts, ideas and advises. Allowing Burma Digest to interview in spite of very tight schedules, meetings and interviews with world renowned journals and Broadcasting services and heated political battle he is facing at home means a great honour to us and he really  had taught us, the younger generation of Myanmar Intellectuals to understand the various aspects of politics. It is a great gift for the present Myanmar  Burmese scholars and thinkers of both side of the political divide. We hope Tun’s great intelligence and advice could help us to get a lasting peaceful resolution that is acceptable and beneficial to all the parties; present SPDC Military Junta, all the opposition groups and all the ethnic and religious minorities.

 

Dato’ Ahmad Nordin Bin Md. Zain

Dato’ Ahmad Nordin Bin Md. Zain. (Translation by Syed Zulfilda S.M. Noor)

Dato’ Ahmad Nordin was born on 27th August, 1926 in Titi Gajah, Alor Setar.
He received his early education at the Jalan Bahau Malay School from 1932 until 1935 and subsequently at the Sungai Korok Malay School in 1935. He continued his studies at the Sultan Abdul Hamid College from 1935 until 1946. After completing his secondary education, he was offered to further his studies at the College of Distributive Trader, London from 1969 until 1970. Later, in 1980, he enrolled for his Masters degree at Boston University, USA and completed the programme in 1982.

Happy Birthday Datuk Sri Najib Tun Razak

Potential hazards to children

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1. Star: Boy, five, chokes to death on curtain tie-back
2. Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center:Safety House

ALOR SETAR: A young boy choked to death after he was caught in a curtain tie-back at his house in Seberang Jalan Putera here.

Five-year-old Tan Yin Sheng (pic) was in the hall of the house at Taman Timah, playing and going through some new kindergarten books with his grandmother Cheah Siew Eng at about 9.30pm on Tuesday.