Malaysia has NO HOPE

There is little wonder people say Malaysia has no hope of achieving 'developed' country status by 2020:

First, we have a sixty-yr-old power company which claimed to have a futuristic vision in implementing the country's power infrastructure, which will prove to be bullshit in the following paragraphs of incidents.

Second, we have people who sit at the helm of a state govt, who allows gazetted forest reserves to be exploited into residential land. The joke is that the country's leadership and administrative attitude couldn’t derive a  somewhat competent of the powers that be to rectify wrongdoings by ex-statesmen who approved all the corruptive abuse to the country's resources (and yet got away scot-free). Isn’t that testimony to a collapsing judicial and penitentiary system?

Third, then we have a full boat of gullible people who don't seem to learn from previous tragedies in hillslope developments, they probably have short-term memory loss, and continue to buy into homes built on terraced hillslopes.  (Or maybe they were naive enough to be blinded from the real situation, when making the purchase from a developer who has intention to cheat) .

It all boils down from an arrangement (made in 2007) to build monolithic power transmission towers across the Bukit Seputih, Hulu Langat forest reserve, supposedly to supply electricity to an ever-developing area.

Protests were made by affected residents who have their homes in the vicinity of that proposed transmission line. They were concerned of the ‘possibility’ of landslides and soil erosion due to excavation works done on the hills.

Fourth, despite continuing to buy into houses that were built on hillslopes, Malaysian house buyers in general are also naïve enough to NOT KNOW that localized hacking and renovation works are also tantamount to causing structural damage to the new house itself, Try to imagine every time a housing estate gets completed, and the whole lot of new house owners upon receiving their keys would be engaging lowly-educated demolition men to hack their houses for customized renovations. The commotion created by these uncivilized knocking./ hacking left and right, apart from nullifying the developer’s workmanship warranty, also collectively contributed to soil movement below their feet. (Which also explains why they couldn’t pursue the matter with their developers for hiding such ‘transmission line project’ details from them)

So, about the issue of erosion and soil movement from the building of TNB power line towers, they know nothing here.

It could be understood that a multi-billion ringgit company like TNB would be using a lot of proven methods to build the foundation for their towers (and the respective vicinity), whereas developer companies would get the cheapest contractors to do foundation jobs for their housing units. Couple this with the barbaric hacking employed by demolition men working on house renovations, you get ‘disasters waiting to happen’.

Fifth, without proper knowledge on ‘HOW not to buy houses from cheating developers’ and ‘HOW not to nullify your house warranty’, ‘HOW not to cause damage to your house structural rigidity’, these group of people have proven themselves ‘expert’ enough, to PROPOSE an alternative route to the power company TNB, so as to divert whatever risk from their very own locality. Where in heaven they got that expertise, I haven’t the wildest idea.

Sixth, conjuring up this ‘alternative route for the transmission line’ seems to me like ; someone who doesn’t want a lump of rubbish in front of his house, suggested an ‘ALTERNATIVE’ dumping area ---- which is in fact someone else’s front gate. Why can’t he propose another ‘proper dumping site (instead of someone’s front gate), you can scratch your head till it bleeds, BUT you won’t get any explanation.

To add salt to injury, many homes (which have been here even before they have electricity for lights) have to be demolished to give way for this ‘alternative route’.

The sentiment here is not about MONEY, MONEY, MONEY (which I believe is the major concern of residents in the original transmission path, by way of depreciation of their houses’ value) which in compensation, BUT more to the homely kampong values people have nurtured decades ago.

OUR ANCESTORS WERE STAYING IN THIS AREA LONG BEFORE THE EXISTENCE OF THOSE HOUSING AREAS (Bukit Segar and Cheras Hartamas). Some of the residents there were not even born yet. Where is the rationality if longtime dwellers have to leave their homes, in order to give way to the interests of newcomers?

Out of context from this power line issue, I love to highlight the direction where our future education could be heading…LOL.

While we have a good collection of ‘highly educated’ and ‘skilled’ young generation poised to spearhead the country’s future, the vehicle for doing so is so blatantly crude. Just imagine when you have to compliment someone’s ability to write in ‘good’ bahasa, you need to use words like’ damn blady’ as prefixed adjectives.

Maybe I was trained from the old school of thoughts, I could not comprehend if such practice has been earmarked as a global fashion of getting messages across (inclusive of emotions, I suppose?), hence I happily accepted that as a good compliment, mainly because I saw the word ‘good’ somewhere in the same sentence.