Why Malaysia failed in negotiations with Singapore

[leslie]

Recent bridge fiasco, water issue, airspace issue, all of the time Malaysia kanasai , koyak, failed.Why ? we are a country of 26 million people with 340,000 sq km of land compared to Singapore... 440sq km with 4 million.

Here is the reason..(It shows that they are the brightest and their edge in negotiations compared)

Title : Malaysia vs Singapore - Why we fail the negotiation?

Singapore Cabinet
PM Lee Hsien Loong ( Recovered from cancer and now PM)
Cambridge University - First Class Honours (1974)
Harvard University - Masters (1980)

SM Goh Chok Tong ( Family ex Malaysian)
University of Singapore - First Class Honours (1964)
Williams College, USA - Masters (1967)

MM Lee Kuan Yew ( Former Malaysian)
Cambridge University - First Class Honours (1949)
FYI LKY was one of the first Asian to ever come out of Cambridge.

Minister for Law Prof. S Jayakumar
University of Singapore - Bachelor of Law Honours (1963)
Yale Univerity - Masters (1966)

Minister for Home Affairs Wong Kan Seng
University of Singapore - Bachelor of Arts & Business Admin (1977)
London Business School - Masters (1979)

Minister for Foreign Affairs Brigadier General George Yeo
Cambridge University - Double First Class Honours (1976)
Harvard Business School - MBA w/ Distinction (1985)

Minister for Trade and Industry Lim Hng Kiang
Cambridge University - First Class Honours w/ Distinction (1976)
Harvard University - Masters (1986)

Minister for Defence Teo Chee Hean
University of Manchester - First Class Honours (1976)
Imperial College, London - Masters w/ Distinction (1977)

Minister for Education Tharman Shanmugaratnam
London School of Economics - Bachelor of Arts
Cambridge University - Masters
Harvard University - Masters
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Malaysia Cabinet -

PM Abdullah bin Haji Ahmad Badawi
University of Malaya - Bachelor of Arts Honours (1964)

Deputy PM Dato' Sri Najib Razak
University of Nottingham - Bachelor of Arts Honours (1974)

Minister of Foregn Affairs Syed Hamid Albar
(can someone tell me his univeristy? )- Bachelor of Arts [ UITM ]

Ministry of Works- Dato' Seri Samy Vellu
(Education Unknown) [ Form 6, Anderson School ]

Ministry of International Trade & Industry Rafidah binti Aziz
Universiti Malaya - Bachelor of Arts Honours

Minister of Agriculture Muhyiddin Yassin
(Education Unknown) [ Polytechnic Ungku Omar ]

Ministry of Domestic Trade Shafie Apdal
(Education Unknown) [ Form 5, Failed English ]

Minister of Education Hishammuddin Hussein
(Education Unknown) [ Bachelor of Arts, Social Science ]

Minister of Home Affairs Radzi bin Sheikh Ahmad
(Education Unknown) [ Kolej Islam Malaysia, Diploma ]

**That is why they are so desperate to get Khairy Jamaluddin up so fast,
because he is from Cambridge. God knows how he got in!

[derickuan]

what a huge contrast....hehe...

[jayhan]

Correction : Khairy was from Oxford la...

[Gojira]

Ooooh....that's saying that most, if not all, of the members here are academically "superior" to our cabinet ministers.....

OUCH!

[leslie]

yes it is true, nearly everyone who works in the private sector are academically and brilliantly more superior and smarter than any of our goverment servants with the exception of you gojira.. Gojira the private sector still awaits your arrival here in Kuala Lumpur.


All it takes is just replace 1/4 of our goverment servants with the private sectors employment and you will see drastic improvements being made overnight !!!

Why is it Singapore will always be at the winning edge, because they have the best brains.

Why is it our country Politically and its policies will forever be one step behind Singapore and recently Thailand, because the worse will always join the goverment, with the exception of Gojira...:D

[noruazumi]

nice compilation of data there les! :star:
i nvr had any interest in politics in my entire life.
why, because politics is such a dirty game.
even in university level, u can even feel the dirt.
i considered myself as one of the ppl who experienced the mud of politics at uni level.
if u want to talk about politics in malaysia, it'll take the whole century to figure them out.
some were good, and some was purely politicians.
well, u already stated one of the stats there les! good job!
now, let's hope toll is cheaper, gas is cheaper, tax is cheaper.... *yeaaah rite!* ;)

[jayhan]

Yet another correction Leslie - Hishamuddin apparently got his masters from London School of Economics!

Actually, I dont really agree to Leslie's points on comparing education level of ministers from Malaysia and Singapore - to some extend that is. Cuz I believe that most of our ministers are highly educated. So high that they became too smart and use their knowledge to swindle and con our fellow countrymen.

I also defy to acknowledge that good universities (as listed in the singapore's list) will produce good "offsprings" who have positive work ethics. Its all down to an individual. So one may be academically brilliant but rotten to the core with racial hatred etc etc. My statement here is a classic example of the saying : "The paper qualification only gets you the job, but doesnt ensure that you can do the job well". So what some minister in SG have a harvard or Yale piece of paper? Bill Gates need not have any to be where he is today.

Sometimes I think its quite pointless to compare ourselves with Singapore. Yes they are more advance and rich economically. They are resourceful. But does that mean we Malaysians are suckers? No. Singapore is Singapore, and Malaysia is Malaysia. What our people should look at is this though... compare ourselves to what is good and what is bad. Rectify this. Root out those crappy fat-@ss ministers who just look after themselves, when they are supposed to follow what they pledge, that is to help the people.

On a side note which is photographically related topic, is there any paparazi in Malaysia who always go to Putrajaya to snipe on our top level gov officers using say a 500mm or 800mm lens?

[leslie]

AH JAy .. i didnt create the above lar, got fwd in my email

Btw i am only comparing the govt lerr.... chill lar... I am not comparing our citizens lar... kawan, fyi Malaysian workers are highly wanted in Singapore for our hardworking traits, multi language and brains also, yea... the good ones always kena pinch by SG.. You want job ? i can ask for you ehehehe

Btw i worked in SG for 21/2 years i know how their system is.

Very much exposed to the SG govt that time due to work nature.

They are highly competitive can be too stress to live with them, cause its their survival instincts like fellow Hong Kie's. Dont forget there are 300,000 Malaysian's with PR eeking a living in Singapore... 1/4 of Singapore's total workforce are Malaysians...1/2 of them Johoreans. They dont bother at all, they just wanna cari makan and make life meaningful.
You can work 12 hours a day... until u die there.... But you have no choice... cause in sillypore ( a term i coined with my friend ) its either you work and go up or you die and get swallowed by others.

As for the rest of the govt, i couldnt be bothered lar..anyway... its long gone already ler... pointless.. to crap abt here, let them suck all they want...We do things our own way lar.

Just stick to what you are doing and for your family and your future.

[jayhan]

If I am earning say RM350K/year on average in Malaysia, it would be a superb place to stay on the face of planet earth. If anyone else can earn more than that in the same period of time, then it wouldnt be just superb - but more like heaven. Now... no one, and I specifically mean not anyone high above up there in Putrajaya would be willing to give up their place on heaven, right?? ;)

[leslie]

Msia is the best country to live in..

We have the best food, best people, best girls, best venues, best beaches.

i've been staying across the ocean for almost a decade... damn sien already... i nothing beats your own homeland.. although sometimes the grass is greener elsewhere.

Its what you want in the end, some ppl want RM 10 million a year , some only want RM 60 k a year. Some want all !:D

We might not have the best weather but that beats tornado's in Mid West States, hurricanes in Florida, earthquakes in Japan. But we sure have something others dont have .. peace...

I've seen rednecks beating up blacks in the corner of Queens and Brooklyn and how South African Whites keep guns in their houses to keep blacks away. Thank god nothing like this happens here.

Maybe when i retire i will live quietly in a Orchard in Ipoh..But since i am working i dont mind going out far away again :D

It depends in the end what you want for yourself and others

[jayhan]

are you sure malaysians dont keep arms at homes?
i know for sure one minister who keeps his keris sharp.
as for myself, i just keep a big baseball bat and a worn hockey stick... hahaha

[leslie]

my parents also keep something at home lar...we all do but not to the extend of fellow americans.

The kind of arms i am referring to in the US are...a

Glock 9mm semi automatic

M4 Carbine assault riflle

M16 Sports Assault Rifle

Remington Shotgun

Beretta Semi automatic

Smith & Wesson .38 Special

Colt .44 Revolver

Some even keep bombs :0

All can be bought in the shop and mail order :0

Oh USA's First amendment - It is the right of every individual to bear arms...

So 1 out of 3 Americans have a gun in their homes.. and quite a number of them carry them to work legally of course...

[JackJack]

i agree tat malaysia is a nice place to stay....but some ppl up there just like to make nonsense to our life;)

[ckchowov]

*Ah Chow a diploma graduate writes job application letter of minister post*

[alancheong7]

I'll settle for the 60Gs a year :D

[noruazumi]

alan, me too!! now i have to figure out how to get out from my current job without paying back to the company! :P

[masao]

my parents also keep something at home lar...we all do but not to the extend of fellow americans.

The kind of arms i am referring to in the US are...a

Glock 9mm semi automatic

M4 Carbine assault riflle

M16 Sports Assault Rifle

Remington Shotgun

Beretta Semi automatic

Smith & Wesson .38 Special

Colt .44 Revolver

Some even keep bombs :0

All can be bought in the shop and mail order :0

Oh USA's First amendment - It is the right of every individual to bear arms...

So 1 out of 3 Americans have a gun in their homes.. and quite a number of them carry them to work legally of course...

Leslie, actually even in the US, the firearms ownership is quite controlled. Those TV movies are misleading lar. The general public can only own non-automatic firearms. Most of those you listed are either semi-automatic, or automatic weapons - they aren't allowed unless you get a special permit, which in almost ALL cases, denied.

Anyway, back on topic about SG-MY, I think the gov isn't competitive enough, and gives too much "slack" to their servants. In SG, even as a gov servant, they expect you to perform as if you are working in the private sector. I'm just guessing that is the main reason why our public services are under-performing.

[leslie]

i used to own one of them above.. hehehe..... :P with permit trusting my membership with NRA - National Rifle Association

[masao]

i used to own one of them above.. hehehe..... :P with permit trusting my membership with NRA - National Rifle Association

I wanted a chain-gun or a flame thrower, but could never justify a good reason to own it ;)