Comments on: What’s going on? http://theunspunblog.com/2007/10/19/whats-going-on/ Unspinning communications and persuasion Thu, 09 Feb 2012 15:20:55 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Bob Herring http://theunspunblog.com/2007/10/19/whats-going-on/#comment-55116 Sat, 10 Oct 2009 13:01:29 +0000 http://theunspunblog.com/2007/10/19/whats-going-on/#comment-55116 Twenty five years in the British army and the happiest three years of that spent in Taiping, lovely married quarter in Sangro Circle, great swimming in the old New Club pool on the edge of the ulu. Wonderful friends and the best of them Ewe Seng Ong no longer with us. Hope to come back one day. Great memories.

]]> By: Sonny http://theunspunblog.com/2007/10/19/whats-going-on/#comment-54293 Thu, 23 Jul 2009 19:51:10 +0000 http://theunspunblog.com/2007/10/19/whats-going-on/#comment-54293 I miss taiping :)
Thanks for taiping pic and all those memory :)

]]> By: unspun http://theunspunblog.com/2007/10/19/whats-going-on/#comment-51674 Sun, 27 Jul 2008 14:35:37 +0000 http://theunspunblog.com/2007/10/19/whats-going-on/#comment-51674 @Argus: Ah yes, I think Taiping occupies a very special place in many of our hearts. Very fond memories of a gentler more inncoent time when values were so different.

]]> By: Argus http://theunspunblog.com/2007/10/19/whats-going-on/#comment-51673 Sun, 27 Jul 2008 12:59:35 +0000 http://theunspunblog.com/2007/10/19/whats-going-on/#comment-51673 I love your picture of the raintrees. It brings back memories of cycling around the lake gardens with my friends and stopping to climb trees (yes, girls climbed, too). Needless to say, this was in the 1970s when things were quite safe still. Now that I’ve lived in Europe, I don’t think I want to live again in M’sia – unless things improve a lot. It’s a pity, isn’t it, what our wonderful, colourful country has become?

]]> By: Vic.Kyle.Ellanne http://theunspunblog.com/2007/10/19/whats-going-on/#comment-26856 Mon, 29 Oct 2007 19:49:23 +0000 http://theunspunblog.com/2007/10/19/whats-going-on/#comment-26856 Dear winterinoz, is it so!! Wow, we are actually so much in common. Maybe these all resulted from the barter trades across the strait which is still happening today. Someone told me that you might be able to catch a good glimps of Sumatra from top of Maxwell… opps, Bukit Larut at a bright clear day.

]]> By: Ivan http://theunspunblog.com/2007/10/19/whats-going-on/#comment-26611 Fri, 26 Oct 2007 13:09:32 +0000 http://theunspunblog.com/2007/10/19/whats-going-on/#comment-26611 Bravo Unspun,

Honestly speaking, too many thing changes in Malaysia for the last 10 years….yet we still can’t feel any improvement since the 1997 economic crisis. So contradicting right!
I am a normal taiping guy who went to study in local U after form 5(1993)! Since then I missed taiping a lot and always hang up with my frenz during Uni break and holiday at siang malam! Those days are so meaningful to us and now we are all part of the “Flat World”! Some in UK, US, Australia, NZ and Singapore etc… Once a while we meet for a drink in KL during festive season and we are amused on how Malaysia move on… local crime, conflict of interest in different races, tax-money wastage, too many foreign workers in construction sites, hawkers, maids and who knows how many of them are not registered in the database.
And yet we still rationally tell ourselves that we Malaysia “BOLEH”!

Let’s continue on my journey… after spending 5 useful years in local U…. I started my career in Singapore where I learn the effectiveness of a country.
Thing are well planned, secure, proper procedures which provide the require efficiency to the business world. Of cause there still some hick-up here and there sometime in the lion city. But it gained the respect from the world as a financial hub in the region! Look back to our beloved country, what going on here?
Now with my new job role in a MNC based in KL, I had the opportunity to travel around Asian country and experience different culture of these countries.
But from what I noticed so far…. with such unique culture in Malaysia over the past 50 years, how we classify our country as a developing country if we can’t even resolve a simple crime problem at our own back yard! I really do hope within the next 13 years…..
We are proud of ourselves telling the world that Malaysia… now a developed country as what we plan to archive!

]]> By: winterinoz http://theunspunblog.com/2007/10/19/whats-going-on/#comment-26567 Thu, 25 Oct 2007 22:26:30 +0000 http://theunspunblog.com/2007/10/19/whats-going-on/#comment-26567 Nasi lemak were long well known in Sumatera, also roti jala and such. I think malaysian food which aren’t recognized by the Sumatrans is only Mee Goreng India :)

]]> By: Vic.Kyle.Ellanne http://theunspunblog.com/2007/10/19/whats-going-on/#comment-26555 Thu, 25 Oct 2007 18:44:28 +0000 http://theunspunblog.com/2007/10/19/whats-going-on/#comment-26555 HA HA HA, I didn’t know UM still in the TOP U list. Anyway, in order to create more post-graduates, some standards has been decreased.

There are so many dilemmas in Malaysia – Malays’Dilemma, Chinese Dilemma and I’m not sure if Indians have published theirs (they should, ha ha). With all these dilemmas, we should go to TAIPING = PEACE for a walk and get wet altogether in the almost daily rains. Then everyone is just a wet duck and all dilemma washed away.

Gerakan no race definition but still majority Chinese, ha ha.

Not fortunate enough to be an expatriate to any country, so have to just either being annoyed or amused by the daily antics of our politicians and ministers. Ha ha ha ha. I heard Taiping got good Nasi Lemak (don’t tell me nasi lemak is from Indonesia also :p )

]]> By: Michael Chick http://theunspunblog.com/2007/10/19/whats-going-on/#comment-26462 Wed, 24 Oct 2007 10:23:50 +0000 http://theunspunblog.com/2007/10/19/whats-going-on/#comment-26462 Hey Bro, “top university” by what standards? :P

I believe the more you talk about racial this and that the more unharmonious it becomes. Skip the word completely and you may start to see come REAL intergration. All race definitions to be replaced by the word MALASYIAN after all the “malays” are not even a race to begin with. So you already have a 30% headstart if you do this pronto. Then the balance can come from the Iban, Kadazans and the rest of the Bumiputras, etc. That also means that UMNO ha to pack up shop. Or change their name to UTANO as I suggested earlier. (Truly Asia National Organization) Same goes for MIC and MCA, and any other party which has a “race” (or un-race) definition.

Let’s skip these depressing discussions and go back to Taiping ya?

]]> By: nstman http://theunspunblog.com/2007/10/19/whats-going-on/#comment-26251 Sun, 21 Oct 2007 04:34:08 +0000 http://theunspunblog.com/2007/10/19/whats-going-on/#comment-26251 Good piece, Unspun. You said you could not relate to the Malaysian expatriates. Not surprising. While Indonesians have moved on, Malaysians, especially Bumiputeras, are still trapped in the racist mindset propagated and perpetuated by Umno, otherwise known as the Nazi Pa;rty of Malaysia. Umno has succeeded in its divide-and-rule policy to keep its vice-like grip on the Malaysian polity. To me all the talk about racial harmony and open houses is baloney because underneath the surface are ripples of discontent and anger which threaten to boil over one day. As for educational standards, believe me, they are so bad it defies logic. Teachers and graduates these days can hardly string a few sentences in English. In this globalised age, you and I know it is unacceptable. Universities have become a cesspool of mediocrity. Even worse are the standards of lecturers. During my time, getting even a pass degree required hard work, but these days every mother’s son graduate with honours. In my workplace, graduates can hardly write passable English. And mind you, a number of them graduated from top universities like Universiti Malaya.

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