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June 10, 2005

Phew! and Arghh! - Malaysia in the past 4 days 
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For the past 4 days or so the whole of Malaysia was gripped by a fear that we never really quite felt before.

Many tourists and locals got lost when in the jungle, but when 4 young boys, the eldest being 16, 14, 10 and I can't remember the age of the youngest, one of whom is a Singaporean, the other 3 Malaysian, 3 brothers and one cousin I think got lost in Fraser's Hill's Bishop Trail, Malaysia was almost still with anxiety, fearing and worrying like the parents of the 4 boys. Our search and rescue team deserved a pat in the back. First the police, then came I think the rescue teams, then the army and dogs, helicopters, villagers and locals and 4 or was it 3 orang asli who found the footprints of the boys and located them at the waterfall, after 4 days without food. Luckily the eldest boy was cool headed and encouraged the others to find a stream, so they may be hungry and cold but they did not die of thirst. Our search team was relentless, 24 hours search and of course 4 orang asli used no technology but luck and footprints I think. I can say that every night from Tuesday to yesterday night my first question was "have they been found?". I was kinda worried too that they may have fallen into some ravine, drowned, kidnapped, eaten by tigers but if they were not I had no doubt our men will find them. Even the Sultan was praying for their safety, men, women, children, locals, foreigners, Muslims, Buddhists, Christians, all prayed for them in a show of unity that I myself was very surprised but pleasantly surprised to see. Searched they did and found they did, yesterday afternoon I think. The whole of Malaysia sighed with relief.

By the way, if this is of any importance, these 4 boys are Chinese.

In an unrelated news, 2 (one old man and another young boy, Malay) got lost whilst jungle trekking at Cameron Highlands. They too were found yesterday.

And in one frustrating news, several of our own top students, all of them scoring at least 10A1s got rejected when applying for govt schjolarships. Reason was probably too many people applying to study medicine and that there were other better qualified, thanks to their curiculum activities, etc. All these top scorers got commendation letters from our PM and all were active in school and all were Chinese.

And I have only 3 questions to ask:-

1. who are awarded those scholarships anyway? Statistics please.

2. I thought we are seriously lacking doctors? Why not open more space, more funds allocated for medical studies.

3. If a 13A1 top scorer, placed somewhere top 10 in the country can't get a scholarship, does it mean the top 9 or so were all given scholarships and it was just a pity he was no.10? If a student having sucj excellent results can't get a scholarship, who else can? Who should be more qualified?

One public wrote that we can't always blame that dept and that always we ask for statistics and talk about race and all. He said they can try other avenues, there must be away. Moreover one must be active in school activities. Was the world's top surgeon a multi talented athlete at school too? I doubt it. Stop the crap. Even if he is not active at all, being placed top 15 in the country in itself is a testament that this young person is a talented person and must be given due recognition. What other avenues is this man talking about? If you can't depend on your government to award brilliance and hard work, who else? Private companies who will whisk away our local talents and therefore we have drain of talent pool?

Oh please, I am so sick of this crap which happens every year after the top scorers are announced AND had dinners with our PM. Our PM may change, but the darn situation is always the same old grandmother story. Scholarships must be given to those who can't afford to pay education's exhorbitant amount AND who deserves it. Leave race out of it. Even if you want to promote all over the papers that the no. 1 top scorer was a Malay girl and good for her, there were doubters who countered and said perhaps the numbers allocated during exams was fixed. I seriously doubt that but one can't help but feel how come so many top scorers, Chinese or otherwise are not given the chance they deserved? What meritriocacy (pardon the wrong spelling if any)? Where is it? I can't see it.

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