Life and Politics in Malaysia
Telephone call answered by the 3rd ring
15 minutes to renew your business license
2 hours to apply for a new passport
7 days payment made to 60% of contractors who had submitted their invoices
14 days the maximum amount of time before a contractor is paid after he has submitted his invoice
70% of backlog cases in land offices have been cleared since 2004
- “One Service, One Deliver, No Wrong Door” as announced by Chief Secretary Tan Sri Mohd Sidek Hassan [New Sunday Times, 3rd Feb 08] -
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On a separate issue:
1 - 2 hours for an ambulance to arrive.
9 hours a critically injured patient was left in the “emergency ward” before he was prepped for surgery.
6,360km (3,432 nautical miles) the distance of a phone call made by someone from another country to another important someone at the hospital in order to get the doctors to take action.
7 hours for a police officer to arrive at mortuary. Less than 5 minutes to snap some pictures.
3 visits to the hospital before someone can tell you the right answer that to get medical records and doctor’s statement, one needs to go to “Wisma Kayu”.
60 days you’ll have to wait to get the doctor’s statement and signature on a “yes/no” and short answers 1-page form.
RM200 – RM1,000 you’ll need to pay depending on “kerumitan kes” should you require the full medical record. (people don’t need a new statement or modified record, just the existing medical records, how “rumit” can that be?!)
Min 60 days waiting period to get medical records.
13 police summonses before bus driver claimed three lives on a road accident.
- Voice of a frustrated Malaysian, and representing many more -
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Elsewhere in Malaysia:
Even if you are caught on video, there is still a chance to get away with corruption at the highest level in Malaysia with the now infamous quote “it looks like me, sounds like me, the room matches the living room in my house, but I will not say 100% it is me.”
Barisan National’s big guns descended on Penang to hand out RM millions worth of goodies (in view of the coming general election). [The Star, 2nd Feb 08]
Malaysia’s Prime Minister launched The Emperor’s Clothes boutique belonging to daughter at Pavillion KL.
Health Minister got caught in a sex scandal.
The ironies of life and politics in Malaysia.
Time to stand up, take action and be counted!
*kerumitan = complexity
March 10, 2008
Has the past , present and next leader examine what was does wrong and what need to be done to recify the problem on the > 30% swing???
One should not blame on current when the system was setup by the past for >30 years…..
The current is the past choice. Is Old Mac need to take responsibility if he now think the current one need to step down?
Old Mac should stand and support current one and not stab after stab….. what the incapability of SV is not the cause of current one.
The problem was Old Mac did not address the problem and like volcanoes…it erupts but the current one was the scrapgoat as it erupts recent and not earlier than 2003…….
Nevertheless, Old Mac should help current one and not trying to bring a new one ( just becos he is a old friend or he has good political background….and later stab him again if he did not revive those projects already terminated by the current one)…..
Just a bog jokes or slap on his own face. Old mac when step down in 2003 , claimed he will not involve in politiccs like his neighbour MM.
But he is worst than MM, as he back stab several his key kakis and his successors….. Doesn`t this call involve in politics? Or what is this call? Become Opposition after step down?