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Saturday, August 30, 2008

Budget 2009, and me (and maybe you)

As the child growing up in the 90's, you can't escape the PC + Internet boom - it happens, and your government wants to get involved.

So they set up funding to work on figuring out how to work with this strange machines called personal computers, spend millions (if not billions) of Ringgit from public funds, and try to transform you to some kind of computer whiz.

I'm one of them - and needless to say, the government sadly slowly abandoning the project.
And what are they focusing on now? Agriculture. That's right. Agriculture.

This is something like trying to figure out how to fix the broken PC. When it didn't work, we went home and say - "Kid, enough of these computer stuff, let's just get back to something that we are good at since the beginning of the days - farming"

This is a boo boo. Just look at the Malaysia Budget 2009 (you find the Link that suits your need, either from Utusan, DAP, etc). And see, where do they throw the baby project called "MSC"?
Do they know how much resources that they've spent, and it still doesn't work?

We have so much stuff here in Penang ready to be tapped, but they don't see it!. And always go back to Agriculture, agriculture, etc. What gets into their mind!.

I haven't gone to Arts, yet. Am I demanding too much? We all do as Malaysians. Maybe because of that, the Government never correct. Or are they?

OK, forget it. Why don't we just survive and do our own thing. Let's do some kind of computer stuff at home. Hooked up that damned TM Net Streamyx and enjoy the sluggish Internet at a very expensive rate. Didn't they see this?

2 comments:

Dixon said...

an insight of things i look but i dont see.

back to agriculture is really funny. HAHAHA.

syamsulhasran said...

Haha, yeah. I don't mind they have incentives - however, they make it so big as if that's the only thing we should do.

It's so out of touch

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