A Brief History of Failures

A quick glance at the history of our initiatives had shown our unacceptable statistics of failures. When we were excitingly busy celebrating our small and minute successes, our small neighbor at our southern tip was quietly but strategically planned and implemented the stream of activities to make it the only "first world nation" in the region.

1. I still remember the days in 1960, when the "Bahasa Kebangsaan" initiative was carries out. Thousands of school children were marching, including me, thoughout the nation singing the song, "Gunakan lah Bahasa kebangsaan kita... ".

Now, 50 years down the road, the song has hardly been played in the radio, the nation is more confused, the voices of oppositions are louder. We, as a nation are unsure how to resolve the issue of "Teaching of Science and Maths" . That itself speaks of our standard and capability.

2. In the 80, we had the Muhibbah initiatives. The government was spending millions on $$ to promote the community integration. Many people are wondering about the results. The integration has to lead by the stronger community. We are operating in ethnic barriers.

3. In the 90s, we had the " sistem payung". Someone had quoted, "I am going to create 10 bumi millionaires who are going to create 10 millionaires each" Now the 10 millionaires created are still millionaires, however there is no trace of the 2nd generation of millionaires. What is known, the government had been spending many millions of $$, enough to fund the 100 millionaires that was planned. The out of courts settlements in MAS cases are beyond expectation of discern public.

4. In 2000, we had the MSC, we still have it, in its name but not in the functions. We were the proud members of the citizen, that were witnessing an event that will propel the nation to the global era.

Seven flagships were launched, ref http://www.nitc.my/index.cfm?&menuid=28. Surprisingly, the nitc web had changed the agenda ... quoting 4 flagships were launched which were ... then in another sentence, 3 more were also launched.

5. In 2010 we had the 1 Malaysia and the ETP. If we were to ask about the concept of 1 malaysia, many will give conflicting views. Please do not have the wrong idea that the master craftmen are confused. They know what they are doing, and it is one of the tested and proven way of mindset engineering.

The above are talking about a nation. However I had seen and even involved at a lower level of significant, in organisations and even smaller companies which are mapped against the nations' course. One thing was obvious, they share the same frame of minds, they are politicians and have or had higher inclination to stage performance. My thought of stage performers, they have to twiddle themselves to 150% level for that the short interval of time, mainly for interim performance, but the reality is obviously the opposite. That remind me of the late Whitney Houston.