More than ten years ago I travelled to Java, and I was surprised
that the Indonesians there were surprised that I could speak Malay
(Bahasa). It occured to me it is because that most Singaporean they
met could not speak Malay. Yes it is a shame that the present
generation could not speak Malay. My mother never went to school,
yet she could speak Malay, at least the pasar version. We are in
the middle of the Malay Archepelago, for God's sake. This is
another short comming of a government who micromanage everything.
Some things just slip up. During the tsunami aid period LKY said
that Malay ought to be introduced into the education syllabus, as
being able to speak Malay helped our aid workers to be effective.
Kudos to the wise and learned man for making a brilliant
suggestion. I suggested the same thing after my trip to Java in CNA
forum, and got flamed.
some malays dun wan learn chinese becoz they dun wan to pamper
the chinese for being the majority of the country.....
some chinese dun wan to learn malay becoz they feel big headed
as the majority of the nation.......
i think there is something really wrong with this
nation......its full of ignorant people.....i think most sporeans
should learn conversational malay....imagine wot would happen to
all the chinese here who dunno how to speak malay should something
happen to singapore and only our neighbours could help us? we can't
expect them to learn chinese can we......its like trying to say
that singapore is belongs to the chinese map......
hell when i talked about going to china, my friend even tell me
'how you go there eat?' he thought that there was no such thing as
chinese muslim....i mean wtf man......wot the hell is wrong with
our youths nowadays? first they dunno anything about their own
country, then they dunno anything about their own world.......so
much for the intelligent nation 2015 plan......
