We are Getting Worst

I read with interest, a letter written by an expatriate about the quality of service in Immigration Department in Putra Jaya. When he went 4 years ago, he was impressed by the quality of service and he naturally expected a better service now, after 4 years.

To his surprise, the service is worst than 4 years ago. Among his complaints were:
- There was absent of signage.
- People cutting queue, and there was not control.
- The customer service by the officer was poor, use the sign language to show direction.
- The processing of the customers were unstructure.

When I read this it reminded me of ...
1. the case in Sabah... The IC for immigrants. It is still an open issue. It did appear that only selected people in the immigration know about it.

2. The other is the ease of changing the IC before the election. I know a person who is able to change the IC within one day.

So it is near election now, and there is relationship to the issues.

Parliament is Dissolved Making Way for the 13 General Election

The Malaysian Parliament was dissolved on 3 Apr 2013 making way for the general election. Now that it is known that the voting day is 5 May 2013.

The King signed the proclaimation - dissolving the parliament Star 4 Apr 2013

The Drive to Get the Votes

The mainstream newspaper is putting all the efforts to attract voters to vote for BN. The strategies can be broadly divided into 2...

a. to show how good the BN leadership for the ..
           1- past
           2- future

b. Show how bad the opposition is and was for the...
          1 - past
          2 - present
          3 - future.

The BN has been traditionally strong in the rural areas, where the villagers are not well informed and take all the propaganda as the truth. As one of the FELDA settler had said... "the government had given you the land, then the mean to earn a living and recently had given the BRIM, what else you want from a government. It is very odd if anyone with the correct mind set do not support government".

The problem is this mind set does not jive well with the new economic model that that the very same government is promoting.