Tactics = more busyness, less purposeStrategy = less busyness, more purposeTactics --> the view by a treeStrategy --> the view from above a forestSoldiers --> tacticiansGenerals --> strategists

-----Original Message-----
From: Bala Pillai [mailto:bala@apic.net]
Sent: Saturday, 30 July 2005 12:47 PM
To: 'Sangkancil' sangkancil@lists.malaysia.net
Subject: What might the biggest enemy of the Malays be? Haterade?

Dear all,

My view: the deepest take on the NEP debate is taking place at http://www.malaysia-today.net/guest-columnists/2005/07/malay-today.html#comments

First it was New York. Then Madrid. Recently, it was London. Next? Paris, Berlin, Tokyo? What about Sarawak cities like Kuching and Miri?When living in cities, there are risks to take. More money for increased risks. Perhaps more money for less risks may mean living in the suburbs or in the kampung. Or perhaps, have two places to live: small one in the city and a bigger one in the kampung. Sometimes, your work chooses where you live. More likely it's the other better half that does the choosing.Timur Lenk sacked the Muslim Empire in the 13th-14th Century; his other relatives having run down China and Eastern Europe. The Normans did the same to Anglo land. The Americans and the Brits hit Bagdad recently. So what else is new?

[ "This will not make poverty history. It is a vastly disappointing result. Millions of campaigners all over the world have been led to the top of the mountain, shown the view, and now we are being frogmarched down again."] ...Christian Aid (Guardian)On the heels of the G8 meeting just ended, I find the Christian Aid statement curiously intriguing and amusing. There's a Muslim proverb that says "If the mountain won't come to Mohammed, Mohammed will go to the mountain." It's a fact that Muslims are on the average in the throes of poverty. The irony is they hold the world's black gold. But perhaps Allah is just. So just it's making the Christians cynical! [ http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/d/desmondtut107531.html ]

From: cyfranogi@yahoogroups.com [mailto:cyfranogi@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Bala Pillai
Sent: Wednesday, June 15, 2005 7:11 PM
To: dina@malaysiakini.com
Cc: 'sangkancil'; artisproactiv@yahoogroups.com; malaysiaindians@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [cyfranogi] RE: [sangkancil] Money And Happiness

Dina,

>i want money. i like money. money money money.

Money is:-

a) a fluid conduit for exchanging value and
b) one store of value

Which means if you solved a problem [1] whereby

1) you properly perceived the problem

Some might want to participate in this conversation.

Forwarding from sangkancil@lists.malaysia.net

From: Bala Pillai [mailto:bala@apic.net]
Sent: Saturday, 18 June 2005 10:02 AM
To: 'YW Yeoh ', sangkancil@lists.malaysia.net
Subject: Re: Prof. Jomo Sundram & Prof. Ibrahim Bajunid speaks on World-Class Universities

Rich,

Thanks for agreeing to ask questions on my behalf.

Please ask them these 4 questions:

1. There are lots of problems out here in Malaysia and our region. Default, problems are opportunities. And given that it is highly unlikely that we'd solve even half our problems in the next few generations, bearing in mind that new ones come as old ones are solved, there's really no practical limit to opportunities. Therefore no limit to amount of wealth we can generate except human capacity. The issue then is how fast we are able to create teams of entrepreneurs who pull together the will and brains to solve the lower hanging fruits of these problems.

Would you more agree or more disagree with this proposition that the issue is "how fast and how much we are able to pull together entrepreneurial 'teams' that same page? If you do, than the question is what can universities do to break the "you go to university and you become a bad businessman because you won't be able to takes risks" phenomena.

2. Would you more agree or more disagree that the single biggest problem (therefore the single biggest opportunity) we have in Malaysia and elsewhere is resistance to learning? A problem that beings other than humans don't seem to have.

3. Would you more agree or more disagree that most pertinent learning today is happening via proximate conversations rather than one-way courses? That learning is a social process. If so, shouldn't universities be lots more plugged into social learning ecosystems eg online orchestrated offline communities?

4. Asia minus Japan has not produced a single quantum invention since 1400 AD when before that it was responsible for the majority of them. What might the single biggest reason for this be? Is it possible that it might be the switch from objective perceptions to subjective perception? That is from expecting and perceiving roses, thorns and in-betweens to expecting roses and thus perceiving thorns?

Many thanks.

Look forward to hearing their and the attendees' response to it. More important than the answers is to have folks use these to come up with "what matters most of what matters".

cheers../bala
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Thanks Rich. I'll frame the questions.

Cheers../bala

________________________________________
From: YW Yeoh [mailto:richieyeoh@yahoo.com]
Sent: Friday, 17 June 2005 4:54 PM
To: bala@apic.net
Subject: RE: [sangkancil] Prof. Jomo Sundram & Prof. Ibrahim Bajunid speaks on World-Class Universities

Yes Bala, I plan to. Send me your qs and I shall ask them

Cheers

Rich

Bala Pillai <bala@apic.net> wrote:
Richie,

Thanks for sending this on.

Are you going to this event?

Can you ask some questions on my behalf?

cheers../bala
Bala Pillai bala@apic.net
Knowledge Economy Brands-in-the-making (since 1995)
Knowledge Management + Social Networks + Citizen Journalism + Complementary Currency
See http://www.malaysia.net/bala-interview
http://www.malaysia.net http://www.tamil.net http://www.singapore.net http://www.indonesia.net

Some people make the world happen, more watch the world happen, most wonder what happened.

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From: YW Yeoh [mailto:richieyeoh@yahoo.com]
Sent: Friday, 17 June 2005 2:08 PM
To: Sangkancil SK
Subject: [sangkancil] Prof. Jomo Sundram & Prof. Ibrahim Bajunid speaks on World-Class Universities

Dianjur oleh Persatuan Sains Sosial Malaysia (PSSM)

Forum Awam

Ke Arah Universiti Bertaraf Dunia: Isu dan Cabaran

Sinopsis

Pendidikan tinggi negara kita sedang melalui satu persimpangan baru yang hebat. Di satu pihak terdapat tuntutan agar ia menjadi lebih kompetitif dengan mutu kecemerlangan yang tinggi agar
ia boleh mencapai "taraf dunia" dan "pusat kecemerlangan serantau". Di pihak lain, terdapat banyak faktor struktural dan lain-lain yang menghalang transformasi pendidikan tinggi negara kita ke arah cita-cita di atas. Forum ini bertujuan membincangkan persoalan ini secara mendalam untuk mengenalpasti kekuatan dan hambatan-hambatan pendidikan tinggi negara kita, membuat perbandingan dengan beberapa negara yang boleh dijadikan contoh, serta mengemukakan cadangan penyelesaian.

Forum ini selaras dengan misi PSSM untuk menumbangan kepada peningkatan kualiti pendidikan tinggi di Malaysia khsusnya di bidang sains sosial dan kemanusiaan. Perbincangannya akan dimanfaatkan untuk memantapkan lagi memorandum PSSM untuk penambahbaikan pendidikan tinggi negara kita.

Kedua-dua Prof. Jomo dan Prof Dato' Ibrahim Bajunid adalah totoh-tokoh tersohor dalam bidang pendidikan tinggi dan mempunyai pengalaman yang luas di dalam dan luar negara.

Kehadiran dan sumbangan idea saudara saudari di majlis ini amat dialu-alukan.

Panel : Prof. Dr. Jomo K. S.
Penolong Setiausaha Agung bagi Pembangunan Ekonomi, Pertubuhan Bangsa-bangsa Bersatu.
(mantan Presiden PSSM)

Prof. Dato' Dr. Ibrahim Bajunid
Dekan, Fakulti Sains Sosial UNITAR
Ahli Jawatankuasa Mengkaji, Menyemak dan Membuat Perakuan
Tentang Perkembangan dan Hala Tuju Pendidikan Tinggi di Malaysia.

Tarikh : 18 Jun 2005 (Sabtu)
Masa : 10 pagi - 1 petang
Tempat : Dewan Kuliah, Tingkat 4, Menara DBP, Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, Jalan Dewan Bahasa, 50460 Kuala Lumpur (Simpang empat di hadapan Flat Loke Yew)

Untuk maklumat lanjut, sila hubungi pssmalaysia@yahoo.com atau 016-3489335 (Man)

This message was posted at the old sarawak talk on 06/16/05.Readers use your own discretion.........................Little surprise at all. A corrupted nation, where everybody cover up the wrong doing of everybody else, for fear that their own corruption will be found out. You scratch my back, I scratch your back.During my recent trips overseas, my luggage were pilfered. Articles like clothings, pens souveniers were stolen. Everytime when we pass through Johore Bahru, and Kuala Lumpur airport, surely some people in the group got luggage broken in , locks destroyed, articles stolen. Why? You two airports are airports of THIEVES, !!!!!!!!!SHAMEFUL TO THE IMAGE OF MALAYSIA. WHY IS THAT WHEN WE TRAVEL WITHIN Sarawak and Sabah, no such thing happen? Your inability to enforce law and order and instill discipline is SHOCKING.SHAME MALU MALU MALU TO YOU. YOU FUCKING GOVERNMENT, AND AIRPORT AUTHORITIES,Shame. Such a big airport to contain a whole bunch of robbers and thieves.

Brilliant Piece in BrandMalaysian. One of the most important things about the power of voice through written language is the ability to distribute it.

The Academic Opinion - Guest Editorial by Dr. Farish Noor

Dr
Farish A. Noor is a researcher at the Zentrum Moderner Orient, Berlin
and was formerly Chair of Asian Studies at Sciences-Po, Paris; and
lecturer at the Islamwissenschaft Institute of Freie University,
Berlin.

One of the first questions I ask when I am Instant Messaging someone who only responds with single words (which is like 99% of Asians on IM) is, "Can you speak in full sentences?". Why? I have found that those who do not prioritise speaking in full sentences are much less likely to realise how important grasping and reinforcing the common sense notion of causality is. And the consequences and consequences of consequences of not doing so. They are much less likely to grasp, without it being pointed out, that there is a reason why Man invented sentences and paragraphs.http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/31/opinion/31fish.html?th=&emc=th&pagewanted=print

The Guardian, LondonWorld briefingLong fight back for Malaysia's invisible manSimon TisdallTuesday May 31, 2005The GuardianAnwar Ibrahim, Malaysia's leading opposition figure, launched a series of rallies and speeches across the country at the weekend - but you would not know it from reading the newspapers.An establishment politician turned pro-democracy "icon" who was beaten and jailed by the government of the former prime minister Mahathir Mohamad, Anwar drew an estimated crowd of 10,000 people in Penang. Up to 40,000 were expected in northern Kedah yesterday.But most Malaysians are unaware of Anwar's travelling reform campaign. The media blackout is total. Officially, he is Malaysia's invisible man.Interviewed at his home in Kuala Lumpur, Anwar said Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, Dr Mahathir's successor, had ordered the gag."Editors tell me it is the personal instruction of the prime minister that you should not report or mention Anwar at all," he said.Various reasons had been given, all of them preposterous, he said. "I'm a threat to the nation, a threat to security, I will split the Malays ... Actually, they don't try to justify it. It's brute force."Editors would be quietly removed, advertising withdrawn, or publishing licences withheld if newspapers disobeyed. That was typical of the roundabout way repression worked in Malaysia, he suggested.Leaders of Umno, the main ruling party, say that Anwar, who was deputy prime minister and heir apparent before an explosive falling- out in 1998, no longer matters.But such indifference hardly squares with tight restrictions on his political activities, media gags, continuous surveillance - and the big turnouts for the "illegal" rallies organised, by word of mouth, by his People's Justice party (PKR), led by his wife, Wan Azizah Wan Ismail.The PKR is pushing for tougher anti-corruption measures, economic and electoral reforms, an end to detention without charge, judicial and media independence, and a reversal of institutionalised workplace and educational discrimination against Chinese and Indian minorities.Western governments that criticised Anwar's trial view current tensions as an internal matter. A diplomat said it was misleading to see him as "some sort of white knight" and pointed to inconsistencies between his present stance and his time in office.But such attitudes were another example of denial, Anwar said. "People in the west say Malaysia is a moderate Islamic country, there are no bombings, it's a democracy. And they are fearful of the Islamic parties. So they think it is safer to deal with Umno."But how do you have moderation and democracy when there are no basic rights? This is a very repressive system but repressive mostly without violence. It is civilised repression. It was learned from the British."Corruption was endemic, unemployment was rising, police abuses went unchecked, foreign investment was declining and the country's democratic institutions, dominated by Umno since independence, were dangerously weak, he said. Without reforms, Malaysia could become all the things the west most feared.Some Malaysians believe Anwar blew his chances in 1998. Others are waiting for him to emerge from the shadows. He is exploring a common platform with opposition and Islamic groups. He still has allies inside Umno and among Malaysia's numerous royal families.But the road back after six years in jail and a current period of recuperation and study in the US and Britain will be tough."He's in a weak position right now," a western diplomatic source said. "He is well aware that if he wants to come back to power, he can only do so through Umno."Beyond the haze of official harassment and obfuscation, two things seem clear. One is that given a level playing field, Anwar can still hope to lead his country one day. The second is that Malaysia will eventually be forced to embrace the reformasi agenda he espouses.The question is whether he is up for a fight that could lead him back to jail, to a deal with ruling party modernisers or to a Ukraine- style popular insurgency before the 2008 election."He's our hero," said Amien Rais, a leader of Indonesia's 1998 democratic constitutional revolution. "I hope in three or four years we will see him in a different position."Anwar vows to return. "I am a Malaysian. This is my home," he told supporters in Kuala Lumpur on Sunday. "I shall be back."Guardian Unlimited © Guardian Newspapers Limited 2005