waxppl,

I am LUCKY??  Do you want my kind of LUCK??

I lost my father when I was 8 years old.  My mother had to raise 6 children on her own.  We starved regularly through childhood.  To be AVERAGE in Poverty meant that you DO NOT SURVIVE..  We refuse to stay poor and starving.

Then, we were faced with NEP.  Many people were forced out of their jobs and businesses.  My batch were forced to go oversea and compete with foreigner to get college education.  So, I had to work 2 part-time jobs and take 20 semester hours per semester.  I slept on the average of 4 hours per day for 6 years.

You call this LUCK??  Is this LUCK?? Do you want my kind of LUCK??

Do not insult me!!

Dreamer

As long as you have a healthy body and decent IQ, count yourself lucky. Most of the older generation come from poor family. They have to work long hours and food is not abundant. Look at all the interviews with all the billionaires, most will talk about their hardships during younger days.

To those physically handicapped, they would LOVE to have a healthy body to be able to work 2 jobs and sleep even 2 hours.

My point is, count yourself lucky to be physically fit and healthy and also has above average financial IQ.

http://www.betterworldbooks.com/

Some people talked about poor and hungry people in Africa.  I buy books from this web site.  They donate their earning to help literacy in Africa.  I save money.  They help people.  It is a win-win situation.

Dreamer

agree to this

although I have yet to enter the working world, this kind of people will just cause more problems..

I agree to this because a part-time lecturer (aka engineer cum businessman) basically openly told us that he did realise that the inflation rate in the country is not as what is reported but still give increments based on the reported inflation value...when I heard this I was like

>> Do you know what the effing wrong with our government/nation?

◘ Ah... ok.  If you want me to give you a full socio-economic and political break down of all Malaysia's problems, you can PM me and we can discuss that... but I'm not sure if that has anything to do with the topic here.  Sure there's a lot wrong with Malaysia, but there's a lot RIGHT with it too!  I mean Joey lives here, and Joey is a good person, so it cant be that bad.  I'm a good person... or at least I try to be.  Dreamer and Tigerr both seem pretty smart... in fact, I bet if you look you'll find dozens - possibly even THOUSANDS of really good-natured, warm hearted, intelligent people with only the best intentions in mind.  And doesn't that count for something???

I swear there's another thread I just posted in where someone's making Malaysia out to sound like the worst country that ever existed.

◘ Sorry, this conversation is becoming difficult to follow... whatever NEP, GLC, and non-BUMI means.

the rich is getting richer at the expense of the middle/low income groups

p/s: I am not working yet

mieza,

Yes, he is NOT easily replaceable. Nobody else could had done more damage to Malaysia than he did.  You will have a life time trying to fix what he had done...  Then, you could continue to praise him.

Dreamer

Eh! Cannot reach concession like that Not fair, the condition created by policy is what we are up against for many years to come, come tell us how to defy NEP and become rich.

Without Mahathir (and in truth, it's not the old horse alone but thousands of other corrupt, lazy, power crazy politicians in his supporting cast), Malaysia would have been more successful. Much, much more successful.

Seriously there is many others can make this country successful NOT JUST HIM.. I hate these politician because their do not FULLY do what they supposed to do.. Without these corrupted thing we can be more successful.. Look at their family, house, car etc.. YES they become rich..

I shall rephrase it; Young people rather learn from mistake, they only take advise if regret and admit it.
There are people whose luck can last 10-20 years even a lifetime before the luck runs out / phaseout and they panic later, that is why it is important to learn while young, many jobs has turnover cycle and employers will give false sense of security knowing the inexperienced (no where to go) will fool themselves because we are taught to think study hard and earn high score mentality.

The school should have reality lessons, deliver in a proper manner otherwise idiots will cling to A for Apple and turn into Ass when disappointed, it can be Ace with guidance. Rich man don't care because doing business is all about money.