Okay I lied....

In my previous post I said I will write everyday but I didn't. I am just going to paste what I wrote on Facebook.

My dear Tun, when you first mooted Vision 2020, the world was excited, in fact the President from my University then, way back in 1989, quoted your Vision 2020. To be a developed nation by 2020. Now is 2018, 29 years have passed since then and the year 2020 is just around the corner. It will take much longer than just less than 2 years to come up with a new strategy for yet another national car project. Whatever we come up with will not create a dent to bump us up before 2020.

We have Industry 4.0 knocking our doors. The days of individual ownership may soon be a thing of the past with autonomous cars making headway. Driverless cars are already on the roads. Cars running using fossil fuel may soon be history as different energy are considered.

People are getting sick of pollution and smog. Many are excited with not driving. Riding bicycles and commuting on efficient public system. So when we are looking towards cancelling ECRL, HSR, MRT 3 and LRT 3 and instead continuing the archaic idea of yet another national car, it disappointed the majority of us.

We want to see trails for train services including trams plying our streets. We want to see lesser cars and lesser congestion. We want to move from one place to another in comfort and in minutes, not hours.

Please don't force us with another car. Instead look towards expanding our rail expertise, expanding it throughout the nation. Get Sabah and Sarawak too to enjoy it. And who know one day we may even have our own underground tunnel for rail similar to the Channel Tunnel.

And

My take on UEC? It does not make sense to have 2 different qualifications that seemingly favours one particular race.To me it does not matter whether it is MCA or DAP or Gerakan that pushes for it, to me it just does not make sense.

These days there are already parents that chooses to do O Levels, IB and so forth, which already undermines our SPM. With this UEC it further undermines our SPM and our school system. Matter of time before every school start to do their own thing and then how do we then control quality?

The education system seems already lost with the mushrooming of these private schools and all these tahfiz centres. With the UEC coming into play might as well just shut down the Ministry of Education because they have not been playing their role governing all these.

Fairly soon, which is already happening, our children will be educated in different streams, different systems, some of them barely intersecting with one another. And with different certification there will segments in society that will have nothing in common.