SARAWAK STATE ELECTION PREDICTION

It might be kind of late but I haven’t really looked at the result yet. My personal prediction will be, i) BN is going to maintain their 2/3 majority, most probably between 50-60 seats. ii) DAP is going to increase their number of seats, previously is six.

EXAMINATIONS

Have a lots of things to think of. Exams, thesis, assignments and all others. Haiz…

伟大与愚蠢

我不知道我所做的一些是对或错。我不知道这叫伟大或愚蠢。伟大与愚蠢也只是一线之差。

THREE DAYS HAD PASSED

It is not easy to do what we suppose to do. It is easy for us to say give up but it is definitely not easy to do so. The worst thing is when we do not know which direction we should go for. Really hope that someone or the God can gives us direction or helps us to reaffirm our stance.

PTD PAC

A few more days to go for Pegawai Tadbir dan Diplomatik Assessment Center. Worry about the jogging part the most. Just had some jogging yesterday, but the whole feet seem to be painful. Hope that everything will be alright. Although I have lots of things to think about especially about my future planning, but I will make sure that I will do my best for the assessment, not to be affected.

I THINK I KNOW THE REASONS ALREADY

I think I can guess the reasons already why you do not allow me to post on your Facebook wall. Maybe one of the reasons is your roommate. The other reason might be people that you do not wish to let them see it. It is true that shy is one of the reasons, but perhaps competitors is the reason as well.

I HAVE DONE ALL I CAN

This might be a risk, a very high risk, but I did take it. I also don’t know why I like to play risky games. Slow planning might not make the situation so bad, but an aggressive action and pushing further can prove my worthiness. Of course, if failed, will happen just like what it will be. The result is definitely not satisfactory, but I will learn to accept it. Try to adapt it. Just like the lyric in a song; human life will have up and down. I might not be on the lucky side all the time, but I will bless the luckier one.

THESIS

Haih…. Don’t know can finish or not. Got lots of work to do. Haiz……..

ONE WEEK HAS PASSED

It is almost one week already. I am still thinking about things that I should not think about. Anyhow, I believe that I should still do my part. Hope that something will change in the future.

IS COMMUNISM ECONOMY SOMETHING BAD?

This is just an academic discussion with no intention to provoke anybody. The question discussed in comparative politics class, is democracy’s capitalism better than communism’s socialism economy or closed market? Generally, in a democratic nation like Malaysia, we will have the connotation that capitalism is a kind of economy that can boast the nation economy while a closed market system will bring the nation’s development to nowhere. The question is, is it true? Statistic has proven that those first world nations are the one who practise capitalism system while those who practise socialism economy states such as North Korea, Myanmar, Cuba, Laos etc (except for China, it is a special case that need another discussion) are less developed. Communism or military regimes in those nations are rigid and not willing to open up their market for free flow. Why? When open market happens, it definitely will bring the nations to a higher level. A simple logic without referring to complicated theories is that, when two parties cooperate, they will get benefits from each other as each of them will have their different personal strength (this premise might have lots of contention, but for the moment in a simple explanation, it works). At the same time, when each of them depends too much on the other, dependency will happen. This means that those are depended on the other will be at the losing end. The advantage party will start to exploit the weaker side. In politics, it usually will be absorbing of democracy model into a non-democratic state. The weaker nation has no choice other than to oblige. That is why a lot of autocratic nations refuse to open up their market. One of my classmates said that even though Vietnam is a non-democratic nation, but their development level is very high. The growth might even far better than Malaysia. However, when we look at the nation democracy level in terms of freedom, human rights etc, they are improving. Their leaders are not that rigid anymore compared to decades back. Ignore the discussion whether it is good or not. The point is their leaders have to liberalise their ruling styles as well. Isn’t it means that open up market means that willingness to liberalise their political circuits as well?

Back to China’s scenario, the reason why China is able to open up their market is because of their ability to control their market. Worst case, they can practise back their closed market ideology without having to suffer much. Furthermore, they do not open up their market totally. There are still a lot of restrictions. The communism leaders will make sure that their political ideology is not badly affected (unless they want something from the West such as Olympic Games, then they will improve their human right track records slightly). Undeniably, China’s economy does improve tremendously after they started to open their market.

In a nutshell, I would say that capitalism system is a high risk high return model. Anyhow, the return chances are generally more than the lost. That is why when a nation liberalise their market, generally their economy will shoot up. However, when an economic crises happens, the one that liberalise their market the most are the one that suffered the most. South Korea, Hong Kong and Taiwan are examples of it due to high amount of foreign investment. China’s economy is not that badly affected in 97/98 crisis comparatively since the market is domestic-orientated. I am of the opinion that capitalism system will bring a nation economy to a higher ground, but at the same time the nation will have to be bonded by more capitalism conventional regulations plus a high risk of economy collapse if the world economy gets into trouble.

(Those data are from my memory without double-checking the accuracy. Do welcome to correct me if I am wrong).