kekurangan istilah bangsa dalam perlembagaan

Saya rasalah, bukan semua pernyataan mengenai Melayu adalah nasionalistik, sedangkan kenasionalan tidak berdasarkan Melayu saja. Istilah bangsa kurang disempurnakan dalam perlembagaan negara. Hal ini akan tahan sekurang-kurang seabad dari merdeka. Nama saya bagi serabut ni, Kedukaan Sebangsa Malaysia.

( Kini sohorlah, kenyataan Sanusi di N9. :) )

Malaysia tak suka rasmi

 Orang Malaysia selalu camni ... Cepat caci ikut hati, lambat bicara secara rasmi

education: defined as class-agnostic

 I tend to aim for a definition of education, which is class agnostic. That is to say, something doesn't count as education if it merely advances class status, without explicitly increasing the student's economic options outside of class contexts.

I know it's unpopular. So this is distasteful to most people because they just want better economic options, and what they call education helps them do that, USUALLY VIA CLASS ADVANCEMENT.

This IS rather highfalutin - I should probably admit that quickly, as I've been slapping the label on various educational content I've seen online recently.

serabut : dasar pasport IL

PMX + Tok Mat : mengeluarkan dasar "serabut". 

A : paspot IL tidak diterima di MY

B : pemegang paspot IL dilarang walaupun memegang paspot lain

A dan B adalah dasar yang TERSURATNYA berbeza. Tapi naratif dulu sampai kini adalah sesuatu yang LAIN LAGI :

C : MY tidak iktiraf IL

Secara langsung,

1. C mewajibkan A.

2. C tidak mewajibkan B.

Kini jemaah kuat-kuatkan suara seperti nak kata "C mewajibkan B", iaitu serabut logik.

Walau bagaimanapun, huraian yang DIMAKSUDKAN maka yang PATUT disebarkan adalah "Malaysia mempunyai kedua-duanya dasar C yang mewajibkan A, dan tambahan lagi dasar B".

Ulang kaji : kehidupan politik saya

Ulang kaji, kehidupan politik saya, sebagai serorang rakyat Malaysia, antara umur 14 dan 43.

1990-an : Dulu masa kecil (terlupa pulak tahun apa) pernah aku bercita-cita secara sia-sia untuk bekerja sebagai perdana menteri ... bukan bagi kemewahan, tapi nampaknya hanya PM dapat menentukan tahap penyelenggaran negara. Pada zaman kelahiran saya, Tun M yang menebang kuasa cabang-cabang kerajaan persekutuan dan masyarakat sivil : kehakiman, kewartawanan, gerakan politik dan agama minority, raja-raja Melayu, dan lain-lain, dan memindahkan kuasa kepada kedudukan PM, sebagai penggerak utama dalam cabangan perundangan, dan eksekutif.

Tapi bila sampailah zaman Reformasi dan ternampak kita adanya humban menghumban dan tuduhan ke atas pendirian peribadi secara kasar - sedarlah saya bahawa politik Malaysia belum lagi matang, dan amat membahayakan kepada penyumbangnya. Berundurlah sebarang minat saya daripada penyertaan dalam bidang ini, dan terpulanglah saya kepada pengajian lain, lebih pada STEM, dan sejarah pemikiran ketamadunan sedunia.

Pada waktu itu, saya rasalah bahawa budaya Malaysia kolot, dan tidak berfaedah kepada saya kalau menelitikannya selama dua atau tiga dekad. Saya rasalah, sebarang perubahan politik daripada genggaman keMahathiran (termasuk anak buahnya) mestilah mengambil beberapa kitaran baru dapatnya perubahan yang cukup menarik. (Pada 2026, kita masih dalam era keMahathiran, ya?)

2000-an : Saya dikurniakan dengan peluang untuk mengaji ke luar negara, selepas SPM, dan saya bercadang untuk menumpukan perhatian atas kajian bukan-perniagaan semasa di kolej, supaya dapat sikit kanta dari luar negara bagi memahami apakah yang berlaku dalam Malaysia, pada keseluruhannya. Selepas dapat ijazah sarjana mudah, terpulanglah saya ke Malaysia, dimana saya terus bermula dengan pengajian suasana tempatan, dari segi kerajaan dan perniagaan, tanpa mengabaikan pergerakan teknologi sedunia pada dekad itu. Ini saya dapat teruskan sampai tahun 2023.

2023-2032 : sedangkan saya tengah cuba pengajian sedekad dalam STEM bagi mengukuhkan pemahaman am saya. Dengan masa lapang saya, saya turut bermula akhirnya untuk melatihkan membacaan bahasa dan politik Melayu, yang sampai masa ini saya lebih mengabaikan (sebenarnya : seseorang rakyat tidak begitu perlu BM untuk mencari rezeki asas di Malaysia ... itu bab lain lah).

Kebelakangan kini meletuplah kisah gangguan warganet terhadap Network School di Johor, yang lebih mencirikan prasangka dan keamukan daripada tatacara perundangan yang teliti. Selepas seminggu menghadapi kera-kera medsos atas benda ini, saya pun rasalah, mungkin saya kena menarik tumpuan saya daripada kerja amal yang terlalu mempertimbangkan kesedaran politik rakyat Malaysia, selama dua atau tiga dekad lagi, haha.

Entahlah, bila aku nak turun gelanggang. Pikiranlah saya, bukan dekad ini. 

hak marah

Nasri Azhar wrote about rights to be angry, between Muslims and non-Muslims in Malaysia. 

"Ah ... cik ... marah bukan hak ... marah iaitu kesakitan. Kita kena pantau siapa saja yang marah, senang marah, selalu marah, bangga dengan kemarahannya .. doranglah sakit, dan perlu pertolongan. Kita tidak mengenakan tatacara "hak" keatas bendetu'

Malaysia's Unresolved Anxieties

"For Malaysians, an explanation of how the recent Network School harassment, results from Malaysia's internal heightened stress since its founding 70 years ago. Malaysia is essentially a chronically BP+BPD nationstate that lives in a constant state of fundamentally unresolved anxieties coated in compensatory peace-acting. I always say, my favourite thing about Malaysia is that we contributed "amok" from amuk, to the English lexicon." 

foolish inquiry

I have always sought to understand the people around me, though I find people in general to be simpletons, I make a point to look, again, and again, until I can no longer stomach the effort. That is the best I can do, as a member of society, to support my neighbours. Whenever questions of country, or race, or company, or religion, come up ... I tend to find those reducible to the study of individual fools. Groups are simply masses of fools. Study fools! All humanity is contained in the programming of the individual fool! 

Malaysa sejati

Pada pandangan saya sahaja, kemiskinan Malaysia terbenam dalam jati diri manusia yang terikat dengan : bangsa, agama, keluarga, bahasa, dan makanan. Susah kita menemui rakyat yang jatinya lain daripada kelompok itu. Kitorang tak begitu ramailah. Duk sini, undi pun tak begito senang, sebab kelompok sado dah sangat sa dan amat do. Tapi kemuhibahan kita berkepelbagaian, dan semuanya kito sesema dok sini.

knowledge x money

Today's concept of interest is, optimising for knowledge at the expense of financial gain. On a 2x2 plot, it veers off towards the axis of knowledge. This is the quadrant I have lived in for most of 2001 to 2026, except for about three years, spread across 2014, 2021, and 2022. I do wonder if I would have been able to gain more knowledge if I had prioritised making money any higher. 

Then and now

I miss having a simpler life as a younger person. Training is easier when you focus on a few things, instead of many.

Before 30 I did one main exercise : I ran. Now I run, swim, and lift.

From 18 to 21, I focused entirely on the total syllabus of the university and the quantifiable structure of conscious experience, and from 22 to 39, I focused entirely on Malaysian SMBs and software development. Now I have to study macro asset allocation, geopolitics, nutritional biochemistry, neuroanatomy, and the foundations of maths.

Before 2009, I focused on composition in English, and perhaps two scripting computer languages. Now I have added Malay, and comprehend the structure of all computing operations from assembly to user interfaces.

It is of course, harder to do basic little things with much focus. But I think, I will be able to reacquire the quality of running I had in 2006, soon, because it was not a remarkable quality altogether. Then I will have to think about other dimensions of progress, but one thing at a time ... 

coworking space licensing

Johor seems to have shut down Network School's business license for further investigation, as of 22 July 2026.

I built Asia's first 24-hour cafe with free workspace for digital nomads, in 2015, in Malaysia, before coworking spaces were trendy here. Even then, and till now, coworking spaces have never been tightly regulated. Nearly all city councils follow the convention of issuing a business license for "management offices" which has zero regard for the P&L model of subletting space, value-added services, sundry goods, and F&B.

This has been lazy governance by Malaysian regulators, so it's not the fault of space operators. And it effectively leaves regulators with a bouquet of non-compliance opportunities to hurl at any operator.

It'll be interesting to see how all this moves forward.

Why I still rarely vote in Malaysia

This note is shortly in advance of the 16th Malaysian general election. I'm 43 this year, and I've only bothered to vote once. Malaysia has not changed much in my lifetime ... its past 20 years have been poor, foolish, economic bumblings, for the most part. As usual, one is hard-pressed to find a citizen who isn't mainly concerned with food, family, friends, gods, cars, or travelling : travelling is more of a zeitgeist in these two decades, as prosperity has picked up somewhat : unfortunately education and STEM have not, so much.

I have written variously over the years ( here's as link to a blog post I made in 2013 ). Without saying much more ( I don't actually remember all the things I've written, and I haven't found time to review them in detail, though they are always public ) Generally, Malaysia does not present itself to me as an interesting machine, so I'm happy to let other people operate it, while accepting the consequences, and committing to keep up a steady volume of complaints.

 https://sextechandmergers.blogspot.com/2013/05/some-things-just-have-to-be-said.html

tests of the frail

In my anthropology, I find that the main ineloquence of (many but.not all) polite people, is that they are polite. So it becomes a categorical imperative for those of us who are rude, to lead the polite person to tests of their ambition. Will they be proven coherent, or stripped of facades? 

education is a petty jihad

Maybe we should just call it Pedagogical Engineering

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A petty jihad

Education is a logistically diverse operation. Imagine it were possible to know the ideal state of knowledge, and behaviour, for all civilisation, at the end of time - would it be possible to instantly convert all present members of society, or to instantly create new members, in such states as forecast at the end of time, given present resource limitations?

No, it would not. So what is attempted is to provide each student with the hardest possible study, based on the teacher's tolerated rate of student failure. At a higher tolerance, a teacher gives harder lessons, and vice versa.

These are all gambles. You can view the teacher as a sort of petty trader, or investment manager. And, at a broader scale, policymakers are macro asset allocators.

Physically, control and communication are synonymous, though socially each word is tainted with different tones. So education is simply a project of cynernetics, a.k.a. governance, either as a matter of paid labour with no intrinsic interest by the educator, or in other cases as a matter of voluntary social activism. Naturally for many people, it is something in between. 

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Pendidikan merupakan satu operasi yang berkepelbagaian logistik. Bayangkan kita dapat mengetahui keadaan pengetahuan dan tingkah laku yang sempurna bagi keseluruhan tamadun, pada akhir zaman - adakah mungkin untuk menukar serta-merta semua ahli masyarakat yang ada, atau mewujudkan ahli baharu serta-merta, dalam keadaan seperti yang diramalkan pada akhir zaman, memandangkan batasan sumber semasa?

Tidak, ia tidak mungkin. Jadi apa yang dicuba adalah untuk menghadapkan setiap pelajar dengan pembelajaran yang paling sukar, berdasarkan kadar kegagalan pelajar yang diterima oleh guru. Pada toleransi yang lebih tinggi, seorang guru memberikan pelajaran yang lebih sukar, dan sebaliknya.

Inilah semua perjudian. Anda boleh melihat guru sebagai sejenis pedagang kecil-kecilan, atau pengurus pelaburan. Dan, pada skala yang lebih luas, pembuat dasar adalah pengagih aset makro.

Secara fizikal, kawalan dan komunikasi adalah sinonim, walaupun secara sosial setiap perkataan itu tercemar dengan perbezaan nada. Jadi pendidikan hanyalah satu projek sibernetik, juga dikenali sebagai tadbir urus, sama ada sebagai kerja bergaji tanpa minat intrinsik oleh pendidik, atau dalam kes lain sebagai kegiatan kemasyarakatan sukarela. Sememangnya bagi kebanyakan orang, ia adalah sesuatu di antara keduanya.

complaints that new political parties split votes

I would say it's a moral/systematic obligation to split votes. The outcome can be worse for the people, but the process of demonstrating that the competition is fair, is more important than the short term welfare of the people. If it deemed otherwise, the system should be officially redesigned. Otherwise, the system in its current form demands this. 

https://www.facebook.com/share/v/195X6AfFXt/

complaints that non-bumi Malaysians refuse to blend in

the general form of the contract doesn't make blending in obligatory. So this becomes a frequently politicised issue. 

Broadly i refer to it as "kedukaan sebangsa Malaysia" and encourage a review and reframing of the constitution to make obligations more explicit - I don't mind if it reduces non-bumi interests so much, as makes it explicit what the timed roadmap is to either reduce non-bumi/bumi symmetry to zero or increase it to infinity.

malas di Malaysia

Antara sindiran medsos Malaysia yang paling lucu adalah dari cauvinis yang mempercayakan tuhan ... kepada seseorang yang diingatinya jahil ... "anda menuhankan uang". 

Maca! Seseorang yang mengutamakan uang tidak akan kais pagi-petang di Malaysia. Ini bukan tempat bagi pengutamaan uang! Tahukah betapa miskin negara kita? Saya malas lagi nak huraikan.

Sebenarnya ramai antara kita yang duk sini, memang duk sebab malas. Budaya malas ni duk mana datang??

load

Not sure which of the following is a greater factor of my feeling overwhelmed ( not in any sort of unpleasant way, though I feel my time is spent inefficiently ).

- inflammation + induced neural refactoring from physical conditioning

- neural refactoring from thinking about foundations of maths

- talking to idiot Malaysians about current affairs / anthropology

- doing housework and miscellaneous repairs of things

- not keeping admin tasks and durable asset management in the most pristine state at all times and regretting it