Tuesday, June 5, 2007

What's in a name ?

I like the name Bahasa Malaysia better -it implies it is for all Malaysians. Yeah !!

Was reading Kit Siang's blog on the decision to change the name of our national language from Bahasa Melayu to Bahasa Malaysia by our Information Minister Zainuddin Maidin.

Another example of our Ministers try to out-do each other by doing something which will bring them to the headlines of the papers. Vying for visibility ?

While, not to say it is not good, but rakyat would be more pleased if the headlines made are more meaningful like "Steps taken by Ministry to guarantee no more leakages, or ceiling falling off, or pipe bursts". Attack real problems with real solutions, you know what I mean.

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