Them dumbz, seriously.

The issue of Malaysians not willing to stay or work for Malaysia is not new. It did not started when the newspapers started to report that graduates are unwilling to return to Malaysia after completing their studies overseas. Or the cases of brilliant young minds leaving the country.

Case 1 : Olivia Lum (YES SHE IS NOT A SINGAPOREAN BY BIRTH)
For those who watched TV on weekends could have watched her story in of those documentaries that talks about great Malaysian Chinese who made significant contributions. If my poor memory serves me correctly, she was born in Taiping and was one of the few lucky females who get to study in Universiti Malaya during the 70s. She received her diploma and got what many old folks would call an iron bowl job, though the title is actually a clerk in KL. Due to her ambition and dream perhaps, she wanted to start up her own company which would bring benefits to the community, can't remember what was her original plan though. At that time, females are not highly regarded in a male dominated field and thus realizing her potential limited by such chauvinist views, she moved south and opened her company called HyFlux, a water treatment company. Her company invested in a revolutionary technique in water treatment and won a bid to treat water in a certain part of Singapore (which my memory again failed to register). Due to her low cost and effectiveness of the technique, her company flourished.

Case 2 : Graduate Doctors who studied overseas.
It was recently revealed that graduates may bypass the government hospital internship by spending more years overseas and return roughly 10 years (6 years of studies and 4 years of 'accompanying' spouse) to work as higher ranked (thus higher paid) and bypassing the mandatory internship in government hospitals when compared to local graduates. So why return when Benjamins or QEs are worth much more than Ringgits?

Case 3 : Straight A students of different color
This case happens every year though now that the media is getting more and more critical about this situation, there seems to be no shortage of it. It has always been the case of unfairness which is an open secret. Straight A students of incorrect color WILL lose to another student who achieved straight Bs to enter universities and/or choice course. They made the newspapers cover to be the best student in Malaysia BUT could not even get the course which they applied for which in my opinion is a no contest and should be accepted IF NOT offered seats by the universities themselves. Recently i believe being the correct color may not escape the same fate of being rejected as well, funny how the wheel turns, no?

Case 4 : How much do you think a Malaysian youth is worth for Malaysia?
According to a Chinese newspaper report which my mother shared with me, 40k. Yes, they are worth just 40k and 5k extra was given from other parties who took pity on youths who went for the mandatory (with unknown and more often than not lousy selection criteria) National Service. If my child was selected i would rather pay a doctor 5k to write an indefinite exemption letter to this so called bullshit NS. Youths who wish to go on these NS are not allowed to as they were not selected and those who do not wish or have complications are not allowed to escape this potentially 'death sentence'. I wonder what would happen if a famous Datuk's child passed away due to some mishaps during the NS?

So with just 4 cases which filled my head at the time of writing, one should be able to make their own judgement on this trivial question asked by the government.