According to Forbes.com...

The Top 10 richest men in Malaysia in 2006 were as follows:

1. Robert Kouk aka Sugar King. (Valued at $5.6bn)
2. Ananda Krishnan ($4.6bn)
3. Teng Hong Piow-Public Bank ($2.1bn)
4. Lee Shin Cheng-IOI ($2.05bn)
5. Quek Leng Chan-Hong Leong ($2bn)
6. Lim Goh Tong-Genting ($1.5bn)
7. Yeoh Tiong Lay-YTL ($1.1bn)
8. Tiong Hiew King-Rimbunan Hijau ($1.05bn)
9. Syed Mokhtar Al-Bukhari ($1bn)
10. Lim Kok Tay-Genting ($440m)

What does that show to us eh?

Well..first of all, 8 of the top 10 were from the Chinese descendants. TOgether they amasses more then $15.8 of total wealth.

The Malays can actually be proud of Tan Sri Syed Mokhtar. Even being a native of the country, we are only able to have one succesful Malay in the top 10.

The Indians, can also be proud as Ananda Krishnan sits at number 2. It is strange as some of them claimed that their rights has been discriminated by the government. Well, the top famous lawyers in the country are actually from the Indian descendants kan?

So, where does that leave the Malays? Just accepting the way things are or keep on bickering on the political front and play the blame game?

I think some of us has got our priorities wrong. When we are pushed to the limit, only then we want to think of something.

Let's take this example. We see a lot of reality shows nowadays. I don't have the exact number but I believe the majority number of participants (from my observations) were from the Malay descendants. On top of that, we have loads of Jom Heboh type of events which were visited by mostly malays. It's funny sometimes that the small businesses set up during these type of events were set up by the non-malays. So, at the end of the day, who makes the money? Answer that yourself....

Sometimes, the private universities will publish the names of their top graduates in the newspaper. Guess what, the non-malays will dominate the list with the odd number of Malay names stuck somewhere in between. We should be thankful to Arshad Ayub for championing the cause for ITM. At least, there's a place for the malays to enhance their education level.

Now it seems, we seemed to forget our previous struggles. We take things for granted. Medical undergraduates sent by the government decided not to come back due to the bigger pay somewhere else. Even worse, they refuse to even acknowldege the government contributions.

Even buying a property now is a big hurdle for some of us. Perhaps, in a couple of years time, some of us would be pushed aside to live in a place far away from the city as the cost of living is too high.

If you look closely to job advertisement in the papers, you can see that some company would prefer to have someone who can speak in Mandarin. Perhaps, we should now send our kids to Chinese school to learn Mandarin eh? I think it's a good idea lah....

Anyhoos, I think we should all stop complaining and blaming about things that does not go our way. Get prioritized!!!

Watcha see...wathcha see...wathca see...what??