I got a confession to be made; the place I’m staying today isn’t a place being dream by most. Stagnant, narrowed, isolated and under box minded totally reflects to its people, to be frank by some may knew what is or isn’t happen to their own people, yet what can they do? For almost 570 days staying in a place where everything were being left by the ‘people up there’ which resulting so much like an underdeveloped nation scenario, I think it’s time for me to say and write something here and yet to move away from such a place sadly with a vast majority of its own people does not understood of what is the most essential in a fundamental of development, merely about mentality, physically and even what is the most needed to start a life.
A place which merely to me is almost likes a torment, and sadly to be said as a place where people of its own state avoiding themselves to be located. Which resulting the people from the west being forced to come into such a place. Rationally the west people most likely, comes with an order from their higher superior through a letter and foremost likely were sincere to give every of their passion and enthusiasm for channeling their idea and capability for the sake of the people under the name of national mission. Yet they were always being reminded that there will be countless challenge to be encountered as well as being endured. But to me as a person who lectures, teaches and also at the same time feels that changing the peoples mentality sometimes will conjured into mistakes which lead into many difficulties as well as distress and disgrace. As the people were not open enough to see changes and too bad being equipped with many negativism the like laziness, resisting and narrow minded as well as too many negative assumptions. Be it! Teachers? Government officers? Enforcers? Many of them here were unbelievably remain comfortably and happily seeing their places with many things to be offered. Pity them; I suppose they should know better what will other place like instead of remaining less progressive.
The place sadly remain 30 years behind than my place, it’s so much like living in Ipoh in 1967. With several places are mostly not channeled with a proper tap water and electricity. I’ve once heard form a veteran who is a veteran teacher who said like “Masa tahun 2000 dulu ramai orang-orang sini bising; kenapa nda ada airport? Saya jadi hairan bha, kanapa mestikan binanya airport tapi nda mau plang fikir pasal bekalan aing bersih dan bekalan elektrik untuk disalurkan ke tempat diorang ane bha? Tapi orang tua-tua tambah lagi mahu banar kan airport atu.” The fact from what is being said by the person is the people here which somehow are possessing very little knowledge, less exposing to a rather different situations and with a most disappointed thoughts of feeling the airport is much more important than having a good clean tap water as well as getting the easy access on electricity. After all what can we say if some of the places are not even connected by roads? Yes, we need to kill that attitude. Burn them, slay them and destroy them. But how? Everyone here are just satisfied and easily agree with some rhetorical made by those which said “The town now has one of the most important facilities which is the airport, a rather as an indicator to what a progressive town had.” I wish if I were those people I might shouted to them like this “Hey people can you see that, it is just a lure! Why don’t you all keep urging them to have clean water and the all time electricity?”
As for almost 54 years to be a so called progressive developing nation, the place is still like those in 1967 or to make it better.. let say 1972, also ruled by the so much promising side where the people’s representative in the state hall are also like a 1981 person,. And suddenly these words came across my mind which said “This is totally unbelievably sick, I mean how come these people could remain happy to drink rain water? For not having a proper sanitary system?..eew. For not having accesses on transportation? For not having electricity?, this is the beloved country or is this the third world country which is about to be on its way to poverty?. I mean how come they would earn a money as the goods prices are keep increasing without control from the government?” As for the people, from the family I met if to pick with the figure roughly I might put this as 46% from the whole family here are living in poverty as they are only able to have the important nutrition from chicken, fish and even vegetables for only once a month and even once in a two months. And I tell you what.? Nobody is dare and neither nor to even speak or show some protest. And they are unbelievably showing their thought by saying that the place is just nice enough for them.
What else to say? Living in a place where the most of their people especially in the remote area does not having the eagerness to change. They only remain redha to what those big clubs did to them hence regarding them as the one who is giving everything to them.. this is the faulty.. a rather serious one..
to be continued Insha Allah,..
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