{"id":627,"date":"2007-09-22T01:49:05","date_gmt":"2007-09-22T06:49:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2007\/09\/22\/on-voting"},"modified":"2007-09-22T01:49:51","modified_gmt":"2007-09-22T06:49:51","slug":"on-voting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2007\/09\/22\/on-voting","title":{"rendered":"On voting&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/kaeru.inigo-tech.com\/blog\/archive\/2007\/09\/20\/corrupt-malaysian-judiciary\">Khairil<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>There is enough of us in the younger voting generation, that can say enough is enough, and it&#8217;s time to now shape Malaysia for us and not simply accept the corrupt racist system that is in place.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>He&#8217;s so right. Even if you are overseas, you can still vote (postal votes, to your nearest consulate). I encourage you to read his <a href=\"http:\/\/kaeru.inigo-tech.com\/blog\/archive\/2007\/09\/20\/corrupt-malaysian-judiciary\">entire post<\/a>, because, he is definitely a <em>forward thinking<\/em> <strong>Malaysian<\/strong>. (notice, I didn&#8217;t care about his <em>race<\/em>?)<\/p>\n<p>Register to vote. And just vote the opposition. Denying a 2\/3rds majority is what needs to happen. And if what needs to happen again is the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/May_13_Incident\">May 13 Incident<\/a>, then so be it. The racist <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Malaysian_New_Economic_Policy\">NEP<\/a> must go. The mentality that half the population must limp on crutches with hand-outs from the government, is dated &#8211; a lazy Malaysia, be-gone.<\/p>\n<p>Technorati Tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/malaysia%20politics%20voting%20may13%20nep%20corrupt\" class=\"performancingtags\" rel=\"tag\">malaysia politics voting may13 nep corrupt<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"><div class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-icon-text sd-sharing\"><h3 class=\"sd-title\">Share this:<\/h3><div class=\"sd-content\"><ul><li class=\"share-email\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"\" class=\"share-email sd-button share-icon\" href=\"mailto:?subject=%5BShared%20Post%5D%20On%20voting...&body=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bytebot.net%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2007%2F09%2F22%2Fon-voting&share=email\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to email a link to a friend\" data-email-share-error-title=\"Do you have email set up?\" data-email-share-error-text=\"If you&#039;re having problems sharing via email, you might not have email set up for your browser. 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More references to Italy and all though, since she ran away from Prague really quickly. Maybe rather than voting,\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;General&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":2756,"url":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2013\/07\/05\/on-emigration","url_meta":{"origin":627,"position":5},"title":"On emigration","date":"5\/7\/2013","format":false,"excerpt":"I recently spoke to some emigrants who left Malaysia for Australia about five years ago. They are settled in, and have given up their Malaysian citizenship so are no longer voters. Many friends that I know whom have started families end up giving up their Malaysian citizenship to become Australian.\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Malaysia&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=627"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}