Gambar kenang kenangan anak dan menantu Hj Tamat sewaktu Majlis Bertahlil bagi keluarga Haji Tamat bin Puasa pada 29hb May 2011 bertempat di rumah kediaman anak nya Hj Tusin bin Hj Tamat. Perhimpunan ini ada lah perhimpunan tahunan bagi keluarga ini bagi mengkekalkan tali silaturahim. Di anggarkan lebeh tiga ratus orang yang hadir pada hari itu terdiri dari Anak, Anak menantu, cucu cucu, cicit dan hingga sampai ka piut. Allahyarham mempunya sepuloh orang anak, 82 orang cucu, 236 cicit, 40+ piut.
Bergamber [Dari kiri: Hj Anik, (Menantu), Hjh Sara (Anak), Hjh Saidah (anak), Hjh Dudah (anak) Hjh Tiamah (Menantu)].
Our children deserve a better nation that what is happening to it right now. We have evolved too much materialistically and have let the elite citizen be consumed and intoxicated by money in the process of maintaining power. MIB has lost its noble value.
This merdeka, are we celebrating a hidden catastrophe -- a malapetaka?
Youth of this Nation, you are a beacon of hope. Reflect, reanalyse and revolt. Reclaim your righteous minds, as the African-American actor Denzel Washington said to his students in the movie The Great Debaters. Transform the world inside and outside." You are the force of change in any society at any time. You must help the country find the final solution to the mess she is now in.
The hope for change lies in the middle class and in public education, and in you, youth leaders of social change. How do we teach ourselves to analyse propaganda, bias, half-truths, and recognise progressive forces, institutions and organisations of change and subsequently align with these forces? How do you use your music, arts, creativity, and technological prowess to affect changes and to help us craft a sincere merdeka; a merdeka not for the few to freely plunder the nation and rob the poor but a merdeka for the many to exercise their fundamental rights as citizens and their entitlement to basic human needs.
Youth of the Nation: reflect, reanalyze, reconstruct, and finally, revolt!
Kali ini aku mengutarakan SOAL HARTA PUSAKA KAUM KEDAYAN YANG SEMAKIN HILANG. Puak Kedayan dahulunya merupakan bangsa yang mempunyai harta pusaka yang unggul disegi Tanah. Tetapi akhir akhir ani nampaknya bangsa kitani semakin kehilangan tanah akibat kemiskinan. Contoh nya pada masa kini kita sudah banyak melihat orang orang bukan bangsa kedayan yang tinggal di kampong orang Kedayan, saperti Jerudong, Sengkurong, Kilanas, Lumapas, Junjungan, Kampong Kampong di sapanjang jln Muara dan banyak lagi yang sudah kita maklomi dulu nya di huni oleh orang kedayan.
Apakah keadaan seperti ini juga di alamimi oleh Paadiaan Paadianku di Malaysia???Akibat miskin tanah dijual?
Aku amat sedih melihat betapa mudahnya bangsa kitani melepaskan EMPIREnya kepada bangsa lain. Kalaulah satu ekar dilepaskan dan akan datang semula berpuluh puluh ekar itu tak mengapa. Tetapi ekar ekar tanah yang dimiliki oleh bangsa kitani terus hilang satu demi satu ke tangan bangsa lain. Dahulunya bila disebut sahaja Puak Kedayan maka bangsa lain berucap "ahh... banyak banyak tanah kaum kedayan atu!"
Tetapi sekarang kitani sudah mula berkurang pemilikan tanah. Susah payah orang tuha kitani dahulu menghimpun harta pusaka dan kini anak anaknya mula mengadaikan dan menjualnya dengan mudah.
Satu perkara lagi bila Kaum kitani sudah kaya ia lupa kan siapa asal usulnya. Maksudnya apa yang ku katakan lupa akan usulnya atu adalah inda tia sanggup berkuapak cakap Kedayan dan hawar tia kan mengakun kedayan. Kerana anggapan Kedayan selepas kemiskinan bahawa adalah bangsa kedayan ani inda standard. Inilah amat menyedihkan.
Apa pendapat liau disana?
Apa yang aku kuapakkan disini inda pulang semuha kedayan begitu tetapi kebanyakannya begitu. Sama sama tah kita pikirkan... demi masa depan anak cucu keturunan kitani.
Brunei will never succeed for the simple fact that our very top (our ruler) does not want the diversification of our economy.
Our ruling family has been inculcated in UK to control. For that, the economy must be within full control.
How does one achieve full control? Through absolute dependence. We depend on the government and its oil economy for everything.
If the economy gets diversified, meaning, we citizens breakaway of the oil dependent economy, we have a huge leverage because we would suddenly don't require the government hand outs. We would therefore, question, freely, some government policies.
That questioning would be met by a mute master and than you have it: trouble, questioning…
Whenever there is economic advancement that is not provided by the government, meaning, no hand outs; we become our own masters, therefore we tend to question things such as: why does that minister or ruler has two helicopters and 10 jets and I can't have mine?
Why is it that he can drive around without license plates and I am forced to have one?
Why is it that his family controls all the good businesses and I am stuck in the kampong? Why can't I import my car without duties as he can?
Those are the questions that would soon arise if we are empowered by diversification and therefore wealth without Government intervention.
The fear is to loose control.
Unfortunately, although good souls, the rulers were instilled with the fear of loosing the pie. We are used to getting the small pieces that fall from the pie because the pie is controlled by the rulers.
Now the real question: does the ruler really control the pie? Or is it another outside force (i.e. Royal Dutch Shell - Q.E. and Q. Beatrix) that controls him, who controls us?
If he was not so worried about loosing control, he could really face the masters and give them the middle finger and grant us absolute control of our nation's future.
While that doesn't happen, we are stuck in "surviving" paycheck by paycheck and they get the illusion its all fine and will stay all fine forever.
But really, will it?
I don't see it that way and I pit our young and their future generations because they might be swallowed by radical change. Things could be different if the change started from the top down, truly and not just for headlines.
We've been waiting for diversification for 2 decades or more but actually, No Action, Talk Only (NATO country )
Now this shows a myopic side of our government which thinks oil and its related economy will last forever…
The will to change is not there.
There is only fear of loosing control, loosing the pie...
Look around, fear has been growing exponentially and without any reason. Look and the motorcade nowadays, even ambulance following. As if there were imminent threats or real danger in meeting the rakiat. This is also part of a broader agenda by the ones selling the security services and making tons of money every month
Observe 2
Observe1,I don't fully agree with your analysis. My opinion is that our heads of the nation really wants diversification. They all know that the oil will not last forever. So it is imperative that a solution to replace the oil economy be found.
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Observe1
Observe2, I respect your point of view but its hard to defend it. Our country is very small and in actual fact has an owner. Our leader does not want change or diversification, otherwise it would have already happened. Come on, 350,000 subjects in such a small place, one single owner things can't get resolved? No way...
Observe3
The way I look at it, I agree to part of Observe1's observation and also the other forumers. Sometimes I sit down and wonder too, why certain things are so easy to solve yet remain a perpetual problem like making RBA efficient and profitable? Why keep changing CEO every few years and BoD members every now and then? I still dunno the answers sometimes.
Or the BIA for that matter, why can't just revampt the organisation and appoint real fund managers (even if they are foreigners) and run it properly?
Sometimes I wonder too...
This is just a brief overview of the life in Brunei, and there are reasons why I think Brunei will not succeed economically and socially. Before reading, please bear in mind I'm not ungrateful, in fact I think Brunei is a great country but a lot of errant individuals holding positions have made the life of RAKYAT very difficult and almost unbearable.
If Brunei wants good economics advisors & managers, get the real ones, not make political appointees. Don't be afraid to seek help from good neighbours like EDB Singapore but get the professionals.
Brunei Goverment should invest in creating a new mindset for the public managers. They should have courses to instill patriotism, honor, truth, love for the land..etc. Also we should have capacitating courses for the betterment of our local executives. Beyond that, the top should be contented and stop grabbing more and more....the family feud is still ongoing, silently but ongoing and that has been like this since the mids 90s and we are stuck in the middle, pretendingthat all is fine...
And in the meant time, projects that could benifit the country and people get hijacked by the key people to line their own pockets.
And lousy projects are paid for at marked-up prices and be burdened to the country...
They get richer and we are content, we have house, we don't pay tax, we drive black sedan and they laugh at us. They are truly wealthy.
Everytime you hear about Brunei, people talk about oil money, tax free country, free education, free medical, free this free that, big black V12s and jags and Aston Martins...but when one come to Brunei they will see most people driving Hyundais, Toyotas, Hondas and paying installments and waiting for promotions and free drinks coupons to claims during Hari Raya and borrow few hundreds now and then to make end meet.... hey, I thought we're a rich country?
Subsidies. no income tax, free education, etc. These goodies will not last forever. It is just a matter of time that we will need to impose income tax, remove subsidies, etc. Enjoy it while it lasts.
Yes, that why the country need to do a few things and do them quickly...
diversify - have been talking for ages!
build up the sovereign funds is BIA success rate, is it doing ok or just earning less than putting the money in the bank?
cut wastage and cut grandeur expenses
human capital and skill pool development (quickly decide the direction and provide the right skill development programs);
overhaul the civil services and make it proactive and efficient as engine of development and make it work with the private sector;
liberalize the private sector and encourage its development but not put dampners and impede its growth;
stop nepotism, stop having uncles and aunties and cousins and nephews in civil service hirings, hire on merits!
hire the pros, not the conSULTANs - even if they cost a little more because he produce a lot more and their contributions are immense!
trim the civil size, its fat and clumsy!
drop the subsidies slowly and stop the wastages and inefficiencies...
The mindset of our Gov, & leaders are absolutely wrong and directed towards incredibly short term. We are in the path to doom and not gloom. We could be beacon of light and hope in this corner but we're being led the other way. The people advising our leaders are crooks. That is the facts. We have British spies working inside our nation, along with US spies and S'pore spies and even Malaysian Spies. This is unacceptible!!! BIA sucks in term of results, standing very below average + they don't know what is the power of their name. They don't know how to capitalize on their "fame" from previous golden years. That is fantastic in terms of incompetence and lack of vision.
