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Unappreciative or ungrateful, they mean more or less the same thing... However, our DPM would hve saved himself all the backlash, had he used the I language instead... talk about how BN measures and tactics are no longer effective lah, but to single out one racial group... sigh... yet another irony of the new 1Malaysia mantra...

Ali Rustam could not be b chosen as DPM not bcos he is a racist(racist they are all in BN)but becos he speakee no anglish. So, they just have to cheat in another racist who speakee anglish but only ABC the rest is Que??.
A Bad (racist)carpenter blames...his reporter, then he blames the translation ...then the dic. Another (chinese news reporter) heading for the ISA protection/rehabilitation program.

Cry more.

What is the quality of UMNO leader?

Talk cock sing song only very good, work for nation like shit.

We must fast fast vote these ugly politicians out, they think they are still raja now.

unappreciative - not feeling or expressing gratitude
ungrateful - not feeling or showing gratitude

Are the above the same? Dose Muhyiddin needs English lessons?

I can deduce Muhyiddin is not stupid, just a lot less intelligent.

history repeats itself......the more u do that the more the vote swings......always blame media.....wonder why MSmedia still want to help government.....

Don't go and ban the newspaper, this time, show the nation the right way in handling misreporting if there is any.

Ask them to publish official apology, and you can also demand the journalist to be reprimanded or taken any disciplinary action appropriately by the employer and not via ISA.

If they don't publish apology, and u still think u are right, so court is the place.

This is not small issue, whatever the reasons, bad reporting or maybe your own mistake that gave rise to the 'ungrateful' statement to the Chinese can spell disaster especially in our now brittle multiracial status.

Show the nation the right way to deal with this, or the nation will deal with u later in the ballot box, or maybe even earlier than that.

The new DPM must learn how not to put his foot in his mouth. But if he insist on doing it, don't try to make excuses for it later when he's pinned into a corner. Racism doesn't work anymore and he should think himself a DPM of Malaysians, not Malays if he want people to respect him. Most Malaysians are willing to give him a chance to prove himself but once that trust is gone, so will be his reputation.

A check in MS Word shows:

1. Ungrateful;
2. Showing no gratitude;
3. Unthankful.

Which US/UK/Queen's English dictionary are you using?; don't insult Rakyat command of English!

Celaka UMNO Corrupt!!!

Does it really make a difference - ungrateful or unappreciative? He is making a remark directed to a specific race. Where is the 1Malaysia attitude in him? He is now not being supportive of this vision?

It doesn't matter whether it's "ungrateful" or "unappreciative", they're history!!!!!!!!!

Unappreciative or ungrateful... the new DPM is finish!

The Chinese community should be appreciative, of what? Of our money - the tax-payers' money that Muhyiddin and his team has been elected to office to manage it? It's his job and he should be appreciative te rakyat gave him a well-paid job, damnit!!

According to dictionary, Ungrateful means: NOT DISPLAYING GRATITUDE/UNAPPRECIATIVE. As for Unappreciative: NOT FEELING OR EXHIBITING APPRECIATION/GRATITUDE. If DPM wants to make an excuse of his remarks, try better excuses instead of playing with words which made a blunder out of himself. Is this the "standard" of our Education Minister?

Muhyiddin, the so called "misinterpretation" and "taken out of context" was not only in the vernacular media but in e-portals like MI also.

If you really feel you have been "misquoted", you, as a full time politician, really need to improve yourself as a master wordsmith in public utterances. The day you reach Bill Clinton's and Tony Blair's standards, then you need worry little about news medias "twisting" or taking your words out of context.

I know that you are an intelligent bloke, but the twisted questioning of non Malay Malaysians apparent ingratitude implicit in your comments were felt by many who tried to make sense of you said. Myself included.

I am especially surprised to hear you make such remarks after that outstanding and enlightened remarks you made during the UMNO Assembly prior to the elections for vice-presidents. I regret using the word "wow" to express my amazement at your "broadmindedness". I did not know you, but I spoke well of you after that. Your subsequent speeches however, after your re-election as a vice-president of UMNO, has been disquieting and anything but consistent to that "great" election speech of yours. You have disappointed me and you will now have to work harder to convince me that you are not what we think you are now. It's your call.

Didn't appreciate = Ungrateful

So, what seem to be the problem here. Well, since you are the new Educational Misnister, perhaps you should enrole yourself back to school.

What an ungrateful minister he is. His salary comes from the Tax payers and he is so ungrateful.

ungrateful or unappreciative? What is the difference? Isn't this the same? I think he needs to take English tuition!

"If they don't know Malay, we can send them to school."

Can this statement really come out from the mouth of the newly appointed Education Minister? Can you detect sarcasm here? Not very encouraging in education field.

Whether it is in BM or English or Chinese, unappreciative produces ungratefulness. They are brother and sister. How to be grateful when one is unappreciative; likewise, how to be appreciative when one is ungrateful. These two words cannot deny each other, they carry the same weight.

Again, I hope Muhyiddin's aides will advise their boss to read MalaysianInsider's readers' comments.

The words above share the same meaning. Try using Roget's Thesaurus. If Muhyiddin does not know what is a thesaurus, then I give up and my advice to Najib is simply to remove Muhyiddin as a minister and deputy PM.

Can't resist a parting shot. Someone should also ask Muhyiddin whether he thinks the Malays in Bkt Gantang and Kuala Trengganu are ingrates as well. And if he doesn't know the word "ingrate", all Malaysians should hold their hands up and say: "We give up!"

Btw, why should any Malaysian be grateful? You and your BN colleagues wanted to be politicians, no one forced you; and if you or your friends didn't get what you wanted, why should your "bosses" (the electorate) be sorry or repentant? Sheesh! Grow up!

Muhyiddin, if you dont understand english then YOU should go to school. What kind od education minister is this!!

If some one comes and tell you...unappreciative and another says ungrateful...whats the difference?

SPIN BAY SPINNNNN!!!!!!....

The DPM is a good example of the ills of the Malaysian Education system - poor command and understanding of the English language. Our Education system cripples us and makes it difficult for us to compete with the rest of the world. On top of this, the DPM 'THINKS' his command of English is good. Phew!

Forgive me Tan Sri, sir,

But I fail to see the difference, whether its the exact word, or that it was aimed towards the Chinese or the community in general.

A party as a government serves the people.

We owe you nothing, just as we do not and will not owe PR anything.

Tan Sri, r u plain dumb or what?

the last time i checked, ungrateful is the same as unappreciative!!!

U r the Education Minister but you suck in yur English!!! IS THIS THE QUALITY OF OUR DPM? @_@

look at how arrogant,,this guy is,,and he is our deputy pm,,,,wonder wht is going to happen to malaysia,,soon,,with such a minister,,holoding the second most powerful post,,,blaming everyone,,except himself,,do we need such a minister,,,hope the rakyat,,will know wath to do,,in tehe next election ,,we donlt need such arrogant minister to govn,,malaysia

I feel he is impatient for the top job. What better way to derail Najib's efforts than to do what he is doing now. Najib announces 1Malaysia without any explanation and Muhyiddin rushes in with divisive comments.

He is the Kingmaker, not the Chinese or Indians.

No matter how hard the MCA tries to win the support of the Chinese community in Malaysia, all it takes is one racist UMNO leader to open his big mouth or wave the keris during their General Assembly and the Chinese community will abandon the MCA in droves during the polls!

The MCA best quit this weak alliance and invest their efforts with the Pakatan Rakyat.

i dont know about malaysia, but other countries, ministers are the servants to the rakyat

Come on, anyone can understand the original report in Mingguan Malaysia. He has nothing good to say about the Chinese and Indian. His meaning about them is clear. He screwed up giving that interview, and up to now he is still blaming others for his own incompetency.

Muhyiddin is not a good leader, also not a good DPM he twis and turn on his public statement, One maybe will translate wrongly, but NOT all. he owe the Chinese and Chinese Media an appology.
"PLEASE DO NOT LEARN AND FOLLOW DR M"

We've got an idiot for a DPM. Potatoh or Potehto, Tomahto, or Tomehto. Same thing.
Yucksin, you should shut your verbal vomit! Instead of being repentant, you now insult the Chinese by saying that we don't know Malay!
How about you don't understand English! More so you're the idiot Education Minister.
You're a pathetic excuse for a leader and if this was any other country, you would be forced to resign from government.
The more you spew your venom, the more you alienate the Chinese, the Indian, and even the progressive Malays. It appears that with each "press conference" you alienate more people.
The reason why UMNO / BN is losing support, not only from the non-Malays but the Malays as well is because of its arrogance. Yucksin, Kerismuddin, Toyol, etc. are great examples of what UMNO embodies.
That is why it has lost in every by-election since March 8! Ku Li understands this, and has warned that if UMNO looses another by-election, it is done for. Yet, you conitnue to slide backwards, instead of trying to make amends.
Keep up your good work and you will see PR or any other opposition alliance gain federal and state control by GE13!

“If they don’t know Malay, we can send them to school,” said Muhyiddin.

SMK Kamunting open for enrolment?

What arrogance!!! Looks like his appointment as DPM has gone into his head.

Muhyiddin, let me tell you this - whether you use the word "ungrateful" or "unappreciative", it meant the same to us, that is, you UMNO guys cannot be trusted. When you said something wrong, you will always claim to be misquoted or there is misunderstanding or whatever. If you continue to point fingers for your party's problems, and acted in a racist manner, one thing for sure - the Rakyat will kick your arse comes the next GE no matter how much "carrots" (also known as public funds) you dangle in front of them. Understand?

As long You are part of BN....you are RACIST!

Quote : I am the LORD, or KETUANAN, you CHINESE must understand Malay! OR else go back to SCHOOL!
We will see who is the LORD when the next election comes, be it BY election or GENERAL!
You stoke up racial tensions and you expect us to be appreciative of your RULE...go DIE faster!
You sad prick! Only in Malaysia , you get to sit on the high chair, in other countries, the high chair is reserved for Babies!

your english pun teruk send you back to english school ha haha hehe tit for tat

aiyoyo...wanna give us language lesson now izzit? we can read between the lines lah...it's not a stretch of imagination from 'not appreciative' to 'ungrateful'; some would even equate it as similar! anyway in both cases I think it's kinda close to 'tidak menghargai' wouldn't you agree?

the ministers are very good at blaming the media!! always blaming media for twisting their words! pigilah!!

ungrateful... unappreciative... no difference! same meaning there. he was talking in bahasa, the chinese media was reporting in chinese, and now here in malaysian insider, it is in english - it's the same meaning.... only play on words. (e.g mandarin for ungrateful and unappreciative could be same!). if muhyiddin wants himself not to be misquoted then might as well the chinese media and the english media use bahasa words in their reporting too!!

it's the reporter's job to choose a word/words to quote/fit in what the ministers said and they will be very careful over the choice. how do you expect them to do their job if every people interviewed and quoted going to blame them for twisting their words and all that.

ok lah. so muhyiddin said the chinese are unappreciative. then just as what many had rightfully attacked him for calling the chinese ungrateful, let them attack him too for calling the chinese unappreciative!!

Is "unappreciative" not the same as "ungrateful" Muhyiddin? If you have any issues with the Chinese cummunity, comeon spit it out and stop picking on the Chinese press!

You should start to enroll yourself into English class once again otherwise, just stick to speaking only Bahasa Malaysia since your English is bad. And btw, one advice - don't try Australia if you no speak English.

“What I actually said was that the community looked as if it didn’t appreciate Barisan Nasional despite its best efforts during the by-election.”
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There was an interview with Muhyiddin with Utusan Malaysia...dated 12th April.
He accused the Chiness Press don't know Malay and he can send them back to school.

Ungrateful or unappreciative...If Muhyiddin does not know English, he should go back to school and resign as Education Minister.

He says BN gave assistance to Chinese school, and the Chinese should balas budi.
BN gives money, Chinese should give their votes to BN...MONEY POLITICS.

MACC tidur lah...Muhyiddin says BN used money to fish Chinese votes.
BN is Umno...Umno used public funds - tax payers money - Chinese must vote for UMNO,
otherwise next time BN don't give money to Chinese schools.

Umno will also stop giving money to 43% of the National schools in Bkt Gantang bcos 43% of the Malays voted for PAS...The government don't see it is their responsibility, they see it as doing favour for you and you return favour...balas budi!!!!
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Please read the article from Utusan Malaysia below.

Tetapi bukankah setiap kali pilihan raya kecil, permintaan kaum bukan Melayu dipenuhi, malah di Bukit Gantang walaupun peruntukan RM1juta diberikan tetapi kaum Cina tidak juga menyokong BN?

MUHYIDDIN: Ya, kadang-kadang kita berasa terpedaya juga kerana zahirnya nampak macam 'ok', sambutan dengan tepukan gemuruh tetapi mungkin sudah ada tertanam dalam hati iaitu sesuatu tidak mudah hendak berubah, pokoknya masalah isu Perak terutamanya di kalangan masyarakat Cina yang mungkin telah dipengaruhi dengan sentimen simpati kepada Datuk Seri Ir.Mohamad Nizar Jamaluddin, kononnya dia 'dijatuhkan', lepas itu kononnya dasar memberi pegangan tanah selama 99 tahun dilihat dasar yang menguntungkan.

Ini yang mungkin menyebabkan sukar BN mendapat sokongan walaupun kita fikir bila mereka hendak sekolah Cina dibantu, kita bantu, sepatutnya mereka membalas budi. Pada waktu itu, kita pun tidak berharap sokongan kaum Cina akan meningkat 40 peratus dan sebagainya cuma kita berharap ada peningkatan sedikit tetapi apa yang berlaku ia mencatatkan penurunan, macam tidak ada penghargaan terhadap apa yang kita lakukan.

Oleh itu kita kena kaji psikologi apa yang menyebabkan masyarakat Cina tidak bersedia untuk berubah, pada zaman dahulu tidak begitu.

Persoalannya apakah mereka melihat dalam konteks senario politik baru ini, selepas kerajaan BN tumbang di lima buah negeri, mereka sudah menjadi kuasa penentu? Orang Cina rasa sekarang, walaupun mereka kumpulan minoriti, merekalah menentukan kerana kelompok masyarakat Melayu sudah berpecah tiga kumpulan. Masyarakat Cina tidak berpecah mereka bersatu, setidak-tidaknya dari segi semangat apabila bersama-sama membuat sesuatu keputusan.

Dalam keadaan ini, mereka boleh menentukan keputusan sesuatu pilihan raya dan apabila kesan itu dapat dilihat dalam pilihan raya umum lalu dan beberapa pilihan raya kecil, mereka fikir sekarang mereka lebih ada kuasa penentu, bukan sahaja Cina malah masyarakat India pun begitu, apa tah lagi apabila mendapat kedudukan dalam kerajaan yang ditubuhkan pakatan pembangkang dengan menjadi Timbalan Ketua Menteri, Speaker dan exco kerajaan negeri, jadi ini bagi mereka seolah-olah tawaran yang diberikan oleh pihak sana lebih baik daripada kita pernah tawarkan dalam konteks BN, jadi ini kita harus teliti.

Muhyiddin mengatakan bahwa koalisi 13 partai BN sering merasa ”tertipu” oleh etnis China yang sering tampak tak menghargai upaya pemerintah untuk membantu mereka.

Sila bezakan "tak menghargai " dengan maksud2 lain. who shud go back to school?

Isn't this typical of an Umno politician? After saying something stupid, he blames the media for quoting him out of context. No Mr DPM, Malaysians are not stupid and they are no longer going to be sitting quietly while Umno cronies rape the country left, right and centre. No more. The days of Umno looting the country is over!

Malaysians want to be taken seriously. This is the only place on earth we call home. So the racially-biased policies and the "you-must-honour-the-social-contract" rubbish will have to go. This is the last chance for Umno/BN to make good what they have promised, especially the 1Malaysia thingie. You screw up this time, and you face the music in the next General Election.

We the voters know our rights. Politicians answer to us. Not the other way round. We are your masters, not the other way round.

“If they don’t know Malay, we can send them to school,” said Muhyiddin, who is also the new education minister."
I wonder what school they are going to?
Why didn't DPM look into the bigger picture of the world, look at the recent report that there are more people in china now learning english than the whole population of England, what do you think if only 10% of them become expert? do we still think of we are superior than them?

I said 2 days ago that he will claim that he has been misquoted. no surprise, that is the quality we have in our cabinet. Despicable and shambolic DPM.

DPM,your comments come from your heart and you are very sore
that the Chinese and Indians voters did not support UMNO during
the 2 Bk.Elections.For too long,UMNO arrogance and corrupted practice
have been tolerated until we are now branded as Pendatang.

The tipping point is the illegal taking over of the Perak State Assembly
and with many new exposures by the Pakatan Rakyat Selangor State
Govt.over the ice cream boy ex-mb Selangor holiday visit to Disneyland
Orlando,Miami,Cape Kennedy bringing along his wife,children and maid.
Followed by Disneyland Paris and Dubai..then the wife and her entourage
under Balkis, which includes BN state rep. visiting to Disneyland Tokyo,
stopping over at Hongkong and Seoul wasting RM3 millions of taxpayers
money.Perhaps the tukang gigi MB wants to open up Disneyland and
a satallite launcher at his Kampong..The Sepang Gold Coast project is a farce
and the grandiose idea is to create opportunities to squander more monies
to politicans bank account...pure and simple lah...now Pampena,the business
arm of the Ministry of Tourism,purchasing 5 limos for RM7 millions..tell us,
Tan Sri Muhyiddin,how to be grateful and continue supporting UMNO...
For 22 years under Tun Dr.M as PM,UMNOputras had a jolly good time,
the good days are over,what the Malays,Chinese and Indians want from
the ruling Govt. is accountability,competency,transparency and no more
abused of State funds,visiting Disneyland and flying first class to Melbourne
visiting son in college..when semua-nya tak ok.

Less two weeks into office he is blaming the Chinese for this and that. Umno lost the Bukit Gantang by election is bcos of the Chinese. The Chinese press twisted his words for telling the Chinese off for not voting Umno. The malays who voted against Umno must be what then MY? Traitors to their race? If you have the guts also take on the malay non supporters of Umno instead of the usual bogeyman of Umno the Chinese.

Chinese paper is always the scapegoat whenever those UMNO leaders received bombard from the public, they always blame the Chinese paper for the misrepresentation.

Honestly, I read the " ungrateful " statement in the English news instead of Chinese papers.

Here is the Mingguan Malaysia article which caused all this fuss. FYI, make your own judgement on the issue:
http://www.utusan.com.my/utusan/info.asp?y=2009&dt=0412&pub=Utusan_Malaysia&sec=Rencana&pg=re_06.htm

Lesson in BM - English translation.....

"Unappreciative" means "Tidak menghargai (jasa)".
"Ungrateful" means "Tidak mengenang (jasa)".

So, are Chinese people now "tidak mengenang jasa" atau "tidak menghargai jasa"? Either way, it's still talking bad about the Chinese people right?

Haiyo! You said “If they don’t know Malay, we can send them (Chinese media) to school." I think you better go to school and brush up your Malay first!

Hahahahaha!. But the english press did translate directly from bahasa. SO how can the english press be wrong, too. Got caught and try to blame others. Niamah!

If you dunno Chinese, then guess what, MORE chinese are being driven AWAY from BN esp. UMNO because of your arrogance. Many thanks from PR. I think Najib will be having a chat with you soon. He will ask you " Mooo kerja untuk PR ka?" Keep up the good work !

Even if we cannot understand what your mouth utters, we can read your eyes and your body langauge.

First it is the Chinese that are ungrateful, now it looks like the Chinese media is following the example, 'twisting your words to make you look bad. Muhyddin, remind the Chinese papers they are there because of the leniency of the BN. Let them know they can be shut down anytime! They never seem to learn, do they?

“If they don’t know Malay, we can send them to school,” said Muhyiddin.
Look, Who is sending who back to school. Muhyiddin should himself go back to school and brush up on his English and learn the meaning of 'ungrateful' and 'unappreciative'. I also sincerely hope that he is not being sent out for international meetings, as this will reflect poorly on the standard of our English. We already had one who claimed he did not know English when caught with a large sum of money. And now we have a DPM who does not know the difference between 2 simple words. It is better to keep quite so that people will not not whether you are stupid rather than open your mouth and confirm that you ARE stupid.

I dont understand why Muhyddin is blaming either the chinese voters or chinese press for his problems. This is getting rather unnerving. Is there something in his heart that is bothering him? Is he thinking the unthinkable?

Whatever it is it do not sound good. Najib has to counsel him.

Again UMNO guys have shown that they have no respect for other races or communities in this country. By looking at their comments, these people treated other races like 'Pariah' which they think can easily be bought over by the sweetness offered before election. They still have not waked up yet from last 8 Mar election. What people want now regardless of any race is a CHANGE in every aspect in government; Transparency, efficiency, responsillity, equality are among some of those the Rakyat is seeking for. Poor BN, their Vision to win big in the next election will remain vision forvever if their attitute do not change.

Hari Sedih Dalam Sejarah Malaysia... another ROTTEN Education minister!

No wonder Malaysia lags far behind Singapura... Maju Lagi Singapura!!!

The more you talk, the less Chinese votes you get.

DPM is trying to blame the media of twisting his words when they mean the same.

I think the DPM is lack of intellectual virtue.

blame,blame,blame! there are nuts always "reporting"the wrong message.
we the minister always "saying"the right message,people always get it wrong!
aiya,all yhese people must go back to "sc-kool lah" !
Since you are the DPM,show other you can msater your englis also-lah!
Ai ya!

How could Muhydin said that the Chinese were unappreciative when money given out to the voters, they took it with full appreciation! It's just that they still have the conscience to vote for PR knowing that PR is their hopes for better tomorrow! This is something money cannot buy, the novice DPM should learn and not bark!

Muhyiddin or MUJAHEEDEEN or what he is .......is now proud. Because what he said reflect the TRUE SPIRIT of Ketuanan Melayu!

I bet is another round of the Ahmad Ismail thing.

I personally should say " Mereka ni pendatang, mereka ni tak paham bahasa melayu, mereka ni tak patut bayar cukai joga, mereka ni tak faham ketuanan melayu, mereka ni mungkin tak payah lagi..........mereka ni tak tau undi, mereka ni etc etc "

Primary School Student:

Teacher, teacher, please help me, can you please tell me the difference between "ungrateful" and "unappreciative".

Teacher :

Well, according to Oxford Dictionary, Ungrateful means "not rcognizing a kindness" and Unappreciative or ungratitude has the same meaning.

So, dearest DPM, go learn the Queen's Language before letting out words from your mouth.

Hey, this DPM is crafty...

He is now distracting our attention towards a debate in English. ..how petty an excuse!

The real issue is he had reflected himself to be a pompous, arrogant, racist corrupt!
That is the big picture.

Lets keep this in mind, guys!

DPM,if you do not know how to use proper words in times of frustration,please do not blame the Chinese media for putting you in a bad light.The more you talk,the more the light will dim on you.Looks like you are not as polish as what we thought you to be!Concentrate more to build up the nation,so that the rakyat can enjoy more prosperity in this bad and lean times.Remember what is spoken cannot be withdrawn,that is a Chinese saying.God help you!!

Actually when Muhyiddin condemned the Chinese being ungrateful and supported the PR in his interview with Mingguan Malaysia, he meant it for the eyes and ears of Malays, to cucuk them to support Umno, so that Umnoputras and their cronies can continue to wallop the wealth of the nation.

It was not meant to be translated for non-Malays to read.
Of course, he now claimed that his words were twisted.

To the reporter or reporters who translated his statement, be careful. No, be very careful.
You may be nabbed under ISA for your own safety, just like what the former Home Minister did to the SCJP's lady reporter. Get your personal things ready in a bag. Any time you may be visited by mata-mata and invited to makan Ah Kong's meals.

http://www.answers.com/topic/unappreciative

“What I actually said was that the community looked as if it didn’t appreciate Barisan Nasional despite its best efforts during the by-election.”

Precisely the point! "best efforts during the by-election". Enough said. Pffft!

From Top to Bottom UMNO people singing the same tune..this one we guaranteed! what is the different between ungrateful and unappreciative? how come every time used the same sick tactic! arguing on the meaning of the words! or you mean something else..! internet era online dictionary very convenient le! You DPM, dare not admit what u mean? no ball izit? dun be twist and turn la..like Penang Ahmad ibrahim..dare to said what you said, maybe u can still gains support from "Ketuanan Melayu" racist vote!

I am not sure whether most of you have read the original version of the comments in the right context:

Question from Utusan journalist:
Tetapi bukankah setiap kali pilihan raya kecil, permintaan kaum bukan Melayu dipenuhi, malah di Bukit Gantang walaupun peruntukan RM1juta diberikan tetapi kaum Cina tidak juga menyokong BN?

Answer from Muhyiddin:

"Ya, kadang-kadang kita berasa terpedaya juga kerana zahirnya nampak macam 'ok', sambutan dengan tepukan gemuruh tetapi mungkin sudah ada tertanam dalam hati iaitu sesuatu tidak mudah hendak berubah, pokoknya masalah isu Perak terutamanya di kalangan masyarakat Cina yang mungkin telah dipengaruhi dengan sentimen simpati kepada Datuk Seri Ir.Mohamad Nizar Jamaluddin, kononnya dia 'dijatuhkan', lepas itu kononnya dasar memberi pegangan tanah selama 99 tahun dilihat dasar yang menguntungkan.

Ini yang mungkin menyebabkan sukar BN mendapat sokongan walaupun kita fikir bila mereka hendak sekolah Cina dibantu, kita bantu, sepatutnya mereka membalas budi. Pada waktu itu, kita pun tidak berharap sokongan kaum Cina akan meningkat 40 peratus dan sebagainya cuma kita berharap ada peningkatan sedikit tetapi apa yang berlaku ia mencatatkan penurunan, macam tidak ada penghargaan terhadap apa yang kita lakukan.

Oleh itu kita kena kaji psikologi apa yang menyebabkan masyarakat Cina tidak bersedia untuk berubah, pada zaman dahulu tidak begitu."

It seems that, the DPM is looking for an answer to why the Chinese is not voting for BN. He simply said, even after assistance was given to them, they are still not changing their mind and not voting for BN, then there must be something that they don't like about BN. The journalist who asked about RM1mil contribution, its not him who mentioned that!

So, what's wrong with that statement!!

Come on, be rational guys.......

I think DPM should take English lesson. What it the difference from "ungrateful " & unappreciative.

It show the same meaning Not feeling or expressing gratitude. So DPM , don't fool the Rakyat. Your BN have fooled the Rakyat for the last 50 years. " Enough is Enough"

Din you r telling me your own guys is twisting your words ar?why ar? PR(Public Relation ok) not good with them ar?now you have lost support from your BN control media ar?

Aiyoyo.................don't be like Sami Value talk,talk shock sendiri ,Apa dah jadi Din?

Pity u la so fast honeymoon over olidi!!

Muhyiddin must explain in detail what he meant by ungrateful. If he can explain properly, then maybe the people can accept. I for one will support him. There is nothing wrong in giving some harsh remarks, everyone does, but please explain in what sense are the Chinese being ungrateful. Come on Muhyiddin, this is an opportunity for you to use all that you have to prove your point. Get the help of TDM, Johan Jaffar, Astora Jabat, Wong CH, Ibrahim Ali, Hishammuddin (ask him to bring the keris along) , Khairy, the Penang guy, ask for their oppinion, don't be frightened, show that you have balls, big balls. Why are you being defensive? No, don't ask Najib, he is trying to pretend to be a nice guy.

Always the press take the blames. Perhaps it is a good idea that the recorded words are to be reviewed so to clear the "mistake". Perhaps he is qualify to be appointed as DPM....

Thesaurus saya iaitu Hyperword memberi makna "ungrateful" sebagai
careless, demanding, dissatisfied, faultfinding, forgetful, grasping, grumbling, heedless, ingrate, insensible, oblivious, self-centered, selfish, thankless, UNAPPRECIATIVE, unmindful, unnatural DAN unthankful. Itulah akhibat terlalu mendewakan bahasa Inggeris sehingga wartawan dah tak faham lagi bahasa Melayu.

this man is either stupid or dumb...haha same meaning. unappreciative and ungrateful. what is the different? what a bollocks!

English dictionaries show:-
1) Unappreciative = not feeling or expressing gratitude
2) Ungrateful = not feeling or exhibiting gratitude

Mr DPM, please tell us now whether there is any difference in these 2 words? Or perhaps you going to say that the dictionaries are wrong in their definition? Looks like the only difference between these 2 words is in their spelling, eh? Who else are you going to blame now? Your English teachers?

Please do not insult the rakyat's intelligence and understanding of the English language.

Oh yeah, one more thing...before you utter such things, please do not forget that you are now also the Education Minister!

we are doomed. Our ministry of education led by a minister who can't even make the different of a vocabulary..hai...UMNO celaka.

Malaysians must demonstrate to get rid of this most corrupt of racist. Singapopreans know him well. He is rotten to the core like his party.

Inilah akibatnya kalau kita tidak berkomunikasi dalam bahasa yang sama...
Setiap kata-kata disalahertikan oleh masyarakat bangsa lain..Kita yang jadi mangsa..
Dalam bahasa Melayu,apabila kita bercakap,ada yang tersurat dan tersirat...Kalau semua rakyat Malaysia
belajar,bergaul dan bercakap dalam bahasa yang sama,saya percaya setiap kaum akan faham antara satu sama lain...

What Muhyiddin really said in Malay was "seolah-olah tidak menghargai" which when translated into English means something like "somehow unappreciative/ungrateful". Or how do Muhyiddin propose we should translate his speech into English?

He just became education minister how can he be educated so fast. Give him some time to get educated, I am sure he will appreciate us as Malaysians after some years. Then we will promote him or ask him to repeat his studies, it is as easy as that.

My!!! My!!! My!!!, you are arrogant man! Is this the way you show your colour so soon. I think you should go back to school and brush up your English then open your mouth.

tiap kali Muhyiddin buka mulut, bau busuk macam tandas keluar. kalau sempat, orang melayu pun boleh hindu bau tandas busuk dari mulut muhyiddin dari jarak beberapa batu km...muhyuddin, awak tak ada cuci mulut hah?? pergi bersih lu punya mulut duli baru buat kacau di depan orang melayu, orang cina dengan orang india ialah kawan semua orang melayu, jangan menghina orang melayu - tak tahu kenapa UMNO mesti elek awak jadi DPM ....tak malu!!!!

Sama erti lah... Mungkin Tan Sri kena balik sekolah sebaliknya.

Muhyiddin's comment typifies exactly what is wrong with the mindset of UMNO's leadership.

Their line of thinking espouses that if a certain segment of the electorate does not vote for BN then the fault lies with the voters concerned because BN and in particular UMNO have done absoutely nothing wrong.

Muhyiddin's statement belies an astounding level of arrogance.

To those who still think UMNO is capable of reform, read between the lines of Muhyiddin's statement and weep.

Here's the solution: kick out UMNO and kick out BN. THEN IF THEY PROVE TO US THAT THEY ARE APPRECIATIVE OF THE RAKYAT'S SUPPORT then we may consider giving them a second chance.

Also, I am Malay and would like to say SHAME ON YOU MUHYIDDIN FOR TURNING BN'S ELECTORAL DEFEATS INTO A RACIAL ISSUE. Race has nothing to do with it.

To UMNO's leaders: stop trying to turn every issue into a racial issue so you can hide behind them and continue dividing Malaysians. The Malaysian people have awakened and are not falling for that trick anymore.

Keep it up if you want your party to continue on its course towards certain irrelevancy.

Umur saya sekarang 52 tahun, tapi kalau hendak kata orang Cina tak faham Bahasa Malaysia, saya rasa DPM kita agak masih belum bangun dari tidur, dan orang orang UMNO ini semua nya masih tiggal di hutan belantara atau punmasih berada didalam tempurung, sedang loncat loncat nak keluar.
Apa beza nya "Unappreciative and Ungrateful, kalau ikut interpretasi saya, sama saja.
Saya orang Cina, tapi bersekolah di sekolah kebansaan dan mengambil peperiksaan dalam SRP 1974, SPM 1976 dan STPM 1978, tapi penguasaan bahasa malaysia saya, ikut prestasi munkin lebih baik dari DPM kita and in term of interpretation of Bahasa Malaysia to English, I think I am far better than the DPM, you are not a lingustic teacher, so leave it to those who are better than you to interprete, stupid DPM.
The non malays have no contractual agreement with UMNO / BN who to vote when there is allocation given the the constituent be it Bt Gtg or other parliment seats. Remember all those money does not come from Muhyiddin's pocket, UMNO bank account or BN accounts but the money belongs to the RAKYAT, jadi semua berita dari suratkhabar cina tidak sekali salah tafsir atau memutar belitkan mesej DPM.
Orang bukan melayu tak perlu pergi sekolah melayu untuk jadi fasih dalam bahas malaysia, cuba lihat orang cina di Kuala Siptang berckap dalam bahasa malaysia, kebanyakan dari mereka tidak pernah ke sekolah langsung, tapi penguasaan bahasa malaysia agar lancar .
Muhyiddin stop giving all those crabs, you are not relevent to the rakyat anymore, Najib will be the last UMNO PM and you will be the last UMNO DPM comes the next election. Look at you qualification as compared to other foreign DPM, no match, low quality, no personality but good in raising racial sentiments.
Hidup rakyat, reformasi

First they accuse Chinese ungrateful... now they say no... Chinese press dun understand...

So.. insult the chinese and now insult the reporter of their English ?

Anyone has any youtube for what he say ? is it in English or BM ?

Anyway... yes... we are ungrateful.. thats why I vote for PAS. At least PAS say thank you everytime I voted for them... no matter they lose or win.. i still being appreciated.

Unappreciative of BN's best efforts during the by-election? Firstly, while unappreciative might not have precisely the same meaning as ungrateful, it is still being used in the same context, namely blaming the non-malays for their downfall. Secondly, BN wasn't the only party giving their best efforts during the by-election! This is really typical of our government. Now that the people in those constituency has spoken, instead of analyzing the reasons behind their loss, they point fingers and blame others. In this case, the non-malays! The DPM cannot forget that it is the government who works for the people, not the other way round.

And he is just 2 weeks into office. I dread thinking about what will happen in 2 years.

this is a sign of arrogant unmoputra kicking in. Just merely less than 2 weeks being the dpm, the tail sign of desperation, in hope to protect and justify his wrong doing, leading to flip flopping thinking that malaysian today is as though in the 60's where our parents are uneducated and misinformed.

i believe we ought to send him back to school to learn the effectiveness of communication. Please do not blame anyone of misquoting the message and for any great communicator, one should examine why his/her message if not rightfully presented. 2nd, despite what has happened in the recent elections and a clear message conveyed by the malaysian, do we really care if this is indian, chinese or malay votes ? this is malaysia votes and telling you umnoputra to be mindful of your action and stop all the stupid racism approach to the new generation of malaysian.

wake up and get your act together. do you need another wake up call ? it will be too late by then.....

god bless Malaysia with such low IQ individual governing this wonderful land......

Ungrateful?? What do u mean??
Did all the Malaysian project developments using BN money or RAKYAT tax money...
That obviously shows that BN is not sincere in serving RAKYAT using RAKYAT tax money.

with all that said and done, only word in can describe here is "HOPELESS". No matter what we the rakyat said, this bugger just done get it. This only indicate that we have a bunch of "dick heads" governing this wonderful land called Malaysia. I begin to worry the next generation now he is even holding a portfolio of Education Minister ? no wonder our standards of english is one of the highest next to now one. Ungrateful, unappreciative...what the heck. it mean the same but not the same. A flip flop in making to justify their act and this perhaps a good trick in the 60's where our parents are uneducated. now.....go figure.

god bless Malaysia.

Chinese the goat.

Chinese the scapegoat.

Apart from being a total scum by making such blame on the Chinese community for their deserving defeat at the election, would anyone with the right mindset agreed that the Chinese vote ALONE would turn the table on the BN ??

How about the Malay and Indian vote that goes to the PR??? Are they not as ungrateful as the Chinese for voting against the Muhyiddin want?? How could you dare to conveniently blame the Chinese community for your your first battle as the Chief of Campaign?? Being a graduate yourself, being one the senior minister and MB for years, and being a Malaysian, how could you make such conclusion forgetting that the poor Chinese make up only about 25% of voter at most area??

DO YOU THINK THE CHINESE IS ONLY AS GOOD AS THE SCAPEGOAT FOR THE BN OR UMNO'S FAILURE TO CON THE MALAYSIA ELECTORATE AGAIN !!!!

At this juncture, if MCA and Gerakan failed to make a meaningful reaction and protest to get this idiot punished, than from now on, the Chinese community should not give, not even a SINGLE vote, to any candidate from these 2 ungrateful and unappreciative party.

Barely 2 weeks coming into the DPM post, this Muhyiddin shows total DISRESPECT to the social contract that we have all races build, with our sweat, blood and sometimes life, for the last 50 odd years. This dirt cheap politician would rather sacrifice the core value of the nation just for the sake of looking good in UMNO.

From the nation's point of view, is there anything else we can hope for if our No. 2 is more than just a narrow minded racial extremist, apart from being unappreciative and ungrateful!!!!

(MI: pls do not delete and help me with my utmost sadness !)

salah orang lain pula..
UmNO yang betul saja..
tersalah cakap, nak marah orang lain pula..
macam mana nak percaya orang UmNo??

where is Ong Tee Kiat ? what have you got to say on this ? it there is a hope in MCA, this is your chance ! stand up if your have balls...otherwise forever hold your bloddy mouth shut....stop your wayang

they mean the same thing u ding dong! Never go to school and learn English ar? Or ur English is memang horrible.

If a minister can't see the similarities between ungrateful and unappreciative......he might as well go back to school and pick up his english. We don't need stupid people like him in our gov.

“What I actually said was that the community looked as if it didn’t appreciate Barisan Nasional despite its best efforts during the by-election.”

To me it sound like the sam meaning, no need to blame the press lah, just say it, be a man!

If our newly minted DPM still have half the brain left, he should be able to find the real reasons why BN is losing supports. Just take a good look at your own statements, put yourself in the shoes of any right-thinking Malaysian irrespective of race. Are there any doubts why people dislike you?

Aiyoyo, DPM baru naik tak sampai satu minggu sudah kena firing squad.

Din kalau tak pandai jangan nak tunjuk kehandalan,nanti orang putih ingat DPM tak sekolah la,hahahahahha,

This is better than watching DALLAS + DYNASTY+SENDIWARA..............

Muhyuddin needs badly a Chinese-English dictionary or maybe an interpreter!!

He should blame the Malay for ungrateful as well because more than 40% of Bukit Gantang voted for PR.
He should blame the Malay as Traitor because Nizar (MB yang Sah in my heart) is fighting for future Malaysian not only Malay future. This nation to all Malaysian of diverse racial group.
TDM has said before, Chines contributed 80% of our nation's Revenue and Taxes, who is ungrateful to Chinese ?
Who pretend to act like Robinhood by "Robbing" the Chinese and give it to UMNOPutra. Chinese don't mine if poor Malay, Chinese, Dusun, Iban etc.... are assisted in propoer manners esp Orang asli ( the real indegeneous peoples must be given top priority). Like in most countries the natives are given plenty of opportunity and assistance.

Has UMNO grateful to Non-Malay ???
even Malay in Kelantan were deprive Federal Fund ever since PAS come into power ?
UMNO is most ungrateful to all Malaysian as we have voted "Hoping after Hope" for more than 50 years
but betray all Malaysians with ISA, OSA, SEDITION ACT, PRITING ACT etc ...as as shield to protect all its Wrong Doing.

If UMNO got ball - call a General Election now and see who is ungrateful to Malaysian ?

MCA , GERAKAN ,MIC - please quit this big Bully UMNO who call us Pendatang otherwise you guys will be History. "One Malaysia" is just a another sweet slogan to deceive Malaysian, Sabah long ago has already "One Borneo" next to University Malaysia Sabah (UMS)

Malaysian Tetap Boleh Tanpa peminpim UMNO yang tiada Wawasan dan Impian... HANYA OTAK LANUN.
>>> MAU KUASA TETAPI TIDAK PANDAI TADBIR NEGARA.

He denies and blames that he has been misquoted.

Killer,

So you claim that 'ungrateful' is vastly different from 'unappreciative' - a mere technicality I say.

Far more importantly, would you agree with Muhyiddin's statement that the Chinese community appear to be unappreciative when it comes to BN?

Just because Muhyiddin seems to have his panties in a twist about the mere translation, doesn't mean you have to follow suit. Try to focus on the bigger issue.

Muhyiddin is probably the only one who sees a difference between the words 'ungrateful' and 'unappreciative'. If indeed he sees fit to ask the journalists from the Chinese media to go back to school to learn Bahasa Malaysia, then it is only fair to ask Muhyiddin to attend week-end classes in English because there is absolutely no difference between the words 'ungrateful' and unappreciative'.

However, Muhyiddin is hardly to be blamed for his apparent poor English but the decades of failed education policy of the country. Is it any wonder we are still debating whether 'science' & 'maths' should be taught in English or in pupil's own mother tongue? I take great pretty on the young Malaysians for their poor command of English which this country was once so proud of in the early days of independence.

I think the Rakyat should send our new dpm to school. Before muhidin became the DPM I already know he is useless. Now our Malaysian not only need to face the C4 but a useless dpm.

After submarine deal sorted out and commission not paid ... who is more ungrateful to the mongalia women which was mudered in Malaysian ?

As the meaning of :

'UNGRATEFUL' = 'UNAPPRECIATIVE'
(more or less)

More and more, with less-than-intelligent officials like Muhyiddin, the intelligent Rakyat see that the meaning of:

'UMNO' = 'UNELECTABLE MONSTERS, NO OTAK'
(more or less!)

and the slogan for BN should be:

"BN - We are fast reaching The End ! "

Malaysians should be extremely grateful and appreciative as BolehLand has a new Minister of Education in Muhyiddin. A MoE who can appreciate that there is a significant difference in being ungrateful and unappreciative.
If he can truly see the difference then he should be starting a new English dictionary of his own.
He should be grateful and appreciative that he is MoE and not try to teach us BM or English, many of us had teachers better than likes of him. We do appreciate that there is really little difference between being ungrateful and unappreciative. We will appreciate if he does not bullshit.
And also don't blame the reporters for twisting and misquoting you. They were spot on.

After saying what he feels about non-malays in Bukit Gantang & Selambau
during an interview on Sun.
Chinese papers went n revealed what he said. Non-malays now r unhappy.
Today he has to minimize the damage,
Damage Control !

Is Muhyiddin some kind of a "Blunder-Man" or what? Each time he speaks, he makes a blunder of it.

It's as if he speaks not through his mouth but through his (please excuse the language) b*ckside!

If he wants to behave like a clown he should join the circus, not the government!

At the rate Muhyiddin makes blunders being a Deputy Prime Minister, you couldn't blame the Rakyat for thinking they would get a better person doing his job even if that person is MR. BEAN !

At least, Mr Bean would know that 'unappreciative' and 'ungrateful' have more or less similar meanings, which Muhyiddin obviously does not.

OK ok ok (whisper)... Let's all calm down now... He is our DPM and also our NEW EDUCATION MINISTER...

WTH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! is the difference between UNAPPRECIATIVE AND UNGRATEFUL?

OMGOODNESS! And he is our Dear Country Malaysia's NEW EDUCATION MINISTER! (GASPS IN HORROR)

According to the Cambridge Dictionary:-

unappreciative
adjective
not showing that you understand how good something is, or not grateful for something

ungrateful
adjective
not grateful


Tan Sri Our Minister...with all due respect, PLEASE go back to do your MUET. I think u seriously need some english lessons. I find it distasteful especially when you are telling the reporter who wrote this to go back to school to learn Malay. You should go back to school to learn Malay and English in whatever language that interview was done in. Your first interview with that chinese reporter showed something (guess the word) lacking in u, now ur rebutting to this issue FURTHER more showed that u really lack of something...

I wonder what would happen to our future kids education condition after been taken over by Tan Sri...

OH WAIT! is this another misquoting? Feel free to say more Tan Sri. =)

What our DPM said might have been taken out of context but if he was wondering why the BN had lost the non-Malay votes, perhaps he should take a look at the antics of Ali Rustam, Ahmad Ismail and Kerismuddin.

As Lim Keng Yaik pointed out, Gerakan was a beggar in BN. There really is no necessity for the likes of Ali, Ahmad and Kerismuddin to rub it in.

The one who is holding public office should be the grateful and appreciative one. Huge salary, tremendous perks, ISA-proof, etc. Shouldn't expect gratitude or appreciation for performing duty of service to the rakyat. Ada gaji, ada kuasa, ada suara, cukuplah. Mahu juga gratitude and appreciation? Melampau, bukan?

The DPM is nothing else but a "diputs toidi" as spelt backwards! And he is given the post of Minister of Education, a person who is supposed to formulate education policies for the younger generation of Malaysian! I dread to know what policies he can formulate. God bless Malaysia!!

if muyidin hoping that voters will 'menghargai' the money 'given' and vote for BN, that mean it was a curruoption and miss-used of public fund for benefit of UMNO !! MACC should take action on this !!

whatever bull shit excuse, that is people's money, not UMNO or Muyidin's money, it's our money !! muyidin should 'menghargai' the civilain instead, for paying his salary !! you are our servant getting pay by our money, you should 'menghargai' us instead !!

servicing the nation is government's duty, and it's your duty as servant to serve us, not boss us, you should 'menghargai' !!

Dear Sir,

you are trapped in your "sepatut membalas budi..." You think that when you gave handouts, the people will behave like a good village folk and return the budi by voting for you?

Somehow the people have realised that you only gave back a fraction of what you stole from them and you expect them to be greatful? Afterall, what can 1 million buy today - not even a school block!

Please wake up and be the economic multiplier that all government does with good tax money. Dont make it turn bad. The stink will come to you when the rot gets all over the place.

i am just so sad... we have the dumbest DPM and education minister in the world!!! Now don't bother Malaysia is going to advance... unless we kick all these stupid ministers out of our government. But until that happens, I am very ashamed to call myself Malaysian.... sighhhh....

DPM, five words to describe you.
I GIVE UP ON YOU

The Muhyiddin said, I quote, "...Ini yang mungkin menyebabkan sukar BN mendapat sokongan walaupun kita fikir bila mereka hendak sekolah Cina dibantu, kita bantu, sepatutnya mereka membalas budi."

The keyword here is "membalas budi" and I am unsure how the Chinese Press translated it, but even with nuances aside, "ungrateful" is a perfect rendition, I reckon.

I find the content and contention of Muhyiddin's press statement as very seditious and for so long as we have forked tongue politicians of such caliber in our midst who rules by dividing, we can expect mischief.

DPM & Minister of Education, where lies the future of the Nation and the Generation that will take over?

Let's enculturize a Malaysian Malaysia, for anything short of this aspiration is a shortchange to our collective inspiration as a Nation!

Manusia memang cerdik, tetapi pada sesuatu masa kita hanya perlu cerdik sahaja jangan pura-pura pandai nanti banyak kesalahan.

Lebih banyak kamu bercakap, lebih salah akan tertimbul.

Just Keep your mouth shut and admit the remarks on the Chinese is wrong. The chinese do not sign contract with the government that they must vote for BN. There is nothing wrong that they choose their own destiny. The money that contributed is compulsory for a government to play their part. It's the taxpayer monies dear la-goonies.

So, pandai sudahlah or the Rakyat will send you back to school, Mr Din.

Muhyiddin kurang ajar!!! Kenapa awak nak cabar orang melayu? kan orang cina and orang india ialah orang malaysia jugak? yang menyokong PAS ialah semua orang malaysia, orang UMNO ini yang nak cabar rakyat gaduh tak tentu fasal. Lebih baik muhyiddin jangan cabar orang melayu menjatuhkan UMNO. Sudah banyak orang melayu tidak sokong UMNO dan Muhyiddin pun sudah kaya raya dengan wang rakyat boleh bela keluarga Muhyiddin beberapa generasi. DPM punya wang pun boleh kasi elektrik untuk beberapa kampung untuk 2 - 3 generasi. Tak kenyang keh?? Nak duit minyak tolong lah dapat dari Petronas...

THINK TWICE before you lashed out your own assessment.. do we Chinese not appreciating BN party? you acted as our chinese to be foolish merely losing of the Bukit Gantang by-election.. Don't simply blame the cat & dog as if we chinese was the major cause of this failure.. we gained independence together and not just you Bn yourself, we did put more effort on supporting the Bn party and indeed our chinese appreciative was obviously displaying in the pass election and other fields.. but because of you UMNO yourself were "ungrateful to us .. you will be loss that trustworthy and here come your doomsday tht probably can be seen on next election..

Qualiti apa ni DPM oi??? Mana wibawanya oi??

tdm,take losses as a man.Don't go and blame others when you lose and take credit only when you win.There is a reason for what happened .The past will haunt the outcome in the present and the future.This is what we called Karma.Do not go and blame the Chinese Media when something went wrong with your interview.Semua rakyat Malaysia pun faham Bahasa Malaysia!!!Kami pun baca Utusan Malaysia dan Berita Harian!!!!Semua bangsa rakyat Malaysia pun boleh bertutur dan membaca Bahasa Malaysia.Don't go and search for scapegoat.LOOK AT YOURSELVES IN THE MIRRORS.ARE YOU FAIR TO MALAYSIANS OF VARIOUS BANGSA????????

Why are we still wasting time to discuss "tidak tahu membalas budi atau tiada penghargaan" or "unappreciative or ungrateful'? We are now faced with the hardest economy crisis since independence and yet all the stupid politicians are still debating the failure in the by-elections. Are we not having other more important things to look at i.e. how to get our country out of economy turmoil, how to bring our country forward, how to make malaysians proud again in the eyes of the world etc etc etc etc...all the stupid politicians with selfish agenda and low level of education will bring our beautiful country down...please vote them out in the 13th GE...but first remove the low class education minister as he doesn't deserve to be our education minister AT ALL!!!!

There is different...

The wording n spelling....

hahahahahhaaaa.....

more reason to vote for opposition. more fuel for pakatan ceramah. keep it up! (keep screwing up)

Muhyideen, there is nothing right in your left brain and there is nothing left in your right brain. hahhahahahha

Top man now fanning racial sentiments to consolidate malay support for the najis am-no. They know the racists politics it to harp on discord and fear, to extend their continued hold on to power. Hope the rakyat, especially the Malays won't fall for the crooked gimmick, propounded by the crooked man of crooked bridge fame, who depite condemning umno as incorrigibly corrupt, yet barges in when his underling takes over power. So suddenly the am-no he condemns becomes clean after the handing over of power and his son is deviously appointed deputy minister, insulting and spitting on the elected youth leader who despite being found corrupt, audaciously wins hands down. Putting poor toyol second and crooked son third. Reason for not appointing the beruk is he has more important things to do - lulling his f-i-l to sleep soundly.

The reply shows how arrogance and still in denial of our new DPM. This is so inconsistent with the slogan: One Malaysia, People First, Performance Now. Whether your performance is up to the standard should be judged by the rakyat and not the other round. By carrying out "instant noddle" projects, allocating funds for schools, is seemed like practicing usual money politics which is common in UMNO to the rakyat. But why non--Malays still reject BN? Because they do not address the root cause, right from the policy level, implementing policies that are non-discriminative (rather than discriminative one) when addressing non-Malay communities.

His analysis is also a very racist one. Why accuse Chinese trying to be the Kingmaker, or in a way, fishing in the trouble water? Why he didn't look into the 42% Malay votes and Indian votes which have swung to Pakatan?

A "People First, Performance Now" culture should be rakyat-centric, can a company which is practicing customer centric culture blame the customers for not buying their products? Or they should check why they are losing their customers? Is it due to the functionality or the features of the products? And make improvement to win over the customers? The key point is they need to "win over" the customers, but not blame them.

UMNO is still the usual racist, dahulu, sekarang dan selama-lamanya................

Oh!!! we missed out the latest edition of muhidin dictionary to hit the book stores soon.

Ta da... here is our new DPM and Education minister...

Said something stupid to the Utusan, than said another more stupid statement about the chinese media... asking them (the chinese jornalists) to go back to school.

Oh, my God, this is our new Education minister???? How terrible will be for our schools.... under this Education minister.

Everyone can read malay in the Minguan Malaysia... who should go back to school??

Aiyo... what is all these fuss about? The paragraph in question...

"Ini yang mungkin menyebabkan sukar BN mendapat sokongan walaupun kita fikir bila mereka hendak sekolah Cina dibantu, kita bantu, sepatutnya mereka membalas budi. Pada waktu itu, kita pun tidak berharap sokongan kaum Cina akan meningkat 40 peratus dan sebagainya cuma kita berharap ada peningkatan sedikit tetapi apa yang berlaku ia mencatatkan penurunan, macam tidak ada penghargaan terhadap apa yang kita lakukan.

Oleh itu kita kena kaji psikologi apa yang menyebabkan masyarakat Cina tidak bersedia untuk berubah, pada zaman dahulu tidak begitu."

It was just a personal assessment of what went wrong. The assessment could be right and it also could be wrong, heck, it was just a personal opinion. Though as a seasoned politician one should have known that the degree of someone would twist his quotes is very high.

Now take a media low on daily sales... take a few quotes in the middle of a paragraph and walla... a whole new national scandal. Sales are up, people are mad, polls are in on 7 edition and crazy comments start pouring to the web. What la you... read the whole article first la instead of just barking like mad dogs on something you haven't even read it/understand it yourself.

Remain in topic. Don't just type in the same ol' comments all the time. It's getting to be a bore just by looking at it. And please, what does Altantuya have anything to do with the topic, for pete's sake.

I tot MI is objective but i think i should reversed. You are simply ignorant not only on your journalism skills but to the qualiy of existance. Hellloo... reading and comprehension is totally two different things!

I agree that the Chinese papers have used their own intepretation of `membalas budi’. And as expected, the opposition are making this a political issue and blowing it out of proportion just for the sake of getting brownie points.

`Membalas budi’ means that a person did reciprocate to a deed done upon him. This may be due to several reasons. It could be due that the deed was not good enough for the receiver, it could be that there is animosity between the receiver and the giver or it could also mean that the receiver was not grateful etc.. So there are various reasons why a person would not `membalas budi’ and it is WRONG to automatically translate it as ungrateful!

If you translate `membalas budi’ to English; it is definitely WRONG to say it means ungrateful as such translation includes a high level of assumption by the translator on the true meaning the speaker was trying to actually communicate. A more accurate and correct translation of `membalas budi’ would be `reciprocation of a good deed’.

So first Muhiyiddin 'Ungrateful' Yassin blamed the Chinese wrongly and now he blames the Chinese press wrongly? Did he think no one noticed that Mingguan Malaysia was the one who interviewed him and who reported it first?

Now Najib think he does not understand 1Malaysia and is going to explain it to him in front of his colleagues in the Cabinet.

It just look like these supposedly 'new' people keep using 'old' tricks and ways to deal with old problems...

What's the difference between the two words? Both put the Chinese in a bad light anyway.

Courtesy of Dictionary.com:
unappreciative; not displaying gratitude = Ungrateful !

Yang Amat Bodoh Menteri Kurang Pelajaran.

I laughed at him .. loudly.
Blames on others.
UMNO never apologizes but threatened to send to ISA, school

I wonder why he has no guts to say the same to the Malays in KT ?

His statement reflected in the article at Utusan Online:

http://www.utusan.com.my/utusan/info.asp?y=2009&dt=0412&pub=utusan_malaysia&sec=Rencana&pg=re_06.htm&arc=hive

Can the DPM or Dewan Bahasa get to translate the article for the benefit of all, including BN.

Contradition like this will spell The End for BN. We may then refer to the coalition as "Be End".

You must have heard of this story:

There was a dog howling away for quite a while. A young man sitting nearby asked the owner what was wrong with the dog.

The owner said not to bother. "Oh, the dog is sitting on the nail".

The young man asked why does the dog not get off the nail.

The owner replied, "The nail is inflicting pain. But the pain is not painful enough lah. That's why."

Moral of the story: Majority of the Rakyat are just like the dog. Howling away, but the pain isn't painful enough. They are howling away, from the 'familiarised uncomfortable zone'.

Guess they are waiting for UMNO to place a bigger and sharper nail before they get off their butts.

If you want to get rid of the pain, once and for all, challenge the current 'status-quo'. But, be different. Please follow rules. We want to hidup aman dan damai, dengan ramai. Also need to cari makan juga, jangan membelot keluarga!!

WARNING: DO NOT CONTRAVENE THE LAW. IT WILL HAVE NEGATIVE EFFECT. USE MAHATMA GANDHI'S APPROACH.

THEN, sikit-sikit lama-lama- jadi bukit.

YB, please dont insult our intelligence. You and your UMNO goons know for a fact that the rakyat of Malaysia has no more trust for you. So, stop blaming the chinese lah, the indians lah for your failure. The only way for you to win the hearts of the Rakyat is to quit as the government and disappear from the face of this earth.

Oh..we have heard this line so many times. Why is that we have idiots of Ministers
who just cannot own up to what they have said? If they are not BOLD enough to
admit what thay have said, do not blame the Press.

Forever this is their story. Almost all Ministers have used this line at one time or
another.

People its about time we decide in the next GE, the end of Be eNd!!!!!!!! Lets just
bury them all once and for all. PR even they are new, they have thier own flaws BUT
they are striving to be better. Give them a chance. I did and I am quite happy with
them.

With Muhyiddin as DPM Najib akan pengsan cos this guy is creating havoc and PM have to answer to the raayat for his stupid actions. Susah untuk semua raayat Malaysia nanti tolong PM give him some advice on how to open his big mouth to act fairly and equally and to unite the Malaysian people (the wishes of all Malaysians) show good examples as Education Minister because Malaysians learn very fast especially the teenagers nowadays.

This is showed that most of chinese in malaysia after 50 years independent do not understand 1st national languange....

Pick up one sentence n borhooohaaa....bloody pendatang.

Corrupted Mentality expect 'Corrupted Reward" which is equivalent to Corruption ,
luckily we Malaysian did bring trapped in those two Bukits By-election.

Umpan Kecil mana dapat Pancing Undi Orang di 2 Bukits ???
Umpan Kecil hanya boleh tipu Orang di Batan Ai sahaja. Ha Ha !!!

Ungrateful - see their mentality before they turn Malaysia into another province of Indonesia.

No Malaysians owe UMNO nothing , so what to talk about grateful or ungrateful ??
Should we be grateful to any single political party.

Think before you open your mouth Yang Bodoh, it stink ???
Stop dragging Chinese newspaper or Tee Kiat in any more.

Mo hee din, who pays your salaries ? Have you shown any appreciation to your paymasters by trying to learn a minority language . Your pal Mahathir as far as I can recall never utterred a word of Chinese before in public. Who are the ungrateful ones ?

you said chinese are not ungrateful. you are really stupid idiot. We are just more wiser ( kepala otak hang ) . 1 Malaysia my ass.

1. BN promises $X millions (X) to Hill No1
2. BN wins Hill No1
3. BN ignore Hill No1 Rakyat for 5 years
4. BN recoup $Y millions (Y) by hook & by crook
5. BN scores big in dirty KPI by achieving excellent +ve &#xRO;I (Y/X) shared by elitists only
6. BN repeats Step 1-5 in next GE/By Election

Sorry monkeys, that formulae is long obselete and you all dinosaurs still worship this formula like Da Vinci Code. Bye bye in GE13!