KJ

In 1985, a team of us in the public service, led by Intan, coordinated and launched a national productivity measurement programme. It was an impressive attempt because there was not even a coherent theory then for such a public service performance measurement system. Nonetheless, supported by an eminent PTD director of Intan with a PhD […]

It is astounding that a RM50 million jet engine can be taken out of a military establishment. Even if everyone in the military command closed one eye, why are our leaders also feigning blindness? My question is why only 40 people were charged and why was the brigadier-general allowed to keep his pension? Instead, the […]

All truth is God\’s Truth. But, does truth matter in politics? If, in fact it does not, what then can be the process for improved governance? Is political governance merely the law of the jungle, where the Lion King reigns or Tiger is King of the Golden Jungle? (pun intended). What about the \’shrewd Rusa\’ […]

There is currently a heated (petrol-bomb driven) debate raging within the nation and especially in cyberspace, as to who has seen the proverbial Elephant; or more accurately, who is authorized to label the elephant, and whether ‘elephant is in fact a good and right label\’. Of course, the original Eastern story in allegorical form states […]

Lat’s \’Light & Easy\’ in the NST (Jan 11, 2010) captures truth as it really sits on the ground. Lat pictures an exhibition hall for the 1Malaysia concept with a large frame painting of 1Malaysia; with the only one significant but important difference: it is a very large mirror and reflects the observers as the observed. They […]

I read with shock and dismay that the Higher Education Ministry is proposing to set up a National Professors Council, or NPC \”to maintain the credibility of institutions of higher education.\” Allow me to ponder the issue. Is the ministry framing the problem correctly? What problem is this policy initiative addressing? What then are policy-making or policy […]

The Ministry of Education last week highlighted the top 20 schools in the nation as part and parcel of their educational excellence programme under the NKRA agenda. That is a very good starting point to begin to clearly define excellence but allow me to make some observations.   From their listing, two things became very […]

LOL. For a very long time, I did not know what this SMS-speak acronym meant. So, I asked my daughter for a translation, and she replied: ‘LOL Dad is for L aughing O ut L oud! I could not help but also laugh out loud when I read that \”the authorities had confiscated two Malaysiakini books\”; but what was really ‘1Funny Malaysia’ was that one […]

In my last column, I defined what I called uniformed incompetence or what can be called \’idiocracy,\’ or a bureaucracy of idiots!  These are public officials who do not know the laws and proper rules of good conduct and civil behavior related to specific issues and policies, especially in the public spaces. They are misled, […]

Ignorance and truth are important words in any language or culture. One talks about knowledge or actually its lack, and the other sits positioned within the perennial human knowledge of truth.  When all such truth is a comprehensive system of knowing and positioned within a framework of time and space, we call it a belief […]