Welcome Year of the Water Dragon

December 31, 2011

Welcome Year of the Water Dragon 2012

Happy New Year to All Malaysians and our Friends around the World. May you be blessed with Good Health, Prosperity and Happiness in the Year 2012. 2011 will recede into history and it will be up to our historians to decide its significance for the future generation.

Time Magazine made 2011 the Year of the Protestor, dedicated to the men and women on Arab Street and elsewhere including our Bersih 2.0 July 9, 2011 rally. Dato Ambiga, the friendly face of the Bersih movement, was voted the Person of the Year by a popular web-paper FreeMalaysiaToday.

In honoring her, lest we forget, we must pay tribute to the hardworking people of Malaysia who continue to cope with the challenges of making a living amidst rising prices of basic necessities and rampant corruption.

We like to think that 2012 will be a year of hope for our country. Let us remain united despite efforts of extreme elements among to create religious and racial tensions. If we give in to these elements within our ranks, we will destroy everything we struggled hard to build over a few generations.

To all the politicians, those in Government and the Opposition, we wish to say that we will hold you high standards of public accountability for your policies, programmes, and actions. Serve the rakyat, and not yourself. Most of us have enough of corruption and abuse of power and would like to you change your ways or face rejection in the next elections.

Let us now relax and welcome 2012 with some lively music from very exciting entertainers. Here is the Latin beat for you.–Dr. Kamsiah and Din Merican

Sade–Smooth Operator (in Jazz)