For David Lim 's information these are the glasses I am looking though: I am a minority bumiputera from Sarawak, a non-Muslim, my parents are government servants (police, teacher), my mother is Chinese and she has seven other siblings (some of my closest cousins are Chinese), I have more non-bumi friends than bumi friends and I am a success story of the NEP/NDP policy.

First of all, I wasn't trying to educate anyone on why or whether the NEP policy should stay. My one request was simple - stop bumiputera bashing. For SK Wong to deny that the current rhetoric used to bash the NEP policy is mostly aimed at bumiputera shows his lack of sensitivity.

Perhaps he is used to such rhetoric. Even David Lim agrees that there were many 'letters that knocked bumiputera'. I believe most malaysiakini readers are educated enough to see this.

Regardless of the reasons, giving up your rights to vote basically silence you. When you don't vote, you are of no value either to the government or to the opposition party championing your rights. You can say and write whatever you want, but when you don't vote, it is like farting in the wind. A democratic country guarantees every citizen the right to vote and it is only through the ballot that changes are made.

My request that LCH join most of his family members and friends who have moved overseas is justified. I am surprised why anyone would stay in this country unless they are benefitting from it.

I believe that there are some things good about this country that made him stay and perhaps one day he will share that rather than bashing Malaysia over and over again. With family members being successful overseas, it will not be a huge problem for him to migrate there.

With regard to my stand on the NEP/NDP, I believe those who have not benefitted by it have the right to voice against it (although it is meaningless if you do not vote). As someone who benefitted from the policy, I will defend it as much and as long as I can.

It is big advantage for me in this cruel, capitalistic society. I will give up the NEP only if the Chinese are willing to give dissolve the Chinese Chambers of Commerce, the Hokkien Association, the Fukkien Association and all other association that were formed with the sole purpose of providing economic and political advantages to a single group (just like the NEP).

I will give up NEP if every capital-rich individual is willing to give up their advantages, if all the Lim Goh Tongs, Daims and Krishnans give up their material wealth so that we can all compete on a level-playing field.

I will give up the business quota system if non-bumi employers are willing to hire based on merits rather than on the pre-notion of non-bumi superiority.

And one more thing. I will trade in my NEP if the non-bumis are willing to trade in, acre-for-acre, their high priced city real estate with my native kampung real estate. They are both equally as old but it just happens that mine is only accessible by plane.

The problem with people like SK Wong and LCH is their lack of respect for the bumiputera. They have a built-in notion that non-bumis are mentally superior and that all hard-working non-bumi students who get good grades should be rewarded.

These are people who are refusing to see that people of all races work just as hard and that perhaps certain races (or individuals) are better in education because of their advantageous access to perks such as the Internet, libraries, tuition money, good schools, teachers and parents.

So should those who are comparatively disadvantaged be denied the right to better education just because of lower grades?

For example, it is a fact that people in the city do better than those in the kampung . So should students in rural areas be denied access to medical and engineering courses just because they have one A lesser in the SPM or STPM?

And it is also a fact that those from the middle and upper classes tends to do better in school than those who are from a poorer background. So should the poor students be denied access to higher education in courses of their choice simply because they cannot afford the RM60 per month per subject tuition fee?

Should children of ignorant and uneducated parents be denied access simply because they were not brought up to value education as much as others? How about students from broken and abusive families?

If the university entrance policy is modified to take into account all these factors, what would be the most realistic way to modify it? Meritocracy is a lazy and blind solution to these socio-economic problems.

I would like to extend a challenge to the David Lim, LCH and SK Wong to think deeper beyond personal grouses. Just because you think you deserve it, doesn't mean you deserve it. There are always more deserving people. And while doing that, don't forget to vote and stop bashing bumiputeras.