Today, we live in a nation where things are done for money and power. We live in a country that strives for international recognition instead of domestic acceptance. We live in a country which is built - and will continue to be built - for the rich and young only.

Shopping malls, clubs, entertainment centres, theme parks. All this made accessible only to the able-bodied. Our capital is completely inhospitable for the elderly, the blind or the deaf. Roads without pedestrian crossings are inaccessible to the blind or the physically challenged.

Sidewalks which are cracked and ill-maintained provide little help to those on wheelchairs. What has our 'concerned' government done to aid of these taxpayers as well? How have we helped to ease their suffering?

We live in a country where education is for the rich and influential. Money and contacts are the major key players in determining our educational regime. The poor become poorer and the rich become richer. Scholarships handed out to the rich. But when we seek other educational opportunities we are reprimanded.

We live in a country where millions will be spent on destroying nature to build shopping malls. Where the only existing greenery is between road lanes. And even that is later chopped down to make way for a bigger road .

How about building centres for the disabled? The needy? Orphanages with good facilities?

We live in a nation that throws out educated, experienced and loyal teachers to be replaced by ones that only have the right political connections. Our notion of education is not to educate the young to think critically, or to be mature and constructive.

Instead we teach them how to accept their 'fate'. How to be a vegetable and continue slaving endlessly as how we've been doing for the past 50 years. We produce zombies. All this while the poor struggle to eat and obtain a decent education.

We live in a country where democracy is a myth. I would like to ask the people to think about this - since when did Malaysia as a country become a luxury that all Malaysians couldn't afford? What have we done that we can be proud of?

I don't see a Malaysia that I would want to be a part of. A Malaysia that has stopped caring. A country that has fallen prey to the profit motif. To power. I pray that Malaysians will wake up and realise what a mirage our 'advancement' has been.