Whilst Dr Mahathir Mohamad has his ‘Bersih, Cekap dan Amanah' concept, Pak Lah with his ‘Work with me, not for me'; Najib has since conceptualised his ‘1 Malaysia' model - a yet to be fully-explained slogan backing his governmental administration.

At his website , Najib indicates that there will be eight values of the ‘1 Malaysia'. So far, he has unveiled four of the values: - Culture of Excellence, Perseverance, Humility and Acceptance.

And thus far, he has riddled us with more convoluting and meandering explanations that are, quite frankly, unfathomable.

First of all - let us understand - the ‘1 Malaysia' is a concept. It is simply a slogan. To put it even more plainly, it is a motto - a meaningless axiomatic dictum of words that carries no weight of law.

Secondly - and as many would want to believe - it is not about ‘One Malaysian', where all Malaysians stand as one in equality.

A concept of equality of such a nature would go against the spirit of the federal constitution - namely Article 153 - which safeguards the special position of the Malays and natives of Sabah and Sarawak. It would also go against the New Economic Policy.

Hence, if ‘1 Malaysia' is not about equality of races, then what is it about?

Professor Dr Shamsul Amri Baharuddin, from Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia's Institute of Ethnic Studies, drew an uneasy distinction with the concept of ‘Malaysian Malaysia', promulgated by the PAP of Singapore, and later the DAP.

The ‘Malaysian Malaysia' - he says - is an ideology that espouses all ethnic groups having equal rights with none having special rights.

The ‘1 Malaysia', Prof Shamsul explains - rhetorically in florid scholastic terms - is as a national unity process not in the manner of ‘unity in uniformity' but ‘unity in diversity'.

This in plain simple English means something out of nothing.

Najib Abdul Razak himself, so far with his four values, does not breach the subject of equality. He talks firstly on a Culture of Excellence - it is basically the abstract issue of work and performance.

In Part 2, he talks on Perseverance - where he preaches some sort of self-help maxims on how life is never easy. In Part 3, he pleads on the trait of Humility.

It is finally in Part 4 where he treads on issues of more substance: - Acceptance. It is here that Najib tries to surreptitiously - and perhaps covertly - take on the topic of equality, by pointing out the difference between ‘tolerance' and ‘acceptance'.

On the former, he explains that ‘... when you say you tolerate, you don't quite like it, but you accept it because you have no choice'.

This is as opposed to ‘acceptance', where he argues ‘... if you talk in terms of acceptance, it indicates a state of mind that you are embracing something positively'.

So is Najib asking us to accept not to tolerate all the farcical nonsense but to embrace it with a smile? It is really all too philosophical for me to swallow. What exactly are all these ‘values'?

These are all not politics. It is some sort of New Age mantras - ‘excellence', ‘perseverance', ‘humility' and ‘acceptance'. Pick up any cheap self-help book from MPH and you can find the same stuff.

I await, with abated breath, for the next four ‘values'.