From any perspective, by any standards, the year of 2005 has been a rotten one for Malaysia, to say the least. It is the year I would remember a schizophrenic minister went hysterical and ran amok in the parliament, shouting "Bloody racist!" like a patient non-compliant to his anti-psychotic medications. That of course, is an insult to psychiatric patients for they are more well-behaved and likeable.

Anyway, the same psychotic minister is now the appointed chairman of the Parliamentary Human Rights Caucus. Rather than being remembered for his unjustified psychotic outburst, Mohd Nazri Aziz is now touted as a defender of human rights.

A true believer in human rights would permit freedom of speech and freedom of ideas and freedom to vote with conscience. But Nazri was the one who proposed a suspension penalty against a fellow BN colleague merely for speaking his mind and insisting that BN female senators "must support the Islamic Family Bill".

The year 2005 also saw Jerai MP Badruddin Amiruddin became more brazen in his racial slurs. After his May 13 "history lesson" in 2004, the Umno deputy chairman made a comeback this year with a double dose of "tak-suka-Malaysia-boleh-keluar" and "keling botol".

It's mind-boggling that he ends up becoming national hero while opposition leader Lim Kit Siang is portrayed in the indecent mainstream media as anti-Islam, anti-Malaysia. I have accepted that no disciplinary action of any form will ever be taken against such self-righteous old man like Badruddin.

I've also learnt to anticipate more racial taunts and religious blackmails from the party that preaches Bangsa Malaysia yet practices blatant discrimination.

I hope that Hishammudin Hussein's keris war cry at the Umno general assembly is not forgotten by Malaysians already. It's baffling how someone can hold the omnipotent portfolio of education minister entrusted to sow racial harmony yet make violent intimidations on national television.

Just when it seems that most national shame and disgrace has reached its peak and tapering off for the year, we are greeted with the arrogant stupidity of Mohd Noh Omar and his battalion of police. Allegations of power abuse by police officers are nothing new as we had a full dose of that in 1998.

We have roughly, more than a million illegal immigrants from neighbouring Indonesia yet we have seen no genuine crackdown. The last operation earlier this year was put off so many times that by the time it actually took place, the results and impact were negligible.

Yet when it was reported that 50,000 Chinese tourists are missing and believed to have been lured into "vice", the government sprung on a super-charged crackdown with random harassments, baseless arrests complete with strip searches.

The figure has already been refuted with much logic and sense by DAP's Lim Guan Eng. But assuming that it is true, it is still an insignificant compared to a million Indonesians. If it's not racial in origin then is it not pure stupidity?

Perhaps the most saddening thing in the midst of all these nonsense is the fact that Malaysia's top man is a weakling that does little except quoting from brilliantly-phrase speeches. After two years at the helm, Abdullah Ahmad Badawi has little to be proud of.

It's hard to believe that a land like Malaysia with so much potential has made so little impact on the international front, except for the wrong reasons. All of geography favours us - friendly weather, ready water sources, fertile soil, rich heritage of flora and fauna, attractive natural landscapes and yes, abundant oil.

With this armamentarium of God's blessings, we could have soared like eagles in any field of endeavour. Instead, the paradise called Malaysia is quick degenerating into a useless wasteland under the present gang of corrupted warlords - stricken by a cancer with distant metastasises.

Indeed, Malaysia is such a beautiful country, but we have such an ugly government.