Are we over value ourselves ?

Malaysia has in past 10 years built many mega projects. Petronas tower, Cyberjaya, LRT and etc. Many foreigners that have came to Malaysia for the 1st time, were impressed and had their perception of Malaysia corrected. Malaysian no longer stay on the tree these days.

But internally, Malaysian knows that these are not something great to shout about. Look at the many issues we have in the country, jurisdiction losing trust, dropping of ranking in our education, recurring of flooding, increasing crime rate etc. These are all the doing, or not doing what suppose to be done by some people. These people fail to deliver expectation of those who put trust in them. There is no suprise that we always labelled our country that has 1st class infra, and 9th class mentality / people. In fact, for MD, i would rather put we are 2nd class in infra, 9th class mentality, with the money we spend on these project, if it is done in foreign country, it could be much better than what we get, at least we know it would not collapse for no reason, or leaks within months before completion. So, what we get is really 2nd class structure with 1st class price.

I have pondered over all these, trying to find out a reason why we continue to develop 2nd class infrastructure, while we know our mentality is not there ? Is it because it is better to invest in infra then people ? In fact, the megas are there only to make our mentality and the infra gap more significant. Are the leaders so dump that fail to recognized these , or there is some other things that they are after.

What is lacking in normal Malaysian may be is the courage to face the reality, we fail to recognized the importance of knowing where we really are, so that we are not again live in the impression that we built in according to what we like to believe than the reality.