What does M stand for? - Commander S THAYAPARAN (Retired) Royal Malaysian Navy

Commander, I have some choice words for 'M' which are not fit to be printed.

Have been saying that for the past 22 years. After a short break and two Prime Ministers later, those words are back!!  

 Commander S THAYAPARAN in his heydays with Temenggong Jugah and Admiral Thanabalasingam

Malaysiakini : “There is hardly a better way to avoid discussion than by releasing an argument from the control of the present and by saying that only the future will reveal its merits.” - Hannah Arendt, 'The Origins of Totalitarianism'

COMMENT | Some folks asked me, what I thought “M” stood for. When I first heard of this film, I thought a group of Malaysians were organising a screening of that great Fritz Lang classic “M”. Sign me up.

When I realised I was mistaken, I assumed that a group of young Malaysian filmmakers were cheekily attempting to start a discourse with a series of vignettes about what M stands for in "New Malaysia". I was wrong again. Apparently, M stands for Malaysia or Malaysians.

But does it? I think M stands for something else. It has too, right? "M" needs to reflect what is happening in Malaysia now, not what we hoped would happen. With this in mind, here is what I think M stands for.

Read it all here..................