KUALA LUMPUR, Aug twenty-six Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad, the male mostly credited with fixation Malaysia on the universe map, has downplayed his past achievements, saying there was no need for the very smart person to run the nation the way he had. The country's longest-serving budding apportion pronounced he was no egghead as well as his achievements during his 22-year reign were neither mysterious nor complex, as they were born out of logic.
"I am always amused when people try to break down in to parts my opinion as well as actions when we was budding minister.
"There unequivocally is no prerequisite to figure out the complexity of the suspicion process as well as the poser of we do these elementary things," Dr Mahathir wrote in his blog yesterday.
"I am not an egghead though we admit which we use my brain more mostly than most."
The man, whose opinions go on to have headlines until today, pointed out which during his tertiary years, he had been the a single with the lowest formula in his Senior Cambridge Examination to be certified to the King Edward VII College of Medicine in Singapore.
There were 7 Malays, he recalled, whose formula were all likewise defective to those of the alternative students though had done it in to the prestigious school to review medicine.
"Apparently the British were practising certain movement in 1947. So most for being an intellectual," Dr Mahathir said.
The man, mostly dubbed the "father of modernisation", added which in his early years growing up in his home state of Kedah, it was viewable which the Malays there were most poorer than those from alternative ethnic backgrounds.
"It did not need the very smart person to notice that. They (Malays) clearly faced the dilemma either to get something of the resources of th! eir nati on for themselves or to only sojourn as they were.
"Hence the book 'The Malay Dilemma'," Dr Mahathir said, referring to the controversial book he had published in 1970, only the year after the full of blood secular riots of the May 13, 1969, tragedy had rocked the nation.
In "The Malay Dilemma", Dr Mahathir had dissected Malaysia's story as well as politics in terms of race, discussing his observations on the failures of the Malay competition as well as the need for certain action.
"It also did not need an egghead to sense from successful people. The Japanese as well as the Koreans succeeded in developing their countries after the destruction wrought by war.
"Obviously, if we wish to develop Malaysia, we should sense from these successful people. Hence the 'Look East' policy," he explained, referring to an beginning launched during the early years of his career in 1981, which called on Malaysians to obey the values, work ethics as well as technological skills in eastern countries similar to Japan, South Korea as well as Taiwan.
"And finally, if we wish to go somewhere, we contingency determine the destination. We wish the nation to develop.
"The destination contingency patently be the grown countries. The steps which have to be taken contingency be those which lead to the status of the grown country. Hence vision 2020," Dr Mahathir said.
The former budding apportion pointed out which though the authority accorded to him as budding apportion during the time, all such initiatives as well as programmes would have remained the pipe dream.
"Without which authority, the single can dream. Many Malaysians may have dreamed though authority gave the event to implement dreams," he said.
"If alternative PMs wish to do what we did, they can. But if they have alternative agenda afterwards they would attend to fulfilling their agenda.
"I am not the formidable person. There is no po! ser abou t what we did," he said.
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