Tuesday, April 19, 2005

First world government website, Malaysia NOT!

Reading an interesting jot by Fishtail on the ease of getting a driving license in the USA at the blogpage, makes me wonder how great that type of first world country operates. So unlike the experiences that I am facing daily in Malaysia, a country that I rate as a third-world class, or a worst class one if there is any. By the way, how many type of countries are there, he he he.
























Anyways, that brought me about to write usa.gov on the URL box. It gets me here.


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Guess what happened when I tried typing malaysia.gov? I got this instead! Frust man!
What about malaysia.gov.my? I got this!
Almost the same thing.


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Resigned to the fact that Malaysia is indeed a reversed-first world, I tried writing malaysia instead. You know what google brought me? THIS!

Imagine? A country page represented by the tourism board page instead of a legal ruling government front page! A non-not-IE-browser-tolerant site which also needs Flash plug-in! Arghhhhhh!


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Is there any link on Malaysian government page. NOPE!. You're out of luck mate. However, I guess I can try the goverment ministries liks, it might bring me to the main government site? No luck again.
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How about if I were to try the Prime Minister's website? It could lead me somewhere.
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Yeah, yeah. A page with a waving and smiling friendly PM. Any information of the country that could be of interest? Go somewhere else... like CIA fact-file on Malaysia. It's a good start.

Kasihan Malaysia. Perasan developed nation....... [struck off on comment by Halian] A very slow developing nation indeed!

After looking at the USA government portal, I thought of doing a similar thing search on the URL and wrote this... +"official government" +"web portal" +"malaysia". Imagine my horror? This came up!
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Singapore government website! Arghhhhhh. You know that I am starting to pull my hairs apart now.

Google didn't fail me though. Went to Google search page. Type the same and yeah, I got it.
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Singapore's government came up first, I don't really know how, but somewhere below, that's the link that I am looking for.....


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Hosted at American University of Michigan library. How come they seems to have all the information?

The link is an old one,
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But fortunately for me, it has another link linking to the current malaysian civil service portal. I HAVE REACHED MY DESTINATION!
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Presentation of this link is commendable, but then again, you still have to be using an M$-IE browser to enjoy it better! How come the American government portal do not have that IE-thinggy preference, even though Bill Gates is one of their richest citizen? Go figures!

Masih kesihan Malaysia......

3 Comments:

Blogger mamat said...

Thanks for the feedback.

Log is corrected as per comment!

To err is human, yes? At least no real person is injured in anyways.

Tuesday, April 19, 2005 8:37:00 PM  
Blogger fishtail said...

You just went through a cyber merry-go-round, compliments of Malaysia Boleh.

Tuesday, April 19, 2005 8:47:00 PM  
Blogger fishtail said...

You just went through a cyber merry-go-round, compliments of Malaysia Boleh.

Tuesday, April 19, 2005 8:47:00 PM  

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