Development-You can do something.

I hear that Malaysians wont pay for good training. And yet I know of a parent who spent US2,000 for a week of training by a GM for his 2 children. And this was excluding food and board. Let me ask a question here. Has anyone actually sat down and thought through what real value training is in Malaysia? Or has it been only the cari makan variety?

Read here. Consider this. We have almost everything except proper development and good sponsors. The both are linked. We are a good car without the spark plugs. So lets find those missing plugs.

Now I have talked alot about Asean and so I am not going to repeat myself here. Questions were raised there that can turn us around. Let me bring up the salient points. We do have a GM brought here by MCF. Yes MCF provided the paperwork to enable Ziaur's Visa. Since MCF was used, does the chess community have a say in his use?

No, say MCF.

I brought this up with Greg when Najib overcharged First GM. When we were charged for work not done. Greg's argument was willing buyer willing seller. Actually that does not hold true. Even if that was the case charging for work not done is still wrong but there is more to this story. First GM did their National service. CS solution overcharged First GM and MCF left us with the bills for the flag ceremony. So what is going on?

Do they still expect further sponsorship? Why was CS solution allowed to get away with using an MCF resource and not do National service? Why did MCF not do National service? Does this smell like a "conspiracy" to bleed the sponsors? Ask MCF this question point blank and ask them how they plan to use Ziaur?

That is a step in the right direction. We deserve an answer. And if we can get it we will have more working parts than we have now. Otherwise all of the others working so hard will not get results. The spark plug is missing. The car wont move. Talking about it on the blogs wont change this. This requires action. So demand an answer from MCF. We have all contributed. Big or small. We are all stakeholders here.

So lets focus here. You can do something here. Of course all this is pointless if Dato Tan is still subsidising them somewhere. If that is the case you will meet a stonewall. But if he is not then it's worth a shot because they will soon need new sponsors and they wont get it unless they rectify this. At least not from us and I hope not from you too.