Embouchure

Embouchure means the method of applying the lips to the mouthpiece of a wind instrument. An interesting word that i think I'll never use in my entire life. Something even my ancestor wouldn't have thought off. But it makes you think about it.
The same experience i had a week ago. A good friend of mine came back from off shore after an oil expedition near Finland. So he called me up to catch up with things after his long trip. He told me two very interesting information. I call it information because i assume it is of some value. Anyways what he told me was that a rival company of his just discovered one of the worlds biggest oil field in Brazil. Isn't it odd how the world works. So 10-15 years from now we would see Brazil as the next most developing country in the world. It usually takes that long for the oil to reach the market. The other important information is there hasn't been any discovery of oil in peninsular Malaysia or even sabah and sarawak for past few years. The only discoveries nowadays are gas fields in sabah and sarawak. Oh...and Malaysia only has fuel reserve for 10 years.
So all those billions of ringgit that funds our countries administration to expeditions are going to come to an end pretty soon. Than what is our country is going to feed on. Out tourism sector is in the slumps. Our property market is starting to sink like Captains Jack Sparrows ship. And our manufacturing industry is being immobilized and shifted to china. Our Telemarketing and Call Centers are being shifted to India. We are buying Agriculture supplies from other neighboring countries to pump up our reserves and we spend our money having National Service for thousand of school leavers while we have an entire army getting paid to be on stand by. We could instead pay them better and give our military a dignified pay and image. We could build our racial ties by providing community services programs and rural developing projects. And leave NS to people who apply for it by giving incentives at the end of it like joining military schools and higher education sponsorship with Military Position after that. Or alternative routes to military ranking and points.
Our shipping and aviation industry is behind other Asia countries. There are more birds landing and taking off at KLIA than Planes do. We are not competitive because we are already out of the competition. Our banking sector is still so controlled by Bank Negara that we have so little room to explore and exploit. We don't even have any competitive edge against other Asian countries.
We always talk about making global ideas more in terms with our locality that we fail to see we are not matching ourself with the global market anymore. A once leading Asian country is now left far behind the race.
Our biofuel and biotechnology approach is good but we are still far behind from our European counterparts. But being a country rich with resources and minerals. We have so much more advantages in developing our economy. Something that I noticed in my recent trip to china is that they managed to use all their local materials to produce every thing they desire. There is no scrap mountain. Recycling is a big thing there. Everyone had a sideline job. You could find someone who knew someone who could get you what you wanted. They can build you anything to your specification. From the raw material to the final touch up. They are so resourceful and enterprising. I saw them build an overhead pedestrian bridge in 2 days. Malaysia is not much different from china. We have the equal opportunity as all the other Asian countries. Look at Singapore for an instance. They have nothing but yet they hold a more stable economy than Malaysia. They know what they have and they use it to their advantage. Our nation itself is an asset to our country. We have ample of ventures to explore. Lets make our own sequels of Indiana Jones adventures.
Goodluck Malaysia and Goodnight.

Sincerely,
PathmanCK