"Hujan emas di negeri orang, hujan batu di negeri sendiri, baik juga di negeri sendiri."

do you know why we, orang-orang melayu, can never maximize our progress? it's because of adages/proverbs like this one. if we're having some form of success somewhere else, why don't we just continue what we're doing?

who's for the idea of abolishing peribahasa?