In a statement published on its official Facebook page, it said it had never intended to overlook cultural sensitivities. It said, after receiving the feedback from Malaysians, it redesigned the packets – in red.
Petronas said: “The initial packet showcased a Chinese ink painting from the Petronas art collection, which depicts the welcoming of a new dawn and hopes for the new year.
“The light coloured background, however, has been mistaken for white, which in Chinese culture, is considered inauspicious.”
While I appreciate that Chinese cultural respect of its new lunar-solar year does not like certain inauspicious colours, like white and black, surely in a modern world of better informed people with less vulnerability to earlier superstitious beliefs, we could have dismissed that Petronas error with a greater level of graciousness, forgiveness and generosity of spirit, more so when that error was inadvertently committed in an act of muhibbah-ness.
Yet those very same critics could forgive a man who dictated over their parents for 22 years which period saw the loss of human rights, mutilation of our nation's hallowed institutions and profligate waste of unimaginable magnitude, and who has never apologise for his 'sins'.
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Lord President of Judiciary sacked |
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5 High Court judges sacked |
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Dewan Negara mutilated to stifle voice of states |
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106 people incarcerated, some for years, without due process of law - Lim Kit Siang and the late Karpal Singh were among the detainees |
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once the public's conscience and voice now the public's woe and Mahathir's voice |
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patron of a very racist organisation Perkasa was set up to pressure Najib from becoming too friendly to Chinese |
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hundreds of million lost to fulfil his grudge against Singapore; we need to thank former PM AAB for stopping the silly crazy act of profligacy |
Somewhere in our socio-politics the abnormally high level of toxicity has distorted our sense of proportion, tolerance and balance, where we are now making a mountain out of a molehill whilst attempting to cover up the real mountain of horror.
Related: Chinese dogs and prostitutes.
Related: Chinese dogs and prostitutes.
One issue has nothing to do with the other.
ReplyDeleteFor all we know, some of those idiotic Patrons attackers are your same idiotic #UndiRosak mob.
what do you mean "for all you know ...". I know who they are
DeleteWow!!!
ReplyDeleteWhat a comparison - a few impulsive words by a few vis-a-vis another fews' (maybe ≫ the 1st) calculative acts.
Mind you, all targeting the Cinabengs/Cinapeks during their auspicious CNY!
The Petronas insensitivity IS inexcusable - no matter how it's been framed.
How many Chineses (M'sian &/or otherwise) have Petronas been dealing with throughout its 'ketuanan' life, especially in M'sia?
Just imagine the big PR offences if Petronas sends a big white greeting card to a important mainland Chinese client during CNY.
But, of course, Personas wouldnt make such a mistake, no matter how it feels about that client. Otherwise, Petronas would have to sack its PR head.
In the case of Chinese M'sians, Petronas simply just doesn't care - offensive or not.
Until it was criticized openly. Only then a lame excuse is been given & an alternative package is been reproduced & replaced.
In the same category as that 'technical mistake' of the Domestic Trade, Cooperatives and Consumerism Ministry sends greetings for the Year of the Dog by way of chicken.
How the ministry had confused a chicken with a dog, and why SinChew's advice was disregarded, only showed its arrogance!
Calling to mind ALSO that offensive perkasa's white angpows in one of its despicable insults, throwing at the Chinese M'sians during a past CNY!
Can u remembered what's the bloody poor excuses been given for that action by perkasa?
Sound so familiar as if these morons have only contempts for the Chinese M'sians, who have long lived amongst these ketuanan freaks.
They r NOT doing it bcoz that error was inadvertently committed in an act of muhibbah-ness. It's an act of ultimate premeditated evilness!
We could have dismissed that Petronas/KPDNKK error with a greater level of graciousness, forgiveness and generosity of spirit, iff it was indeed done out of blurness, ignorance & carelessness.
But NO - these actions r been carried out with evil intention as clear as in the mode of perkasa!
Now, thanks to yr relentless/tireless effort in running down mamak every which way, u come up with this appple/orange comparison of Chinese eccentricities.
Banyak pandai le!
1st, how long has that white taboo been recognised in the Chinese tradition?
Tradition is hard to change, especially that tradition has a very long incubating period.
In a modern world of better informed people with less vulnerability to earlier superstitious beliefs, ONLY a few isolated outcasts can escape such traditional touch - superstitious or not!
Perhaps, unmokkauxai can never understand that traditional hold!
2nd, mamak's mismanagement in governance is been taken care of by mamak himself now.
Chinese M'sians have a long tradition of fighting evil with evil.
Perhaps, unmokkauxai can never understand that tried&tested strategy!
U r RIGHT. In our socio-politics the abnormally high level of toxicity has distorted our sense of proportion, tolerance and balance, where we are unable to clearly distinguish a mountain out of a molehill whilst attempting to cover up the real mountain of horror.
No thanks to bleeding heart anmokauxai with a twisted political-correctness worldview!
If Petronas fucked up, they deserve to be upbraided. By the way, the White unprinted rear of the Petronas Ang Pow packet clearly shows it was basically a White Ang Pow, so their Press release is basically Bull.
ReplyDeleteIt is the right of those who criticised Petronas' screw up as it is.
Why must you insist they "balance it up" by criticising Mahathir for totally unrelated matters?
criticise Petronas for a molehill but let us also criticise Mahathir for the mountain of human rights abuse and profligacy of taxpayers' money he was responsible for in his PM-terms of 22 years. Don't pick and choose. By the way you can also criticise Najib as well - since you know so much I'll leave that to you, HY and CK
DeleteIt's NOT bcoz u don't know about yr Jibby sopo shenanigans with both hands in the kitty.
DeleteIt's bcoz u DONT want to know!
I sincerely hope that u know the difference.
BTW, if the whole World knows pinklips as one of the current kleptomaniac leader of a half-cooked regime, how come u just tak tau le!
R u Ozzie mates equally blur or u r mixing with a wrong crowd.
BTW, the Ozzie used of TA as a short thank-you is half-hearted. This term is more 'sincere' when used by the Kiwis.
The Scot also used such term but more by the upper class!
Perhaps it has to do with the slang. But I consider it as more of the influences of the Ozzie vulgarities when blue-blooded term is been copycatted.
Wakakaka ...... you are just not being fair. Your reasons you do not write on Ah Jibgor were un-proven deeds (at least in Malaysian court by your purported rationale) but so were Tun's alleged mis-deeds (for the sake of arguement)! But these are for another day, we reckon.
DeleteWe are still suffering from those mis-deeds caused by whoever we could and should put down for the time being and should concentrate on the top priority of putting right those mis-deeds. So who could do that? Those who are/were in position after the mamak!
So what have they done? At least Pak Lah stopped the HSR and the crooked bridge and sort of allowed for greater freedom of speech during his time. What about Ah Jibgor? How many of those mis-deeds by his precedessor did he try to un-do? Zilch! In fact worse still he exacerbate the rot in those institutions, the judiciary, the PDRM, the AG Chamber, etc. Isn't this failing in his fiduciary duties as the CEO of the country? This is certainly bigger issue than the molehill isn't it? Why no critism?
since I've been accused of not writing against Najib, will I then be fair if I write FOR him? wakakaka
DeleteAhh...erection number 14 is definitely round the corner... just look at the feverish, frenetic and yawning amount of mamak bashing by Ktemoc...almost every 3rd writes are now on the mamak case...why, even in this Petronas white packet boo-hoo, the blogger somehow fanatically manages to link this to mamak-hantam yet again, wakakkaka. Incredulous ! His rewarded dedak must be so sedap and addictive to induce such almost non-stop hammering ! Totally blind to perceive that such overwhelming avalanche of relentlessness will inevitably induce a fatigue set-in to the target audience.
ReplyDeleteMmm...maybe to the dedak paymaster, the concept of 'less is more' have absolutely no traction...their ketuanan souls are coarsened by decades of brutality...blatant kris waving, promise of bloodshed, outright threats to civilians at large ( of the minority kind, wakakaka ), unleashing of thugs like the red-shirts to cause fear and alarm, threats of another May 13 killings...ad nauseam
So in comparison, I guess dragging a cow head through the streets and gyrating your buttocks at the front door of a lady with the police merely just watching on with folded arms can be considered 'gentle' acts. By the by, it did cross my mind what will happen if a group of belonging to the minority race..let's say a group of young Chinese men were to gyrate with indecent gesture their buttocks at the front door of a Malay woman...would the police stand by with folded arms and do nothing ? ( but I have to admit that this culture of gyrating buttocks is not a Chinese thing though, hehehe...)
I think u have gone abit off topic this time. If u don't like Mahathir, just attack him directly. Linking him with this white ang pau thing is really scrapping the bottom of the barrel. Just because he ruled with an iron fist for 22 years doesn't make Najib a saint in comparison & blameless for every bad event happening today. Linking every bad event today back to the past while unlinking all the good events is abit too desperate. Heads you win, tails Mahathir loses. Sure, most of the bad things started from him but remaining silent is still a crime in the face of the law.
ReplyDeletenot linking mahathir, but drawing comparison at the silly blind-as-bat troopers who make mountains out of mole hills when they hate something but OTOH, ignoring the Mt Everest of human rights loss, abuses, dictatorial rule and waste of taxpayers money
DeletePerhaps u SHOULD read what u have just written to yrself in the deep of the night.
DeleteSo as not to feel embarrass for been selective in seeing the ONLY mountain u so wanted to see amongst the mountain range!
Okay, dakwa bapak penswastaan berdasarkan apa yg dibuat selama 22 tahun dia jadi pm, didapati bersalah dan dihukum 100 sebatan atau 30 tahun penjara atau didenda rm100k atau atau gabungan kedua2 atau ketiga3nya sekali, then what's next? All those things that he scrwewed-up will be self-corrected? Restored to the day before he became maharajah? Money lost recovered?
ReplyDeleteBukan ke mereka tak tau apa yang perlu to buat. Mereka hanya nak buat tak tau semacam mengikut skrit wayang yang di berikan.
DeleteTheir frequent chants of don't let history repeats itself r fake! Their understanding & learning from history lessons r to dig & find faults with the past, persons & incidents inclusive.
They NEVER ever want to know that such exercises r meant to prevent the recurrences in the current time frame.
Hence the continuous playing of the grandmother's broken record wrt mamak's misdeeds.
Meanwhile, the same sopo/kleptomaniac shenanigans that r been playing NOW by Jibby r been ignored with demands of evidences!
There r dogs & there r dogs that put the canines to shame.