should think about learning malay, and the climate at home is about right for it. the whole idea of cultivating a malay-speaking elite makes me very annoyed, and social engineering blahblah shouldn't be moe's goal, but i do agree with kishore mahbubani that it's absurd that so few non-malays of our generation in singapore can speak the language. like living in south america and having no knowledge of spanish, i recall he said. so, stop griping and use the resources that are bound to spring up at home to learn?