Braveness

It has been a while since I last update my blog. This morning I read an article from The Star which Datuk Seri Chia Kwang Chye said government shouldn't view citizen journalist aka "bloggers like you and me with spicy and laser mouth" as a threat to government. Then, later this morning I had a meeting with one of my clients and I like meeting him as conversations always gets very exciting when he touch the daily life of Malaysian and our culture. I tend to agreed with him that the more we move forward in terms of technology and the super-cyber-corridor-high-tech mombo jumbo, our mentality and way of life is moving backward!

Yes! we are moving backward. I still remember my favourite P.Ramlee movies that ladies are wearing figure hugging kenaya and no tudong. But I never heard my grandma nag or give negative criticsm about it. During my uni days, if you don't wear tudong, someone will slip in flyers under your dorm door. That time it was 'encourge' quietly. Nowadays, everything is so open. The Chinese send their kids to Chinese school, Malays go to Sekolah Agama, Indian goes to Tamil school. What happen to Muhhibah? There are so much lack of racial and cultural interaction. Few years back I was always proud to tell my aussie friends that in Malaysia you can see all race talking and laughing together on the street. Everyone has a friend from different race and religion. Unlike in Sydney when I saw mostly Asian with Asian, Indian in their community and the mat salleh with their own friends. Now, it seems I have to eat my own words because I fear my country is showing sign of racial grouping. Luckily, till today I still have my best friend who is a Malay. In fact, most of my friends are Malay. However, this make me the target of my own race, some times. I'm being label as banana or pemberontak cina. Yup, this word was used to refer me. It happened when I promote my Malay team lead to assistant production manager over another Chinese team lead. Well, I learned something... and overcome my challenge.

Today, my colleague showed me an interesting webblog call siigosip.wordpress.com. My oh my. My preious staff have matured and started to stand out and voice out their frustration. I am very proud of them who stand up and fight for their rights against the bunch of mat salleh who has been paying them late, more work, doesn't contribute their EPF, forcing them to sign an letter that can't stand in the court of Malaysia. If you understand Malay, you should go to that site. Of course, there are still quite a large number who are tak-nak-ambik-tau, tak-nak-masuk-campur-tapi-nak-equal-habuan, lalang and of course the brown-noser lah. But for the few who voice out their frustration under anom, I am still proud of them. I fully understand why they have to hide behind anom. Working with this bunch of mat salleh shouldn't be taking likely. They are very good in expoiting Malaysian workers for their own benefits and money in their pockets. I will surely be a regular visitor to their blog. Kudos!