I still remembered those times when I was still in my primary years that the night before the Teacher's Day every 16th May, I will sleep late and my mom will help me to prepare some teacher's day cards for my favourite teachers. However, I usually troubled by which teachers that I should consider as my favourite and give the card to. In order to help me with that, even the smallest scolding memory can make a teacher did not receive a teacher's day card that year and maybe he/she will get into the list next year. But now, when I think back of those times again, I felt that how choosy I am at that time cause I could always just make cards for all of them, it's just 7~8 short listed teachers after all. Hihihi. But at least, I've trained myself to participate in a decision making process and that is also an important part in the quest of an education.
To me, teachers can be anyone who has taught us throughout our life. It can be our parents, families, neighbours, friends, friend's parents, school teachers, universities lecturers or anyone who had taught us something……So to all teachers who have groomed us to where and what we are right now, Selamat Hari Guru and Happy Teacher's Day. Just wondering on what type of an academician I will be molded into after this few years and felt funny thinking that later one day I will also have to send my children (when I have one!) to school undergoing the long steps of education years.
Sharing some of my experience during my classes here, I would like to call upon on all Malaysian (especially Malays) to quit saying that we can't excel in whatever that we do just because us being us (Malaysian=lazy=lepak). What I realized here is that even the Japanese, said as the most hardworking race in the world, also currently suffer the same phenom
enon experience elsewhere in the modern world where the youth feels that they don' have to work hard and lives in their own comfort zone. The situation where all students will always be punctual for classes, attend every lecture and concentrate on what being taught is all a myth now. Before this, I am always being mocked by friends from other universities stating Kyodai (Kyoto U) as just another assembly place for nerds and bookworms. But to tell you truth, time has change (the pic showed a student in front of me in the lecture hall).
However, the Japs may have their own reason to feel proud or something as they have achieved much by being significant in the field of science and technology and also the world's second largest economic power. But for us, especially the Malays, shouting 'Malay Supremacy' (Ketuanan Melayu) everywhere without doing nothing to prove ourselves as capable as we claimed we are (Supreme=greatest in authority, power, excellence or achievement) will take us to nowhere. I personally believe based on the fact of history and science that Malays are the rightful owner of Malaysia. However, due to the fact that we fight against each other before and this has lead to the interference of other world power into our country, we let ourselves being colonised by others for almost 200 years. But now, after 50 years of independency, we should already have guts to stand up and walk at the same level with the world power said to be more superior to us.
However, what prevented us from qualifying to do so is that there is no essence and meaning of stating 'Malay Supremacy' if the only thing that we have is a declining political power. There is no way of calling ourselves supreme if what we do is rely to others to share the big economic plate and most of us are still below the lowest income par. We could claim that we are supreme if most of us possess capabilities, skills, and excel in economics and sociology too. This is not only as an individual but in a larger scope where the fortunate must always do their best to bring the society around them together in the stream of development.
What we need now is a breed of Neo-Malay that are willing to broaden their horizon in equipping themselves with whatever skills and knowledge ample to make them the best in whatever they do. We must also have in mind that by choosing to be a Malaysian, we must be the champion in tolerating with other races that have together build this country since its independency. We must also aware that the term special privileges we currently enjoy is not a state of comfort but should be seen as the means to give us opportunity in developing our potential which later could be use to serve back the religion, race and nation.
Pardon me for being a little harsh in words tonight but with the current state of affairs in Malaysia nowadays, an ignorant attitude will only make the situation worst. Will we keep on letting the veterans to speak up for us while we have something better to be delivered in our mind and when the future ahead is ours to be decided upon? Cheers to all, may my words trigger some sense into you and even if it is not much, a little small thought will do.
To me, teachers can be anyone who has taught us throughout our life. It can be our parents, families, neighbours, friends, friend's parents, school teachers, universities lecturers or anyone who had taught us something……So to all teachers who have groomed us to where and what we are right now, Selamat Hari Guru and Happy Teacher's Day. Just wondering on what type of an academician I will be molded into after this few years and felt funny thinking that later one day I will also have to send my children (when I have one!) to school undergoing the long steps of education years.
Sharing some of my experience during my classes here, I would like to call upon on all Malaysian (especially Malays) to quit saying that we can't excel in whatever that we do just because us being us (Malaysian=lazy=lepak). What I realized here is that even the Japanese, said as the most hardworking race in the world, also currently suffer the same phenom
enon experience elsewhere in the modern world where the youth feels that they don' have to work hard and lives in their own comfort zone. The situation where all students will always be punctual for classes, attend every lecture and concentrate on what being taught is all a myth now. Before this, I am always being mocked by friends from other universities stating Kyodai (Kyoto U) as just another assembly place for nerds and bookworms. But to tell you truth, time has change (the pic showed a student in front of me in the lecture hall).However, the Japs may have their own reason to feel proud or something as they have achieved much by being significant in the field of science and technology and also the world's second largest economic power. But for us, especially the Malays, shouting 'Malay Supremacy' (Ketuanan Melayu) everywhere without doing nothing to prove ourselves as capable as we claimed we are (Supreme=greatest in authority, power, excellence or achievement) will take us to nowhere. I personally believe based on the fact of history and science that Malays are the rightful owner of Malaysia. However, due to the fact that we fight against each other before and this has lead to the interference of other world power into our country, we let ourselves being colonised by others for almost 200 years. But now, after 50 years of independency, we should already have guts to stand up and walk at the same level with the world power said to be more superior to us.
However, what prevented us from qualifying to do so is that there is no essence and meaning of stating 'Malay Supremacy' if the only thing that we have is a declining political power. There is no way of calling ourselves supreme if what we do is rely to others to share the big economic plate and most of us are still below the lowest income par. We could claim that we are supreme if most of us possess capabilities, skills, and excel in economics and sociology too. This is not only as an individual but in a larger scope where the fortunate must always do their best to bring the society around them together in the stream of development.
What we need now is a breed of Neo-Malay that are willing to broaden their horizon in equipping themselves with whatever skills and knowledge ample to make them the best in whatever they do. We must also have in mind that by choosing to be a Malaysian, we must be the champion in tolerating with other races that have together build this country since its independency. We must also aware that the term special privileges we currently enjoy is not a state of comfort but should be seen as the means to give us opportunity in developing our potential which later could be use to serve back the religion, race and nation.
Pardon me for being a little harsh in words tonight but with the current state of affairs in Malaysia nowadays, an ignorant attitude will only make the situation worst. Will we keep on letting the veterans to speak up for us while we have something better to be delivered in our mind and when the future ahead is ours to be decided upon? Cheers to all, may my words trigger some sense into you and even if it is not much, a little small thought will do.
1 comment:
hey i think i remember you from asasi.that was waaaay back then ;) stumbled upon your blog via a friend of mine hoho.wise,not? anyways,i remember you looked like one of the characters from final fantasy x (and hey that is a compliment). oh well, nice written blog anyways ;)
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