Friday, February 06, 2009

What we all can learn from a Mamak waiter at Hakim

(1) i think Malaysians are missing the big picture. The big picture that only the educated Malaysians are realising. Them and the Mamak Waiters and the Bangladeshis.

(2) While we are busy bickering about the small stuff, like local politics, Perak, DAP, UMNO, Pakatan Rakyat, the world is expanding and expanding.

(3) I believe at this level what we can do to help improve ourself is to gain as much knowledge as possible in order to competein a globalised world.

(4) While we are busy arguing on whether UiTM should be allowed to Non malays , the rest of the world is figuiring out how to enter other country and market. Why be so defensive Malays ?, Why dont we let the Non Malays in and increase the size of UiTM ?

(5) When i was studying in Shah Alam i had a mamak waiter friend who was waiting at the tables of Hakim Restaurant, He was from India. He has been working here for about 5 years. Later i got to know that he has now moved to Dubai to work in a restaurant there.

(6) The lessons that we can learn here are ;
(a) Even the lowly paid waiters from India has realised that the world is flat
(b) The world is now flat and borders are no longer barriers for employment
(c) One can make good anywhere in this world so long he/she is willing to work hard and brave the unknown.

Instead, what we are doing ?. We are busying ourself with political issues that adds very little value to ourself. Things like holding rallies,

It is in my belief that if you want to help your people , the best way is to garner as much knowledge as possible and give them back to people.

Standing in front of buildings and holding rallies is not one of them.

If i have a Non malay Muslim friend, he would be denied entry to UiTM because he is a non Bumiputra eventhough he is a brother of mine in religion.

Looks and feel wrong somehow.

I believe we should focusing on how to compete in a globalised world rather than bickering among ourself.

2 comments:

umar said...

it is so irony when the 'brilliant' uitm MPPs held a rally and demonstration against opening the uitm to non-bumi.but at the same time they forgot that there are numbers of foreigners who are studying in uitm and enjoy the benefit of uitm.please correct me if i'm wrong.

i agree that uitm is only for the bumi.no question about that.but, do we need to hold rally, carrying banners etc.

as the world is become borderless, there is a faction in our society who is left behind in the race.

anyway, mamak tu mesti dah kaya kan.dapat pegi dubai lagi.

cikgu ilmu hukum said...

Correction:non-malay muslim can enter into uitm under our federal constitution as long as he/she fulfill the definition of 'malay' :) opss..of course we've also international students pursue postgraduate programme.

Well, couldn't say much on that but my experiences teaching all this 'bebudak melayu' raise some questions in my mind. Are they really can survive in globalize world? Somehow rather i feel so annoying when 'some' of them did not bother on their studies and not concentrate during my lecture.

So who's gonna to be blame? Politicians?Lecturers?Professionals?
Students?

res ipsa loquitor!