1957 was the year Malaysia gained independence and was thought to be a land filled with natural resources and richness. Sadly look where are we today? Especially among the South East Asian countries, we are quite left behind. Every year on National day, I feel less and less patriotic because of the circumstances and how the country has become. It is already 2024 yet we still get the same news of students who performed well did not get admission to local universities because of the quota system. Our healthcare system is crumbling and government healthcare workers are severely underpaid yet we often boast to be a hub for medical tourism. There is no tolerance for other faiths, but we are expected to show lots of tolerance to the national religion. I still feel very disturbed by loud sounds (not about which religion but any religion that broadcast via speakers in my view is causing noise pollution) in the morning and sometimes I wish we could just be like China where religion can be practiced but spreading it openly is discouraged.
The average Malaysian is also problematic as the majority wants handouts and are lazy. We never protect our land and properties and let outsiders buy lots of the land and properties, I wonder if someday we will become the "outsiders". We love to kaypoh with other people's businesses and display flags of other countries (the watermelon colors) instead of putting up flags of our own country. The war out there has nothing to do with us and better not to take sides. A lot of brainless Malaysian also love the boycott culture which actually hurt their own people in the end. Just because a company is founded by the "enemy" does not mean the employees are part of the "enemy" team. It is just childish and this boycott culture is like a cancer in the country. I am so disappointed that my learned colleagues practice it too and it just puts me off.
We are also famous for being refugees in Australia or other countries, and I recalled how offended I felt to be detained a moment for further questioning when I visited Australia. It made me feel "why must I be born in this country?". Oh yeah speaking about that, I am so disgusted by how the Olympic games have banned Russia and Belarus from the Olympics just because of ...again war. A war that had nothing to do with commoners who were athletes and look how it impacted their participation. Those who participated had to participate under a name called 'AIN and they are subjected to a lot of restrictions. It is just not fair and I don't see any spirit of sports in this. Why must innocent people made to pay for the actions of their government/ leaders? Seeing how keyboard warriors from Malaysia attacked the Japanese cyclist social media, made me feel extremely embarrassed! Oh, and I found out that Koreans hate us too. So basically we are well-hated by everyone yet we are often wanna-be's of other people's culture and this is just sad.
I hope in 10 years we can recover a 1MYR to 0.4 SGD at least. Those from the tiny red dot only know how to keep roasting us about the currency and it is really annoying. Also, I hope the government is making tighter rules that are equivalent to their rules when we are visiting their land as some of them seem to forget there are rules and regulations. Although I know they may think they can do everything in Boleh Land.
Sigh, the Indian citizen that was swallowed by the ground in some famous tourist area in Malaysia is still not found and I heard they dug up a lot of rubbish. See, we are on the news for something bad again! And speaking about rubbish, not sure if our government still allows those so called first country export their rubbish here and treat us like a huge waste bin! I just think that namewee's Fuck Lynas was a memorable one and did help spread awareness on this matter.
Okay, lots of negativity in this post but sadly it is what it is. Malaysians please do better including me.
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