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Friday, August 14, 2009

Malaysia Boleh?

I wish to share my thoughts on Malaysia's development..Now, don't be childish, who said there isn't any progressive development in Malaysia?
Well, look at the Petronas Twin Towers, KLIA, the man who went to space and had roti canai. Malaysia's few milestones but is it really that Malaysian? Petronas towers - 99% designed by Europeans; KLIA - designed by a Jap; Angkasawan - if he were an engineer or something, he would have been some help rather wasting space in space. I do not want to start on Proton.

Eye of Malaysia copied the Eye of London, most probably, the picture was taken at night to hide the dirty water.

Malaysians, I think, there's lack of creativity and ingenuity when it comes to development; or maybe we just don't really care; or we find it hard to mass produce things. You see, "Malaysia is truly asia" & "Malaysia is unique" quoted from the travel adverts, I feel, are words that really, really signify Malaysia. Truly asia and unique, but still, we Malaysians often settle for innovations from the far west, the far east and as far from the equator as possible. Some technology just can't work efficiently here. For example, convertible cars, powerful cars, umbrellas, highways, latest fashions and many more!

Developed countries just aren't the same as Malaysia. Therefore, a lot of technologies are just not suited for the environment here and the fact that Malaysia tends to follow the G8's footsteps to achieve development; just makes us sound like copycats. Furthermore, the weather here affects many things but Malaysians never thought of adapting to it; instead, we think that it's just something we have to live with; typical Malaysian thinking. More research and engineering should be done to make Malaysia better. That is if and only if Malaysians start to think for the country, and not thinking of trying to get out of its weird political situations.

These pictures were on the first Google page for image search "Malaysia". - I realized what most of the world would see first when they type "Malaysia" on Google Images-

Most man-made attractions of Malaysia are not truly Malaysian products. How can we be proud of that? So, where's the originality?Only the natural beauty of our country is "ori" from Malaysia. No wonder the Europeans thought we lived in trees; cause they were doing the building for us all along.


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