Malays, Chinese, Indians... these are basically the core of Tanah Melayu, and later Malaysia (including the community of Sabah and Sarawak). This Month of August represent the Independence of Malaya in 1957, later followed by the Malaysian Federation (Peninsular Malaysia, Sabah and Sarawak) in 1963. It has been those many years Malaysia has now seen itself standing as a nation of people of various ethnicity, race, religion and background. With the political turmoil of Malaysia today, this has tested the years that have passed by without really working out a formula that will maintain stability of the differences between racial and religious issue. I believe that 2008 is not like 1969, because some of us have come to live together and understand one another, but still this only is true for a small percentage of Malaysia. Distrust is still strong. Integration of racial and religious understanding is still possible, but will take time, but it all depends on how well the leadership is in providing the initial requirement of integration. Integration starts at early age, and will take a life time to see its result. The National School was a good tool which was not put to good use. Because of its inefficiency, parents gets annoyed and send them to other forms of school, in the end, the targeted integration fails (not in totality..but it shows there are still loopholes).
Coming to a certain unification point will take time, but i am totally confident that each Malaysian have a love for this country "Tanah tumpah darahku". We should be starting to learn about each other, religion, ethnicity and etc, so we become to respect one another. When there is respect, surely there will be less quarrellings. We should as a nation, stop for a while, and look at ourselves in the month of Independence, and ask ourselves, what do we really want?
Thursday, August 14, 2008
Wednesday, August 13, 2008
the same playing field?
Having read the comment by the Selangor Menteri Besar on his comments on UiTM, I was really relived that at last there can be more competition and cooperation between Malaysian regardless of race and religion, even if it was just 10%, its a good start. But suddenly there was some relentless individuals who saw this as an attack , and we had students who wore black marching to demonstrate on a "suggestion". What makes me wonder more is why people higher up in the institution hierarchy was also up against the "suggestion" by an individual, and wanting to be a university of international standards seems more of just a slogan than a target.
Universities should be building bridges between the gaps made by the education system (that i will write later in the near future), because campus life should be a preparatory platform before these young adults can enter the real world which is not made of up of certain groups but a mixture of ethnic, religion, background and etc, and under the country of Malaysia. What Malaysia lacks currently after the 1969 issue was integration between people. and even after so many years, the issue is still there. The national school had a good start but started to fizzle out. universities open their doors to everyone (even tough theres the quota system), yet we still see these young groups of individuals mixing with those of the same ideology, thus integration was not achieved. One of the 1969 issue was because the bumi (i wouldnt say bumi..but should be malay) was not happy with regards to wealth distribution between the races, so the government came up with the NEP, which was suppose to create the balance between the races. But how successful of NEP seems to only be a poison if the idea was kept too long. Suddenly these bumi's become too dependent , while other's had to fend for themselves. So when put on the same playing field, the problems is not only just still there but worsens. The same is said for university, if you don't prepare and coach individual to play on a level playing field, it would be a mountain to climb once they are on the field.
I graduated from a an IPTA which not many non-bumi would like to attend because of the name (IIUM/UIAM..but those who do come, they are exceptionally good... i missed the time in secondary school though where I could mixed with everyone). It really caused a few problems when some of us where in the real world, because we were not exposed to a Malaysian scenario (international..a little yes) it became quite hard (its a good thing I attended those open seminars and programes where there is everyone Malaysia, so I had a head start compared to my comrades). I am sure there are handfulls of people who can tolerate each other, but if there still exist group lines within our institution, we cannot achieve integration at the national level.
Coming back to UiTM, im not underminig their intelectual (knowledge base) credibility. There are a few exceptional individuals in the institution, but when you coach students on a field that does not reflect the real world, you just cannot get the desired result. I would like to suggest to for students and administrators alike within such institution to have debates and seminar on the concept of integration, and not jump the gun without studying the consequences. Opening the doors to have a better practicing field can prepare everyone better, and in reality, it is true non-bumi works harder than the bumi (not all..but most). Why wait till going to the playing field to realize we are at a disadvantage?
Universities should be building bridges between the gaps made by the education system (that i will write later in the near future), because campus life should be a preparatory platform before these young adults can enter the real world which is not made of up of certain groups but a mixture of ethnic, religion, background and etc, and under the country of Malaysia. What Malaysia lacks currently after the 1969 issue was integration between people. and even after so many years, the issue is still there. The national school had a good start but started to fizzle out. universities open their doors to everyone (even tough theres the quota system), yet we still see these young groups of individuals mixing with those of the same ideology, thus integration was not achieved. One of the 1969 issue was because the bumi (i wouldnt say bumi..but should be malay) was not happy with regards to wealth distribution between the races, so the government came up with the NEP, which was suppose to create the balance between the races. But how successful of NEP seems to only be a poison if the idea was kept too long. Suddenly these bumi's become too dependent , while other's had to fend for themselves. So when put on the same playing field, the problems is not only just still there but worsens. The same is said for university, if you don't prepare and coach individual to play on a level playing field, it would be a mountain to climb once they are on the field.
I graduated from a an IPTA which not many non-bumi would like to attend because of the name (IIUM/UIAM..but those who do come, they are exceptionally good... i missed the time in secondary school though where I could mixed with everyone). It really caused a few problems when some of us where in the real world, because we were not exposed to a Malaysian scenario (international..a little yes) it became quite hard (its a good thing I attended those open seminars and programes where there is everyone Malaysia, so I had a head start compared to my comrades). I am sure there are handfulls of people who can tolerate each other, but if there still exist group lines within our institution, we cannot achieve integration at the national level.
Coming back to UiTM, im not underminig their intelectual (knowledge base) credibility. There are a few exceptional individuals in the institution, but when you coach students on a field that does not reflect the real world, you just cannot get the desired result. I would like to suggest to for students and administrators alike within such institution to have debates and seminar on the concept of integration, and not jump the gun without studying the consequences. Opening the doors to have a better practicing field can prepare everyone better, and in reality, it is true non-bumi works harder than the bumi (not all..but most). Why wait till going to the playing field to realize we are at a disadvantage?
Saturday, August 9, 2008
VENISON MICROBIOLOGY
In New Zealand, the meat of deers are called venison. Elsewhere venison are the meat of hunted animals from the wild, but here in New Zealand, they breed them like sheep and cows. Venison is said to be a really healthy meat because of its low fat content and high in iron. When it comes to marketing, venison are not that so popular due to the fact that it looses its colour within a very short time period. So currently, the best method of promoting venison is let the consumer know that venison, if discoloured are still fresh.
Currently, I am working out to understand the meat microbiological system of meat. So if you've read the bible of meat scientist "Lawrie's Meat Science", in the 6th edition, there is a statement which says venison can be readily hung for quite some time without due precaution, which in other words, something is preventing the attacks of microbes. There's not many research, but they have observed that venison after quite sometime, its surface bacterial load has no significant change when compared to beef which had a tremendous increase of bacteria within the same period.
here is where i be coming in, i am currently working on a meat system to study the phenomena, which after sometime i found it is real (really) hard and complicated. theres a few possibilities though that i may need to go through before i settle on a possible study system, which once i have completed, i might post it sometime later.
Currently, I am working out to understand the meat microbiological system of meat. So if you've read the bible of meat scientist "Lawrie's Meat Science", in the 6th edition, there is a statement which says venison can be readily hung for quite some time without due precaution, which in other words, something is preventing the attacks of microbes. There's not many research, but they have observed that venison after quite sometime, its surface bacterial load has no significant change when compared to beef which had a tremendous increase of bacteria within the same period.
here is where i be coming in, i am currently working on a meat system to study the phenomena, which after sometime i found it is real (really) hard and complicated. theres a few possibilities though that i may need to go through before i settle on a possible study system, which once i have completed, i might post it sometime later.
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