A Letter from a Chinese Malaysian Resident In USA

and our "MALAYSIAN" Government wants to woo MALAYSIANS back from overseas.......


Dato' Sri Mohd Najib Bin Tun
Haji Abdul Razak
Prime Minister of Malaysia,
admin@portal.gov.my

Dear Prime Minister,

We refer to the letter below from a Chinese
Malaysian for your information.

Would you like to comment, please?
We look forward to hearing from you in due course.

Yours respectfully,
Eddie Hwang

Unity Party WA
UnityPartyWA@westnet.com.au
www.unitywa.org
Ph/Fax: 61 893681884
Date: 02-Dec-2009

A Malaysian speaks up....


I am a female Chinese Malaysian, living in the
Washington DC area in the United States . I have read many of the letters
that often talk about foreign countries when the writers have no real
knowledge of actually living in those countries.

Many draw conclusions about what those countries
are like after hearing from someone else or by reading and hearing about
them in the media or after four years in a college town in those countries.


I finished STPM with outstanding results from
the prestigious St George's Girls School in Penang . Did I get a university
place from the Malaysian government? Nothing.. With near perfect scores, I
had nothing, while my Malay friends were getting offers to go overseas.

Even those with 2As got into university. I was
so depressed. I was my parent's last hope for getting the family out of
poverty and at 18, I thought I had failed my parents.

Today, I understand it was the Malaysian
Government that had failed me and my family because of its discriminatory
policies.

Fortunately, I did not give up and immediately
did research at the Malaysian American Commission on Education Exchange
(MACEE) to find a university in the US that would accept me and provide all
the finances. My family and friends thought I was crazy, being the youngest
of nine children of a very poor carpenter. Anything that required a fee was
out of our reach.

Based on merit and my extracurricular activities
of community service in secondary school, I received full tuition
scholarship, work study, and grants to cover the four years at a highly
competitive US university.

Often, I took 21 credits each semester, 15
credits each term while working 20 hours each week and maintaining a 3.5
CGPA. A couple of semesters, I also received division scholarships and
worked as a TA (teaching assistant) on top of everything else.

For the work study, I worked as a custodian
(yes, cleaning toilets), carpet layer, computer lab assistant, grounds
keeping, librarian, painter, tour guide, etc. If you understand the US
credit system, you will understand this is a heavy load.

Why did I do it? This is because I learnt as a
young child from my parents that hard work is an opportunity, to give my
best in everything, and to take pride in the work I do. I walked away with
a double major and a minor with honours but most of all a great lesson in
humility and a great respect for those who are forced to labour in
so-called `blue collar' positions.

Those of you who think you know all about
Australia , US, or the West, think again. Unless you have really lived in
these countries, i.e. paid a mortgage, paid taxes, taken part in elections,
you do not understand the level of commitment and hard work it takes to be
successful in these countries, not just for immigrants but for people who
have lived here for generations.

These people are where they are today because of
hard work. (Of course, I am not saying everyone in the US is hardworking...
There is always the lazy lot that lives off of someone else's hard work.
Fortunately, they are the minority..)

Every single person, anywhere, should have the
opportunity to succeed if they want to put in the effort and be accountable
for their own actions. In the end, they should be able to reap what they
sow.

It is bearable that opportunities are limited
depending on how well-off financially one's family is but when higher
education opportunities are race-based, like it is in Malaysia, it is
downright cruel for those who see education as the only way out of poverty.


If you want to say discrimination is here in the
US , yes, of course it is. Can you name a country where it doesn't happen?
But let me tell you one thing - if you go looking for it, you will find it.

But in Malaysia , you don't have to go look for
it because it seeks you out, slaps you in your face every which way you
turn, and is sanctioned by law!

Here in the US , my children have the same
opportunity to go to school and learn just like their black, white, and
immigrant friends. At school, they eat the same food, play the same games,
are taught the same classes and when they are 18, they will still have the
same opportunities. Would I want to bring my children back to Malaysia ?
So they can suffer the state-sanctioned
discrimination as the non-malays have had for over 50 years?

The injustice the non-Malay have to suffer in
frightening silence is the most damaging problem one has to face throughout
one's life. You just have to look at the mighty govt structures which
completely favours only one race, the Umno Malay.
The Chinese and Indians are treated no better
than the illegal Indonesians.
Racism and corruption are openly practised by
the Malay politicians everywhere, Courts, schools/Uni, police, govt
offices, contracts, GLC, NEP, ISA, local govt.
It's so powerful and intimidating that you walk
with fear and keep your mouth shut on anything and everything political.
Religion is taboo unless you talk good about Islam.

As for being a slave in the foreign country, I
am a happy 'slave' earning a good income as an IT project manager.

I work five days a week; can talk bad about the
president when I want to; argue about politics, race and religion openly;
gather with more than 50 friends and family when I want (no permit needed)
and I don't worry about the police pulling me over because they say I ran
the light when I didn't.

Have we seen the light at the end of the tunnel yet (Anwar Ibrahim)?
Or is it the head light of an oncoming Umno train ?

Lets hope its the former for the sake of all
fair-minded Malaysians.

The dream of a Malaysian 'race' in the future is
nowhere in sight with the present BN govt.
Where is Negara-Ku???


BLOGGER COMMENT:

THERE IS NO LIGHT AT THE END OF THE TUNNEL SO LONG AS ALL THE UMNOPUTRAS ARE STILL ALIVE AND ENJOYING THEIR KETUANAN, WHICH WILL CONTINUE ON TO THEIR CHILDREN AND GREAT GRAND CHILDREN.

THE ONLY SOLUTION IS TO SEND ALL THESE APARTHEID LEADERS FOR EXECUTION BY FIRING SQUAD