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Katak katak....

Working overseas but staying loyal - Singapore has more and more people venturing overseas:-

• Nearly half of all Singaporeans do not think they need to be a resident to be emotionally rooted to the country.
• Six out of 10 undergraduates said they wanted to go abroad to live or work mostly for better economic and job prospects, and enjoy a higher quality of life with less stress. About 7% attributed it to a lack of sense of belonging.
• An ACNielsen poll showed 21% of Singaporeans, mainly professionals, were considering emigration, half opting for Australia and New Zealand.
• Between 100,000 and 150,000 Singaporeans are studying, working or in business in foreign countries; leaders fear that many of them will not return.

If you were an Ah beng like me, you will watch channel like Phoenix, TVBS in Astro (or cable TV in Singapore). Since I have no money to subscribe to CNN or CNBC in Singapore, I watch the news and discussion forum of these chinese channels. I now know more about China, Taiwan, Singapore and Hong Kong than in Malaysia (tiu lor, I am not patriotic anymore lor).

I really think that China will one day become very big (BCK, just for you, and very 'straigh-forward')..... almost every tom dick and harry in china is very interested in international development. You can see that from the number of discussion programs, talk shows, forums or news on these chinese channels. They really care about the development of the North Korea, Thailand, Taiwan or even the Israel..... Well, I really do not know why one needs to know all these and how it will benefit your life. But it signifies the MACRO view practiced by the nation. In addition to doing their own 'domestic' duty, everyone keep abreast of BIGGER PICTURE, so that they can learn from others' experiences.

When everyone is going international, we Malaysian are still focusing on domestic..... The back bone of Malaysian economy is SME. Unfortunately, that is all that we have - SMALL and Medium. We really do not have home breed INTERNATIONAL players in sport, academic or business. I really believe that this is due to our attitude. We are still fighting over petty issues like whether Annuar still has his influence, Bumi no Bumi, 3% or 30%, Dr M mades proton chairman resign etc etc. No one is paying attention to BIG PICTURE and international developments.

I must remind fellow Malaysian that we are not just competing among races (neh, our old malay, chinese and indian story leh) but we are also competing internationally. Let's finish off the knock out stage with other countries first, before we start our own internal friendly match.

It is really cheap to do business in Malaysia. Serious. But that is just about the only 'weapon' which we have - cheap. We are not competitive in terms of knowledge, attitude and mindset (er...er...I really dun know the diff between attitude and mindset...but if I dun give 3 examples, I cannot use the word 'and'.....so, please live with it). Being a 'developing country' is really no excuse for us to be so short sighted or micro focused. We are not only losing to Singapore, we are also losing to China in terms of our attitude. Even the China universities in secondary cities like Hangzhou is more internationally focused than our Uni of Malaya.

I hope you can take this seriously, and think about it. From now on, lets be more Macro focus and we can all start with reading Hong Kong comics, watching MTV (must be US one hor) and EPL.....a thousand miles journey start with 1 step ma...

Also, if you have time, please watch more chinese channels. In addition to making you more Ah beng, it makes you feel ashamed....

Junior

posted by Junior @ 3:03 PM