On the 31st Of August, for the 49th time, we Malaysian celebrated the birth of our beloved country. As much as what we’ve achieved so far, we still have a lot to do. Although I haven’t got much to complain but there are certainly room for the country to improve, be it socially, politically, economically and legislatively.
We should feel proud and lucky to be a Malaysian. We’ve enjoyed so much development and I think no one in this country felt left behind. However we shouldn’t easily feel satisfied and there’s also a danger of becoming complacent. We are living in a globalize world and the country is always susceptible to unscrupulous competition that has a direct and critical impact to the countries development.
Whatever the challenges that we're going to face, I hope we’re all prepared to face them responsibly. Globalisation is here to stay and through advancement in the communication and transportation system, the world is getting smaller everyday. Personally, one direct implication to this advancement is that we have more and more work to do. Our office is practically in our pocket! Remember the days without mobile phone or the internet? No e-mails? Waahhh…ssooo nice…the world seems to move so much slower. Our only source of entertainment was the Airwolf series, Knight Rider, Transformers, GI Joe, Thundercats, Pi Mai Pi Mai Tang Tu and many others. Today, we are more connected to the digital world. Cable TV, the internet and mobile communication keeps us connected 24/7. We are living in a multimedia era powered by the internet engine.
With the broadband explosion, our life is going to change even more. This possess different sort of challenges to us. Borders between countries no longer form barriers for people from both side of the fence to collaborate. Distance will be the least factor for people to work together effectively and this will definitely speed up the development of innovative products and services. This is one good side of the technology.
However as we are more and more dependent on the virtual world, we might want to question the true meaning of independence. When borders are increasingly being erased through the reduction of the digital divide, it will give independence a different definition. More and more information and data including the history will be archive in a digital form. Imagine if one alter the historical facts. I know that today our identity can easily be changed. God knows how much the Malaysian or even the foreign government knows about us individually. They know so much that when human cloning is socially viable, identity will be copied, stored or recycled. Identity could even one day become a commodity. Masa tu memang tak ada pengundi hantu dah…kita panggil pengundi klon.
Do you ever think that changing history is possible? I think it’s possible. People talk about how we can change the present by traveling back in time. Well, when the world is so ‘plugged’ in into the digital world, I guess we don’t actually need to travel through time to alter the past do we? A country could be ‘formatted’ out of this world using a computer and be ‘loaded’ with new a national identity!
The only thing that technology cannot control and manipulate over an individual is the ideology or values that he or she believes in. It all boils down to the individual. To me Merdeka means declaring that I’m a Malaysian. Even if one can change my identity in the NRD database, one cannot force me to say or declare that I’m not a Malaysian. They have to execute me, clone me and give the clone a new identity who is not a Malaysian. But what kind of a Malaysia that I want to live in?? Really I can write pages to answer this question. But for now, I just want to be a Merdeka man, a true Malaysian.
We should feel proud and lucky to be a Malaysian. We’ve enjoyed so much development and I think no one in this country felt left behind. However we shouldn’t easily feel satisfied and there’s also a danger of becoming complacent. We are living in a globalize world and the country is always susceptible to unscrupulous competition that has a direct and critical impact to the countries development.
Whatever the challenges that we're going to face, I hope we’re all prepared to face them responsibly. Globalisation is here to stay and through advancement in the communication and transportation system, the world is getting smaller everyday. Personally, one direct implication to this advancement is that we have more and more work to do. Our office is practically in our pocket! Remember the days without mobile phone or the internet? No e-mails? Waahhh…ssooo nice…the world seems to move so much slower. Our only source of entertainment was the Airwolf series, Knight Rider, Transformers, GI Joe, Thundercats, Pi Mai Pi Mai Tang Tu and many others. Today, we are more connected to the digital world. Cable TV, the internet and mobile communication keeps us connected 24/7. We are living in a multimedia era powered by the internet engine.
With the broadband explosion, our life is going to change even more. This possess different sort of challenges to us. Borders between countries no longer form barriers for people from both side of the fence to collaborate. Distance will be the least factor for people to work together effectively and this will definitely speed up the development of innovative products and services. This is one good side of the technology.
However as we are more and more dependent on the virtual world, we might want to question the true meaning of independence. When borders are increasingly being erased through the reduction of the digital divide, it will give independence a different definition. More and more information and data including the history will be archive in a digital form. Imagine if one alter the historical facts. I know that today our identity can easily be changed. God knows how much the Malaysian or even the foreign government knows about us individually. They know so much that when human cloning is socially viable, identity will be copied, stored or recycled. Identity could even one day become a commodity. Masa tu memang tak ada pengundi hantu dah…kita panggil pengundi klon.
Do you ever think that changing history is possible? I think it’s possible. People talk about how we can change the present by traveling back in time. Well, when the world is so ‘plugged’ in into the digital world, I guess we don’t actually need to travel through time to alter the past do we? A country could be ‘formatted’ out of this world using a computer and be ‘loaded’ with new a national identity!
The only thing that technology cannot control and manipulate over an individual is the ideology or values that he or she believes in. It all boils down to the individual. To me Merdeka means declaring that I’m a Malaysian. Even if one can change my identity in the NRD database, one cannot force me to say or declare that I’m not a Malaysian. They have to execute me, clone me and give the clone a new identity who is not a Malaysian. But what kind of a Malaysia that I want to live in?? Really I can write pages to answer this question. But for now, I just want to be a Merdeka man, a true Malaysian.
Happy Birthday Malaysia…
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