FuFu Malaysia Project - Malaysia Needs Everyone

FuFu Malaysia Project
24th August - 16th September 2010 | Episode 6


FuFu Malaysia Project - Episode 6 : Malaysia Needs Everyone

Most of you must be curious why i didn't go back to Japan for my master degree. Well, i actually was fascinated with German's sustainable development during my previous trip in Europe 3 years ago so i decided to pursue a master's degree in Urban Agglomerations in Frankfurt, Germany. To be able totally reaping the benefits, i am glad that i made the correct decision taking up this course in Germany and now i am here in another sustainable city Curitiba, Brazil, doing my exchange semester, leading my advanced tertiary education to a successful completion in part of my life. The course offers me the correct type of environment to better understand the sustainable development and gradually enhance my knowledge and develop my future career.

Having coursemates from all over the world, I have the opportunities to broaden my international perspective and learn from completely new and different educational background people. This reminds me of my working life in Singapore as an assistant Civil Engineer right after my round-the-world trip. My ex-company was a multi-national Japanese Construction company, in-charging the reclamation project of Pasir Panjang Terminal. We were working with Hyundai (Korea) and local Singaporean construction companies for the huge project.



Under me were workers from Thailand, Pakistan, Bangladesh and India. One very important thing i have ever learned is we can't live without anyone. Even though we have architects doing the designs, engineers precisely checking the calculation, managers evaluating the plans and once the project had been approved, we still need skillful foreign labours to get it constructed, of course under our supervision.

Apart of these groups of people, we still need safety officers to ensure all the safety precautions had done properly, good and supportive team from administration department and staff who cater our meals everyday so we would have energy to work productively. Seriously, no matter how different our status are, how much we earn, how intelligent we are, how capable and diligent we are, we still can't survive without anyone.

Everyone has his or her own special role to play. I couldn't do the design yet because i was still new. I couldn't do the welding jobs, and the workers are skillful enough to do every little single stuff though they are not educated. The safety officers knew everything about the consequences of all accidents and able to act fast, handle and solve the problems. The administration department did all the paper works for me nicely. What was my role then? I was the mediator between my boss and workers. Well basically i was supervising and making sure the construction work was being properly done.

I worked almost 12 hours a day with my Thai and Indian workers. Our relationship was beyond engineer and labours. My superior told me to keep a distance with them, but i still have have own stand! They are human beings too. We worked together. They knew i love Thai food, so they always invited me to join them for lunch. Though they only earned nearly 30% of what i received every month, they never fail to cook more, just for me. They taught me Thai too. When someone like you, they would prefer you to know them well. To know them well is to speak the language and communicate in the same language. My boss was impressed because i know all my 80 over workers well. I even knew their names and also characters.

So i speak a little bit of Thai. Some of them were really sad because i would be leaving the company soon. Frankly, i do miss them once a while. There's a reason for everyone to come to this world. We have our own specific role to play in this big arena. Not only doctors, lawyers, engineers, businessmen, investors, we still need policemen, teachers, nurse, postmen, and definitely we can't exclude the existance of mechanic, scavenger, maid, etc.



After going to Germany, i have been attending lectures related to urban planning. Likewise, to design and build a city, not only the design from architects, we need engineers from different professions such as traffic, water and sewage, landscape, environment, geology, management as well as the intervention with socialists, urban planners, investors and the representatives from the municipal and federal government, etc. To have all these people working together with, only can we collect different perspectives and experiences from their own related fields to plan a city that would be integrated with everything well for everyone.

Malaysia has reached a stage where our society has made progress that can be described as nearly excellent. We have almost everything such as the world's tallest and beautiful twin towers, renowned international airport, steady economy, as well as a strong multi-racial society that supposed to live together happily. We have five main races, Malays, Chinese, Indians (mainly in the peninsular ) and also Iban and Kadazan (Sabah and Sarawak). What should we do further?

You need someone. Somebody needs someone, but Malaysia needs everyone. We all should be integrated as one team. United we eat, divide we slim. Stop letting our elites and scholars flowing out the country. We should review the strategy and start reinvest on our own people. Unconditionally loves and supports will make them contribute more to the country without asking any return, just like what Tunku Abdual Rahman, Mr. Tan Cheng Lock and Tun Sambanttan had done for Malaysia 53 years ago. Working together we can improve the current chaotic situation. Like what i have learned from my master course, going through all problems with the knowledge and experiences everyone has, only can we develop an ideal piece of land for all.

p.s. : The 14 pointed star symbolises the unity of the 13 states and the federal government.



富富默迪卡行動 - 馬來西亞需要大家

你們一定想知道爲什麽我會選擇德國
日本那麽好爲什麽不回去繼續深造呢
原因就是我曾經去過德國背包旅行咯
當時的我很喜歡德國獨特的城市規劃
所以就嘗試申請了幾間出名的大學院
竟然給我申請到然後就去了法蘭克福
同學們都是世界各國不同教育背景的
很高興可以跟他們一起上課討論課題
他們不一樣的角度讓我學了很多事物
這讓我回想我兩年前在新加坡的工作

跟一班日本及韓國的工程師與建築師
他們真的非常能幹做事又認真又準確
還向非凡的精英看齊努力吸收其精華
還跟泰國印度孟加拉等外勞一起工作
在外勞的身上我也學會到他們的智慧
雖他們沒有受過什麽教育工資也不高
身份地位很渺小但還是很重要的角色
而且他們非常能幹什麽都難不倒他們
如果我們的工程沒了他們就做不成了

這個工作環境我學到分工合作的精神
大家都有各自的角色我們需要大家的
在這社會裏我們需要醫生律師生意人
我們也要護士警察郵差老師公務人員
更加不可以缺少清道夫以及建築工人
沒有了大家我們就無法維持一個國家
就好像我在德國學習城市規劃的時候
城市規劃需要建築師土木工程師以外
交通水道土地利用土質地理環境之外
我們還需要社會福利當地官員及政府
集合大家一起來計劃規劃討論及檢討
少了一個成員都不可以完成整個計劃
通過大家全方面廣闊視野及寶貴經驗
我們才可研製出一個刮目相看的城市
和睦共處環境舒適居住宜人的安樂窩
各有千秋顯出大家獨特優美的大都市

我們現在的馬來西亞什麽都已經有了
世界最高雙峰塔國際機場多元化國家
記得人類是群體動物我們要團結一致
無論角色有多麽小我們都要扮演下去
不可以那麽快就放棄我們那一份精神
你需要他他需要她馬來西亞需要大家
一個人計短兩個人計長三個人計將來
更何況我們有各種族優良的人才精英
要懂得如何善用我們培養出來的棟梁
一砖一瓦慢慢地把起我們的家園改善
大家要結合起來把家園邁向新的一樓