Melviin Khoo

Waking up in the early morning, looking at people waving our Jalur Gemilang, listening to people cheers. Yes, it is a beautiful day, our Malaysia Day.

16th of September, the day which we are formed together as one country. Back in 1963, you could see that we are waving our flags and called ourselves Malaysian. Yes, you could still see the same atmosphere in 2016, just that with different people and different environment. All these years, Malaysia is growing, from a small country to a globally well-known country. But it seems like we are slowing down our footsteps, getting all the corruption, scandals, hatred and unhealthy political strategies pulling us back from moving forward.

I believe Malaysia should be the greatest country right? We have the best in Malay, the best in Chinese, the best in Indian, the best in Kadazan, the best in Iban and so on... so why are we yet to become the greatest country?

Yes, you may say that the current coalition government are too corrupted, govern with the traditional ways and some of them still give out racial remarks. How about the opposition? They don't even have their plan and their stand on the local issues. You can see that today they are all friends yum cha (drinking tea) together and the next day, they are breaking up with each other. How are we going to put our future into their hands? So, what's in Malaysia's future? HOPELESS!

I think it's time for us, the younger generation to decide where we want our country to move forward and what we want to give to our future generation.

Malaysia, A Part of Who We Are.

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You could be asking me, why do I suddenly start a website?

Well, let me tell you the story of this website...

I came across Exabytes's promotion on domain name registration and web hosting. Then, I asked myself "why don't create a website to share my viewpoint on local communities and nationwide issues which I believe my viewpoint could differ from others?" In the meantime, I could also collect other's perspective and also gather a team of young Malaysian to help in building a better tomorrow not only for ourselves but also the future generation. I believe a good leader not only could stand up and speak for his people, but should also listen, do and talk less.

"Empty vessels make the most noise"

Yes, I believe in "DO" more than "TALK". A plan is just a plan if you do not take a step towards your goal. Its just like you keep complaining on your daily life, "why are the road so jam", "why the food is so expensive", "why this, why that" and still, you didn't realized that your complains is not helping you and you just keep repeating it everyday. You may realized that politics is dark, it's not my problem, therefore I don't need to care about it. NO, you are so WRONG. Politics does linked with our everyday life. Every decision that made by our leader, ministers does affect our life. Take an example, if the trade  minister regardless of federal or local, does not work hard enough to bring investment into our place, there will be lesser job availability and people will start to move our that area. It also affected our economic growth since there are less investment and the unemployment rate will start to increase that makes a lot of people jobless including you and I.

That's why I'm encouraging Young Malaysian to involve with the local communities' activities, involve in decision making for our country, our state, the place we live. Yes, you could make a difference, creating a better future for yourself and our future generation. Any constructive feedback or discussion is welcome as I believe in freedom of speech =)

Thank you.

Melviin Khoo