Merdeka 1234

I support Jeff Ooi's Merdeka1234!

Quoted from jeffooi.com:-

"And nothing can be greater than making all Malaysians colour-blind.

With two months away from the 50th anniversary of Merdeka, I outlined my biggest wishlist for the next 50 years of nationhood.

Let's do away with Malaysians 1234. We have to abolish all forms of forms that demand you to fill in ( 1 ) for Malay; ( 2 ) for Chine; ( 3 ) for Indian; and ( 4 ) Lain-lain for the field of race.

Forging a Bangsa Malaysia, the media and civil society should make sure that it's not all form over substance."

When I was a university student in England, I had never come across forms that required race and religion. The only exception was a fingerprints scientific survey which I was asked about my ethnicity.

I personally don't that it's necessary to have forms asking your race. The Law is applied to everyone regardless of someone's ethnic. I'm a Chinese, but I don't there's any Law in M'sia that only enforced on the Chinese community.

黑眼圈 I Don't Want to Sleep Alone

不久前，趁还在KL之际，一个人跑去Cineleisure看蔡明亮大导演的《黑眼圈》。听了他的鼎鼎大名许久，但之前却没看过任何一部他的电影；只知道每一部都很有巨大之回响。

虽然这是虚构的故事，但无可否认的，蔡导把它拍得十分真实。我想，很多游客在吉隆坡都不曾遇到这些场景。就是不清楚为什么电影局会说拍得太邋遢。难道把真实的拍出来也不对？

电影中，四个主配角之间，没有台词。只有“茄哩啡”才有对白。几乎每一幕，都定格很久。至少有10秒。第一次看这类电影，有点难消化。

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Bahasa

NO MORE BAHASA MELAYU
IT'S NOW BAHASA MALAYSIA!!

I didn't know that this language is officially called Bahasa Melayu since 1986. I remember my SPM results slip and cert were stated as Bahasa Malaysia. In fact, I don't see any significant differences between Bahasa Malaysia and Bahasa Melayu.

National Language (Bahasa Malaysia) = Bahasa Melayu

Is this equation wrong??

Why patriotisme is always the reason for the politicians to support their own arguments?? Do I think this change will bring harmony among Malaysian? Not exactly. There are more need to be done for this!

Anyway, most people normally would just call it BM. Bahasa Malaysia or Bahasa Melayu? You decide!

What about changing "Cina" to "Han"（汉） or "Hua"（华）? So as to make the Chinese community in Malaysia more patriotic?? Still remember the issue of 'Kecinaan' few years back??

In Indonesia, Bahasa Tionghoa (Chinese Language) and orang Tionghoa (Chinese people) are used instead of Bahasa Cina and orang Cina. Tiongkok means China.

Taken from Wikipedia.org,

Tiongkok is a word adapted and used in Indonesian that describes the ethnicity, country, and anything that is related to the People Republic of China. The term "Tiongkok" is the Min Nan dialect (the local dialect of Southern Fujian of the word Zhongguo in Mandarin.

In Indonesia, the usage of the word "Cina" ("Chinese") in referring to race or ethnicity - particularly when it is used by indigenous Indonesian - is often considered derogatory and racist (similar to the word "Nigger" when referring to African Americans in the United States. According to an article in KOMPAS, the origin of this connotation came from the people of Mainland China who migrated to Indonesia. They associated the word "Cina" to Shina (支那), an offensive term used by the Japanese to describe the Chinese in the Second Sino-Japanese War.

As an alternative, the word "Tiongkok" is used.

Therefore, there should be a new campaign in this. No more 'Bangsa Cina' but 'Bangsa Hua / Han'; 'Bahasa Hua / Han' instead of 'Bahasa Cina'.

In my opinion, Mandarin is only referred to the Oral Language and not really the Written Language. So, someone can speak Mandarin and not Chinese; somebody can read Chinese but not Mandarin. Get what I mean?? Clear??

No more CINA
But HAN（汉） or HUA（华）

P/S: Well, when I was still studying in UK, I wouldn't tell ppl that I was Chinese because they would think that I came from China. Most of the time, I just said 'I'm Malaysian' and let them confused about my oriental look. 我不是中国人！