HEY AIESEC !
Sorry for late updatessss
As I arrived in Kuala Lumpur on 15th night,
and I started working on 16th morning. ( Crazyyyyy!!! )
Though it's kind of exhausting, it's quite fulfilling.
Brief Background of my internship
The organization I am working in, in short form is called MAKNA,
( complete name in Malay ).
It's a foundation who work to combat against Cancer through helping the cancer patient,
as well as public education.
On one hand,
the organization is going to set up new office in neighboring countries like Thailand and Singapore, one of the destination is HK.
So I have been working in the International division to help them research on the details needed for setting up an office in HK.
The supervisor of the division is a Brazilian, former AIESEC intern which stays in MAKNA after his internship.
I also work with a Brazilian girl on the HK office things.
In the division there are also 1 Saudi Arabian, 1 Dutch and 1 Bangladeshi.
On the other hand,
I also work in the Fund raising department with local Malays.
Basically I help them to see how they could adhere, organizational-wise, to the international standards set by an org. called BBB Wise Giving Alliance.
This is to secure the confidence of more donors.
Chinese in Malaysia
Bet Chinese should be prestigious in Malaysia, huh ? Coz perceptionally they are rich?
NO!
On Friday, I just had a conversation with my Chinese Colleague.
( He's so nice and friendly to me after knowing that I 'm from HK. XD )
The afternoon he told me that being a Chinese in Malaysia is quite helpless.
As the government always want to leverage its own race, the Malay,
they have a lot of subsidy and privilege to the Malays
while for the same size of land,
the Chinese have to pay extra tax and even a higher price.
The situation is so serious that Chinese have to pay a higher price for newspapers.
Even for working /owning street stalls,
the government will have subsidy for the local Malays,
but for Chinese, if the police walk by, the police will ask money from Chinese in which the money
doesn't go into the government nor any organization.
For university,
70% of seats are reserved for the local Malays, regardless how they perform in the exams,
while only 20% of seats are for Chinese, and the remaining 10% for the Indians.
While being asked the feeling,
my colleague says it's kinda helpless,
the policy is so unfair, yet no one could speak for them,
even for the Chinese that are with significance in the society,
Coz there is a law that states whoever tries to cause instability in Malaysia will be sent to jail for 2 years without going to court.
The government have all kinds of these policies because of the given fact that Chinese are so rich and success in Malaysia,
the government want to leverage the local Malays to the same level with Chinese,
Yet, in recent years,
the government, the minister is quoted as saying,
we are spoiling our Malays too much.
My colleague, near the end of the conversation,
saying that it's helpless,
also in the sense that they could do nothing to improve their next generation's situation in Malaysia.
The only thing they could do is to earn more money, to secure that their children will be able to sustain through these unfair policies.
We talk for like half and hour,
hahaha~ coz today is friday,
the Muslims have 2.5 hrs lunch for praying,
Since Muslims comprises of 70%-80% of the employees,
The office is kind of empty. lol
Gosh, the internet connection in my apartment is so weak that I couldn't upload the photos!!!
Will try tomorrow when I get back to the office,
will arrive at the office ahead of time before I should start working to upload that. =ppp
So how are you all, esp. my exchange mates???
Look forward to hearing the updates from you! =)))))))))))))
Will update this blog again soon. =)
Byeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
Sorry for late updatessss
As I arrived in Kuala Lumpur on 15th night,
and I started working on 16th morning. ( Crazyyyyy!!! )
Though it's kind of exhausting, it's quite fulfilling.
Brief Background of my internship
The organization I am working in, in short form is called MAKNA,
( complete name in Malay ).
It's a foundation who work to combat against Cancer through helping the cancer patient,
as well as public education.
On one hand,
the organization is going to set up new office in neighboring countries like Thailand and Singapore, one of the destination is HK.
So I have been working in the International division to help them research on the details needed for setting up an office in HK.
The supervisor of the division is a Brazilian, former AIESEC intern which stays in MAKNA after his internship.
I also work with a Brazilian girl on the HK office things.
In the division there are also 1 Saudi Arabian, 1 Dutch and 1 Bangladeshi.
On the other hand,
I also work in the Fund raising department with local Malays.
Basically I help them to see how they could adhere, organizational-wise, to the international standards set by an org. called BBB Wise Giving Alliance.
This is to secure the confidence of more donors.
Chinese in Malaysia
Bet Chinese should be prestigious in Malaysia, huh ? Coz perceptionally they are rich?
NO!
On Friday, I just had a conversation with my Chinese Colleague.
( He's so nice and friendly to me after knowing that I 'm from HK. XD )
The afternoon he told me that being a Chinese in Malaysia is quite helpless.
As the government always want to leverage its own race, the Malay,
they have a lot of subsidy and privilege to the Malays
while for the same size of land,
the Chinese have to pay extra tax and even a higher price.
The situation is so serious that Chinese have to pay a higher price for newspapers.
Even for working /owning street stalls,
the government will have subsidy for the local Malays,
but for Chinese, if the police walk by, the police will ask money from Chinese in which the money
doesn't go into the government nor any organization.
For university,
70% of seats are reserved for the local Malays, regardless how they perform in the exams,
while only 20% of seats are for Chinese, and the remaining 10% for the Indians.
While being asked the feeling,
my colleague says it's kinda helpless,
the policy is so unfair, yet no one could speak for them,
even for the Chinese that are with significance in the society,
Coz there is a law that states whoever tries to cause instability in Malaysia will be sent to jail for 2 years without going to court.
The government have all kinds of these policies because of the given fact that Chinese are so rich and success in Malaysia,
the government want to leverage the local Malays to the same level with Chinese,
Yet, in recent years,
the government, the minister is quoted as saying,
we are spoiling our Malays too much.
My colleague, near the end of the conversation,
saying that it's helpless,
also in the sense that they could do nothing to improve their next generation's situation in Malaysia.
The only thing they could do is to earn more money, to secure that their children will be able to sustain through these unfair policies.
We talk for like half and hour,
hahaha~ coz today is friday,
the Muslims have 2.5 hrs lunch for praying,
Since Muslims comprises of 70%-80% of the employees,
The office is kind of empty. lol
Gosh, the internet connection in my apartment is so weak that I couldn't upload the photos!!!
Will try tomorrow when I get back to the office,
will arrive at the office ahead of time before I should start working to upload that. =ppp
So how are you all, esp. my exchange mates???
Look forward to hearing the updates from you! =)))))))))))))
Will update this blog again soon. =)
Byeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
Hey roz! nice to read your blog! you are always that caring about our members learning ar ha =P the way you write the blog is a nice one, by categorizing them into parts.
ReplyDeletewell talking about your TN, just let us know if you'd need any support from the HK side, e.g. admin stuff or asking for set up procedures. I am kinda interested to know if you will end up working for them full time upon the finish of your internship in malaysia and work in their hk office =P but i know the chance as of now is close to 0%, let's see if you like the org or u got buy in of it later.
your xp sounds quite ok so far ar ha =]
for the chinese thingy that you mentioned, when i was reading your blog, i was just reflecting the situation in hk. we have been talking so much that we are being marginalized by the mainland chinese students and workforce, some people here are saying that we should restrict them from getting the "single-way permit" to migrate to hk / joining the "elite program" to migrate here, for securing our local workforce's employment rate, etc.
I think both issues arise because of humans' nature of protecting self-interests and alienating others. But then when it comes to economic theories, like what i have been studying so far, we should pursue free and competitive market without government interventions; then we will end up with exposing ourselves 100% and face the competition brought by the more-competitive mainland counterparts; such that the less-competitive ones in HK workforce will prone to unemployment. Getting more radical, we will feel our government is not protecting us and reinforcing our sentiment of sort of "hating" our mainlanders friends.
No purpose of discriminating others. Just telling the general sentiment in HK and even HKU right now. =.=
hey Roxanne.
ReplyDeleteIt's good to see you working hard in Malay. I am so glad to see what you shared in the blog. I am so sorry to hear poor treat to Chinese in Malaysia. It is quite contradictory. On one hand, she has to protect the local and on the other hand, not to spoil the local too much.
Anyway, just do not forget to add a label for your blog. I have added for you once. Don't forget it next time.
Look forward to your upcoming sharing.
Hey Delton,
ReplyDeleteI'm not sure about the long term working thing,
but if they do set up an office in HK,
it would be a perfect chance for my first job to embark my career =p
I think about the human nature to protect one's own race, you got the point.
Yes, when I was in HK, I also heard you and other classmates saying they are marginalized by the Mainland Chinese...
At that time I just think, ya, the mainland Chinese come to our place and marginalize us.
Somehow, when I am here and heard my colleauge saying their XP in Malaysia,
I am thinking,
In Malaysia, the point lies in,
whetheer to protect (/spoiling) the own race by pulling the others down,
or to ensure one's own race by pushing them to strive harder, giving more encouragement ( not by just giving them everything. )
and it's kind of different thing in HK,
coz why the Mainland Chinese is marginalize us,
it's because the education system still largely assess the student by how much they remember about the lessons?!
I'm sure if in real life working, practical projects or event management, HK students will for sure have advantage. =p
Svensson,
ReplyDeleteThanks for helping me to add the label.
But in fact what's it about the label?
I saw the option before I publish the post,
but I didn't know what's it for, and what to type in the label?
Kindly introduce it to me, VP(IM) ? =pppp
YA~ In Malaysia it's really contradictory,
but that's from the perspective of Chinese in Malaysia,
I'm still finding a chance to ask the Malay how they view about Chinese in Malaysia =p