Getting to know our constitution
April 16th, 2010
All these years, I had not taken an interest in getting to know a bit more about the Malaysian Constitution. It’s all my own mistake and ignorance.
I had always thought that being a Chinese, I am automatically a second-class citizen compared to the Malays who have been given preferential treatment in our country all these years.
As the Malays are the majority and are Muslims, I had also assumed we had become an Islamic country and not a secular one, because of the prominent mosques everywhere.
I have been mistaken and ignorant all along. In our Constitution, every Malaysian of any race has equal rights and also, this is a secular country.
My new awareness of the Constitution and other civic liberty issues stems from what I had learnt at the Saya Anak Bangsa Malaysia (SABM) roadshows and forums that I had attended. Here is the latest video of some of the highlights from the SABM event in Melaka.
Hope this video (which I had put together) will throw some light on important issues affecting you.
The citizens of Malaysia have the right to live in freedom, dignity and fraternity.
Remembering all the deaths and sorrows of our fellow human beings all over the world, due to the military and civilian conflicts. Hoping we may find a more peaceful way to settle our warfare.
"The world has enough for everyone's need but not everyone's greed." Mahatma Gandhi
This exhibition at KLPac from 17August to 13 September 2009 tel: KLPac 03 4047 9010
Our last exhibition was in November, 2008, at the Kuala Lumpur Performing Arts Center.
May 3rd, 2010 at 9:06 pm
We were back in Malaysia for Ching Ming. Having read the papers and stuff on the net and having spoken to taxi drivers, hawkers etc, we sense general apathy towards politics and frustration with the politicians. What we need is a simultaneous showing of despair in every single state at the same time on the same day. This can be facilitated by the current technology available.
We are not advocating what the Red Shirts are doing in Bangkok as that is just rabble rousing which can and is getting violent but something like Woodstock.