TUNKU ABDUL RAHMAN
First and foremost, we would like to share about the story
of Tunku Abdul Rahman. He was the Cheif Minister of the Federation of Malaya from 1955. After
Malaysia Independence in 1957, he became the country’s first Prime Minister of
Malaysia. Sir Tunku Abdul Rahman was the son of 24th Sultan of
Kedah, so he was born in a royal family in Kedah. Thus, Sir Tunku Abdul Rahman
became the founding father of the independent Malaysia. Besides, he was also a
member of the United Malays National Organization, which is an organization
fight against Britian’s Malayan Union before he attaining independence of
Malaysia. On the other hand, Sir Tunku Abdul Rahman was also become the first
Prime Minister of Malaysia after Sarawak, Sabah and Singapore. In 1963, these
countries merged to form Malaysia. Thus, he is also known as Bapa Kemerdekaan,
which is in Malay language. He was also played a key role as Organization of
Islamic Conference first Secretary-General when its established in 1963.
In 1954, Sir Tunku Abdul
Rahman began his campaign for Malaya’s independence. At the first time of
campaign, his initial efforts failed to acheive in anything as the British
Administration was averse to grant independence, unless it was assured of the
racial harmony and equality in a new independent Malaya. Sir Tunku Abdul Rahman
as the President of the UMNO, was also consolidated a polotical alliance with
the Malaya Chinese Association to form the Alliance Party. After that, the
Indian community joined the Alliance Party in 1955. There is a huge popularity
among people of UMNO members were initially reluctant to open the party to
Chinese and Indian community. Thus, Sir Tunku Abdul Rahman became the first
Chief Minister of Malaya with Alliance Party and he won the first federal election that held
in 1955. In the same year, he traveled to Japan to negotiate the Malaya Independence,
so 31st August 1957 was finally decided the independence day for
Malaysia.
On the other hand, Sir Tunku
Abdul Rahman declared Islam as the official religion in Malaysia in 1960 and he
established the Islamic Welfare Organization, which is known as PERKIM as a
guiding body for Muslim converts. After that, he became the president for
PERKIM and served until a year before his death. He was also organize the first
International Quran Recital Competition in 1961. As active sportman for
himself, Sir Tunku Abdul Rahman promoted many sports events in Malaysia. He
tended to unite people of different race and religion together. Thus, he
started an international football tournament in 1957 and he was also elected as
the first president for Asian Football Confederation in 1958. He was also
interested in horse racing and he was a member of the Selangor Turf Club.
Besides, Sir Tunku Abdul Rahman was a co-founder of th Islamic Development Bank
and President of the Regional Islamic Da’wah Council of South East Asia and the
Pacific, which is known as RISEAP. His purpose is to running Malaysia as a
secular country where people of different beliefs and religion lived and worked
together.
In 1977, Sir Tunku Abdul
Rahman became the chairman of the Star, a newspaper company, which was banned
in 1987 by Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad because of provoking columns that
harshly critical Malaysia’s government. Thus, he was unsuccessfully tried to
establish new party UMNO Malaysia. He participated election and widely campaigned
against Sir Mahathir despite his worsening health and he died on 6th
December 1990, aged 87. Lastly, this is the story of his whole life. Although
there is many barriers in the path of his life, but he was willing to fight
against every barrier he met and he did not give up in the half way.
Sir Tunku Abdul Rahman was
also listed in Political leader in Malaysia. He form a united country for
people of different religion and belief to live together and work together
until the 21st century. Thus, without Sir Tunku Abdul Rahman, we
will not get along with people from different religion and stay in Malaysia for
so many years. Besides, we get to understand other religion backgrounds and how
they celebrate their festivals in Malaysia. As a conclusion, Sir Abdul Rahman
is the inspiration people for every Malaysian because without Sir Abdul Rahman,
there is no independence day for Malaysia. He had changed Malaysia into an
united country for all of us.
TUNKU
ABDUL RAHMAN TIMELINE
1903-:
Abdul
Rahman was born on 8 February 1903.
1909-:
Abdul was sent to a Malay Primary School in 1909.
1911-:
Abdul was
sent to Debsirin School in Bangkok.
1918-:
He enrolled at St. Catharine’s College in
Cambridge University.
1925-:
He
graduated with a bachelor degree in Arts in 1925.
1949-:
Abdul Rahman was admitted to bar in 1949.
1951-:
He was
made the president of UMNO.
1954-:
Abdul Rahman began his campaign for Malaya’s independence in
1954.
1955:
Abdul
Rahman became the first Chief Minister of Malaya.
1957-:
Malaya was declared independent on 31 August.
1957-:
He started
an international football tournament in 1957.
1958-:
He was elected as the first president of Asian Football Confederation.
1960-:
Abdul
Rahman declared Islam the official religion of Malaysia.
1960-:
He established the Islamic Welfare Organization (PERKIM).
1963-:
Malaya
became Malaysia in 1963.
1963-:
Abdul Rahman became the first Prime Minister of Malaysia.
1965:
Singapore
seceded and declared its Independence on 9 August 1965.
1970:
Abdul Rahman resigned from the position of Prime Minister on 22
November.
1971:
He
resigned from the presidency of UMNO.
1977:
Abdul Rahman became the chairman of The Star.
1982:
He became
the president of the Regional Islamic Da’wah
Council of South East Asia and the Pacific (RISEAP).
1987:
The Star was banned in 1987.
1990:
Abdul
Rahman died on 6 December 1990.
- BY ANGEL YEOH XIN YEE
MICHELLE YEOH
When
she was 4 years old, she began the formal training as a ballerina. Despite the
setback, Yeoh finished her bachelor's degree in London, focusing on
choreography and drama. When she was 15 years old, she was move to England and studied
at London's Royal Academy of Dance. Her dreams of becoming a prima ballerina
were cut short when she suffered a spinal cord injury. Despite the
setback, Michelle Yeoh finished her bachelor's degree in London, focusing on
choreography and drama. Furthermore, in the year 1983, when she was 21 years
old, she was crowned as Miss Malaysia. (Biography, Michelle Yeoh Biography, Para 2).
While
her first role in a major film was more damsel-in-distress than martial arts
superstar, she did figure out the inspiration in the on-screen fights and
action sequences on the set of The Owl vs. Dumbo in the year 1984 . Before she
started for her next movie, she spend more than 10 hours per day to get trained
into fighting shape for more physical roles, soon she would become famous. After
her next four films, she laid the groundwork for her storied action movie
career, performing her own stunts and putting her body to the test. (Biography, Michelle Yeoh Biography, Para 4).
The
career for Michelle Yeoh as an action hero off was off to the races and she
became the highest paid actress in Asia. She continued to make movies at a
breakneck pace, often working alongside superstars such as Jackie Chan and Jet
Li. In the year 1997, she starred with Pierce Brosnan in the James Bond film
Tomorrow Never Dies, she had made her first foray into the West. She was unable
to perform her own stunts for insurance reasons, but insisted on doing her own
fight scenes. Co-star Brosnan noted that unlike the typical Bond Girl, Michelle
Yeoh was reminded him more of a female Bond.(Biography,
Michelle Yeoh Biography, Para 7)
In
the conclusion, what Michelle Yeoh is a very successfully ladies which we can
learn from her. The major things which we can learn from her is do not give up
easily. Once a thing which is our decision, although the decision or thing was
fail for several times, do not give up too and find a better solution to make
them successful. Lastly, always have a back up plan for the thing or decision
we had make.
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- BY SIM EUGENE
DATO LEE CHONG WEI
Next, it will be Dato Lee Chong Wei. Lee Chong Wei
(born 21 October 1982 in Bagan Serai, Perak) is a Malaysian Chinese
professional badminton player. As a singles player, Lee was ranked first
worldwide for 199 consecutive weeks from 21 August 2008 to 14 June 2012. Lee is
a silver medalist in both the 2008 and 2012 Olympic Games,Lee is a silver
medalist in both the 2008 and 2012 Olympic Games, making him the sixth
Malaysian to win an Olympic medal and the first Malaysian to reach the finals
in the men's singles event. And is the only Malaysian shuttler to hold the
number one ranking for more than a year. In his early years, Lee favoured
basketball, however his mother soon banned him from the game due to the searing
heat of the outdoor basketball court. Lee began to learn badminton at the age
of 11, when his father, who liked to play the game, brought him to the
badminton hall.
Lee Chong Wei, for us, he is currently the most
celebrated badminton player in Malaysia. In fact, he is the best player
Malaysia ever had. We are supporting him not solely because he's a Malaysian, but
as a player and person. We totally love every move he makes; his skills, speed,
power and defence. Although Lin Dan has got a slightly better form than Chong
Wei, we still prefer Chong Wei.
In 2006, he won the Malaysia Open defeating Lin Dan
in an epic final where he was down by 13-20 in the decider (3rd set) and
eventually won 23-21. We got interested in this person and asked them who is
this person who won the title mentioned .He was ranked 4 in the world at that
time before shooting up to no.1 for a short period of time.We has been
supporting Lee Chong Wei back at home; from World Championships to Olympics and
the Asian Games. Despite his lost multiple times at key tournaments, Chong Wei
was awarded the Datukship title (equivalent to knighthood in England) upon
bringing back silver from the 2008 Beijing Olympics and has been the world no.1
for more than 3 years now (as of 2011). For us, that is indeed a great feat in
terms of consistency. He also won the national title 10 times in a row since
2002. An achievement which no Malaysian can beat in a long time.
Well, the best thing about this great badminton
player, is his persistence on court and off-court. He is always accept the fate in defeat, even so in triumph! He is
a champion at heart and never let success goes to his mind. He never looks down
on an opponent and always taking challenges seriously with everyone he face. He
is the man to be inspired of. We have to give a salute to Lee as he is the
player carrying the most burden in trying to deliver the success for Malaysia.
Besides Chong Wei, who else will carry flag?
- BY ONG CHEE WAY
TAN SRI DATO SERI LIM GOH TONG
Last but not least, when we come to Malaysian Billionaire, we will recalled of Tan Sri Dato Seri Lim Goh Tong. Tan Sri Lim has passed away at the age of 90 because of a short illness, he was leaving with an estimated US$4.3 billion fortune. He was more than just a developer and a billionaire, he is a model of success, starting from climb, and his achievements came through hard work. As we know, Tan Sri Lim came from a very poor family but it gave him high motivation to be a successful person and change his fate. He climbed up step by step to walk through his path of life until his end of lifespan, and this is what inspired almost all of the Malaysian and even people from other countries. During his early childhood, his parents teach him traditional Chinese virtues, which focus on the importance of being humble person and applying all the good values.
Tan Sri Dato Seri Lim Goh Tong was studying classic
Chinese at age 6 and was forced to leave school at age 16 due to his father,
Lim Shi Quan passed away. After that, he took up the responsibilities to
support his family. His main business is selling vegetables seeds. He continued
his father’s business which is petty challenging and learned from their regular
customers. In the year of 1965, Tan Sri Dato Seri Lim Goh Tong decided to build
a tourist spot, which is Genting Highlands, located near to Kuala Lumpur. In
year 1969, Genting Highlands began the construction of first hotel. At the same
time, Tan Sri Lim was helped by the Malaysian government, and got him the only casino
license in Malaysia.
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| Genting Casino Malaysia |
However, there are some problems happened before
Genting Highlands launched officially. When it was all readily to commence the
business in January 1971, we could be saying that Kuala Lumpur and its
surrounding areas were hit by the worst rainstorms so far. The road to Genting
Highlands was closed. In this case, it actually affected the launching business
of Tan Sri Lim’s hard work. It took them about four months to repair the
damaged part. Finally, Genting Highlands commence for business on 8th May 1971.
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| Genting Highlands Malaysia |
Tan Sri Dato Seri Lim Goh Tong mentioned: “The
Genting project fitted my idea of an ideal business.” He thought of if no one
was interested on his business, which meant no competition on this business.
Besides that, he never makes languages as a barrier to succeed. He could not
spoke or wrote in English, he spoke Hokkien most of the time when he is still
in China. After coming to Malaysia, he started to learn Bahasa Malaysia,
Cantonese and Mandarin. Although it might be tough to learn the language he was
not familiar with, but he never complaint about the situation he was facing. In
addition, we should be grateful for everything we have in our life.
We tend to learn a lot of value and guide from Tan Sri
Lim. If we build a successful business and organization, we have to always
believe that the most valuable asset of a company is - “people”. It is the
people that make up the organization, it is the people that run the
organization, it is the people makes things happen! We could also conclude
that, without people who make all these wonderful things happening, Genting
Highland is just a name. Thanks to Tan Sri Dato Seri Lim Goh Tong! We are fully
inspired and respected as a Malaysian J
-BY YEOH HUI WEN
love Michelle Yeoh... it is indeed a good choice to write about her.. =)
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