What should the role of the United Nation (UN) be ?

The name "United Nations", coined by United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt was first used in the Declaration by United Nations of 1 January 1942, during the Second World War, when representatives of 26 nations pledged their Governments to continue fighting together against the Axis Powers. In 1945, representatives of 50 countries met in San Francisco at the United Nations Conference on International Organization to draw up the United Nations Charter. Those delegates deliberated on the basis of proposals worked out by the representatives of China, the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom and the United States at Dumbarton Oaks, United States in August-October 1944.The Charter was signed on 26 June 1945 by the representatives of the 50 countries. Poland, which was not represented at the Conference, signed it later and became one of the original 51 Member States.The United Nations officially came into existence on 24 October 1945, when the Charter had been ratified by China, France, the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom, the United States and by a majority of other signatories. United Nations Day is celebrated on 24 October each year.

First of all, the role of united nation was to adopt means to develop friendly relations among the peoples of all nations so as to strengthen the ties of international brotherhood. This friendship among nations should be based on respect for the principle of the equal rights of and equal self-determination by peoples. With a good friendly relation among all nation they can maintain international peace and security in accordance with the principles and purposes of the United Nations and they will be able to determine the existence of a threat to the peace or act of aggression and to recommend what action should be taken. While respect for equal rights and the right to self-determination were common knowledge in international relations, those principles were regularly violated, while interference in internal affairs and destructions of sovereignty were “quite common”. 

(Suhana Dhawan,n.d) Purposes and Principles of the United Nations from http://www.shareyouressays.com/88806/purposes-and-principles-of-the-united-nations-essay accessed[4may2016]

By Ong Chee Way

According to Ghai (2015), United Nation has contributed greatly in the field of human right, decolonization, and disarmament. United Nations promotes respect for the law and protection of human rights in many other ways (Unicef, 2014). For instance, they monitor the human rights records of nations. Other than that, United Nations has an Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, which is subjected to promote and protect the enjoyment and full realisation by all people of human rights.

As we know, the creation of a body of international human rights law is one of the United Nations’ great achievements. It has helped negotiate numerous rights and declarations. In this case, many focused on the rights of vulnerable. Correspondingly, these declarations have helped create a ‘culture of human rights’ throughout the world because it actually providing a powerful tool to protect and promote all the rights in their country.

In addition, United Nations is also involves in volunteerism programme. It benefits for both society at large and the individual volunteer by strengthening trust among the citizens as well as creating opportunities for participation. This programme can be lead to the recognition of volunteers, integrate volunteerism into development programming and diversity of volunteers throughout the world(UN 2016). Besides that, United Nation (2016) also states that the needs and rights of persons with disabilities have been concern by United Nations as well. United Nations Convention on the rights of persons with disabilities as to respect for their human dignity. The rights are including, the same fundamental rights as their fellow-citizen, same civil and political rights as other human beings and measures designed to enable them to become as self-reliant as possible.

Moreover, under the United Nations Charter, Security Council has primary responsibility for the maintenance of international peace and security. In this case, all UN members agree to accept and carry out the decisions of the Security Council. With this, it is for the Security Council to determine when and where a UN Peacekeeping operation should be deployed. The Security Council in New York plays a vital role in peacekeeping. Simultaneously, some of the UN members make recommendations to member states, the Council alone has the power to take decisions which Member States are responsible to implement.

1. Ghai K.K 2015, Your Article Library, ‘United Nations: Objectives and Roles of United Nations’, accessed at 4^th May 2016 < http://www.yourarticlelibrary.com/uno/united-nations-objectives-and-roles-of-united-nations/40332/ >
2. Unicef 2014, Human rights treaties, updated at 19^th May 2014, accessed at 4^th May 2016 <http://www.unicef.org/crc/index_30198.html>
3. United Nations(UN) 2016, Global Issue, ‘Volunteerism’, accessed at 4^th May 2016 <http://www.un.org/en/globalissues/volunteerism/>

By Yeoh Hui Wen

According to the political activities of United Nations (For regional conflicts, see Section 1, Item 3 of this chapter), the United Nations Security Council submitted a resolution to implement in April the resolution to establish the United Nations Transition Assistance Group (UNTAG). Besides, the United Nations Transition Assistance Group (UNTAG) called for material and personnel support from the members of countries. In November, a constitutional held an election under observation of the (UNTAG) in January 1989. Thus, Namibia became independent in March 1990 and joined the United Nations in April after independent was formed. For Central America, there were conflicts in making major progress toward a peaceful settlement about grateful to an active role that played by the United Nations. On the other hand, the election was held on February 25, 1990 and the Committee on International Assistance and Verification (CIAV), which was established by the United Nations and the Organization of-American States (OAS) in September 1989 in response to a request by Central American countries, and started the activity to ensure the dissolution and repatriation of the anti-government guerrillas "Contras." Furthermore, the United Nations Observation Mission for Central America (ONUCA) that established as a security verification mechanism at the U.N. Security Council in September 1989, disarmed the Contras under an agreement in May 1990 and is keeping watch on border areas. Thirdly, in the Middle East, became a major focus in the situation in the occupied territories at the U.N. General Assembly and Security Council. The 44th session of the General Assembly in 1989 passed, by a majority vote, an "intifada", which is known as uprising resolution denouncing Israel's policy on the occupied territories, refers to an action which attested to a high degree of concern among countries about this issue. In a related development, the Security Council resolved again, as it did in July and August of 1989, that Israel's expulsion of Palestinians from 'the occupied territories violated the Geneva Convention relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War. Regarding the emigration of the Jews from the Soviet Union which became a major issue in 1990, the U.N. Security Council held a session at the request of the Soviet Union between March through May 1990. Unfortunately, there was no resolution has been adopted. After the cease-fire in August 1988, the United Nations Secretary-General has hosted four Iran-Iraqi Foreign Ministers meetings in 1988 and 1989, but there was no significant progress has been made. During the peace negotiations, over which the United Nations Secretary-General presided, practically no debate took place on the issue at the General Assembly and Security Council. In February 1990, the Chairman of the Security Council issued a statement to support the peace efforts by the Secretary-General. Meanwhile, the 44th session of the United Nations General Assembly in 1989, there was about 12 resolutions related to apartheid were submitted to a vote and were adopted by an overwhelming majority as they had been in the previous years. A resolution seeking comprehensive sanctions, which censured the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG) by name, was adopted over Japan's and other countries' opposition. The General Assembly's special session on apartheid held in December 1989, adopted unanimously a declaration, which was both constructive and harmonious. In his address to this session, then Parliamentary Vice Minister Tanaka of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs stated Japan's strong opposition to apartheid. He said Japan welcomed the policies of the de Klerk Government but would continue sanctions against the country so long as no substantial improvement was made. Lastly, the U.N. Secretary-General has been making mediation efforts since August 1988 regarding to a conflict between Morocco which claims territorial rights over the Western Sahara and the Polisario Front which demands secession from Morocco. In June 1990, on the basis of a peace proposal by the Secretary-General calling for direct talks for implementing a cease-fire and the holding of a U.N.-supervised referendum on the fate of the area, a meeting to ascertain the voters' register for the referendum was held. Also, a report was submitted to the U.N. Security Council seeking the establishment of the United Nations Observers for the Verification of Referendum on the Western Sahara (MINURSO) which would carry out the referendum, as well as an approval of a definite schedule of the peace process.

United Nation Activities, Section 4. Roles of the United Nations and Other International Organizations and Japan's Cooperation, viewed on 5th May 2016

http://www.mofa.go.jp/policy/other/bluebook/1990/1990-2-4.htm

By Angel Yeoh Xin Yee

Meanwhile, the United Nations' role in world affairs is irreplaceable by any other international or regional organizations because nowadays the United Nations’ is the most representative inter-governmental organization of the world. In maintaining international peace and security, promoting cooperation among the states and the international development, the United Nations has made enormous positive contributions. Unfortunately, nowadays the two major issues of peace and developments, still faces by the people of the world. Only the international cooperation can mankind meet the challenges of the global and regional issues. In this regard, a pivotal and positive role can be played by the United Nations. Furthermore, by promoting the establishment of a just and reasonable international political and economic order goes along with the trend of history and in the interest of all nations will strengthen the role of the United Nations in the new century.

In the conclusion, in order to strengthen the role of the United Nations, the purposes and the principles of the Charter of the United Nations should be sustained by the efforts. The role of the United Nations in development area should be strengthened and must be preserved by the authority of the Security Council in maintaining international peace and security. Besides that, all the Member States of the United Nations is essential to ensure to the right of the equal participation in international affairs and the rights and interests of the developing countries should be safeguarded in order to strengthen the role of the United Nations.

The Role of the United Nations, UN Role and Reform. Viewed on 5th May 2016 

http://www.china-un.org/eng/zghlhg/zzhgg/t29436.htm

By Sim Eugene

The current tax system is unfair to the middle class and lower income group. Do you agree ?

Yes, the current tax system is unfair to the middle class group and the lower income group. One of the critical issues here is for the government to re-look at the unfair tax system of personal income tax and to restructure the whole tax revenue collection thus, that no single group is being penalized while government is finding ways to equilibrium the nation’s income and expenditure as a result of oil subsidy removal. The Malaysian population can be decided into three income group, high medium low. The middle income group in the worst to be hit by recent oil price hike, because they utilize their own personal vehicle as their main transportation. However, high income group will not be affected by inflation, because they possess a strong financial freedom. Besides, the low income group will be protected by government due to the fact that low income group generally utilize public transport. While Malaysia is at this time go through a lot of political turmoil, undermining and bickering, we expectation the government is still working hard to solve the critical economic issues confronted by the nation. While we acknowledged that some of these economic issues such as the acute inflation led by oil price hike is due to a global phenomenon, we still believe that there is a lot our government could do to help relieve our pain, particularly due to the fact that we are a net oil exporting country.

(Written by Ong Chee Way)

We argued that a tax like the Good and Services Tax (GST) has a more effect on lower and middle income earners, which mean that the tax consumes a higher proportion of their income, compared to those earning large incomes. In this case, it shows unfair to these particular income group earners. As we know, some products have no GST, if there is a selective consumption of goods and food, one may be able to avoid GST. In this case, some traders had transferred the additional cost due to GST to the customers and eventually the public faced the problem of inflation. And lastly, it will lead to the increasing of living costs and it was impossible to avoid GST as well.

Before the GST implemented, our taxation system collected taxes only from 25 % of the population while another 75 % of the citizens only paid for service charge. With the implementation of GST, none of a citizen can be escape from GST. Thus, the impact of GST on the low and middle income earners especially to those who had no financial ability and still depending on study loans such as PTPTN or family finance would affect the monthly expenses. Other than that, the some of the students pointed out that the hostel authority prevented them from using additional electrical appliances and cooking in the hostel. From this situation, we can see that high taxes can actually cause a burden for most of the citizens. Besides that, the cost of expenditure at the school canteen was high and it would further burden the students.

In addition, taxation has the high potential to decrease consumer spending. It is because, taxes take money away from consumers and reduce disposable income. How can a lower income consumer spending decrease just because of the high taxes proposed in the country? In our opinion, high taxes may affect economic growth. Not only that, the government sometimes institutes tax cuts during periods of economic hardship as to encourage spending and growth. Besides that, other than high income earner, there are many lower and middle income earners tend to migrate to other country for works due to the unaffordable high tax in Malaysia. Once they have migrated to other countries for works, for instance, Australia and London, the local country might also face with the problem of unemployment. Unemployment is a serious issues for a particular country as it may lead to inflation.

(Written by Yeoh Hui Wen)

Meanwhile, Income tax refers to the taxes which are Annual charge levied on both earned income like wages, salaries, commission and unearned income which are dividends, interest, rents. 

In addition to financing a government's operations, progressive income taxation is designed to distribute wealth more evenly in a population, and to serve as automatic fiscal stabilizer to cushion the effects of economic cycles. Its two basic types are ; - 

1. Personal income tax, levied on incomes of individuals, households, partnerships, and sole-proprietorships; and 
2. Corporation income tax, levied on profits which are refers to net earnings of incorporated firms.

However, presence of tax loopholes (whose number increases in direct proportion to the complexity of tax code) may allow some wealthy persons to escape higher taxes without violating the letter of the tax laws.

All levels of the citizens, which are poor and lower middle-class citizens often pay a higher percentage of their income in taxes than do the wealthy. Most of the poor citizens could not afford the current income tax system due to they could not afford their monthly expenses as well. For the group of middle-class citizens, they are able to pay for the current income tax, but compare to the groups of higher income citizens, this is unfair to the groups of middle-class and poor citizens due to three groups of the citizens are paying the same rate of the income tax to government. Once Social Security tax, which is the employer's part really comes out of the paycheck of the worker and state and local sales and income taxes plus assorted fees are considered, even lower middle-class workers are paying a startling percentage of their incomes to government.

Most of the people think that if they earned it then they should be able to keep their money as their future savings. Thus, nobody is willing to pay for the current tax system. 

(Written by Angel Yeoh Xin Yee)

In the conclusion, the current tax system in our country, which include Good and Services Tax (GST) and Income Tax is unfair to the middle class and lower income group. Although paying tax to the country is our responsibility and it will improved the economics of the country, but it had been bring a lot of the disadvantages to the people who are from the group of middle class and lower income.Meanwhile, the current tax system will increase the burden the people from the group of middle class and lower income and will cause the money which they earn every month not enough to cover their daily expenses. Although our country the minimum income tax rate was reduce 1% because of Goods and Services Tax (GST), but for the people of middle class and lower income group they want the government reduce another 1% because of currently the income tax rate still a bit high and quite a numbers of people cannot afford to pay for it. 

In our opinion, the government should make a survey or research for the current tax system before the tax system was start running in our country especially is GST because when GST was started in Malaysia since 1st of April 2015 till now, the inflation rate is keep increasing and causes a lot of people no matter is the buyer or seller feel very exhausted due to we need to pay higher price for the goods or services compare with the past without GST. Secondly, the government also should always listen to what the people of country said and take very serious on what they say and the government should increase the tax rate on the people who are high income group and decrease the rate on middle class and lower income group. Lastly, the most important is the government should use the money which we pay for the tax on develop our country well and the government should against the issue which very serious in our country, which is corruption. A country without corruption, that country will be very innovative and the people stay in that country which no corruption, will feel grateful and peaceful because of the government take serious on corruption and against it. 

(Written by Sim Eugene)

Inspiring Stories : People Who Have Change The World

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 24^th 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 31^st 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 6^th 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 21^st 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 

Besides that, we are not just talking about Tunku Abdul Rahman his inspiration story, we also are going to talk about an artist which is Malaysian but is an International well know movie actress which no one do not know about her when heard her name. Her name is Michelle Yeoh. Michelle Yeoh was born as Yang Zi Chong. She was born at 8^th August 1962 and the location she born was Ipoh, Perak. Michelle Yeoh also known as the Queen of Martial Arts, but dance was her first passion. (Biography, Michelle Yeoh Biography, Para 1)  

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.

                                           

IMDb, Michelle Yeoh Biography, viewed on 10^th April 2016

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Biography, Michelle Yeoh Biography, viewed on 10^th April 2016

http://www.biography.com/people/michelle-yeoh-240963#acclaimed-actress-and-filmmaker

- 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.

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. 

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 

Where Do You See Yourself In Five Years Time ?

Now is already 21^st Century, it means I am now already elder than before. Times flew away rapidly. Although now already is 2016, but we still have a very long journey to learn and to solve the problem that we will be faces in our daily life. In the same time, if a person who already graduate from University or they are already more than 50 years old, it does not means that they can stop to learn anything because human are born to be learn until the day they pass away. If a person stop learning anything in their life cycle, their mind will be outdated because nowadays our lifestyle are always changing and surround by the new technology. We cannot expect what will be happen in the next second, so I am always be prepared to face the challenge which might be happen in the next second. Although we cannot expect what will be happen in the next second, but once it had been happen, we can know that what we had seen and what kind of challenges we faced in the past and we learned from the challenges we had been faced.

Nowadays a lot of people put more of their time towards their career even that they have two careers at the same time. The reason is they want to earn more money to cover the expenses for their daily life, reduce the burden which they facing and they also want to have relax and enjoyable retirement life after they are pension without worried is there the retirement fund is enough or not. Although now I also want to earn more money to make my currently life more easier as the wages I get from my current part time job is very low, but I will not spend more of my time towards the career by working two or more job at the same time. The reason is I rather to spend more of my times with my family than spend more the time to earn more money because family are the most important for me and they always is No. 1 in my mind. In the same time, I willing to get the low wages from my current part time job because how much the money I own, it cannot buy back the feeling of warm and harmony which given by family. I always spend my weekend by accompanying my parents. In one week, my parents just will meet me for 2 days only because I am not staying with them and rent a room in Penang Island due to my current part-time job and my college is in Penang Island. During the time I am not at home with them and I will call to my parents few times a week to concern about my parents and make sure they are healthy, but I know that my parents hope that I can be always be with them although they did not say it out.

Meanwhile, within this five years my parents keep telling me that was nothing important than having a healthy body. Although it is boring and annoying for me that my parents keep repeating to tell me the same thing, but I am strongly agree with what my parents said. Few years ago when I was admitted into the hospital for 6 days due to dengue fever, during the time when I was admitted in the hospital, it was a tough and exhausted moment and also a nightmare for me because the nurse came over me to took my blood for blood test twice a day. The doctor and nurse not allow me to shower because of having high fever and the food in hospital was so tasteless. Furthermore, the environment in the hospital was make me feel dizzy and feels like going to vomit because the hospital full with the smell of medicine. When I was discharge from the hospital, I told myself that I must take a very good care with my health because I do not want to go back into hospital again and do not want to let my parents worry about my health. It is my responsibility to take a very good care with my body health and also my parents their health too. A person who are rich and own a lot of money, luxury good and always enjoy the luxury service, if he or she do not have a healthy body, those things which he or she own are useless and meaningless because health is not a product or service which can be buy. Health is wealth and health is the most top level intangible asset for human. As we are humans, without healthy body, we are nothing.

In additions, within these five years quite a lot of people around me look down on me because of my poor learning skill and speaking skill. Although I feel sad and angry because of they look down on me and create the rumors on me and spread around to hurt me, but I was not cared and just ignored about what they were said behind of me and how their judgement on me because the mouth was on their body, I do not have the right to control their mouth. Besides that, I will not waste my time on them because they are wasting their time on something which is meaningless and they are childish as well. I turn all the rumors created by them and their judgement on me as my motivation to show them I can do better than them and I am not same like before. I rather to do something which is meaningful than follow them doing those kind of wasting time and childish things.

In the conclusion, human are born to be learn and move forward for the future. Within these five years, I feel that my behavior, attitude and my thinking was change a lot compare with the past because I am able to convert the challenges I had been faces within these five years into motivation to motivate me to do much better than the past without disappoint my parents.

(1,030 Words)                                                                                                 (Written by Sim Eugene)

Myself in 5 years, that would be 2021 right? In the 5 years’ time, who am I? where am I? what will I do? that is a one question mark in my brain. but sometime, before I go into the dream I will thinking of a question. anything could happen in between five years’ time. Maybe is a disaster, economic fluctuated, new born child and etc. economy was uncertain in meantime. now I am the 23 years old, I will graduate in this year. Because of uncertainty of economic recently gave a tough task for the new graduate Nobody can decide our future. could I found a proper job? Could I find a pretty girl friend since I’m still single available? could I had an ability to build up one wonderful family in my future life? CAN I DO IT? This is what I worried about in this five years. Hopefully I have achieve everything that I have strive for.

Everybody should have earn a legal income and start a business that make profit. I have a thought of start an own business since is a trend nowadays a successful business man like Steve Job (Ex-CEO apple corporation), Jack Ma (CEO of Alibaba), Bill Gates (CEO of Microsoft) I’ m still not a millionaire that couldn’t open a big company yet, but I ‘ll starting a moderate business with partnership binding together with trusted friend. that is mission when I reach my success level. Before start up my business I will go out work find an experience and face the community. During the working period I hope I can learn to identify how people success and accomplish task in business world and what cause their business failure. so I can take the lesson toward my future own business adoption.

However, we never know what will happen in tomorrow. Maybe in future, I should be thinking of taking over from my Dad's business in 5 years time.my dad is running a business in Kedah. this business is my grandfather passed to my dad after he passed away. currently my father is 60 years old and he is consider at retired age. hence, his performance level is not good as before so that, my father hope this business can pass by to me and expand this business to me more strong and big. But I think I can’t handle this important task, because I lack of experience of manage the business. However, I will perform at my peak level In order to ensure my father enjoy his retirement age in terms of physical and mentally level. Beside that, After five years, I’ve been 28 and I look myself more confident and experienced. I would like be a key person due to my smart work and great contribution to the organization. And most importantly I can have my own identity and respect with the people I work with.in addition, I would want to be in a position where I can get promoted each day through my hard work.

After 2 to 3 years, my family and I would be settled down, I would have also have got married with a girl whom I feel deeply in love, who has been there to be a mother of a son or daughter and lovely wife to me. a simple woman without perfect outlook and just need to know how to create a harmony in a family is enough for me. therefore, I would realize my dreams to be the best husband and that nobody has ever had. I wish to see us having money because we worked so hard over the years to be where we stand. moreover want to learn a lot about life in general! I want so much to be a great help to so many people, but I have to have myself together first, and I want to balance all of my time perfectly to manage my life better. I want to help people within my ability. so that, I’ll have ensure that my life would going better with a help that I handed.

My future career already mentions, my future type of family been subsequent, next I want to mentioned about the lifestyle I wanted. Nowadays life is getting stressful. Travelling is one of method to reduce the stress. I would like travelling around the world. because travelling can Getting accustomed to different cultures and You tend to see different places that you haven’t seen before. I plan to go at least once a year if I can’t bare it too much. the place that I wish to reach was Korea, Japan , China, Germany and USA. These are several country that I wanted to visit because there have four seasons that is summer, winter, spring and autumn. Hahahaha…. Malaysia also have four season, that is raining season, hot season, fruit season and flood season. those different countries got it own special attraction just like Japan famous with Sakura flower and Fuji mountain. One of the seven wonders allocated at china was great wall of china. I want to take a selfie with statue of liberty. Visit the memorial wall of berlin in Germany. try ancient taste of kimchi in Korea. Having travel is one of my planning in this 5 years.

After 5 years from now I expect myself as a complete and successful man in all my respective characters like- a husband, a son, a brother, a colleague, and an ideal citizen. I hope I can build a happy family in those 5 years. but I know there will be a lot of obstacles that will be in our way, and its hard these days to achieve, I will do my best to repay my both mother and father for the rest of my life. they have face all the difficulties to adopt me until now.so is not a problem for me treat them even better.   

(988 Words)                                                                                                     (Written by Ong Chee Way)

Everyone has their own wonderful dreams and hope for future, whether they want to become a pilot and travelling around the world, or become a successful businessman who can enjoy all the profit and responsible for the risk, they might as well feel it is extremely challenging. I have dreams for the future just like everyone else. I dream of the good life with a lot of money, healthy family, lovely husband, luxury house, cars, and plenty of delicious food surrounding me, as well as travelling to the countries I love! In this case, I will do whatever I can to achieve my dreams and I will never stop!

As I plan, I would like to take five years time to see the results of my dreams. I am currently 21^st years old and studying in college for my Bachelors’ Degree, this will be my first step to achieve my dream. I will do my best to keep my results excellent and maintain in every semester, because I know that it will help me to get a better career in the future. Firstly, I will not to skip any class during my college days so that I would not miss what have taught by lecturers. At the same time, I will also complete all the assignments on time and without losing the right quality. In the third year of my Degree life, I will have an internship as well. I want to search for a good company where can provide me with top quality skills and knowledge. I am willing to learn as much as I can during my internship without an expected salary. After internship, it is nearly the day of completing my course. By the time I get this degree, I will be around 23^rd years old, and I hope that it will all be worth it.

Continuously, family is vital important for me. The reason of this is because, without my family, I cannot even achieve my first step, which is now, having a degree in college. Thus, I will give my family a better life after I get a good career with good salary. With this, I plan to get an office job in Australia for one and a half year. My boyfriend and I plan to work hard together in Australia, we will have our own career and we are looking forward to a great life for both of us. He is a Permanent Residence (PR) in Sydney, Australia. Of course, I will also apply for a PR. We decide to buy a house there instead of renting a house because it might cost us a huge amount of rental fees. At the same time, if we have an extra room available, we could also rent the room to the others. In this case, we can earn extra income and reduce our installment for our house. Other than that, we plan to cook ourselves rather than having our meal outside because eating out is very expensive and the portion is limited. Throughout that, we will also have our meals in the restaurant once in a while because we knew that we are quite laid back.

After two years in Australia, we plan to travel back to Malaysia to settle down. We wish to own a house and a car, or perhaps we could get marry in Malaysia? By the time, I am 26^th years old and he is 28^th.  As I planned, it will be the best timing for us to get marry! We will have a grand, beautiful, and comfy house in our hometown where filled with love. In addition, we would consider how many children we will want to have, it might be one boy and one girl, two boys and one girl, two little boys, and the possibilities are unpredicted but three is the most. We can raise our children together and get older together. The most important thing that I hope is, he is my Mr. Right.

The one who pampered me all the time,
Also, the one who i want to spend my future with :P 

Moreover, I would like to travel with the one that I dear most. I wanted to travel along with my family, husband and my childrens. Travelling around the world is part of my plan, the places that I would love to be travelling to are Taiwan, Japan, South Korea, Paris and Dubai. Taiwan is always in my “MUST-TO-GO” list, it is because Taiwan do have various of delicious food! It makes me go insane and exciting when I am thinking of Taiwan. Besides that, Korea is my second country to dream of going as I love Korean food especially barbeque pork belly and Kimchi. Other than that, Korea tend to have a lot of actor and actress that I admire, and even idols such as Song Joong Ki, Lee Kwang Soo, Lee Jung Suk, SHINee, and Song Ji-Hyo. Among that, Korea has a lot of marvelous scenery to explore. It was said that, the best season to go to Korea is during the season of Spring, which is located in the month of March to June. The country where I will spend my Honeymoon will be in the city of love, France.

In a nutshell, I have big plans for my coming five, ten and even twenty years later. I will make something best of myself, and not to give up easily. Although I have some fear of failure, but I would not let it compete over me. Besides that, my parents tend to expect my successful life, and I think I have done a great job for them, and as well for myself. Of course, my dreams are one of the factors that keep me going until now. However, the possibilities of my future are all endless. Life is not about finding, it is about creating. So now I am creating myself in five years time, and I hope it will all be my valuable finding in my future page of life! 

(990 Words)                                                                                                                   (Written by Yeoh Hui Wen)

My name is Angel Yeoh Xin Yee and I am an ordinary grown adult who is 21 years old. I am currently studies for Business Management course at Segi College. Besides, I am Degree student for year 2. Previously, I studied for my Diploma in Business Administration at Tunku Abdul Rahman University College about two years. I still remember the day that I stepped in Tunku Abdul Rahman University College to ask for course information and made decision whether which courses to choose among many courses. After a few weeks, I decided to choose Business Administration as my main course in my diploma studies. Besides, I still remember we had icebreaking to let us knew coursemates on the first day of my diploma studies life. Although my Diploma life past two years may seem like a very short time, but when I have goals and looking forward for the future, then my next five years may go by so fast.

After graduated from Tunku Abdul Rahman University College, I will start by saying that I have my goals set for my future life. Therefore, I am proceeding my Degree studies in Business Management, also known as BABM, at Segi College to get certification after done my Degree studies. Thus, the purpose to proceed my Degree studies in Business Management at Segi College is to learn the way how to communicate with other people like friends and family. Next, I should improve my language, especially English. In the college, there are many students which are Malays and Indians other than Chinese. So, this might be a chance for me to improve my English in communicating with them while raising myconfident. English is a very important language in further career use as well as daily life.

After graduate from my Degree studies, I should think about my life goals and plan to accomplish it. It is a good beginning for my new page of life as a grown adult. Life is full of challenging. Therefore, I have to face it and accept it as well. There is a few common questions will be asking by my parents after I have complete my Degree studies. For example, "What is your goal in your life?", "What do you want to do after you complate your Degree studies?", "What is your ideal job?". Firstly, I wish I could get my ideal job in my future long-term career. Everyone of us wish to get their ideal job because most of the ideal jobs come with high salary, so as I am targeting for my ideal jobs as well. Well, to work as administrative assistant which is legal in certain company, Garena company is one of my ideal job and company, so I can get more experiences in the field. On the other hand, the job description of administrative assistant is to provide full legal secretarial and administrative support in-house counsel. Administrative assistant also liaise with other departments and external parties as necessary. With the ideal job, I wish I could get higher pay, so I could able to pay for my PTPTN loans and car loans as well. I may reduce my debts and parents' burden too.

In the further five years, perhaps I would get marry to someone who love me. Before get marry, I would like to bring my partner to see my parents and introduce my family members and friends to him. Beside that, we should know each and do more understanding each other because I wish I can take chances to spend my whole life with my partner. There is a few things to know before getting engaged with him, knowing each other’s career goals is very important because it will affect my relationship with each other to accomplish in life. Thus, we should know the ways on how to achieve and supporting those dreams among each other. Next, knowing each other’s spending habits is important because there is a long journey to spend the rest of my life with my partner, the debts situation and saving plans are important for reality life and future use. Besides, by knowning each other’s living habits, I can know what kind of hobbies he has, lifestyle and others. So, I can try my best to accept his living habits and try to join into his life because we will live together after we get married. On the other hand, my partner and I will plan to buy a house to stay together. So, I could shares the house loans together as well. After married, we plan to have a honeymoon trip to Western countries, such as Australia, and Southeast Asia, like Japan and Korea. A few years after married, I wish my partner and I will have a baby to form a family after our financial problems settled down.

Everyone of us has different goals in their life. Most of the people wish to have a better life in the future, so they have goals set in their mind and they will work harder to accomplish the goals. Therefore, life goals make us to have motivation to look forward for a better future. Other than that, I have to achieve my life goals as I expect to see myself in the five years time. Lastly, the only thing I should do for now is to study harder to score as many as I can in the examination and get to graduate for my Degree studies.

(911 Words)                                                                                              (Written by Angel Yeoh Xin Yee)