Friday, June 15, 2007

Forget about Vision 2020, now its Vision 2057!

Forget about vision 2020 (wawasan 2020), now its 2057! We need 100 years to get things right while Singapore can do it within 50 years.

“A hundred years of Merdeka would see this society, this nation achieve the unimaginable. We will have Nobel laureates, truly global corporations, respected and market-leading brands, internationally acclaimed poets and artists, among the largest number of scientific patents in the world and even the best football team in Asia.

“Our students and professors will dominate Ivy League universities and our own universities will be citadels of excellence for international scholars.

“We will be pioneers in alternative energy, drawing on our strength in biofuels. Our cities will be the most liveable on the globe, blending cosmopolitan facilities that are rooted in a tolerant and just societal ethos.

“This is the Malaysia in my dreams for 2057. One hundred years of independence, one hundred years of advancement,” he added. - PM (source The STar) More here.

Of all of the above, some of not realistic. We could never be the best football team in Asia looking what we are doing for present and future, we are not longer best in Asean for god sake. We can never have great artists because artists are controlled by our cabinet. Global company? Where's Proton now? Our students nor our universities will not be the best. Be realistic, only 10-20% of our local university graduates can speak and read English. How to excel? Our university? Forget it, I don't see UM somewhere top 20 in Asia anymore, furthermore in the world? As for 2057, I will be the dead by then!

I believe that we Malaysians still united until today. Things can be changed to a better way. Well if there's a believe... anything could happen?

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