to Singapore on winning the bid to host Youth Olympic Games 2010. I guess now I feel the same way as it was during the Commonwealth Games 1998 with Kuala Lumpur as the host city. It doesn't matter whether it is Malaysia or Singapore, it shows that the Western world does have some confidence towards Asia or more specifically, Southeast Asia. It is a good news not just for Singapore, but also for the entire region of ASEAN.
Not that I will be involved in anyway in organizing the event, but I know there will be much more things ahead. This is just the beginning of everything.
So now, what's next? Kuala Lumpur 2020 Olympics? I think Penang can also contest as a candidate city. Winning this key bid would signify a worldwide recognition towards Malaysia on becoming a fully developed country. But how far are we from our target dreams?
First, I guess, we have lots of internal issues to attend to. There comes to a point in which we would have to grow with the Zeitgeist (this is an English word, borrowed from the German language) and not just continually politicizing and dwelling with the past, constantly arguing on matters handled during the post-war independence era. The nation is already 50 years old, it's really time to move on.
That, of course, would depend directly and significantly on how the polls are decided on 8 March across the entire aspiring nation. How would the people decide? |
