Learning and Internships, have we learned enough?

By Yeoh Li Ying

Come the long holidays, all 2nd year Communication student shall be interning in company’s around Malaysia, be it a well-known or ‘unknown’, everybody will just want to have time to learnt something from the organisation. I, for once also am anticipating to be an intern in a production house located near Petaling Jaya. I am also excited but at the same time wondering what the company will prepare for us. You know that you are scared and bracing on what the company will be expecting from you after 4 semesters in higher institution. Have you learned things and got the “IT” factor to be a successful intern in the said company? What will they expect from us? Have “the know how” factor to operate a video camera, to do post-editing and planning for a production? Or what about paper work? Preparing the company news release, creating an advertisement, doing a work plan? Or covering event? Writing a scene of what has happened? Writing an article to-be-published in the newspaper?

There are so many things. Yet have we really learned enough? Have the 4 semesters taught us well enough and push us to the right direction heading towards working life? Are we well familiar with functions lets say, Photoshop or etc.? We certainly don’t, but if we have the right attitude and mentality and show willingness to learned new things, I am sure we will be heading into a right direction in the company. My point is, as much as we might have learned in these four semesters, it is just not enough to make it to the working life just yet. Even with 3 years studying, it will not be enough for us. We ourselves, have to go out and work to know if we are capable in our career. That is why the opportunity for doing an internship is a good opportunity for us to brace the working world and learn from it.

Post election drama

By Yeoh Li Ying

Enough is enough. The Rakyat has voted for who they think is able to lead them. So why all the fuss of having all those waste of time demonstrations, like what happened in Penang last Friday by the UMNOs. Wait, a minute, I thought that the UMNO leaders once said that Demonstrations is not our culture when BERSIH and HINDRAF had their rallies, then why are they doing the other way now. Irony?

Why are all the fuss of the new Penang government abolishing the New Economic Policy (NEP) aka Dasar Ekonomi Baru (DEB) and have an open tender on Projects? Is that wrong? Government is supposed to be accountable, transparent in their work. And one step to be transparent is to have open tender on getting a project. I thought it was a good move. You see, even with the NEP, how many poor people have benefited from it? And there is still so many poor people. And NEP is supposed to be achieved in 30 years time (1971-2001). Sadly, it’s been 7 years and the objective has not been reached. This is already a failure.

So why not look at the bright side of open tender. First, if you know you will not get the project by your crony or other cable, you ought to have to work hard and proof your ability to get the project. With this, aren’t people becoming more productive.

Secondly, regardless of any race, we are Malaysians and everyone stand an equal chance and opportunity to get what we want. Isn’t this fair?

And lastly, let’s give the newly elected representative a chance. They have not even started working on the core problems and you people holding this demonstration are creating problems already. Afterall, they have 5 years to prove it. If not we elect for other representative next time and this is how democracy work.

Narrow Band

By Yeoh Li Ying

Narrow-less Band

Broadband Internet in Malaysia should really be named “Narrow Band” because the service provided by our beloved TMnet is so slow it is only less painful compared to Malaysian Dial-up Internet. It is painful nevertheless when we look at the excerpt from TM Net’s website …

United we stand, divided we fall

By Yeoh Li Ying

OK, let’s get serious and straight to the point.

Boy, I was so dead wrong. With all the happenings around campus I thought (really thought) that we are all united as one. What happened the other day, has yet again and again failed to convince me that we are all united as one. Forgive me if I am wrong but I have witnessed things that will not make us human race just yet. We are all still divided by our colours. Yes we are.