Media and Culture in Malaysia

Monday 17th of April, it was a day to do the presentation. I tried my best to present it but not good enough. What I learned during the presentation session time, is to know what is the importance of delivering message of the story we constructed. The biggest problem we faced that we were not covering with Chinese temple but appeared with the story of the founder in the documentary. Therefore I think that, audience will not get interesting on the topic of documentary. I can say that we were being "threat" by the organizer of that particular temple because he wasn't allow us to talk about the dark history between the founder and the temple's statue. I can understand how they felt if the history exposed to the media industries. However, if the truth of the history always keep distance and secret. Consequently, everyone will not known this story forever. The documentaries that I watched are fascinating to produce. In my opinion, the best of the documentary always goes...

Through this trip assignment, I learned about the culture can be influence us throughout the people, objects and subjects that we discussed to the media and the audience.Without these elements, we really dunno there's have an interesting story behind from these elements and follow to learn and believe the existence of these elements. From the day we started to interview people around area of Penang, we started to explore more places that we rarely see in the city areas. We are taking a break and enjoy watching scenery. Credits by Ong Jiong Zheng                            The first time we discussed about this topic, I only 30 percent of knowledge from this topic because I totally didn't know what was the goddess they talked about and why was not known by other people in other country.Was just a religion's practice in a secret way or it is just only an untold story? Until the founder was describing his journ...

In Malaysia, culture was part of lifestyle from Independence Day until nowadays. I believe culture helps people who really loves this country. However, when the policies implement in Malaysia was done by the government. In the article written by Kathy Rowland, the article described about the how the values and the respondent was reacting towards this NCP. The three principle states created by NCP are: 1.      National Cultures would be based on that of the indigenous inhabitants(Bumiputra/Malays). 2.      Elements from other cultures which are suitable and reasonable might be incorporated into the national culture. 3.      Islam would be a crucial component of the National Culture. Overall these principles ruled in our country and it feels everyone living in this country must have to obey all these rules? I definitely feel bad based on the NCP’s principle. NCP was done was not making any sense that we are Malaysi...

Last week in the lecture class, Dr Carmen gave us a task about finding the principle of Rukun Negara. Is it a good things to learn back again or is a nightmare for me?Well, at least I able to discover on what is it and how's the Rukun Negara coming from. Rukun Negara, called that National Principle,is the Malaysian declaration which Malaysian people will institute the national philosophy from the independent day until nowadys. The v ision of the Rukun Negara is for the realization of the social contract agreed upon by the major races and d octrine to achieve unity for the sake of harmony and prosperity since the reaction to the race riot of 13 May incident happened in Malaysia .  It was formulated and held by the national consultative council (NCC) Tunku Abdul Razak. The aim of creating Rukun Negara is to harmonize and unite among races in Malaysia. From the text of the Rukun Negara, I searched from the Wikipedia.com and tried to understand the whole idea of the principle ...

It was day to visit a  a nice and comfortable renovated printing workshop. I arrived there around 2pm and I didn't know all the classmate reached there early than me. During the time I had lunch there while they are waiting for the talk show started. I looked around the places, It was nice and I can feel the modernization places especially the high class restaurant and the barber shop. I loved it. Later, I went inside the printing workshop building and the show was going to start soon. At 3pm, the talk show already started. I was listening how they talked and explained about the Science Fiction film all the time. I was confused what they tried to tell us about the issues or the history of making Science Fiction in Malaysia. After one of the Malay speaker started to talk about the history of making Science Fiction in Malaysia including the book novels and the 19th century movies until year 21th century. Picture 1 show the speaker started to talk about top 10 of Science Fict...

Last week, it was an amazing day to work as volunteer in Kedai Jalanan with my course mates. I took a train to reach Monorail Tuanku Medan with course mate Jagung Wong.  Picture 1: Jagung and I are on the way to the Kedai Jalanan by taking LRT Sri Petaling to Monorail Tuanku Medan I thought that Kedai Jalanan will be somewhere at the night market. However, the real Kedai Jalanan is located in the nice  shelter to organize Kedai Jalanan. Picture 2: The signbroad for Kedai Jalanan The volunteers and Kedai Jalanan’s helpers were coming to prepare by arranging the clothes, pants and the accessories. Picture 3: The clothes booth for Female Picture 4: The clothes booth for Male Picture 5: The Helpers and the classmates are preparing for the 'Big Sale' Picture 6: Dr Andrew, Dr Carmen and the helpers are preparing the foods and drinks Later, the briefing session started. One of the volunteers talked about the purpose of ...