Visit MELAKA Is Visit Malaysia

I was in the Historical City of Melaka during the Chinese New Year holidays. It has been more than a year since I've been to this city and mind you a lot have changed. Two structures which made me proud as a Malaysian were the Taming Sari Tower and Eye on Malaysia Wheel.

The Taming Sari Tower is the back bone of Melaka. During the 1400 AD Melaka was the center of commerce in this part of Malay Archipelago. Many traders came to do trade in Melaka and some of them stayed permanently here. To me the Taming Sari Tower depicts the spirit of 1400 AD where the tower is the first line of enemy detection.

Eye on Malaysia is the Wheel to depict the tire i.e. our life is full of ups and downs. A rotating wheel would go up and down thus during this period of economic uncertainty the lower end will go up again. The only question is when... The best comparison would be the Economic Cycle Line. Peak - Downturn - Trough - Recovery


Since I last wrote my views, the Malaysian Government has released some figures regarding job cuts in Malaysia until January 2009. Besides Intel, Panasonic has decided on retrenchment too. Ministry of Human Resource and the Statistics Department must disclose the unemployment figures correctly. I doubt that the numbers published in the local newspapers were correct!