1Malaysia!!!!! Just a name created by our leader. This thought appear in my mind when i read today's article in our local daily newspaper, The Star. The article is as below:
"LOCALLY-PRODUCED Chinese movie Ice Kacang Puppy Love, which was a box-office hit after raking in RM4mil, will not enjoy entertainment tax rebate as it has been classified as a foreign movie, China Pressreported.
The movie, directed by Tan Kheng Seong or popularly known as Ah Niu who made his name in Taiwan with his pop songs, does not meet the criteria for a 20% rebate as less than 60% of the movie script was in Bahasa Malaysia.
The cast of the movie included other Malaysians who had made it big overseas like Lee Sinje, Victor Wang, Gary Chaw and Fish Leong.
The newspaper quoted Federation of Chinese Associations of Malaysia president Tan Sri Pheng Yin Huah as saying that the Treasury Department should waive the tax.
“This movie did not only receive impressive box office in Malaysia but also good reviews from Taiwan and other countries.
“The authorities should appreciate the movie rather than penalise it,” he said.
Ah Niu, who shot to fame in Taiwan with his hit song Look over here, girl across the street, directed and produced his maiden movie under his newly set up film production company Very Good Pictures.
The movie was based on his childhood in Penang, and Ah Niu played a secondary school student who was secretly in love with a school mate, played by Lee.
Wang, Chaw and Leong play the pair’s childhood friends."
So, what is wrong in this article? Nothing is wrong with this article actually but the meaning of the content that has portrayed to us is wrong. When our leader now is doing his best to enrich the meaning of 1Malaysia, his department is actually destroying this image. Why on earth we want to unite every races in this country when our own government is doing the opposite?
Why this locally produced movie is considered a foreign movie in the first place? Criteria that has not been met on this account is that this movie does not has 60% or more Bahasa Malaysia speaking dialog. What a crab criteria. This should not be one of the criteria when they call our Malaysia a country for all since Merdeka time. I know, this is only one of the criteria among many bias criteria but we can tolerate most of them but definitely not this. What is the different of banning pork and alcohol in Malaysia then? Please don't use this 1Malaysia if the government don't mean it at all. Racist issue is getting worse by days after this 1Malaysia theme come out.
Just to let the political people, especially BN people, you have only around 1 year left to change this 1Malaysia theme to portray it in a correct manner, else, you will be packing "nasi lemak" in the next coming election.
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