A1 Team Malaysia

Here I am writing again. Have been busy lately with some part-time work ( I have to make money too, cause my blog doesn't pay me, at all). I just wanted to say how proud I am to be a Malaysian. For once in a very long time, I found myself cheering for the Malaysia team. It is such a different feeling from the previous games that I have watch before. It was always an embarrasment to watch the Malaysian football--soccer or is it sucker..:)--team, similarly, it was such a dissapointment to watch the badminton players, and it was such a humiliation to watch the sepak takraw team. The effects of it can be seen when MU played againts Malaysia football team, we have Malaysians supporting MU instead of Malaysia.....how sad. But we have lost faith on our own players, our own people, our own country.

But this time, its different. This day, Malaysia has a chance. A chance to be a winner among the 24 participating countries. A chance to be a world champion. For once, I can bravely cheer for my Malaysia without secretly snickering that they have no chance of winning. For once, I am not alone in hoping that Malaysia could win. Hundreds like me, all with the same glitter hopes in their eyes, wearing the cheap bright yellow t-shirt sponsored by Berjaya to support the Malaysian A1 team. It wasn't a fancy t-shirt, it didn't matter who sponsored it, the color and texture alone tells you that its trite and cheap. But we wanted to be as one, to represent the color of our Malaysian team, to make a presence to the world that we are fast, we cannot be ignored and we are champions. We wore it brazenly, with pride and dignity of our beloved country. We stood that day, with colors of our Malaysian Flag and the yellow color of our team, believing and witnessing a soon to be adage, "Malaysia Boleh"......and always will....

Congrats team A1 Malaysia, even though they failed to win 1st, 2nd or 3rd place in the race, they still managed to be the top 5 winners. Alex Yong and Fauzan Fauzi managed to bring back more then just 5th place. They brought back the hopes of fellow Malaysians, inspired the future kids and aspired future athletes for many future Malaysian champions. Malaysia certainly boleh, not now, but we are pretty damn close.....and we just hope that there will be a time where our sports can make a name for the Malaysian people, Malaysian companies and the country. Imagine Telekom will be as popular as Vodafone and Tongkat Ali ginseng will be as popular as 100 Plus, maybe then if we can't get hired in our own country, we can get hired in UK....(just like how Malaysian people like to hire whites just because of.....wait, nobody really knows, must be the post-colonial thinking we still have that whites are better)