An Update.

So... The day of our campaign event is coming near and some of us are starting to feel the heat.
Things are falling into place while some of us are running around like a bunch of headless chickens. If you have ever worked in group for a big assignment you should understand that it ain't easy, especially if you are working with friends.
We have a confirmed venue now! Which is great. We're gonna have at e@curve aka Cineleisure.
Another thing is that we have performers!!! So you won't just get to see us but also some actual celebrities! =)

One more thing, we have a YouTube account now!
The attached is a video of one of our first flash mob's. We did it in our college cafe and it actually went better than we expected. A few random people actually stood up even though they didn't know what the heck was going on. It was fun!

Spread the video around! Share it on Facebook. There will be more to come before the BIG one on the event day.



Cheers!
Dorothy H. Yap

the TRUTH?

" With new media comes new responsibility"

 - Irwan Abdul Rahman       

There is no way for me to express this formally and i don't want to. So here goes.

Today our Media Relations class went on a little field trip. Miss Eena, our lecturer, hooked us up so we could go to The Malay Mail and meet with one of their editors - Irwan.

I have to say, he's really cool. Despite the fact that he's older than the target audience of this campaign, he has a very similar mind set. He really "gets" us. At first he talked about the basics of the newspaper and after our campaign was introduced to him, the conversations spread to other topics. One of many things that caught my attention was this : In his opinion, we shouldn't be just tolerating our differences. Instead, we should be CELEBRATING our differences. Strength in diversity.

In MY opinion, he was able to summarize what our campaign is about so simply, without even knowing it. I agree that we don't need to be told to live in unity because we already do.

THAT is what our campaign is about. It's not in support of 1Malaysia but it's not against it either. Instead of trying to promote and encourage unity we should be celebrating it instead. This is because most of us who have grown up in public, multi-racial schools have basically learnt the whole "unity" thing without being told. There may have been racial gangs runnning around school beating each other up but that was more of a "people" problem not a racist problem.

When we were younger, it hardly crossed our mind that people were different because of their race. For us we were all just people. It's only as we got older that we realised that there were situations like "You may or may not get a job because of your race" or "You may get into different colleges easier because of your race".

So in a whole, what is Malaysia-LAH again?

It's about the youth's voice! And what the youths are saying is that we ARE living in unity! We ARE united! We are all assholes!   We are fully aware of our differences and we respect each other!

FYI, the honourable Mr. Irwan Rahman may be one of the speakers of our forum. Along with a Mr. Andrew Netto. And believe me you want to hear what they have to say.

Peace out!     

~ Dorothy H. Yap

There's a post!

I couldn't bear to have the blog empty any longer so i have decided to do a bit of ranting... muahahahaha!

Ok, so what is this? and what's going on? I'm sure that is what most people might be wondering once they visit this page. Don't worry, we've just set a list of topics so soon this page will be streaming with updates, stories, Did-you-know's, Malaysian slangs and a whole bunch of other stuff.

So just to give you a head's up on what we're all about......

It started as a PR class assignment and now it's become a full blown mission. We have spent the last 3 weeks or so planning, delegating, and imagining for our campaign because we don't want it to be just another assignment, we want to achieve something. So we are working our butts off trying to plan and organise a huge campaign called Malaysian-lah!

So what is Malaysian-lah? It's like 1Malaysia but it's from a youth's point of view. We're making a statement that says we CAN live in peace and unity and that we DO.We go to school with people from many different races and it hasn't been a problem so why can't everyone else get along too?

-why are we doing Malaysian-lah?
because we - the youth of Malaysia - want a voice of our own.
We want to be able to make our own statements about Malaysia and prove that we do care about what goes on in our country.

So how can you help? By supporting us.
Follow our twitter page -> twitter.com/malaysianlah
Join our Facebook group -> search Campaign MALAYSIAN-LAH!
Read our blog.
Spread the word!
But most importantly of all..... come to our event.

More details coming soon..... ;)

~ Dorothy signing off