By the time this article comes out, a close friend of mine will be getting ready to leave the country. Newlywed and pregnant, she will be joined by her entire family to migrate to Australia after obtaining their permanent resident status they applied for nearly a decade ago.
She isn't the first of my friends to start their lives anew in another country, and she won't be the last. And while they will be terribly missed, can we really blame them for choosing to leave?
Statistics keep showing an increase of Malaysians migrating with each passing year. The brain drain is a true problem in this country, as more and more of our creative and intellectual minds leave, never to return.
Read the rest: A House is Not a Home/
2 comments:
Yep. Once you leave, there is no turning back. I left in 1988 and will never return. I will also never vote in a Malaysian election for my family and all our lives are in new (not so new, our kids were born here)country.
This even though migration is very great humiliation with loss of supporyt systems, familiar places, people and things as well as being so far away from family. But I thank UMNO and its branches like MCA, MIC etc for making ti easy for me to leave for a place where I have equal rights.
YOUR GRANDPARENT AND PARENT HAVE BENEFITTED THE SYSTEM WHICH WAS BROUGHT TO THEM. HOW IS THAT YOU TAKE CHOICE OF GETTING YOUR APREN STRING. WHY IS THERE NO CONSIDERATION FOR YOUR OTHER FOLKS WHO ARE TRYING TO GET THE SYSTEM SORTED OUT BUT YOU PREFER TO JUMP SHIP... WOULD YOU CONSIDER TO BE A LOOSER.. i AM SURE YOU CAN STILL BE WHERE YOU ARE BUT NOT NECCESSARY CUTTING THE APREN STRING.
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