Wednesday, 12 March 2008

I rarely rarely enjoy my lectures nowadays.. with the exception of Economic History. This is one course I don't regret taking, simply because the lecturer (Tim Leunig) is so. awesome. And also cause the course contend is similar to that of A-levels macroeconomics, unlike the formula-graph-makesmyheadspin-thingy we call Economics here.

This week we were looking at the East Asian economic miracle. Leunig painted a rather optimistic picture of us, unlike when he did China or South Africa. At the same time, he too pointed out some weaknesses of our economic model, and guess which country he pin-pointed?

Heheheee..

Anyway.. He was talking bout how KLIA looks amazing compared to crap Heathrow (which really IS crap compared to KLIA, though still functional nonetheless), but how KLIA is severely underused, demonstrating severe misallocation of funds.

Now instead of being anti-government and pretending to be a harsh poilitical critic the way I'm sometimes inclined to be, all I felt was... pride.

Pride that someone so accomplished would know so much about my country..
And also appreciation that at least when we waste money, we waste it on something pretty and worth being proud about.

Maybe it's all those years of being brainwashed by The Star, but I'm always inclined to think..

Things are not so bad la.

I've never stopped believing in Malaysia. And right now, no matter how attractive the thought of living in Britain later is, I don't doubt that I will eventually return.

It's not perfect, I can deal, I can help work on that. I won't run away. At least not for long.

Malaysia is where my heart is.

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