Thursday, August 19, 2010

Come on-lar Counsel, you can do better than this

Many years ago a friend of mine attended a job interview and he was so annoyed with the arrogant interviewers, he stood up, fucked off the interviewers before they could even start up the interview and walked off. When he told me the story I laughed like mad. The interviewers were boosting themselves, criticizing our local universities produced low class graduates like my friend. These interviewers who were overseas graduates acted so proudly as though they were so superior to local grads like us.

My friend, the forever quick temper but righteous guy, gave these ang-mo-sai a good lesson; he told them off; if their foreign education were so good, why bother coming back to Malaysia, earning a meager salary? They should have stay put in US and earn big money, after all their parents could have spent a few hundred thousand to send them oversea, is it worth to come back here to earn a few thousands a month? A local grad also can earn that much salary, so to speak.

There is an old Chinese proverb “50 steps laughing at 100 steps”, which originated form a story in ancient war time, a soldier from a defeated side who ran for his life but laughed at another soldier who ran 50 more steps ahead of him. The moral of the story, why laughing at the other if we are also so-so only?

Just like the counsel of MACC who questioned the credibility and qualification of Dr Pornthip, asking her whether she aware that her university was not recognized by the Malaysian government and thus her qualification was questionable, to which Dr Pornthip countered with much self-esteem, "I do not know if my university is recognised here. But I know that it is one of the top five universities in Asia. You should not look down on Asians" The knee-jerk and such appropriate reply immediately silenced that idiotic counsel but garnered lots of cheers and supports from the courtroom.

1 comment:

james sze said...

Ooi, it' sad. Nowadays MNCs also specify 'foreign graduates from Aust, US, UK should apply. MU was top 5 in the 70's but now I think 130?