Good day people! There's not much time left for dns18 students in ALAM. We're gonna finish soon. We have another 5 weeks to go for finals. I hope everyone is physically and mentally fit to finish the things that we have started and do not forget to finish your project paper. If not, you wont be able to graduate. So as for this entry, I would like to share with you guys about the most famous man in Malaysia, to be exact the all-time favourite leader, Tun Dr. Mahathir Muhamad. I know many of you know that he was the fourth prime minister of Malaysia.
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So let me tell you briefly about his early life. He was born in Alor Setar, Kedah. He was a very hard working student. He excelled at school and became a medical doctor. He graduated from King Edward VII College of Medicine in Singapore or it is known as National University of Singapore now. He met his future wife at his University. They got married in 1956. They had their first child in 1957. He was very active in politics. While he was practising as a doctor in Alor Setar, he participated in one organization called UMNO (United Malays National Organization). He then was elected as the federal parliamentarian for the Alor Setar-Based seat of Kotar Setar Selatan in 1964. I can tell that he was very active in politics based on his stories of how he managed to share his ideologies to the people. To cut a long story short, he then became the Prime Minister on 16 July 1981, at the age of 56. You can google it to get further information of Tun Dr Mahathir.
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So let's talk about his contribution to our lovely country, Malaysia. Im gonna talk a bit of his contributions because he had contributed like so many. So as for me, the first one would be when Malaysia had a financial crisis in 1997 and 1998. He had options whether to hand over Malaysia to the IMF or to not hand over Malaysia so he chose the later one. For your info IMF is International Monetary Fund. He saved this country from being ruled by the new economic colonialist super economic power the IMF. He had faith in the option that he chose and with his strategical moves, he managed to make this country to rise.
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Other than that, our famous Petronas Twin Tower was the idea of our great leader. The vision behind the design was to showcase Malaysia as a global power. It was to symbolize the nation’s “courage, ingenuity, initiative, determination, energy, confidence, optimism, advancement and zest. Whew, those were high expectations. But the Petronas Towers went on to win the international Khan Award for Architecture in 2004. This sky scrapper building means everything in this country. Thanks to our former prime minister, Tun Dr. Mahathir Mohamad.
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Next is about our multi racial country. He had promoted campaigns of racial harmony within Malaysia. It was a good campaign for the people because in Malaysia, there are so many races here with different lifestyle, food, culture and so on. So, he had united the people that live multi-racial Malaysia and stop fighting. With that, Malaysia will always be in a harmony and peaceful state without any fighting. Tun Dr. Mahathir made Malaysia as the first country with multi racial people and it opened the world's eyes on Malaysia.
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Last but not least is the usage of english in Malaysian Education system. He had managed to introduce English for the Science and Mathematics subject. In other words, these subject must be taught in english. This is very important as it helps young malaysian students to improve their english because it would help the Malaysian to keep up with the rapid developments.
I think that's the most significant contribution that I can see. He had contributed like so many and we should be thankful because we're living in peace and harmony country. Thanks Tun Dr. Mahathir Mohamad for developing our country. You're such a great leader. Malaysia boleh!!!
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