1+1+1

Maybe you will wonder, what is the meaning behind this 1+1+1? A simple mathematical equation. Let's look at the following short film and hopefully you will get a little bit of idea from it.



It's true, in all sorts of society, we tend to group ourselves into groups, according to race, sex, interest etc, which are the most apparent things we can observe in almost everything we go through. Even within the same race, we also tend to group ourselves into smaller groups, with the people you feel good and share the same interest or opinions. Even with the same small groups of people, and you are so close to each other, you won't share the same thinking or the most valuable things all the time. Why is it so? Have you ever think of that?

Human, has to live in society, or in other words, we are not isolated. Even if we don't share the same culture, religion, beliefs, opinions and interests, we should not isolate each other, there is something called "sharing". Sharing is a very powerful item I think, as it creates understanding, and hoping that it in turn causes acceptance and appreciation.

Coming back to what is happening in Malaysia, the above shown is the situation we observe. Not only among the younger generations, it is even more severe in older generations, as they went through those hard time, and yet the racial problems is still carried on till now, with little or no improvements.

In the movie, 3 main characters representing 3 major ethnics in Malaysia, they go through the same things from the moment they wake up, having breakfast at dining hall, chatting over the same topics, and also shout in pain when their blood is taken, but what makes them so different from each other? Is that only the language? We can neither blame cultures nor religions, as they are heritages and should be preserved at all times, but what actually makes people so appart from each other? As I discussed above, probably there are lacking of sharing and understanding. When people forgot how to share, they never understand and tend to forget the importance of the existance of the other races and subsequently inequalities happened. Initially, I intended to bring out an issue of "we go through the same things, but what makes us so different?" One of the example of which would be the pre-university examinations. There are 3 pre-U examinations that I know of which are STPM, Matriculation and PASSUM. Although all 3 lead to the same local public universities, but the durations of study and its examination's difficulty are varied. We lead to a common destination, but why the paths are different? And "who", "how" and "what" make us so different? It's time for you to think.

Despite realizing the actual problems I portrayed- "seggregation", the more important step to do is to overcome it. Who should be responsible in making the change? It's us all, MALAYSIANS! We hope for change, understanding, equalities and peace, only with this we can bring harmony and productivity to this country, and therefore a developed nation.

How you can pronounce "1+1+1"? Either "yi jia yi jia yi", "satu tambah satu tambah satu", "one plus one plus one" or any other languages you know of. Special thanks to Andrew Mok who helped me with the ideas to improve Malaysia, and also Chuan Huan who helped me a lot in the post-production of the film.

Thank you for your view, together we might change Malaysia.