Discussed these with my friends recently. I have friends that fanatic about Namewee, saying he is the man that speak out for Malaysian.
Frankly speaking, I have different views. Is Namewee really speaks for us, I meant, the Malaysian? People saluted him for having guts to against the government and we NEED a person like him to stand up for us.
First, I knew him throught the "Singaporean issue" from Youtube. It caused a big blast and everyone was talking about the video. I found it amusing, but I do not completely agree with it. The video definately is entertaining, but we can't justify Singaporean entirely that way. KIASU, perhaps. Spit out chewing-gums? I am not sure.
Then, his another blast-off video is the edited National song. More on politics. This is where people starts to labelled him as an icon, celebrity. And then again, his most recent video "TNB issue".
Seriously, thinking about it, (regardless the bad service we USED to upset about in Malaysia), for me, Namewee deserves the bad service he got from the particular guy in the video. He did have the intention to do something, which I can't tell you what excatly is it, the fact is, he did bring a video-cam into TNB centre.
He videotaped all the conversation. From here to there, then. Imagine if you were the staff, will you find it annoying when you know who is Namewee and now he is standing in front of you, videotaping you. The staff does have the right to ignore him, in addition, he might have no idea how to fix the electricity problems. He is not the technician, perhaps?
And some people told me : " Orang itu makan kuih-muih." Why can't he do so? He might called to the respective department and waiting for them to fix the problem, there is always the possibility. While waiting, and you are hungry, why you are not allowed to eat in the office? Apart from that, it is out of normal office hours. He cursed TNB outside the office (moron and inmature). When he is called to give statement at the police station, he videotaped AGAIN from his car to the police office.
Not sure if Namewee is standing up for us (as some of them claimed) or he is just want some attention? He confessed /complained that Malaysia government rejected his certificates and he needs to go Taiwan for further studies. He claimed that "Kita anak Malaysia" and deserves fair treatment. I can't agree more about " Kita semua anak Malaysia" and Malays are the priority for government which I found it unfair as well.
Bear in your mind that, whoever studies in Chinese private school, they are definately banned/not qualified/not offered to further studies in local government U. The parents should know before they send their children to study there, shouldn't them? And now, after Namewee studied more that 5 years in the private school, he put the blame on the government as he is forced to further studies overseas. If he wants to further his studies in local U, he can always transfer to one of the government schools. Unless he has bad records or criminal, I don't find it difficult to change school.
I have no judgement on pupils from Chung Hua (private school), some of them are so good in arithmetic skills. Tell you one of the conversation I heard during my lunch where a bunch of Chung Hua High School students were sitting behind me. They are discussing about people who claimed themselves as artist. One of them said : " Shameful. they think themselves artist? No even appear on the TV show or any drama." I thought "them" should be called as "actor/actress/model/performer"? It's very bad to listen other's conversation, but it really attracted me to listen to the rest, wondering what others will comment about it. "True true. They are dreaming that they are celebrity, take photo also call themselves artist. Everyone nowadays want to be an artist. Diu!" One of them responded. "Yeah true also. Know a little bit drawing also call themselves artist, very shameful." A girl commented. "Yeah hoh. I forgot how to call people that drawing one? What already ha?" another girl asked. " Stupid. Draw in English call DRAW, if you are doing draw, then is drawing lar. People who draw is drawer la!" Then all of them agreed.
OMFG. Are they seriously dumb or 'just kidding anyways'? Their conversation was in Mandarin. People who draw = drawer? They are for-God-sake either in form 4 or 5. Can you imagine how bad is their English language? I meant the particular group. But, I still believe they are also people like them outside. It's depend on your wise decision whether if you want to study in Chung Hua or government school. I studied in a Chinese primary school and kebangsaan during my secondary studies. I have no problem at all for basic English and I can speak in Mandarin as well as Cantonese. This is one of the advantage to study in Kebangsaan school. I am still able to do arithmetic questions and scored A for Mathematics.
Namewee shouldn't put the blame entirely on others. I am not a fan of his because as for me, he is self-centered and wanting for more attention. Malaysia is a good country, we might be upset with the government, but National song shouldn't be the issue. Every video he took (that uploaded to Youtube) is definately his idea of how-to-be-famous.
The fact is, this is my blog and some blog-hoppers might find it defensive, but this is only my thoughts and never expect to change anyone's mind towards Namewee. Government wanted to put him behind the bar for insulting the National song, but did they do it eventually? No. Government needs to take some action towards it. Disagree?
Agree or not, Namewee is a free man for now and he will definately upload new videos to entertain his fans out there.
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