Welcome 2020!

Welcoming another year. This year is extra special for Malaysians as it is THE year of Wawasan 2020 as envisioned by our fourth Prime Minister in 1991. And now Tun M is our seventh Prime Minister - what a great coincidence. 

If you ask any Malaysians about the Wawasan, I doubt that they can really explain what it is all about, but I bet that most of them (especially the 80's babies) can sing the Wawasan 2020 song. For some reasons, the lyrics still stuck in our mind after all these years😅

I was too young then to comprehend the gist of the Wawasan when it was being launched by Tun M. But like most kids (and people), I imagined that as we entered the new Millennium, our world would be just like in the futuristic, sci-fi movies. We would wear silver metallic clothes, eat super pills for energy fuel, be friends with aliens and move around in flying cars, just like this: 

But here we are, two decades after the millennia - still wearing, using, eating and dealing with almost the same thing and issues. There is no doubt that we have been making a lot of progress, but there are still a long way to go. We might be on the right track, but mind you that it is not going to be a smooth sailing ride. The are (and will be) so many diversions and obstacles along the way that if we do not manage and deal with it properly, we could be ended up being derailed. 

Life is full of irony, huh?

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