See the lady below? She is the new advisor for AIESEC in UPM. I heard "great" stories about her and when I finally hear her speech, I realized why we are so disgusted by this new advisor. She came for AIESEC Nite to give a speech... and this "special" lady should feel proud I dedicate a post entirely for her. I don't usually do this but I am appalled with her attidude that night. She did not give any respect to the AIESECers there. NONE! I have prepared to blast her in my speech. Too bad she left right after her speech...
Please don't come and lecture us... unless you know what we are really doing...
First of all, this night is a night to introduce new members to AIESEC in UPM. However, this cik/puan/lady here decided to use her speech for her own agenda by lecturing us.
She started by saying that we should have more Malay members and not make AIESEC look like a Chinese society. For god's sake, that is what our HR goals have been for the past god-knows how many years. Look at one of our hard-core AIESEC members, Raja, who is a Malay. The reason why so few Malay members stay on is perhaps because we converse mainly in English, we dance a lot, we crap a lot and we do crazy stuff that may not appeal to the them. I don't really know what the real reasons are but please, don't make this a racist issue. It has never been. In fact, I don't even care if 100% of our members are Chinese. It doesn't matter. I'm not going to make other races stay just to maintain the racial balance. AIESEC is non-political, non-governmental, non-racist, does not discriminate gender, religion and colour. We would be more than glad if other race decides to join in... So, Cik "Whatever", do your homework...
And then she goes again saying that we bring back international culture into our culture. She gave an example on our cheer. We say "Hey AIESEC"... and the crowd will respond "Whatzzup!!" She said that it will appeal more to other people if we create our own "Malaysian" cheer. First of all, Cik Puan "Berilmu", this is indeed an international culture but more importantly, it's an AIESEC culture. You can go to any of the 90 over AIESEC member countries and do this cheer, people would have recognized it instantly. It's universal. I don't think we should change that! Besides, we always create our local Cheer, Square Dance and even Roll Call when we go abroad. I even sing "Negaraku" for crying out loud! It's not because I feel I am obliged to. I do it because I love my country!
Then, she goes on lecturing us on the huge number of projects that we do and the way we should do it. It's not a crime that we are active, right?!!!
Look, Cik Puan. No offense but your role is of an advisor, not a Grandma... Go back, read up on AIESEC and please try to understand why we are important to UPM, to the society, to the country and to the world. Finally, stop your racist statements! PLEASE! I have Malay, Chinese, Indian, French, Polish, German, British, Indon, Thai, Czech and many more friends of different races and different nationalities. So, before you start preaching, start looking and listening. Perhaps you can learn a few things or two from AIESEC.
