Tony Pua is the DAP candidate for PJ Utara Parliament seat. I'm not a voter of PJ Utara but I'm trying to help him to get into Parliament in whatever ways I can. Becoming a polling agent, raising some funds among my friends and colleagues, sharing with friends I know who will be voting in PJ Utara etc. Why do I choose to support him?
Just came back from a ceramah where I heard him speak. It was the second time I've heard him speak. The first was in a private gathering in a home where he spoke on the economy in particular inflation. Tonight he introduced himself for the first time to the voters in PJ sharing a bit of his background.
He came from a not well to do family where his father was a poultry farmer and mother a housewife. He managed to get an ASEAN scholarship after Primary Six to study in one of the best schools in Singapore. From there he obtained a scholarship from MTC to study Philosophy, Politics & Economics in Oxford. He didn't want to work for a cigarette company after graduation and providentially MTC allow him to break his bond. Worked as an IT consultant and later formed his own company and got it listed on the Singapore Stock Exchange. Sold his company and enter into full time politics early 2007.
He was asked many times why is he so stupid to gave up all and enter into politics with an Opposition party where there is no money to be made. He admitted that by selling his company, it has ensured that his family has been taken care of financially. But he certainly can go on and make more money. But he decided that sum of the good he can bring to the people by becoming their representative will be much more than the good that he can bring to himself by earning more money. (speaking very much like an economist)
Tony is an example to all of us in putting the interest of others above our own interest. That is why I support him.
He is also an example to those of us who are thinking of migrating to greener pastures. His message to me was this beautiful country which we call Malaysia is worth staying back and fighting for. The non Bumi community in particular the Chinese paid a huge social price because of the NEP. Many old folks are left behind. The young ones choose to stay back in overseas after their studies. Sometimes this is through tacit encouragement of their parents. Little ones growing up without really knowing their grandpa and grandma and their relatives. This spells the demise of the extended family.
It's time to reclaim our country from plunderers of the wealth of this nation. Vote for change!
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