Let all Malaysians regardless of race or religion look up to Michelle Yeoh as a model in the Malaysian Dream for Malaysia to accomplish Bapa Malaysia Tunku Abdul Rahman’s aspiration to be “a beacon of light in a difficult and distracted world”

Michelle Yeoh of Ipoh has done Malaysia proud – not just at the Malaysian level but at the global stage.

Let all Malaysians regardless of race or religion look up to Michelle Yeoh as a model in the Malaysian Dream for Malaysia to accomplish Bapa Malaysia Tunku Abdul Rahman’s aspiration to be “a beacon of light in a difficult and distracted world”.

Michelle Yeoh’s speech for winning the Oscar for Best Actress in a leading role in the movie “Everything Everywhere All At Once” is worth remembering – Dream Big and Dreams do come true.

A honourable sequel to the fantastic feat achieved by Michelle who became the first Asian to win an Oscar for Best Actress is for Malaysians to dream big for Malaysia to become one of the top best 30 countries in the world instead of ending up as a divided, failed and kleptocratic state on Malaysia’s Centennial in 2057.

Malaysians have enough of gruesome headlines in the last 100 days like the following: “Hadi predicts imminent collapse of Anwar’s govt”, “Muhyiddin charged with corruption involving over RM232m”, “AGC, MACC deny any interference in Jana Wibawa probes”, “‘I’m having sleepless nights’ – Muhyiddin says over court cases”, “Muhyiddin to face another corruption charge in Shah Alam on Monday”, “The shame of being ‘Malay first’”, “Jana Wibawa: Muhyiddin claims trial to RM5m money laundering charge” and “Breach of OSA if Hamzah kept Home Ministry files – PKR MP”.

Malaysians want to read more headlines like: “Michelle Yeoh creates history, wins Oscar for best actress” and in future “Malaysia leads to world in promoting inter-racial, inter-religious and inter-civilisational tolerance and understanding”.

There are political leaders who want Malaysians to believe that the Malays and Islam are under threat – which is a myth and completely groundless.

Malaysia is a plural nation of many races, religions and cultures, but Malaysians do not want Malaysia to become an arena for a War of Races of War of Religions.

Malaysia is at confluence of four great civilisations – Malay/Islamic, Chinese, Indian and Western.

Let Malaysians show the world that we can leverage on the best virtues and values of these four great civilisations to create a better world.

Let Malaysians unite and achieve an Oscar for the world in promoting inter-racial, inter-religious and inter-civilisational tolerance, understanding and peace.

This will be a worthwhile sequel to Michelle Yeoh winning the Oscar for the Best Actress.