Monday, August 18, 2008

The Biggest Sale in Penang

Penang is a great product that is short-selling itself. As a raised in Penang 30-something, I'm old enough to remember the days when we were not a place known merely for rat-infested streets and kiamsiap business people. 

I came back from a conversation with other 30-somethings. Penang needs a re-education about Herself. And I'm on a crusade to be as comprehensive a collection as possible on what Penang is all about. Even cattle gets branded better than Penang. We need the branding. 

Penang has a long heritage and history and a colourful culture - but whoever else is going to care about Penang if Penangites don't do it themselves? How can we sell Penang to the world when we can't even sell Penang to our own Penang people?

Thus, I'm going to start a personal crusade to launch the BIGGEST SALE IN PENANG. We're going to sell Penang to our own Penang people. We're going to collect all the value and information about Penang and package it in a way to make Penangites realize, that if they don't start taking pride in their own state, their own economy, we will fade to be a relic of the past and we will be shameless if we dared live in the glory of 'the old days'. Once the glory is gone, it's just gone. The last thing I would like to sound like is a person who lives in the reflected glory of days gone by. 

We must be aware, that there is a point of no return. There is no culture without people. And Penang is exporting Creativity like a neighbouring country is exporting maids and nurses. 

The Biggest Sale in Penang is going to happen. We are going to reclaim back Penang. 

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