As I sat in the vehicle listening to my host driver and his wife, I note that she has a sister residing in Ireland. The later just left after a long visit. Another sister from Canada has arrived. The host has a brother in Australia. Interestingly the brother has studied in FIT (Federal Institute of Technology), now part of UCSI, a private university in Kuala Lumpur, I have cousins who studied in a diploma program there long ago.
This brother, after he obtained a degree in engineering in another institution, migrated to Australia. As far as my host knows, he has not gotten a single professional job in his field throughout his stay in Australia. He and his family are still in that country down under.
In order to survive in that country, he took on a series of part-time jobs, including the job of a traffic controller in a public school. His mother went to visit him, that was what she said when she came back. According to the old lady, her son and daughter-in-law went through some rather lean times when they were new in that country. At one point of time, three of them were surviving on the child subsidy given by the government. I was rather shocked to hear that. Why did he not come back to Sabah, the land of plenty? Well, it was very difficult to have a crack of getting a residency permit anyway, how could he give up this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity?
I find it amazing that while main land Chinese migrate here under Malaysian my second home, Malaysians were dying to leave and would suffer long and hard to stay in a first world country. Now that Hong Kong is feeling the heat of Chinese bullets, I wonder how many Hong Kongers would migrate to Singapore and Malaysia soon?
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