I am not sure if most people tend to look down on Sarawakians… to be honest I didn’t know much about people from Borneo until I know some East Malaysians from university. I think most West Malaysians don’t look down on Sarawakians (or Sabahan), just that we didn’t have much chances to know each other… it’s more like curiousity rather than any discriminative intentions.

On the other hand… when I started university, I had a feeling that East Malaysians held a bit hostility against West Malaysians… but after we knew each other, we are very much the same after all.

It’s the lack of interaction that caused these… hopefully with better communication (like internet) these days, the ‘culture gap’ could be reduced significantly.

English, Powerpoint, word processors, spreadsheets, email etiquette, typing etc. are basic requirements for most graduates these days. The universities are not responsible for teaching the undergraduates about these, but the undergraduates should be made aware and to take the initiative to improve themselves.”

Yeah, agreed with you about this one. Half of my class are still bloody clueless about actually using a wireless mouse or putting a line border on their pictures in Powerpoints despite spending a major half of their scholarship money on high tech comps like the latest HP tablet laptop. I feel like kicking that person’s head and wondering why the hell are they stupid enough not to learn more about these IT stuff first before even surveying for some high specs laptops.

To be frank, I’m a Sarawakian, and most people tend to look down on Sarawakians as backward people, people still living on trees. If I am so like they said ‘ketinggalan zaman’ when I can easily make animations and presentations on Flash, but they, the so-called ‘pengikut zaman’ don’t even know how to retrieve their files back from the Recycle Bin?