Monday, February 21, 2011

Crou-sheng Tiger

During the Three Kingdoms period of Chinese history, Zhuge Liang (or Kung Ming) was a chancellor of Shu Han. He is often recognized as the greatest and most accomplished strategist of his era. But when the legend travels around seventeen hundred years later, Zhuge Liang will reborn as a Malaysian who is studying economics and serve as the most capable treasurer in PEKUMA, perhaps in the whole campus of University of Malaya.

Zhuge’s reputation as an intelligent and learned scholar grew even while he was living in relative seclusion, earning him the nickname "Wolong" (literally, it means Hidden Dragon). Similarly, this treasurer guy’s intelligence and avoidance of participating in any co-curricular activities in the campus give him the nickname “Crouching Tiger”. Often depicted wearing a robe and holding a hand fan made of crane feathers, Zhuge was not only an important military strategist and statesman; he was also an accomplished scholar and inventor. Travel back to the future, this guy has nothing difference in appearance compared to other typical student here – T-shirt, jeans and converse.

But there are a lot of similarities between that ancient dragon and this modern tiger. They both come out from the divine mist and the clandestine forest to serve for a good reason. Zhuge pledged to save and rebuild Han Dynasty by fighting the malevolent Cao Cao who was equipped with the strongest army at that time. In contrast, this modern Malaysian Zhuge oath to rebuild and develop the broken economics club.

Asset means something valuable that an entity owns and benefit from. But what makes a breathing creature an asset, in this case, a human being?

Not his qualification but his determination, his mindset, his attitude and his spirit. Sadly, not everyone in faculty of economics that seems understand this theory aside the rigid law of supply and demand. Talk is cheap indeed.
And frankly speaking, he could be one of the few individuals in the FEA that understand the term "implementation" or "shut the fuck up and do it".

What is the name of this respected modern Zhuge?

His name is Leong Lik Sheng.

1 comment:

  1. So when are you going to write one on Zhuge's girlfriend?? xD

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