Controversies on the cost, the printing of leaflets with tons of spelling mistakes, leaks etc.
Here is a reply from the Ministry of Tourism on SOME of the faults. Click this.
So this is my personal take on it.
The expo had a theme "Better City, Better Life" and while other Pavillions (those that I visited) stuck with the theme , we were more interested in selling stuff like Ipoh White Coffee, Bonia etc...
Malaysia has huge links with China that others in the region dont, From Admiral Cheng Ho to the Sultanate of Malacca to the Chinese immigrants that came to work in the tin mines.
We could also have featured prominent Chinese immigrants that made good here like Tan Sri Lim Goh Tong but nooooo, we were more interested in selling over-priced art from Balai Seni Lukis Negara with artists no one overseas have heard of.
Other Pavillions tried hard to showcase their links with China, e.g. Turkey's ancient calendar and their similarities with the Chinese one, UAE had teh Sultan's grandughter giving a welcome speech on multimedia screens in fluent Mandarin.
Malaysia by far has more links with China but this was not showcased in the best possible way in my humble opinion.
According to a Malaysian who works in Shanghai, there was a standing joke among the Indonesians that they had 2 Pavillions there as the Malaysian one with the Minangkabau style roof originated from Indonesia.
The pix:
"The Malaysian Pavillion."
"The Twin Towers inside....the antennae was not at the top of the buildings so I suppose it was not according to scale."
"While others had high impact-multimedia, we had these..er...strange looking dolls."
"Poor showcase of our F1 Sepang circuit..we could at least have had a F1 simulator and a multimedia presentation of the history and race of the track."
"While others had high impact-multimedia, we had posters."
"At night.."© All Pictures by HeadLiner unless stated. All Rights Reserved. Not to be used without permission.
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