I Love Malaysia
I got the search engine fired up and find Merdeka on flickr. Well, turns out that people feel patriotic by taking photos. Some might think, they did what? I was asking the same question to Jacq the other day when she took a quite nice picture of an old clock tower, and she said, because its old and it was there, taking photos of it would be patriotic.
I am too stupid to understand where the patriotic part is.
Well, I do understand some play shows the hardship gone by some people during that day, and included with it is the worst told lie that the government staged, go read the real books, and not those comercial textbook. Your PMR knowledge is tainted. You really want to be patriotic? Go read how really this nation is formed. Its a real story is not hidden, just that, no one bother to know anymore.
This is the start of a country, the late Dato Onn tried to fight hard for this, to become a nation, and that year is not possible to make that happened. So, he tried his best to slow down the whole process, but since another hard headed guy accelerate the return of the country to the kings, and because he's royalty, we know how the story goes. You might know him from that short clip where a man is pointing his hand to the heavens, with a whole lot of other crowd gather around him and cheer for him. Oh no, I'm not taking about Hitler, but the Merdeka gesture. Come to think of it, it does look like what Hitler did.Is there similarity? Should we be proud because his haste decision make some of the bloodiest tragedy in the country?
Now, people crowd in most of the field all over the country to watch other amateurs to march past 'someone important', and is it patriotic? Media coverage is so wide that it took over all the public networks. Although it occours only once a year..... wait a minute, why is being patriotic only once a year? I could not comprehend either. Is watching it at home makes you less patriotic? Is not watching it at all makes you not patriotic at all?
Now, what's with that so much damn flag in the cars? Where does all the diplomats coming from suddenly? I am ashamed to be Malaysian when I saw them doing things like that to the flag. I honestly do.
Now, this would be my two cent of what being patriotic means. First of all, change your simpleton mentality. Learn some new craft, change yourself, challenge yourself to go to the next height, become rich, don't expect help from other people. Try to make a difference. A better difference. Try to be fair to other people. Treat people like human being, and not judge them by race, religion or length of their dicks.
Now, I do wonder, what does the English do that is all that bad? Their Legal system?Their education system? their technology to build? Their corrupt ruling system? I do wonder, if they were never here, do we have anything to celebrate for?
Okay, now, Malaysia, we aren't suppose to be praising our past. The formation of Malaya and Malaysia is two different thing. They don't really give much consideration about Malaysia. Since formation of Malaysia, strictly speaking, there's no more Malaya. Shouldn't the story of be about Malaysia instead of Malaya? Apparently not. Why not? No one really asks this little question before. Why are we more proud of Malaya than Malaysia? Why we stressed so much about Kemerdekaan Malaya, compared to Pembentukan Malaysia? Sarawak and Sabah is an Independent states, but since from the beginning, they have been looked down and public office has been dominated by Malayan! Money has been pumped out of there faster than the English. Yet, we are still proud to be Malaysian. That's truly amazing!
