Sunday, August 30, 2009

Merdeka Celebrations

The eve of 31st August and there's all this hype about Merdeka celebrations. If you're not out at the main spots tonight, you are destined to be a loser for life. Right.
Anyways, what caught my attention is, the fact that everyone seems to think that they're celebrating Independence Day by going out, watching some concerts, fireworks, having "fun" and all sorts of things which shouldn't be mentioned but you know what I'm talking about.
Is that really what independence is about?
We learn history, though I must admit most of us sleep in history class, but bit by bit, there must be some sort of historical value that sticks in our brains. The struggles of our leaders just to free us from the clutches of colonialism and what do we do 52 years later?
We party it up and mess up Dataran Merdeka/KlCC/The Curve/and a bunch of other hotspots.
That's real nice. But you know what would be better?
If we could all look up our history notes and remember the hardship and tribulations.
Cause that's what Independence is about. Not who went to which party.

P/S-I know Tailerag is meant for legal articles, but this just crossed my mind. So what the heck right?

~AJ~

1 comment:

  1. your observation's very true. But, thankfully, this year, not that many people go around and "celebrate" Malaysia's Independence by partying because of Ramadhan. At least, I think so...

    Let's make this our next topic of discussion for our next get together~ Get everyone's ideas out. That would be fun, don't you think?

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