Selamat Hari Malaysia

Yes. It's her birthday...the Malaysia Day.
16th September of each year since 1963.

So we commemorate her day each year in school. Yesterday was no different. We reminded and affirmed one another of our love for the nation. This love you must instill and teach ; whatever man may say.

The teachers are a great crowd. They love the children and the more veteran the teachers are, the greater their love for the children in school. When you may think that they are old and less energetic, you will be surprised how the ups and downs in life lead them all the more to dispense their responsibilities in their best. So they too remember this day well. They have also known that the nation has been with them all the days and are grateful for the lot given to them.

The children are led to sing some all time favourites like "Kerana Mu Malaysia and Jalur Gemilang". You know the lyrics and tempo of both these tunes evoke gratitude, love, appreciation for Malaysia. We teach them patriotism but they think otherwise sometimes. They don't know that they have to be away to know how good their homeland is.

Sharing with a friend when reminisces of the past were played over the video, I told her that Malaysians were meant for one another; to live harmoniously and favorably together and that we were a polished lot always having well-meaning gestures. Warm and loving, we house friends and display food generously. But things got in the way and we forget to be kind at times. Yet, love we must for our homeland, the place where we were brought up, live, nurtured and educated. We must not forget that we belong to the country.

One Malaysia.
How we need to remind one another all the time.
That is reason to worry because we forget that we all belong to the same country.

So we need to celebrate because we have a nation where we belong to.

Jalur Gemilang...Di bawah naugan mu
Jalur Gemilang... Kami semua bersatu
Perpaduan, Ketaatan
Amalan murni rakyat Malaysia...
Berkibarlah... Berkibarlah... Berkibarlah Jalur Gemilang

Thank you Malaysia.