Malaysia's 51st Independance Day

"Tanggal tiga puluh satu, bulan lapan lima puluh tujuh...."

Congratulations to you Malaysia! You have reached your 51st Independance Day. It has been one joy ride this year to see how political things are going on every single day lol.

This year I didn't do anything much, like going for countdown and look out for fireworks. It's indeed a very quiet Merdeka for me this year lol. I also don't really see much of the sticky small flags to stick on the car this year.

I still remember those days when I was still in SMK USJ 8. The school will allocate one special day to celebrate Merdeka. Usually that was the day where a few students declared their own holiday LOL.

And then, I still remember a group of students will be involve with the presentations. To watch the presentations, every student who went to school had to stand/sit in the assembly area for about 2 hours. Not just presentations, but also 'baca ikrar' and sing many many many Merdeka songs. The school will pass a whole bunch of the Merdeka song lyric to the whole school in order to sing along, and then take the papers back to be re-used for the next Merdeka celebration >_>

I'm not sure how the students in my school celebrate Merdeka now after leaving. But I still believe the schools are doing the same thing: Presentation, sing song, Merdeka speech and end. How about in college? Well if I'm not mistaken, we don't celebrate it at all till now LOL.