sept 16 - state public holiday
don’t get excited… i don’t mean this coming sept 16. oh.. and only penangites need to get excited for NEXT YEAR.
while i read in malaysiakini that our new opposition leader, anwar, is mulling sept 16 as a public holiday in all the pakatan rakyat states, penang’s CM, lim guan eng had already decided to take 16 sept as public holiday for penang next year. (yippy! another public holiday for me!)
why sept 16? it’s malaysia day - the day when the then malaya merged with sabah and sarawak to form malaysia, thus malaysia day. sabah and sarawak had been celebrating sept 16 as independance day all the while, not 31 aug.
well, anwar’s reason for wanting to declare sept 16 as public holiday was, according to malaysiakini, to ’strengthen the solidarity between malaysians in the peninsular and those in sabah and sarawak.’ hmm…. an attempt to win over BN ministers…. to made them jump ship? yes apparently so.
Anwar announcement on the unprecedented Malaysia Day celebrations in the Peninsular is likely to further undermine the credibility of BN federal government and lure East Malaysian MPs to hop to Pakatan.
According to political observers, the announcment expressly implied that the federal government had ignored and neglected the importance of Sabah and Sarawak since states in the Peninsular do not mark the day with a public holiday.
They said it exposed the deeply-rooted grouses among Sabahans and Sarawakians of “being treated like stepchildren in the nation-building process by BN”.
“Anwar is capitalising on it to show to East Malaysian political leaders that a Pakatan federal government would treat them equally.
“At the same time, he has embossed his position as the Pakatan supremo as well,” said an observer, who declined to be named.
well, if pakatan wants to made sept 16 a public holiday, maybe they should also made a public announcement that malaysia is 45 years old and not 51 years old. the federation of malaysia came into being in 1963. thus if you do a simple mathematics of 2008 minus 1963, it is 45. malaysia is only 45 years old. numbers doesn’t matter you said? well, according to james chin from the malaysian insider, it does matter when suka-suka history had been changed.
so what do you think? perhaps next year we should celebrate malaysia’s independance of 46 years on sept 16?
hari merdeka 2009 - 16hb sept!
ulang tahun merdeka ke-46!
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on September 2nd, 2008 at 3:51 am
hari kebangsaan 16th sept
hari merdeka 31 ogos
on September 2nd, 2008 at 6:15 am
September 16 is the day that Malaysians should celebrate. The date has its historical significant and nobody can deny that as 16 September was the formation of Malaysia. Why the BN goons keep on celebrating on 31 Aug, I doubt any of them can give us the answer. Talk so much on unity but “cakap tak serupa bikin ba”. It is time now that we face reality.Malaysia belong to all of us, no matter in which states you were born, we must be proud that we are Malaysians and truly Malaysians and we love all the states and all the people in Malaysia. Pakatan Rakyat will never be wrong in making this decision and its time for CHANGE-change for good to be one nation striving for our national interest with “Ketuanan Rakyat” as the enduring principle and that with God willing- will take us to a new dimension. So apa tunggu lagi cross now and 16 September will be ” Hari Kebangsaan Malaysia”. l
on September 2nd, 2008 at 10:14 am
The Courage to Build a New Malaysia.
(Keberanian Membina sebuah Malaysia Baru.)
(Versi Bahasa Melayu dibawah)
The year is 2008. This is the year most Malaysians finally woke up from a deep slumber. Most Malaysians were just too busy earning their living and building up their lives to take notice that times have changed and the idealism spouted by our founding Fathers have still not been accomplished for this country even today.
It was not so long ago in 1957 and then for our fellow East Malaysians in 1963 when the ideals and dreams preached by the late Tunku Abdul Rahman Putra Al-Haj (Bapa Kemerdekaan and Bapa Malaysia) for Malaysia were first announced and was greeted with joy in the hearts and minds of all Malaysians. The late Tunku Abdul Rahman had a dream and ideals, just like Martin Luther King, Gandhi, Nelson Mandela and many others including the prophets over the history of mankind.
Many a times such dreams were hijacked and led astray under the guise of nationalistic, racist and religious idealism by so called politicians and self declared and appointed righteous and religious persons (Little Napoleons). Individuals who have risen to continue some of such idealisms are gagged, isolated, bankcrupted, blasphemied, rehabilitated or worst jailed, for it is deemed not in consonance with the dreams and idealism of the elected parties agendas.
cont’d at http://patek1472.wordpress.com
on September 2nd, 2008 at 11:59 am
Anonymous said…
SALAM DSAI, COURAGE TO ALL IN YOUR SPIRIT OF TRUTH & RIGHTEOUSNESS FOR THE MAKING OF A NEW DAWN OF MALAYSIA COME 0916
In 2004 GE11, the Malaysian Voters have had given the PeeM AAB 90% of the seats in Parliament with a Mandate of almost full support but what had he done to Malaysia, with his arrogance & ungratefulness, he tried to oppress & betray the Rakyats and mismanage the Government and suppressed the MSM News and spun lies and deceits. What could PeeM AAB ever do anything to Ahmad Ismail??? As he himself professes & shares like-minded with Ahmad Ismail the same common seditious thoughts.
Light-up the Candles now and but justice for all ISA detainees come the new dawn of Malaysia soon.
Where is the justice & freedom of expression because all our MSM News are suppressed or spun, where have the Truth and Merdeka gone to, perhaps the goons under BN Government, ok??? Malaysia is going backwards after 51 years instead of going forward under the Racist UMNO, calling the “Chinese Squatters” to leave and “Babi Cabinet” if Anwar wins Permantang Pauh and if he forms the Pakatan Rakyats’ Federal Government. What independence is there when there is none but a Police State in the making and where is the Justice for Altantuya and those in the ISA detention without trial or rights of appeal to seek natural justice???
The UMNO Government is afraid that more cans of worms will be spilled by RPK and therefore they banned his blogsite which is a futile attempt to block information in this IT age, of course this is because of this Present Moronic Government is corrupt and dirty therefore on the pretext of helping the Rakyats, they could extract, swindle and plunder more money from the Budget Deficit and with most of the Deficit Money coming from Petronas. Look for example at the Crystal Mosque’s and Mariner Club’s Fiasco in Terengganu’s Billions in Wang Ehsan, Billions had been lost as white elephants. The cancellation of the Johore Scenic Bridge, Penang Second Bridge and LRT Projects at the whims and fancies of the Flip Flop, Incompetent and Sleeping PeeM at the last minutes is wasting Multi Millions Ringgits in Public Funds had shown proof of the PeeM’s mismanagement of the Government and wastage of the Public Financial Resources and all these wasted funds could not be salvaged to aid and assist the Malaysian Poor Citizens of all races. If Malaysia still keep him in power it will further damage and erode the Wealth of our Nation and our National Wealth could be decimated in no time.
The same could happen to all the empty promises of aid and help to the Rakyats these could all be lip service only unless it is monitored by reputable NGOs. On the irreversible Food Prices inflation, the unnecessary Moronic previous price hike on Petrol & Diesel had caused great permanent damage to the Food Price Structure and even if the price cut to Petrol and Diesel revert to their original prices prior to their hike, it will not revert the Food prices back to their original state and only the PeeM is to be solely blamed for his unwarranted Fuel Price Hike. His 2009 budget did not help the Rakyats’ quelled their immediate hardship suffered nor did that help them solve their Transport Problems immediately with multiple schemes but none available immediately with all the empty rhetorics but nothing concrete that could solve their immediate problems after years of neglect from this incompetent sleeping PeeM. As it is he is still sleeping and still unaware of what the 27 Million Rakyats wanted, needed and aspired to have coming soon??? Come Sept 16, 2008 send him home to sleep forever he is no longer needed.
on September 2nd, 2008 at 3:11 pm
It’s about time this takes place!! 16th Sept!!