This year, I remember Malaysia Day

After the public holiday and National Day parade that accompany Merdeka, Malaysia Day is usually acknowledged simply in passing. But that doesn’t mean it’s not there. It’s always baffled me why we celebrate our independence with such aplomb but give little more than a cursory nod to the day Malaysia was formed. Isn’t this the day we officially became one nation? Or is that not so important?

This year, a very special group of people decided to come together to commemorate the day we became Malaysia. Calling their movement Fast for the Nation, Peace for Malaysia, they are inviting everyone who cares to join them. I hope you take the time to check out their website and maybe, in your own way, remember this day with them in spirit if not in person. I know I’ll be doing that.

I also want to say Thank You to this amazing, passionate group of Malaysians because it is people like them, not politicians with their flowery speeches that preach unity for the cameras and something completely opposite behind closed doors, that bolster my hope and make me proud to be their country(wo)man.