Comments on: Merdeka II – declare Malaysia Day September 16 as second National Day/public holiday

By: malaysi0n

malaysi0n — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 06:06:47 +0000

BBC chairman Datuk Seri Tiong King Sing said they decided to go to Taiwan, and not China, as they were short of time.

“Initially, we wanted to go to China but as we did not have enough time to process our visas, we decided on Taiwan instead,” he told The Star’s Malay news portal mStar.

what is he rushing for?? 916??

By: sumbiling

sumbiling — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 14:59:00 +0000

whatever it is.. malaysia only exist on th 16 september 1963. THAT IS A FACT that no one can deny. since i consider myself as a true malaysian.. i see the date as a significant date. there is no other date more significant to me as malaysian. as easy as that..

talking about majority… isn’t the 16 sept a day for all malaysian?? not only the muslims, the christians… the chinese or the indians.. it’s a day for everyone.. not only for the sabahans and sarawakians but also for the people of malaya…

if a day like maal hijrah is only celebrated by those who are islam by faith.. why dont we recognize 16 sept as a day to be celebrated since everyone who call themselves malaysians are bound to it?

if somebody ask you… how old is malaysia? how would you answer? and when you are asked… when is the independence day of malaysia?

there is only 1 answer to both questions.. 45 year.

is there any independence day for malaysia? i dont think so..

that’s why i celebrate malaysia day..

By: imranj78

imranj78 — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 14:38:32 +0000

There was a typo in my last post. The last sentence should end as follows: `you will just have to live with it!’

By: imranj78

imranj78 — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 14:37:06 +0000

Emily Pratt,
Maal Hijrah, Maulidur Rasul, Nuzul al-quran, Israk & Mikraj are all significant and important from an Islamic perspective. You are free to work on those days if you wish not to take advantage of the holiday. But to the majority of the population, those dates are significant so whether you like it or not, you will just have to leave with it!

By: YY

YY — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 20:07:55 +0000

Everyone should remember 16 Sept 1963 and the great contributions that Sabah and Sarawak has provided.
Or they will lose us one day…

By: natsinned

natsinned — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 05:37:03 +0000

Supporting Boh Liao, no 916 means NO Malaysia. Sabah and Sarawak therefore will always be the 11th and 12th sons (SUPPOSEDLY JOINING THE RANKS OF THE FEDERATION WHICH SHOULD NOT BE THE CASE) of the third wife. DO NOT FORGET. SABAH AND SARAWAK FORMED MALAYSIA. WE NEVER JOINED MALAYSIA. EXERCISE THE 20 POINT AGREEMENT AND WE WILL BE SAFER.
Sabahan and Sarawakians, bagun lah.
Sabah and Sarawak can create it a STATE holiday??? Unless our bigot CMs or “loving” governors can work something out?

By: natsinned

natsinned — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 05:29:00 +0000

Digard says, “Though I usually agree with Kit Siang, here I allow myself to disagree, and follow HJ Angus: We have too many holidays already. In the current economic climate we can’t afford yet another day off.”
Put your arithematic aside, Digard.
There are more Muslim holidays being put in the calendar.
There are many international/christians holidays omitted for the matter.
Stop the corruptions and we can pay for the holidays.
Increase in the civil service competency/efficiency factor and we can have the holidays.
Many others…..

By: Emily Pratt

Emily Pratt — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 04:29:49 +0000

Maal Hijrah, Maulidur Rasul, Nuzul al-quran, Israk & Mikraj

Are they necessary? I stand as an ignorant person… care to elaborate on their significant?

Thank you.

By: zak_hammaad

zak_hammaad — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 03:03:42 +0000

There is an article in S’pore’s ST today (03/09/08) at the ‘review and forum’ section – Anwar: A third alternative?

I don’t agree with much of it, but would make an interesting read for the Pakatan ‘infatuants’ :^)

By: Captain

Captain — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 15:11:50 +0000

Maybe we should replace merdeka day with 916 celebration every year. UMNO has been hoodwinking malaysians as if UMNO fought and brought independence to malaya. If we change to 916, UMNO ego will fall flat and will be erased from the memory of our children and the next generation.

The people who really fought and gave their lives for independence has been sidelined by UMNO. Most of them are in Perak and Johore. Civil soceity recently celebrated them. Plse Pakatan Govt, take them out of oblivion and celebrate them. We have to stop history being shamelessly rewriten by Badawi stooges as if his father and grandfather were pivotal to malaya’s independence.

lembu punya susu, sapi dapat nama?

By: imranj78

imranj78 — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 14:03:33 +0000

Emily Pratt,
And which `muslim themed’ holidays are you not happy about? Care to elaborate?

By: imranj78

imranj78 — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 14:02:37 +0000

cheng,
I have done my research! The fact that LKS was there when the event happened and that he conveniently chose not to highlight that Sabah, Sarawak and Singapore declared independance on 31st August 1963 and NOT 16 Sept 1963 is thus amusing isn’t it?

To me this matter has been blown out of proportion and heavily politicized. Come on LKS/Anwar, put your effort on something more substantial. Stop doing things that seem popular. I’d rather you work on sustainable things that will actually improve the rakyat’s lives rather then on cheap short term populist stunts!

By: Emily Pratt

Emily Pratt — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 09:48:02 +0000

Holidays like Melaka Kota Bersejarah is completely silly.

There are too many muslim themed holidays.

By: bclee

bclee — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 09:21:06 +0000

By: bclee

bclee — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 09:14:09 +0000

one more point please make sure all foods price also down when u revise the petrol price down.

By: bclee

bclee — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 09:05:42 +0000

i think today 2/sep our petrol price should be revise down since world crude oil now at 105usd per barrel as promise by our PM. where is the promise ? proken promise against how can we trust u

By: cheng on

cheng on — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 04:13:44 +0000

Sri Lanka, Myanmar , HK also had many holidays.
So, one more holiday is ok.

By: newchief

newchief — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 02:04:28 +0000

Both dates ( August 31st & September 16th ) should have be declared public holiday for all Malaysians LONG LONG TIME AGO !! Each day has its significant historian impact :
1) MALAYA was FORMED on August 31st
2) Sabah, Sarawak , Singapore PLUS MALAYA was FORMED to become MALAYSIA!!

thus to argue the above would waste enormous time !! however , in my personal opinion, there is a day that is MORE IMPORTANT than the above days!!
The day is after the March 13th where all Malaysians sat down to agree to be peaceful and respect each other’s race!! wat date was it i am not sure but the day Malaysian Races become ONE is the MOST IMPORTANT DATE for all to remember – this should overwrite above dates as mentioned earlier . We should either name this day as ‘TRUCE DAY’ but i prefer it to be ‘MERDEKA DAY !!’ instead .

have some thoughts on it and gove me some comments please. Thank You.

By: HJ Angus

HJ Angus — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 01:45:04 +0000

As far as Singapore is concerned, most KL politicians like to use it as a boogey-man.
Very convenient and distracts the locals.
But the people in Johor know different – without Singapore’s success, JB would have reverted back to being a fishing village of sorts.

In fact tens of thousands of Malaysians have enjoyed success after completing their education in Singapore.

By: HJ Angus

HJ Angus — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 01:41:06 +0000

Don’t worry about Malaysia Today web-site as most people can still access the blog.

The longer the authorities carry on banning it, the more foolish they look!