Happy birthday, Singapore, leads to, "A Thought of my Own Country"

Today while attending the service, we were flaging the flag of Singapore and sang the song "Stand up, Singapore" together as to celebrate the national day of singapore. While it is nice to see all the red colours waving around in the auditorium, the ironic thing is in my so many years of my days that I aware of, I've never wave the flag of my own country like this before...

Off course, I am still Malaysian though some of my friends always tease me saying that I've become Singaporean. But Singapore is a very special country to me and somehow I have a unique linkage with this island state.

First of all, my mother is a Singaporean, and all my uncles, aunties, maternal grandparents are all from Singapore. Hence from my younger days, I already visited this beautiful country quite often. Maybe at least once every 1~2 years, and so places like Sentosa, Tampines, Changi Airport, Bedok Food Hawker Centre, Chinese Garden, City Hall Station and things like MRT, 'Gao Shiao Xing Dong' by Jack Neo, Channel 8 etc etc are not unfamiliar to me.

2ndly, it is the uni here that recognizes the cert that I am holding and offer me an opportunity to study here. This is a very very sad point to mention, my own country is not even recognizing this certificate, but yet Singapore's uni are offering a few hundreds of places to students holding this cert in my country every year...

My country ah, it is time not to confine yourself within the racial boundary, but to focus on building a nationality identity, only then we will grow healthier as one in this glabalization trend.
Why are we still debating over the pie share or quota while the real challenge should be increasing the pie size together?

Politicians, it is time stop playing around with foolish words that only meant to expose the lack of wisdom of oneself. Nobody has the right to create chaos through his/her foolish act in this beautiful country, as this is not your own personal platform, this is a country belong to all people in Malaysia. Focus on the right things, take care of your people, who have entrusted you to govern the country through their votes...

Too many things to say, too few words to express, lest it become an action to touch on the "sensitive issue"...

Anyway, while Singapore is 43 this year, my country should be celebrating its 51 years old this month. Happy birthday to my own country!