Week 28 - Merdeka la, sayang.

i really wanted to write something incredibly funny and witty yet somewhat prosaic and reflective almost bordering on melancholic about our independance day and what it means to me - but i failed. i failed miserably. i went through three different opening paragraphs yet scrapped them all because it didn't feel like it properly described what i wanted to say. also it was rather try-hardish. so i binned it!

anyway, 5 years ago, i was an apathetic malaysian. but now that i'm living overseas, i've transformed into this flag-waving country-defending ultra-patriotic citizen. now that i can't be in malaysia 24/7, 7 days a week, 52 weeks a year, i've come to realise just how good home can be.

however, i do know that home isn't perfect and as the years go by, you come to understand and realise that there are less and less things about home that you can be proud of (lee chong wei - what a shit outing at the world championships...no la, actually what i'm trying to say is...ALTANTUYA!). it is always very disheartening to go into thestar.com.my and read about all the shit things that politicians and small-minded shit-stirring people are doing IN MY BELOVED COUNTRY! it makes me very very angry because these people are fucking up the country that i want to grow old and rear my children and be buried in!

sigh.

now that it's been 52 years since we last sang God Save The Queen and replaced it with Negaraku, i'm hoping that situations will get better. i wish someone would tell Najib that his OneMalaysia plan is a fucking farce and that he'd better think of something more original before shit hits the fan. and all those different factions within BN all trying to outdo each other when they should be working together to improve the nation. the but then again, the opposition are pretty shit too now that they're all fighting against each other - what happened to September 16?! so i guess the bottomline is: we're screwed.

Selamat Hari Merdeka, you guys.

if i were you, i'd go watch all those videos posted on 15Malaysia. it can't really do much to save the situation but at least it'll make you feel better and to acknowledge the fact that there are some really creatively talented malaysians out there. we're not all about pirated dvds.