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Hello everyone once again. I have just finished my Physics paper and I did okay le..Not that bad...However, it does not really matters as it contributes just a small percentage for the final result. Anyway, I know I'm pretty late to wish Malaysia - Merdeka. That's why I have chose exactly 1 week after it to wish my beloved country.

Isn't it beautiful??? Recently many people have ask "What does Merdeka means to you?" and there were mixed reaction and response to this question. As for me, Merdeka is something that should be an event and be proud of celebrating it. However, there are more and more Malaysia does not appreciate the true meaning of Merdeka. It can be seen that the Government has certainly been trying to instill patriotism among Malaysians with all the campaigns, events and last but most important - the Jalur Gemilang flag, the beloved symbol of our country Malaysia. I certainly agree with the Government that we should be patriotic to our country but does flying a Jalur Gemilang flag solely proves that the definition of patriotic??

This is a picture that I took on the Merdeka gathering at Taylor's College. As you can see from the picture, most of the students and teachers are holding a Jalur Gemilang flag. But, how many of those really understand or appreciate the flag where most can be seen waving just for entertainment and they attended this gathering just so that they could skip the lesson on that particular time. (Well, I personally did this last year and I'm sure many of my friends would agree with me).

There is also another question that begs to be answered, have you noticed that less and less Malaysians fly their national whether on the car, premises or houses? Are they not flying the flag because they are not patriotic? I am certain that if a random survey was done on Malaysians on the street whether they are true Malaysian citizens, most of them would have answered YES. So, what makes them not to fly the Jalur Gemilang?

And there is another interesting find. As for this year, the National Day falls on a Friday. Did you notice that instead of celebrating it, more than a group of people would plan a short trip out of town with the family to escape the hustle and bustle of their daily life and enjoy a 3-day work-less day.

Now to a different question. Does Malaysia really achieved anything "special" after 50 years of independence?? A significant amount of people would surely agree that Malaysia is a well-developed country with all the basic necessities at hand whereas some would oppose this suggestion.

Therefore, what have Malaysia have achieved or done something special after 50 years?? (this is just for the sake of fun where most facts are basically fabricated by Malaysia - Uncyclopedia.org

1. We, Malaysians definitely have the ultimate right to claim that we created the Rojak language (a language which integrates all languages range from Malay, Chinese, Tamil, English, Japanese, French etc etc). Among them includes "Orang tu kawaii lai de (a mixture of Malay and Mandarin)" or people like Cheng Haw that creates the "Soon-to-be world longest foul word initials in all types of languages - just the introduction part would be knnccbmhlcpscmsfslykk......"

2. The main income for Malaysia includes exportation of "rubber" to countries around the world. Another source of income is from pirates which can be split into two categories: (a) Eh leng chai, hoi ham tai mo?? DVD quality arrr!!! Only RM 5 whereas (b) Mai le kan, mai le kan, RM 50 for iPod!!! Cheap and negotiable!!! Another main Malaysian export product is the brains of upcoming young adults and exports to countries such as UK, USA and Australia through private institutions (Well, I'm of of them actually).

3. The most popular food attraction that was created by Malaysia is the so-called Indian food or widely known as my-hand-is dirty mamak food. It is so popular that even Hitz.fm is so proud of the creation of mamak food and announced it to everyone on air. Usually, when customers order from mamak stall, they will turn the words backward for instance; normal Ice tea would be Teh ais. And the most famous food at mamak stall is of course the NASI LEMAK which consists of one plain white rice (NASI) that is apparently cooked with LEMAK, curry chicken and some dunno-what-they-used-to-cook gravy.

4. Now, the most important creation of Malaysia in the 50 years of independence - the TMNut Streamyx. It is widely advertised as the first this and that and claimed that it is the fastest around this country and that country. To show the great achievement of the broadband speed, I have done a speed test and compared it with other country.

If you just enlarge the 2nd pic, you would be able to see the average broadband speed by country that was just released recently and if you compared it to the download speed of TMNut (if my calculation is not wrong), our TMNut would be 1.17Mb/s which is ranged one of the slowest with Greece, Mexico and Spain. If compared to Japan, Malaysia's TMNut would be 60 times more than us..ZzZ.. To sum the whole TMNut speed...

With all those stuffs that I have mentioned, these are the things that make Malaysia so unique and interesting compared to other country. All in all, I am proud and glad to be a Malaysian and would not replace it with other nationality when given the opportunity!!!!

PS For the bottom part, once again, most are just fictionally and does not based on the real scenario in Malaysia.