Today is Malaysia Day, the day in 1963 when Sarawak and Sabah of East Malaysia merged with Malaya for a bigger country. While it is a day worth to recognise and celebrate, we in the Peninsular Malaysia tend to focus more on the National Day, the day Malaya claimed independent from the colonial. This is not helping in uniting both the East and West, at least to have everyone to share the Day. While National Day is declared a public holiday, the Malaysia Day is only a holiday for Sabah. I presume, Sabahan and Sarawakian will like to have us to celebrate the Day with them.
Until then, 1Malaysia is still a long way to achieve.
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