MERDEKA DAY is just around the corner.. Although this year's celebration might not as exciting and joyful as last year (it's due the the Eid celebration, where citizen might pay more attention to the raya-ing matters and the house-to-house visiting things), it doesn’t mean that we ignore the MERDEKA day.. From my point of view, I don't see a strong spirit to celebrate it among Malaysians (again.. it might due the spirits all went to the preparation of Raya celebration and some are concentrating more on oyher matters for e.g form 5 students are concentrating on their SPM trial examination).If you notice, there are lack of people who fly the Jalur Gemilangs. And also this year it is hard to find people try to get their names into the books of records by making the largest, longest, broadest, heaviest, highest, and all the other 'est'. Where is that spirit now?
As a citizen, we should celebrate the Merdeka day no matter what other important events happened at the same date, week or month of Merdeka Day.. I’m not interested to list about the importance of celebrating the Merdeka day here because as a responsible and rationale citizen, we should've known those. All of us should celebrate it. Students are included. Here are some of the suggestions how students should celebrate the Merdeka Day ;
1) Ask your parents and family members to put flags at their cars/motorcycles
2) Put flags outside your house (fence, tree, gate, pole etc)
3) Put many flags in your classroom
4) Watch patriotic movies (Bukit Kepong, Hati Malaya, Chinta etc)
5) Read books/ novels/ artworks on patriotism
6) Play patriotic songs (request for it on the radio)
