Negaraku~ku~~

"What if Malaysia take over by Bangladeshi and Myanmarean in the future?" What an interesting topic that has been discussed during lecture class. It's a big big NO to me and to every Malaysian for sure. First thing first, our rights will be neglected and we will also lose our identity. We will then turn out to be a foreigner rather than a citizen. This sounds ridiculous huh?! 

Then, during tutorial class Ms Edaline asked us to create our own lyrics for national anthem. So, tadaaaa -- here's our lyrics for national anthem.

"Negaraku
  它的名字是 Malaysia
  Ada Cina,
  Melayu dan India

 Now We teach you
 How to say thank you
Terima Kasih , Xie Xie and Nandri

Malaysians, Jaganlah racist la~ "

We made it multilingual to represent the three main races in our country - Malay, Chinese and Indian. We shouldn't be racist as we are all Malaysian which we deserve to be treated fairly. 1 Malaysia mah!

Another Country - Singapore

To be frank, I never know where DPAC is and never watch this kind of performing arts until 14th of June. FYI, performing arts are art forms in which artists use their body, voice, or objects to convey artistic expression-as opposed to, for example, purely visual arts, in which artists use paint/canvas or various materials to create physical or static art objects. Performing arts include a variety of disciplines but all are intended to be performed in front of a live audience.

Another Country, directed by Jo Kukathas from Malaysia and Ivan Heng from Singapore. This play really amazed me, it is AWESOME! As I am new to performing arts, thus I don't really know what to expect from Another Country. I found this interesting, which cast from Malaysia (Ghafir Akbar, Sharifah Amani, Anne James, Alfred Loh, and Iedil Putra) performed Singapore's stories (Sayang Singaura) while cast from Singapore (Sharda Harrison, Gani Karim, Janice Koh, Lim Yu-Beng, and Siti Khalijah Zainal) performed Malaysia's stories (Tikam-tikam: Malaysia@Random 2). I think the reason behind this is to inspire us to dig deeper about the history of our closest neighbour and understand it. 

I personally like Daulat: Long Live and Moonrat: Tikus Bulan, the Malaysia's stories;  Mama Looking for Her Cat, and  2 mothers in a hdb playground, the Singapore's stories as they were truly impressive, and also FUNNY. hahahahahah......

After watching such a professional performance, I somehow fell for it. Another Country has worked up my enthusiasm towards our shared history, arts, and culture with Singapore. Arts and culture are not meant to be forgotten. Every single one of us has to love and respect it.

AND.... most important of all ~~~~ HAINANESE CHICKEN RICE - CHICKEN THAT TASTES LIKE CHICKEN *drooling*

That's all, peace out! 

Do you identify yourself as a Malaysian? Why? Does it matter?

Do you identify yourself as a Malaysian? Yes! Of course I do! Actually there are a few reasons that make me feel proud to be a Malaysian. Malaysia is a unique country due to its diversity of races, religions and culture but the important thing is that all of us able to live harmoniously. When we talk about food, there are a lot of choices for us to choose for example like Malay cuisine (nasi lemak,currypuff,rendang, sambal, satay),Chinese cuisine (bak kut teh, char kui teow, chee cheong fun, lok lok, yong tau foo), and also Indian cuisine (roti canai, mee goreng, putu mayam). Obviously this is a benefit for living in a multiracial country as all of us know that Malaysian love food A LOT! The first thing we ask when we meet our friends is "have you eaten yet?" or "let's go yamcha!",this has been a culture of ours.

Other than that, language is another uniqueness of Malaysia.We can communicate in different languages like Malay, English, Cantonese, Mandarin, or Tamil and we do have our own special slang that only Malaysian can understand. For example, Manglish or bahasa rojak is the feature that best describe us as a MALAYSIAN. This helps a lot in strengthening the bonds among us which we could understand each other more. We don't really have barriers between ethnicity because all of us being raise in the same environment, we met friends from different racial in school or in university. I guess this is the reason why we have a good relationship between each other no matter what color our skin is. 

Does it matter? I can answer this without hesitation, YES! It is! I felt lucky to born as a Malaysian because this is a place which safe from major earthquake. All of us respect each others and accept others religions and culture because we are all Malaysian who live in the same country. I do believe this is the key to the realization of national unity and harmony.