Festive Season

The time has come again. This is the time everyone is busy spring cleaning their home, decorating their home and themselves, buying new stuff to prepare for the coming festive season. Regardless of race, during festive season, we all come together as Malaysian. No longer Chinese, Malay or Indian but Malaysian. After that, it's back to Malaysian Chinese, Malaysian Indian and Malay. I always admire our neighbouring country, Indonesia. Everyone is Indonesian. Even though majority of Indonesian Chinese doesn't understand Mandarin, but everyone speak their natioanal language fluently and has a high pride of their language and culture.

Even though DBP has been struggling tiredlessly to promote our national language, I still find some of us doesn't speak the language fluently. Worse, some doesn't even understand the language. Many of us doesn't even know the history of our language too.

However, one thing for sure, despite the difference in language, culture and race, we are all one big happy family. Our diverse culture and multi-racial is an envy to many foreign countries. Many times I've been asked how we can all live together in hormony and get along so well. In many countries, you seldom see a Chinese walking together with an Indian. Even in school, children tend to cling with their own race. It's really sad to see this. The children miss out all the fun learning others culture. It's so much fun to learn someone's way of life, food, music, belief and religion. It will boarden our knowledge too.

Lacking in this knowledge, will make ones fear of the other. Fear of the unknown. This, sadly tend to leads to a misunderstanding or worst, war...