What has happened to us?
Where has our past gone?
Where has our memories of multi-racial culture disappeared?
Where's the time when we gang up with our Malay neighbours and jump into the pond to catch tadpoles with our bare hands, ended out mothers coming with stick in their hands?
Where has the fishing trip with own made fishing stick, at the jetty on the 'water wooden houses' with Kampong boys gone?
Where has the time when playing hide and seek with Indian neighbour gone?
Where has time gone when we play masak-masak and game of wars with neighbours without looking at their colours, genders and background?
Where has the time gone when we go swimming at the pond at the back of our multi-racial school after class?
Where has the time gone when we pretend cooking meal for big family with leaves and sticks as our meal?
Where has the time gone when we made real fire for our cooking that our teacher scold us for buring down our school's big hibiscus plant?
Where has the time gone when we each plant a sugar cane at the school yard and tender it while it grew?
Where has the time gone when we share our sugar cane with all our colourless friends and happy faces while we compare whose got the sweetest sugar cane?
Where has the time gone when we sneak out of our uni to go karaoke on the weekend? Just the 3 of us, Indian, Malay and Chinese?
Where has the time gone when we learnt how to eat with hands for the first time at friend's house?
Where has the time gone when we learn to cook nasi lemak from friend's mom?
Where has the time gone when we learn to cook sardin curry and tosai from friend's mom?
Where has the time gone when we smile at our neighbours and talking to them over the gate?
Where has the time gone when we give away our homemade redang or cake to our neighbours?
Where has the colourless people gone?
Where has the pure heart gone?
Where has harmony gone?
Where has unity gone?
Where has multi-racial gone?
All I see in the news and on the net are bickering each other, dissatisfy of each other, showing who is more qualify, showing unneccessary authorise power, showing who has special privilege and who dont.
I am a Chinese and my best friends are an Indian and a Malay and we known each other for more than 10 years. I have experienced and live the lives of the above.
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