Saturday, August 30, 2008

Malaysia

Meh. You don't need a flag to be patriotic. It's not something you should only show one day or one week or one month out of an entire year. Some people go crazy, decorating their cars with plastic holders and tiny flags which they'll probably end up throwing away, which isn't exactly environmentally sound. Heck, it contributes to fuel wastage, due to lack of proper aerodynamics, those tiny flags actually create additional friction, which means your car needs that much more power to burn before it can achieve the desired speed, not to mention the miniscule additional weight, which also probably lowers the circumference of the tyres by slightly below a micrometer or so for each flag added. So, when you take into consideration all of these factors, plus any I haven't mentioned, each flag you stick on your car actually makes it worse for the environment, and therefore you are harming your country.

I just digressed a whole lot right there, but the point of it all is that you don't need to go bonkers when Merdeka is around the corner. Helicopters flying around, planes zooming by practicing for the big parade, it all kinda puts more holes in the ozone layer.

You love your country, prove it with less flashy flashy. Pick up pieces of trash you see lying around, help the old people who might have worked their lives to make the country a better place cross the street, or let them sit down on your seat in a crowded bus, hold the door open for them, teach the kids you're pinning your hopes on some manners, keep an eye on them and think about their wellbeing, take care of our past and our future in not so many words by doing the right thing right here in the present.

It's not easy to do the right thing all the time, but it isn't exactly the hardest thing in the entire world to try and do it sometimes..

*sigh*

Malaysia's 51 this year, making it some sort of grandpa country. Happy birthday. I know a bunch of your kids are kinda fighting all the time now over all sorts of silly stuff, sorry about that, but some of us are trying to behave. Mostly. Kinda. Sometimes.

Again, happy birthday.

And sorry about the swearing.

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