Confession of a Patriot!
Today is the day of the year again! I can’t help it but to wake up early.
Usually, I turned on the TV with much anticipation. But, I refused to do it this morning as there is nothing much to be anticipated. I don’t even want to go near it.
I tried to go back to sleep but my mind is working unnecessarily on some fundamental, in fact “rooting”, answers that call for the right questions. I struggled with the questions as well as getting back to sleep because for as long as I can remember I will be up and running on this day of the year every year, no matter where I am. This shall long be continued for as long as I shall live.
I got up after much struggle and go to my window to the world (my laptop or rather the World Wide Web) in hope to rekindle my enthusiasm of the past.
I look no further than my journal entry this time last year like the helpless cave man holding up his stick looking for just a SIGN!
I can’t find the sign but traced a sense of disregard and complacency relating to the object of today in last year entry.
Looking for inspiration, I look further into my journal entry on the year before. I saw the SIGN (everywhere) but still not a reason to turn on the TV and be part of the celebration; because what I have been lamenting two years ago is still valid today (Please check out my Management Journal for September 2006) .
Here are some of the answers that are in my mind calling for the questions:
- “We have just announced the biggest national budget ever but competitiveness moving forward is not properly addressed.”
- “We are hovering around old themes inherited years ago. We are losing out of ideas.”
- “One of the lessons learned from the recent national general election is that a small government is required to ensure a fair and just business friendly environment that provides quality and sustainability of life. Leave the rest to us, we will find our way and place in the global order.”
- “Facilitate, not Dictate.”
- “Affirmative action is a thing of the past. We need to grow up after 50 years and grow up fast or at risk of becoming irrelevant.”
- “Incentives and Privileges are short term bonuses; Values and Relevance are forever! Let’s be self-reliance.”
- “Merit still merits its place in this globalised market.”
- “One thing at a time, we shall get there.”
- “Start NOW!”
- “If you try to be everything, you are nothing really!”
- “Didn’t we all cheer for Chong Wei in the recent Beijing Olympic Badminton Final and cried in disappointment?”
- “We are all Malaysians (full stop).”
Well, today is not just another public holiday. It is the Independence Day of Malaysia.
Happy Birthday, my beloved Motherland! And please, grow up and be independence in the true meaning of the word – “Merdeka” as we called it.
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