{"id":6677,"date":"2010-07-09T15:58:37","date_gmt":"2010-07-09T07:58:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/others\/2010\/07\/09\/merdeka-celebration-on-a-smaller-scale\/"},"modified":"2010-07-09T15:58:37","modified_gmt":"2010-07-09T07:58:37","slug":"merdeka-celebration-on-a-smaller-scale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/borninmalaysia\/2010\/07\/09\/merdeka-celebration-on-a-smaller-scale\/","title":{"rendered":"Merdeka celebration on a smaller scale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Something I read today morning triggered this posting. It was a <a href=\"http:\/\/thestar.com.my\/news\/story.asp?file=\/2010\/7\/9\/nation\/6631713&amp;sec=nation\" target=\"_blank\">news <\/a>about the Merdeka day celebration coming soon. According to the Information, Communications and Culture Minister Datuk Seri Dr Rais Yatim,&nbsp; National Day, which falls during the fasting month, will be celebrated on a moderate scale at Stadium Putra in Bukit Jalil. There will be focus on &#8220;lighting and the flying of Jalur Gemilang&#8221; while fireworks is planned only for the launching of celebrations at&nbsp; Stadium Utama Kangar in Perlis on Aug 1.<\/p>\n<p>So, I wonder, can we &#8220;tone down&#8217; patriotism\/nationalism due to religion? Which has precedence? Not that I&#8217;m belittling anyone&#8217;s religion, but just curious.<\/p>\n<p>Obviously, the private sector will still try to celebrate National Day on big scale due to economic reasons. So, celebrations are not purely due to patriotism\/nationalism, but just an excuse to have a good time, spend some money, enjoy life.<\/p>\n<p>And maybe certain quarters will threaten the private sector organisers to &#8220;tone down&#8221; as well since it will be fasting month and they&#8217;ll claim that such excessive celebrations can lead people astray. Would this constitute infringing on others&#8217; right\/freedom?<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, Merdeka falls on Tuesday this year, so if you apply leave for Monday, then you get four days holiday. Selangorians have a holiday on the preceding Friday, so you can get up to 5 days holiday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Something I read today morning triggered this posting. It was a news about the Merdeka day celebration coming soon. According to the Information, Communications and Culture Minister Datuk Seri Dr Rais Yatim,&nbsp; National Day, which falls during the fasting month, will be celebrated on a moderate scale at Stadium Putra in Bukit Jalil. There will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[65],"class_list":["post-6677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-borninmalaysia","tag-festival"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6677\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}