My Birthday...

Wake up to another beautiful day. The sun is shining brightly into the kitchen as I open the kitchen window. It is real nice to see the bright sun welcoming the day. A beautiful day indeed. It is my birthday today. Well, getting older, adding another year. It is my sixty eight years. It has been a great life all throughout the years that I could remember. My daughter who is an MD says that Abah when you get older, your memories of the past would be clearer than before and that you may forget of what happening this instant. How true!!, now I could remember crystal clear of my childhood but now sometime when I think of taking something at the kitchen, on arrival at the kitchen would just forget what is that I am supposed to take. It would takes sometime before I recollect and get what I came for. It is like that when you grow old, but then that is life and I enjoy every minutes of it. Like blogging this on this beautiful day, my birthday.

I am the few folks of my age that are on to blogging. The few Pak Blogger that I know are this, and this, to mention a few. Well, there are others out there of course. I would tell the young that I am from the cave generation and had quantum leaped into the twenty first century and now blogging as well. I am enjoying blogging, for at my age there are much to tell to the present generation of the past happening or to advice the young, whenever I find my two cents thought is worth the paper that it is written on. Anyway I just write whatever I think would contribute to making the world of ours a better place to live and enjoy life. In the course of my blogging I get to know the young blogger of the Merdeka generation. There are too many of them and the list are too long to mention here. Well, they all are an inspiration to me, for I know that these blogger have the country first in their hearts. Well, sons and daughters of the Merdeka generation, go on blogging for you are doing the right things in sharing your thoughts through blogging. Me, a man who saw the first day of Merdeka am proud of you all. And of course I want you all to be responsible in what you blog as well.

This year we would celebrate the fifty years of Merdeka [Independence Day] and with the country in prosperity we should be happy living in this country of ours, Malaysia. On the day the country was granted independence on the August 31, 1957, I was there as a Boy Scout seeing the Union Jack been lowered down and the new Malayan Flag been raised and then for for the first time we stop singing the 'God save the Queen' anthem and instead proudly sung the 'Negara ku'. Smart in our Boy Scout uniform we sang with our heart the Negara ku and saw the Malayan Flag flutter proudly in the morning son. This scene is still crystal clear in my mind. The great day of my youth at the Kuantan Town Padang[field] some fifty years ago. Well on this day, my sixty eight, I am older than the country itself. I am happy that we have made it to be a prosperous country with full employment. The people living in peace and harmony, enjoying life like never before. My birthday wish... A better tomorrow and forever. Friends, Have a nice day. Merdeka!!!