MERDEKA!!!

for 52 years we've been celebrating Merdeka....apa makna Merdeka??? Merdeka maksudnya...."Merdeka, Tun!" "Ya...Ya...Merdeka....Tragediiiiiii......hehehe (mtar)

btw flag curi from poknik's

the 1st biggest merdeka event i went was in 1973 (i think i was not born yet at that time he he) i think it was sabah's tenth merdeka, under malaysia, and i remember my dad drove us quite fast from tuaran to kk, just to avoid the road closure and we were lucky when we reached likas, the police were in middle of bringing down the barricades from their trucks. so off we went deep into kk n parked inside the city centre.  not much cars actually during those days (as i was told since i was not BORN yet..)  the parade started from tanjung aru and finished near the port ( or was it the other way around?)  and that was the first time i could see really BIG n colourful fireworks right in front of my eyes!!! well it looked big bcos i was not THAT big at that time (remember i was not born yet).  the type of fireworks that we used to see was the 'wedding' fireworks, commonly used by our kampung folks (btw the family that produced these fireworks are still doing it until today, good for documentary students to 'shoot' them!!!).  the last time i went to really watch the parade was in 1987, when my frens and i went to kl (we were staying in shah alam at that time) on the evening of the 30th august and watch the firework that midnite and stayed and talked and talked until the next morning and watch the parade there.  at dawn few of us were a bit too sleepy and one of us almost 'melepaskan perasaan' inside a police mobile van, thinking it was a mobile toilet!!!  i discontinued going to the parades after the 'incident' during the first citrawarna (1989 i think) and merdeka to me, after that, were just mere fireworks....