Tuesday, June 20, 2023
我又”回来”来了
有时候人算不如天算，我以为我不会再开始写Blog 了，但是，我又来了。以前写blog是Trend，之后通常写blog 都是因为有心里的东西/话题，发泄在这里，因为我的这份感情没可能跟任何人分享，只有Blog 里， 我可以尽情发泄， 喊，哭…都没有人会管， 但是也是这样所以比较放纵的讲。这次的人物只有一个，我的JT宝贝 🥰
Monday, July 30, 2012
State of mind needed
To be frank, I've not in this Blog due to the fact that I don't get a good state of mind of posting anything, there are some grievance inside me that I really would like to tell the whole world, in particular people that is "related", but I was not quite ready to have this state of mind, until now...perhaps :-)
There, I was promoted on 1/4/2011, a year that was a great leap for me on my career, the GM then (ZA) was quite a bossy person, but somehow or rather, I don't have much "crash" with him, bad luck for him that the company was in merging process and eventually would like downsize this company called SHRs where the CEO, VP...etc were slowly transfer nor "resigned" , before the whole team gone into this, ZA were ask to resigned, without any notice, there he goes, just gone like that...mmm to think of those people up there were a exco, but the way they behave...tsk tsk tsk.
There, I was promoted on 1/4/2011, a year that was a great leap for me on my career, the GM then (ZA) was quite a bossy person, but somehow or rather, I don't have much "crash" with him, bad luck for him that the company was in merging process and eventually would like downsize this company called SHRs where the CEO, VP...etc were slowly transfer nor "resigned" , before the whole team gone into this, ZA were ask to resigned, without any notice, there he goes, just gone like that...mmm to think of those people up there were a exco, but the way they behave...tsk tsk tsk.
Wednesday, May 16, 2012
The Different Between...
I'm proud to say that I AM a person who strive towards LEADER approach, sad thing to see that virtually NON of people surround me are doing this, we see boss bossing around with bossy attitude, yet they are they one that always remind people to be good leader..NAH!! MY FOOT!!!
Tuesday, May 01, 2012
Good To Think...
One day, a rich dad took his son on a trip. Wanted to show him how poor someone can be. They spent time on the farm of a poor family. On the way home, dad asked, "Did you see how poor they are? What did you learn?".
Son said, "We have one dog, they have four, we have pool, they have rivers, we have lanterns at night, they have stars, we buy foods, they grow theirs, we have walls to protect us, they have friends, we have encyclopedias, they have Bible." Then they headed, "Thanks dad for showing me how poor we are.."
Wednesday, December 28, 2011
After 3 years...almost
It's been awhile, I almost forget I have this blog with me :-) Last write up it was almost 3 years back, gosh.
Ah, ever since Facebook, Twitter become popular, writing a blog become a lazy matter, where we keep busy at other more interesting network.
I shall come back to this blog periodically or occasionally to have some post, at least.
Stay Tune.
COWL.
Ah, ever since Facebook, Twitter become popular, writing a blog become a lazy matter, where we keep busy at other more interesting network.
I shall come back to this blog periodically or occasionally to have some post, at least.
Stay Tune.
COWL.
Sunday, July 17, 2011
Sunday, July 03, 2011
Thursday, October 23, 2008
The Re-incarnation
Don't be fool by the title of this post, it just a name of a game :-)
Lately most people are playing FaceBook, though there's another cool place to play for those
who like adventures of Strategy.
Lately most people are playing FaceBook, though there's another cool place to play for those
who like adventures of Strategy.
A friend recommend me to this online quest http://www.the-reincarnation.com/
Is pretty much a strategy game, just register and monitor from time to time, try it out.
Is pretty much a strategy game, just register and monitor from time to time, try it out.
Sunday, September 21, 2008
Blogger stilll Alive :-)
Ya, I know, I've being "non-active" again for sometime, other than work, now is busy with...... Facebook :-)
Perhaps due to there is much more features to play, tend to spend more time there than blogger, nevertheless Blog is still alive.
Well, there just too many web services, software to test out. Keep Going...!!
Perhaps due to there is much more features to play, tend to spend more time there than blogger, nevertheless Blog is still alive.
Well, there just too many web services, software to test out. Keep Going...!!
Thursday, February 07, 2008
Happy Chinese New Year 2008
May Stuart Little bring you stability...
Mickey Mouse bring you happiness
Rattaouiee...bring you joy.
And not forget Minnie Mouse bring you love...
Happy Rat Year 2008 to All !!!!!!!!
Tuesday, January 01, 2008
Happy New Year 2008
The year has gone but made us strong, The path was long but we walk with a song, There were fears & tears but we also had reasons for cheers.
Let there be peace in your heart, health in your body, wealth in life and joy with your loved ones.
Wishing you happy memories of 2007 & have a great beginning of 2008.
Let there be peace in your heart, health in your body, wealth in life and joy with your loved ones.
Wishing you happy memories of 2007 & have a great beginning of 2008.
Sunday, November 25, 2007
我很忙
大家好，我是cowl...这是我的新转集......希望大家喜欢.
Ok Ok, I follow Jay Chou quote as he promoting his latest album (我很忙), no reason, just is same as what I'm going thru right now, being busy lately, very busy, the company is conducting a big migrating of the current software tonew one, hence from arrangement of purchasing hardware, software, vendor arrangement, planning.....to name a few, but is really take alot of times.
Well this is a great opportunity for me as one organization is setting up a brand new system, from scratch, meaning in term of the infrastructure and installation of hardware and software is covered by me. So 很忙 is well worth it, just not sure where to start the project sometime, somehow any people just have to go down, hand-on, fail fail fail, then eventually success will be coming, and we are far more superior than any other people when the times come...eventually. I'm very grateful and excited with all these changes, (damn even installing a server rack really test your EQ and IQ), looks very easy, but some special skills involved. Not many moment like this in our life that we had an opportunity to learn and see such changes, unless we setup our own company, I hope to see more of such changes at near future.
Eventhoug 很忙, but yet I will try to relax myself, err...not the "蛇 relax" lah, is really give ownself a break. Anyone out there, remember to give yourself a break, "work life balance"...........mah.
Ok Ok, I follow Jay Chou quote as he promoting his latest album (我很忙), no reason, just is same as what I'm going thru right now, being busy lately, very busy, the company is conducting a big migrating of the current software tonew one, hence from arrangement of purchasing hardware, software, vendor arrangement, planning.....to name a few, but is really take alot of times.
Well this is a great opportunity for me as one organization is setting up a brand new system, from scratch, meaning in term of the infrastructure and installation of hardware and software is covered by me. So 很忙 is well worth it, just not sure where to start the project sometime, somehow any people just have to go down, hand-on, fail fail fail, then eventually success will be coming, and we are far more superior than any other people when the times come...eventually. I'm very grateful and excited with all these changes, (damn even installing a server rack really test your EQ and IQ), looks very easy, but some special skills involved. Not many moment like this in our life that we had an opportunity to learn and see such changes, unless we setup our own company, I hope to see more of such changes at near future.
Eventhoug 很忙, but yet I will try to relax myself, err...not the "蛇 relax" lah, is really give ownself a break. Anyone out there, remember to give yourself a break, "work life balance"...........mah.
Saturday, November 10, 2007
Fragility Of Friendship
Is friendship fragile ? It’s a really difficult question......think back, you have live for many years, how many friend you know and how many friend is really......a friend.
How much can you expect from a friend? Why does this question arise? Because your answer is a pretty good barometer of how well your friendships will weather relational storms. Let's face it, we don't ask much of casual friendships, the kind in which you invite each other to a party once a year. But we demand more from friendships characterized by strong feelings and a shared history. We expect friendships to be easier, more automatic than they actually are.
Think about your childhood friendships. They often set the tone for all the rest. You never "worked" on the friendships, they just happened. For example, your first best friend lived just two houses down from you and you literally met in the sandbox at school. The bond was almost instant. He/she liked vanilla ice-cream and building sand castles. So did you. What's to discuss? It was the beginning of a beautiful friendship—until your family moved to another town and you found another sandbox.
Just a few short years later, sandbox bliss was replaced by the tormented, possessive feelings of a third-grade relationship where blatant betrayal reared its head. That's when you learned that your new best friend was playing at another classmate's house after school. Sound familiar? It happens to nearly all of us.
There may be worse betrayals in store, but probably none is more influential than the sudden fickleness of an elementary-school friend who has dropped us for someone more popular, or those who easily get jealous (red eye) when your friend get a good life than yours, or better job than you, or get promotion earlier than you, “It shouldn't be that way”, we think to ourselves. But alas it is. It's the lesson our friendships continually teach us, a lesson we don't want to learn: Friendships are FRAGILE.
The seeming ease of friendships—compared to romantic and family relationships (more likely loaded with emotional baggage)—is part of the reason we value friendships so much. Relatively speaking, friendships just happen...So...as much easy it happens as easy it falls through???...
Well...the main point here is FREEDOM...It’s your will, your decision, your action...Attemt to build a bridge...to reconnect and make things right...call your lost friend...tell him/ her “I don’t know what happened between us...but I want to apologize”...sincerity always caughts off guard...apologize both for past insensitivities and laugh and laugh at how comical it all seems in retrospect...It’ll be cleansing...you have a good chance...TRY IT...
How much can you expect from a friend? Why does this question arise? Because your answer is a pretty good barometer of how well your friendships will weather relational storms. Let's face it, we don't ask much of casual friendships, the kind in which you invite each other to a party once a year. But we demand more from friendships characterized by strong feelings and a shared history. We expect friendships to be easier, more automatic than they actually are.
Think about your childhood friendships. They often set the tone for all the rest. You never "worked" on the friendships, they just happened. For example, your first best friend lived just two houses down from you and you literally met in the sandbox at school. The bond was almost instant. He/she liked vanilla ice-cream and building sand castles. So did you. What's to discuss? It was the beginning of a beautiful friendship—until your family moved to another town and you found another sandbox.
Just a few short years later, sandbox bliss was replaced by the tormented, possessive feelings of a third-grade relationship where blatant betrayal reared its head. That's when you learned that your new best friend was playing at another classmate's house after school. Sound familiar? It happens to nearly all of us.
There may be worse betrayals in store, but probably none is more influential than the sudden fickleness of an elementary-school friend who has dropped us for someone more popular, or those who easily get jealous (red eye) when your friend get a good life than yours, or better job than you, or get promotion earlier than you, “It shouldn't be that way”, we think to ourselves. But alas it is. It's the lesson our friendships continually teach us, a lesson we don't want to learn: Friendships are FRAGILE.
The seeming ease of friendships—compared to romantic and family relationships (more likely loaded with emotional baggage)—is part of the reason we value friendships so much. Relatively speaking, friendships just happen...So...as much easy it happens as easy it falls through???...
Well...the main point here is FREEDOM...It’s your will, your decision, your action...Attemt to build a bridge...to reconnect and make things right...call your lost friend...tell him/ her “I don’t know what happened between us...but I want to apologize”...sincerity always caughts off guard...apologize both for past insensitivities and laugh and laugh at how comical it all seems in retrospect...It’ll be cleansing...you have a good chance...TRY IT...
Thursday, November 08, 2007
Alien VS Predator...Sequell
When I first saw this trailer, I though it was Alien part 6 or 7, cos the Alien appear for sometime before Predator appear, damn. Anyway part one is not very impressive, somehow still anticipate this movie. ;-)
More info on the following website : http://www.avp-r.com/
Tuesday, October 23, 2007
The Science Of Lucky...or is it?
Below are appended from an email from my (ex)colleague, consider, an old friend ;-)I believe many people will asked, how to become LUCK? No concrete evidence that can proved that there is a SURE LUCKY formula(s), articles below is an experiment done, and perhaps to a certain extend, it may be true, still entirely up to individual.
How to Be Lucky – Err… I think is in the form of “Science”? Nah, who cares? Happy Reading. (Pity, I’ve actually re-type the whole articles for the posting on this blog)
“BY PROFESSOR RICHARD WISEMAN, UNIVERSITY OF HERTFORDSHIRE
Why do some people get all the luck while others never get the breaks they deserves? A psychologist says he has discovered the answer.
Ten years ago, I set out to examine luck. I wanted to know why some people are always in the right place at the right time, while others consistently experience ill fortune. I placed advertisement in national newspaper asking for people who felt consistently lucky or unlucky to contact me.
Hundreds of extraordinary men and women volunteered for my research and, over the years, I have interviewed them, monitored their lives and has them take part in experiments.
The result reveal that although these people have almost no insight into the causes of their luck, their thoughts and behavior are responsible for much of their good and bad fortune. Take the case of seemingly chance opportunities. Lucky people consistently encounter such opportunities, whereas unlucky people do not.
I carried out a simple experiment to discover whether this has due to differences in their ability to spot such opportunities. I gave both lucky and unlucky people a newspaper, and asked them to look through it and tell me how many photographs were inside. I had secretly placed a large message half through the newspaper saying: “Tell the experimenter you have seen this and win ₤250.”
This message took up half of the page and was written in type that was more then two inches high. It was staring everyone straight in the face, but the unlucky people tended to miss it and the lucky people tended to spot it. Unlucky people are generally more tense than lucky people, and this anxiety disrupt their ability to notice the unexpected.
As a result, they miss opportunities because they are too focused on looking for something else. They go to parties intend on finding their perfect partner and so miss opportunities to make good friends. They look through newspapers determined to find certain types of job advertisement and miss other types of jobs.
Lucky People are more relaxed and open, and therefore see what is there rather than just what they are looking for. My research eventually revealed that lucky people generate good fortune via four principles. They are skilled at creating and noticing chance opportunities, make lucky decision by listening to their intuition, create self-fulfilling prophesies via positive expectations, and adopt a resilient attitude that transforms bad luck into good.
Towards the end of the work, I wondered whether these principles could used to create good luck, I asked a group of volunteers to spend a month carrying out exercises designed to help them think an behave like a lucky person.
Dramatic result these exercises helped them spot chance opportunities, listen to their intuition, expect to be lucky, and be more resilient to bad luck One month later, the volunteers returned and described what had happened. The result were dramatic, 80% of people were now happier, more satisfied with their lives and, perhaps most important of all, luckier.
The lucky people had become lucky and the unlucky people had become luckier.
Finally I had found the elusive “luck factor” Here are the top four tips :1) Listen to your gut instincts – they are normally right2) Be open to new experiences and breaking your normal routine
3) Spend a few moments each day remembering things that went well4) Visualize yourself being lucky before an important meeting or telephone call.Luck is very often a self-fulfilling prophecy, Have a lucky day.”
How to Be Lucky – Err… I think is in the form of “Science”? Nah, who cares? Happy Reading. (Pity, I’ve actually re-type the whole articles for the posting on this blog)
“BY PROFESSOR RICHARD WISEMAN, UNIVERSITY OF HERTFORDSHIRE
Why do some people get all the luck while others never get the breaks they deserves? A psychologist says he has discovered the answer.
Ten years ago, I set out to examine luck. I wanted to know why some people are always in the right place at the right time, while others consistently experience ill fortune. I placed advertisement in national newspaper asking for people who felt consistently lucky or unlucky to contact me.
Hundreds of extraordinary men and women volunteered for my research and, over the years, I have interviewed them, monitored their lives and has them take part in experiments.
The result reveal that although these people have almost no insight into the causes of their luck, their thoughts and behavior are responsible for much of their good and bad fortune. Take the case of seemingly chance opportunities. Lucky people consistently encounter such opportunities, whereas unlucky people do not.
I carried out a simple experiment to discover whether this has due to differences in their ability to spot such opportunities. I gave both lucky and unlucky people a newspaper, and asked them to look through it and tell me how many photographs were inside. I had secretly placed a large message half through the newspaper saying: “Tell the experimenter you have seen this and win ₤250.”
This message took up half of the page and was written in type that was more then two inches high. It was staring everyone straight in the face, but the unlucky people tended to miss it and the lucky people tended to spot it. Unlucky people are generally more tense than lucky people, and this anxiety disrupt their ability to notice the unexpected.
As a result, they miss opportunities because they are too focused on looking for something else. They go to parties intend on finding their perfect partner and so miss opportunities to make good friends. They look through newspapers determined to find certain types of job advertisement and miss other types of jobs.
Lucky People are more relaxed and open, and therefore see what is there rather than just what they are looking for. My research eventually revealed that lucky people generate good fortune via four principles. They are skilled at creating and noticing chance opportunities, make lucky decision by listening to their intuition, create self-fulfilling prophesies via positive expectations, and adopt a resilient attitude that transforms bad luck into good.
Towards the end of the work, I wondered whether these principles could used to create good luck, I asked a group of volunteers to spend a month carrying out exercises designed to help them think an behave like a lucky person.
Dramatic result these exercises helped them spot chance opportunities, listen to their intuition, expect to be lucky, and be more resilient to bad luck One month later, the volunteers returned and described what had happened. The result were dramatic, 80% of people were now happier, more satisfied with their lives and, perhaps most important of all, luckier.
The lucky people had become lucky and the unlucky people had become luckier.
Finally I had found the elusive “luck factor” Here are the top four tips :1) Listen to your gut instincts – they are normally right2) Be open to new experiences and breaking your normal routine
3) Spend a few moments each day remembering things that went well4) Visualize yourself being lucky before an important meeting or telephone call.Luck is very often a self-fulfilling prophecy, Have a lucky day.”
Monday, October 22, 2007
What the blog about ?
Mmm...How do I start...not too long ago I aware that there are some other friends out there who read my blog, which is a surprise for me, last time I started the blog as a place to rage, roving...with a group of "Blog Buddies", it was a very rolling type of blog last time, many people stop posting now, but Blog popularity is increasing everyday, time goes by and fast, today for me the purpose of posting this blog more or less still the same, but with addition that it help to learn some net stuff and also to write "philosophy", for new friend, long time friend, very long time (school) friend, or the sort.
OK, there's one fella here birthday, so we all make a birthday dinner for that fella, well is a nice dinner eventhough is "oily" and "very windy". Happy Birthday to you Sir. 来啦! 来啦!
OK, there's one fella here birthday, so we all make a birthday dinner for that fella, well is a nice dinner eventhough is "oily" and "very windy". Happy Birthday to you Sir. 来啦! 来啦!
Wednesday, October 10, 2007
Become better species ?
Here is a story on a "busy road", happened for real … A dog was knocked down by a car and died in the middle of the road. Later, another dog is seen beside the motionless dog, and it tried to wake the companion up using its paw. When the attempts to wake its companion failed, it tried to push the fallen companion.
Though the traffic was busy and dangerous, it just will not go away from the fallen companion. It just stood beside the fallen companion howling and "crying"
A lot of people saw this incident and promptly wiped out their gargets to take some pictures. "How, even a dog can show its love to its friend…" and it will be a great story to tell…" it must seemed to have come to their minds quickly. And so, I guess this is how you are getting this story…
Though the traffic was busy and dangerous, it just will not go away from the fallen companion. It just stood beside the fallen companion howling and "crying"
A lot of people saw this incident and promptly wiped out their gargets to take some pictures. "How, even a dog can show its love to its friend…" and it will be a great story to tell…" it must seemed to have come to their minds quickly. And so, I guess this is how you are getting this story…
Point to ponder: With all this technological inventions and innovations, have we, human, become better species?Do we know love better then animals? Yes, ..or at least it used to be. We may be losing the most instinctive behavior while we are busy building highways and archs in our lives. These pictures reminding us we may be becoming second in the primal designs God has created.
Tuesday, September 25, 2007
Where are we come from ?
Get a chance to attend a new software deployment lately at KL, there's a chance to meet colleague from other country, while we were there, a few "view" or "people" just make me feel "Familiar", what does that mean ? Well, kind of funny, those people or some of the places I step into, give me a sense of feeling that I've seen them before, and some of the places, I've been here before, but the fact this is the first time I came, the first time I meet these people. Gosh, the more I think back, mmm...really, I can say is false nor true.
Like some believe that our previous life might have met someone like them or came to some places, then why this life we came here again, is this the cycle ? where do we came from ? is it mean some place we have to re-visit ? during my school day, some friend of mine did tell me things like that before where they feel like they came to a place before whereas this is just the first time they came.
Well is just a feeling anyway, is a great trip with a Suite Room to stay :Þ Looking foward for the new software to be implemented.
Like some believe that our previous life might have met someone like them or came to some places, then why this life we came here again, is this the cycle ? where do we came from ? is it mean some place we have to re-visit ? during my school day, some friend of mine did tell me things like that before where they feel like they came to a place before whereas this is just the first time they came.
Well is just a feeling anyway, is a great trip with a Suite Room to stay :Þ Looking foward for the new software to be implemented.
Friday, August 31, 2007
MERDEKA ! MERDEKA ! MERDEKA !
That's the shouting we hear today! and now!, Malaysia celebrate her 50th Birthday, well the theme for this year. "Malaysiaku Gemilang", in nearly every year, a brand new theme and logo were made for the celebration of Merdeka. And though, what is the theme or logo for past year ?
Well :
1970 = Muhibah dan Perpaduan
1971 = Masyarakat Progresif
1972 = Masyarakat Adil
1973 = Masyarakat Berkebudayaan Malaysia
1974 = Sains dan Teknologi Alat Perpaduan
1975 = Masyarakat Berdikari
1976 = Ketahanan Rakyat
1976 = Ketahanan Rakyat
1977 = Bersatu Maju
1978 = Kebudayaan Sendi Perpaduan
1979 = Bersatu Berdisplin
1980 = Berdisplin Berbakti
1981 = Berdisplin Berharmoni
1982 =Berdisplin Giat Maju
1983 = Bersama Ke Arah Kemajuan
1984 = Amanah Asas Kejayaan
1985 = Nasionalisme Teras Perpaduan
1986 = Bangsa Tegas Negara Teguh
1987 = Setia Bersatu Berusaha Maju
1987 = Setia Bersatu Berusaha Maju
1988 = Bersatu
1989 = Bersatu
1990 = Berjaya
1991 = Wawasan 2020
1992 = Wawasan Asas Kemajuan
1993 = Bersatu Menuju Wawasan
1994 = Nilai Murni Jayakan Wawasan
1995 = Jatidiri Pengerak Wawasan
1996 = Budaya Penentu Kecapaian
1997 = Akhlak Mulia Masyarakat Jaya
1998 = Negara Kita, Tanggungjawab Kita
1999 = Bersatu Ke Alaf Baru
2000 - 2006 = Keranamu: MALAYSIA
Thursday, August 30, 2007
Selamat Hari Merdeka !
Today eve of my country independence, finally settle some of the important task here, now finally have some bit of time to Blog again.Well, if you ask back yourself, do you still remember "Sejarah Malaysia" ?, I believe as time goes by, people start forgot how the country that we stay in, comes from...well, friendly, I don't remember much, nevertheless that does not mean I'm not concern about this country, and as far as I'm concern, I stay in this country, and I should love this country. :-) Some info extract from the WWW :
The national day commemorating the independence of the Federation of Malaya from British colonial rule. In a wider context, it is to celebrate the formation of Malaysia.
Malaya Independence
The effort for independence was spearheaded by Tunku Abdul Rahman Putra Al-Haj, the first Prime Minister of Malaysia, who led a delegation of ministers and political leaders of Malaya in negotiations with the British in London for Merdeka, or independence. Agreement was reached on February 8, 1956, for Malaya to gain independence from the British Empire. However, for a number of logistical and administrative reasons, it was decided that the official proclamation of independence would only be made the next year, on August 31, 1957, at Stadium Merdeka in Kuala Lumpur.
How the independence date was derived
Even before the delegation left for London, the date for independence was already set. It was decided during a discussion in 1956 involving UMNO Youth chief Tun Sardon Jubir and his deputy Haji Ahmad Badawi in Kepala Batas, Penang. Haji Ahmad Badawi is the late father of the current Prime Minister of Malaysia.
Also present at the discussion was Haji Ahmad Badawi's father, Haji Abdullah Fahim, who was also the Penang Mufti and a renowned Muslim scholar. Analysing the independence dates of countries like Indonesia and India, all falling on odd dates in August, Haji Abdullah Fahim after conducting his own calculations decided August 31 as the most appropriate date.
The formation of Malaysia
The Federation of Malaysia, comprising states of Malaya, North Borneo (later renamed Sabah), Sarawak and Singapore was to be officially declared on the date August 31, 1963, on the 6th anniversary of Malayan independence. However, it was postponed to September 16, 1963, mainly due to Indonesian and the Philippines' opposition to the formation of Malaysia. Indonesian opposition later escalated to a military conflict.
Indonesia considered Malaysia as a new form of colonization on the provinces of Sarawak and Sabah in the island of Borneo (bordering Kalimantan, Indonesia), which they laid claim on. [citation needed] To assure Indonesia that Malaysia was not a form of neo-colonialism, a referendum, organized by the United Nations, and the Cobbold Commission, led by Lord Cobbold, were formed to determine whether the people of Sabah and Sarawak wished to join Malaysia. Their eventual findings which indicated substantial support for Malaysia among the peoples of Sabah and Sarawak, cleared the way for the final proclamation of Malaysia.
The formation of the Federation of Malaysia was then announced on September 16, 1963. However, the Independence Day celebration is still held on August 31, the original independence date of Malaya. This has caused some minor discontent among East Malaysians in particular since it has been argued that celebrating the national day on August 31 is too Malaya-centric.
Malaya Independence
The effort for independence was spearheaded by Tunku Abdul Rahman Putra Al-Haj, the first Prime Minister of Malaysia, who led a delegation of ministers and political leaders of Malaya in negotiations with the British in London for Merdeka, or independence. Agreement was reached on February 8, 1956, for Malaya to gain independence from the British Empire. However, for a number of logistical and administrative reasons, it was decided that the official proclamation of independence would only be made the next year, on August 31, 1957, at Stadium Merdeka in Kuala Lumpur.
How the independence date was derived
Even before the delegation left for London, the date for independence was already set. It was decided during a discussion in 1956 involving UMNO Youth chief Tun Sardon Jubir and his deputy Haji Ahmad Badawi in Kepala Batas, Penang. Haji Ahmad Badawi is the late father of the current Prime Minister of Malaysia.
Also present at the discussion was Haji Ahmad Badawi's father, Haji Abdullah Fahim, who was also the Penang Mufti and a renowned Muslim scholar. Analysing the independence dates of countries like Indonesia and India, all falling on odd dates in August, Haji Abdullah Fahim after conducting his own calculations decided August 31 as the most appropriate date.
The formation of Malaysia
The Federation of Malaysia, comprising states of Malaya, North Borneo (later renamed Sabah), Sarawak and Singapore was to be officially declared on the date August 31, 1963, on the 6th anniversary of Malayan independence. However, it was postponed to September 16, 1963, mainly due to Indonesian and the Philippines' opposition to the formation of Malaysia. Indonesian opposition later escalated to a military conflict.
Indonesia considered Malaysia as a new form of colonization on the provinces of Sarawak and Sabah in the island of Borneo (bordering Kalimantan, Indonesia), which they laid claim on. [citation needed] To assure Indonesia that Malaysia was not a form of neo-colonialism, a referendum, organized by the United Nations, and the Cobbold Commission, led by Lord Cobbold, were formed to determine whether the people of Sabah and Sarawak wished to join Malaysia. Their eventual findings which indicated substantial support for Malaysia among the peoples of Sabah and Sarawak, cleared the way for the final proclamation of Malaysia.
The formation of the Federation of Malaysia was then announced on September 16, 1963. However, the Independence Day celebration is still held on August 31, the original independence date of Malaya. This has caused some minor discontent among East Malaysians in particular since it has been argued that celebrating the national day on August 31 is too Malaya-centric.
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