It’s August! The independence month! 17 August which is yesterday, is Indonesia independence day. 62 years. 12 years older than Malaysia. But, from what I see, the development of the country isn’t better than the neighborhood, Malaysia. Sad. A huge country with ten thousand plus of islands, so many potential yet so little human resource.

From what I remember, I used to have the flag ceremony on 17th Aug at school during the schooling time, with some competitions on that day or weeks before. This time my bro told me that he’s not going to attend the ceremony as most of his classmates have already agreed on it (not to go). They gonna write an excuse letter. I goes ‘huh?!?’. They are still teens, bibit – bibit unggul gitu lho. The future of this country is in their hands later on. And now, in their young age they already avoiding flag ceremony on independence day?

Then, he went on singing ’17 Augustus tahun 45′ song. Two lines and he forgot what the next line was. He asked me, and I continued the song with him. After that, he asked me how could I remember that song, even mum also remember it, but he didn’t. Sigh. I don’t know who to blame, the music teacher at school for not teaching them the national songs or my bro himself as a student for being so ignorance?

Ah well, teens nowadays can sing those hip hop, rock, pop, etc songs well. Remember the lyrics. Imitate their idols. But not familiar with national songs. Don’t know the lyric, who was the creator, who sang it, the spirit of the song, the meaning.

Apa jadinya dunia ini ketika kita sudah mulai melupakan akar budaya negara sendiri?

Anyway, this month fail to be my independence month. Thing changes within weeks. It’s not the right time yet. However, am happy with the situation now, if I don’t complain too much.