Dr. Edwin had assigned us with this task of describing about the celebrations held in Malaysia. And when its celebration, it means public holidays and all celebrated things based on he religion practises and culture too.
At first, Dr. Edwin asked us to list down all the celebration that crossed our mind. Well, at that point, my pocket calendar helped me a lot. Later, we all had it written on the board. The, it struck my mind there were tonnes of other celebrations celebrated in Malaysia which I never known before. We were all assigned different celebrations and we had to do a bit of research and a complete write up of it. I did on Isra’ Mikraj together with Aida and Suhaizie. Dr. Edwin said that this information will be compiled into a book for student references at school. Imagine my name at the back of a book…cool!!
Emm…to me, I think Dr. Edwin’s effort of compiling this is a good idea especially when there are students like me who hardly know other people’s culture (not that I didn’t try though). Malaysia is known for its multicultural society thus it would be a shame if foreigners know more about our culture than us. Thus, introducing such text for students especially during primary level is a good way to teach students to respect one another and create “Muhibbah”. When we manage to create the respect in our students, we can hope that there wouldn’t be any of our students getting involved or starting racial conflicts like what happened on May 13.
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