By Asia Samachar | Malaysia | SpottedOnline |
Malaysian-based trainer Tejwinder Singh shared a photo of him and three classmates taken just over four decades ago to depict the Malaysia in which he grew up.
It was tagged to the Malaysia Day celebration on Sept 16. This is the day when the Federation of Malaya joined Singapore, Sabah and Sarawak to form Malaysia in 1963. Singapore subsequently left the new federation two years later.
“This is a photograph with my classmates, Murshidee, Soma and Khai Ming from the year 1980. We had our ‘muhibah’ spirit then, now and forever! SELAMAT HARI MALAYSIA!,” he wrote in an entry at his personal Linkedin page.
“We still keep in touch by WhatsApp, noisy chatrooms, still like little boys,” Tejwinder remarked in response to a comment. “When I was young, used to stay in the police barracks, we were like a big family, whatever race, lots of respect – beautiful.”
He also shared the following poem with the photo.
MALAYSIAN SWEET DREAM
Sweet dreams are made of this
Who am I to disagree
I travel around our beautiful country
Everybody’s looking to live in harmony
All of them want to believe you
All of them want to get respected by you
All of them want to befriend you
All of them want to trust you
Hold your head up, we are proud of you
Hold your head up, we adore you
Hold your head up, moving on
Hold your head up, moving strong.
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