Reading the morning paper today I was rather surprised to stumble upon this article. “From love song to anthem” reads the title. It describes how Malaysia’s National anthem was born, in all its regality; rightfully the brainchild of a royal.
Funny how the politicians and powers that be, saw red over this when it was highlighted by a radio station in 2005 as posted in this link, http://www.malaysia-today.net/blog/2005/10/rais-minta-radio-era-henti-spekulasi.htm
They were issuing directives, warnings and measures in order to confine the facts within their imaginary boundaries. As I recall it was debated by the ministers and policy makers and some smart ass said it should not be discussed further for fear of confusion and disrespect.
And now that the record is set straight yet again, I can only guess how the ‘silencers’ would react. Or am I just so backwards? As in absolutely clueless about the fact that it's okay to discuss and highlight the origin of the anthem. Have they lifted the ban on playing both 'Mamula Moon' and 'Terang Bulan'? When?
Here's an interesting article by Shanon Shah about the controversies shrouding Negaraku, pre-Namawee of course.
Funny how the politicians and powers that be, saw red over this when it was highlighted by a radio station in 2005 as posted in this link, http://www.malaysia-today.net/blog/2005/10/rais-minta-radio-era-henti-spekulasi.htm
They were issuing directives, warnings and measures in order to confine the facts within their imaginary boundaries. As I recall it was debated by the ministers and policy makers and some smart ass said it should not be discussed further for fear of confusion and disrespect.
And now that the record is set straight yet again, I can only guess how the ‘silencers’ would react. Or am I just so backwards? As in absolutely clueless about the fact that it's okay to discuss and highlight the origin of the anthem. Have they lifted the ban on playing both 'Mamula Moon' and 'Terang Bulan'? When?
Here's an interesting article by Shanon Shah about the controversies shrouding Negaraku, pre-Namawee of course.
This is not the moon. It's one of the lighting props used at the Rainforest World Music Festival 2007.
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