This is that time of the year when Malaysia Boleh goes about demonstartng patrioticism via our national flag, Jalur Gemilang. Each year someone will try and come out with a record. I will be creating a record of sorts for myself this year for if you were to come round my place on the 31st of August, you will surely get to see ten, yes 10 Jalur Gemilangs flutterring in the wind. This will beat the record set last end when there were only nine, the usual number in keeping with my nick. This year I have decided to break with the norm and also to show to the DIM that my degree of patriotisme has increase lagi one notch, so 10 it will be. Patriotic Me For more facts on the Jalur Gemilang goto here. Do you all know this happening on 13th April 2001 :: "Kota Kinabalu: Fifty-eight students from Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM) 10th College and Kolej Ibukota Kinabalu (KIK) fought coldness and fatigue to unveil Malaysia's largest Jalur Gemilang (national flag) on the summit of Mt Kinabalu last week. On Thursday, they once again unveiled the 118m x 77m flag at the KIK main campus football field in an attempt to enter the Malaysia Book of Records." Now, how did I drift from the subject matter at hand :: Jalur Gemilang Stolen.:: how did I forget that, a sign of the time, sudah nyanyuk sikit. What prompted me to blog this was this report I saw :: "Giant flag at shopping mall stolen". A giant Jalur Gemilang flag, raised at the Prangin Mall promenade barely a week ago to instil a sense of patriotism among Penangites, was stolen early yesterday. With it some of the Penangites" patriotism must have been stolen too. This flag measuring 4.8m by 7.2m, the flag is said to be the biggest Jalur Gemilang in the state. It was raised on Aug 1 together with a similar-sized state flag which was untouched at the mall in the heart of George Town. The fact that the Penang state flag was untouched could have been significant. You are invited to read whatever you want into it. The owner of the two flags and also "Cosmic Leisure Cafe ", a certain Mr H'ng is stumped as to why that unpatriotic someone would want to steal a flag bigger than an average-sized room and take with it some sense of pattriotism of Penangites. Mr H'ng should not grieve too much, his short lived largest flag in the state of Penang, his attempt at instillation of a sense of patriotism in Penangites and his "Cosmic Leisure Cafe" have all made the news. Update :: Stolen Jalur Gemilang found intact excepting for a hole on 8th Aug, outside a coffee shop in Jalan Jelutong.
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