{"id":4768,"date":"2011-02-20T18:35:12","date_gmt":"2011-02-20T10:35:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/buletinonline.net\/v7\/index.php\/2011\/02\/tq-to-you-all-for-the-70th-birthday-well-wishes\/"},"modified":"2011-02-20T18:35:12","modified_gmt":"2011-02-20T10:35:12","slug":"tq-to-you-all-for-the-70th-birthday-well-wishes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/tq-to-you-all-for-the-70th-birthday-well-wishes\/","title":{"rendered":"TQ to you all for the 70th birthday well-wishes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/buletinonline.net\/v7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/limkitsiang.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"http:\/\/buletinonline.net\/http:\/\/buletinonline.net\/v7\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/limkitsiang.jpg\" style=\"float: left;\" \/><em>Rummaging through some old boxes, I came across this editorial  which I wrote in the Form III class magazine \u201cLight\u201d (Vol. 2 \u2013 Nov.  1957) in Batu Pahat High School:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cDuring the past few years, the spirit of Malayan nationalism was  aroused to such an extent that Malaya was granted Independence and a new  nation was born.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis grand and memorable achievement of Independence was only made  possible through the united efforts of the various communities in the  country.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNow Malaya has become a young nation and she is taking her rightful  place and her part of responsibility in this strifefuld world.  She must  accept and overcome all challenges and, one day, be counted among the  greatest of the great.  However, the great men of today who hold the  steering-wheel of the country cannot be with us always.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe, the youths of today, are the leaders of tgomorrow, who will take  the helm and navigate the Ship of State to Utopia or Doom. We must now  prepare ourselves to \u2018serve to lead\u2019. Let us not while away our time in  meaningless pastimes and waste away precious moments. Say not that time  is abundant, for,<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u2018Art is long, and Time is fleeting,<br \/> And our hearts, though strong and brave,<br \/> Still, like muffled drums are beating<br \/> Funeral marches to the grave.\u2019<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p> \u201cThe role of youth in Independent Malaya is now more pressing and  difficult for the inexperienced shoulders of the youth of this  generation.  We will be the first true independent shoulders to bear  this responsibility. Let us then work with greater zeal and will, that  our standard be not flying at half-mast, so that the whole world may say  that the youths of Malaya, our youths, have not been wasted.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHowever, to accomplish this in this new nation with a cosmopolitan  population, we must bear in mind that co-operation between the different  races is of paramount importance.  It is only in the classrooms, where  we are all working on a common basis, that we are imbued with the spirit  of tolerance, co-operation and loyalty. Nowhere else is it tested more  firmly, and , so let us \u2018live and let live\u2019 in friendly fraternity and  harmony.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Looking back, I have largely lived by the spirit of this schoolboy editorial 54 years ago.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>I am turning 70 tomorrow and many thanks for your well wishes.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rummaging through some old boxes, I came across this editorial which I wrote in the Form III class magazine \u201cLight\u201d (Vol. 2 \u2013 Nov. 1957) in Batu Pahat High School: \u201cDuring the past few years, the spirit of Malayan nationalism was aroused to such an extent that Malaya was granted Independence and a new nation [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"better_featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4768"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4768\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}