{"id":936,"date":"2006-10-28T13:13:05","date_gmt":"2006-10-28T05:13:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/maddruid.com\/?p=936"},"modified":"2008-06-29T21:41:56","modified_gmt":"2008-06-29T13:41:56","slug":"932-of-malaysia-truly-asia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/?p=936","title":{"rendered":"[932] Of Malaysia, truly Asia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Might be a year late but I can&#8217;t get the Malaysia truly Asia song out of my mind. So, I&#8217;m immortalizing it here:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Everything I\u2019ve wanted, all that I\u2019ve asked of you.<br \/>\nEverything I\u2019ve dreamed of, it\u2019s all coming true.<br \/>\nSo stay with me (with me), as we walk hand in hand.<\/p>\n<p>Malaysia, truly Asia,<br \/>\nThe mountains and the sea.<br \/>\nMalaysia, truly Asia,<br \/>\nIt\u2019s calling out, to you and me.<br \/>\nMalaysia, truly Asia.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Whoever that came up with that tagline, the song and the ad is a genius. Too bad, I&#8217;ve never seen it on the TV in the United States and only saw it when I came back to Malaysia.<\/p>\n<p>What I think is this: the ad should be shown abroad, not in Malaysia.<\/p>\n<p>What I further think is this: But things like the moral police won&#8217;t help by one bit. No song will undo the damage done by the moral police. Already, <a href=\"http:\/\/thestar.com.my\/news\/story.asp?file=\/2006\/10\/28\/nation\/15839442&amp;sec=nation\" target=\"_blank\">it&#8217;s hurting the economy<\/a> and effort to build a more diverse and rich Malaysian society:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>LANGKAWI: Retired American policeman Randal Barnhart, who was subjected to a 2am raid by religious enforcement officers, is reconsidering his plan to make Malaysia his second home.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;After that unpleasant episode two weeks ago, I do not feel like making Malaysia my second home. It is a pity because both my wife and I really love Langkawi,&#8221; he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I say it again. We need to <a href=\"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/?p=926\">disband the moral police<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maddruid.com\/Graphics\/reusable\/the__earthinc.png?w=580\" alt=\"Mohd Hafiz Noor Shams. Some rights reserved\" \/> <img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maddruid.com\/Graphics\/reusable\/the__earthinc.png?w=580\" alt=\"Mohd Hafiz Noor Shams. Some rights reserved\" \/> <img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maddruid.com\/Graphics\/reusable\/the__earthinc.png?w=580\" alt=\"Mohd Hafiz Noor Shams. Some rights reserved\" \/><\/p>\n<p>p\/s \u2014 Okay. Apparently this particular entry get lots of hit and I figure people are probably looking for the actual song. So, enjoy.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">[youtube]nSqI9_pmqOc[\/youtube]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Might be a year late but I can&#8217;t get the Malaysia truly Asia song out of my mind. So, I&#8217;m immortalizing it here: Everything I\u2019ve wanted, all that I\u2019ve asked of you. Everything I\u2019ve dreamed of, it\u2019s all coming true. So stay with me (with me), as we walk hand in hand. Malaysia, truly Asia, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-society"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/936","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=936"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/936\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}