Malaysia has so many holidays. What’s not to love? We just celebrated Independence Day on September 1st and now, on Sept 16, let’s have another one: Malaysia Day! This is the day that Malaysia celebrates the joining of East Malaysia (Sarawak & Sabah) with the peninsular West Malaysia, thus joining together in beautiful harmony.

Any snooty, work-to-much, driven society like that United States probably would have combined two holidays such as this into one, catch-all, monochrome holiday like Malaysia Independence and Conjoining Day, or something like that. Look how the US ruined two perfectly good holidays – Washington’s Birthday and Lincoln’s Birthday and put them together into a bland President’s Day. Malaysia would never do something silly like that, and I, for one, and very glad. Having a random Tuesday off is quite awesome. Here’s what I did:

Walking across the dam at Telok Bahang.

Picnic by the reservoir. There’s a stray chip down there.

Even after all the rain lately, the reservoir is really low. What’s up with that?

And some blissful writing by the beach at Hard Rock.Thank you, Malaysia, for having a day and inviting me to enjoy it!