If this Merdeka is to have any meaning at all, we need to free our minds from the same old formulas.
IN years past, every time Aug 31 comes around, inevitably reporters will ask me for my thoughts on Merdeka because I was born in the same year as independence. But this year, I hope nobody asks me what my thoughts are. I am too exhausted for any such thoughts.
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