May the SEA Games highlight unity

“YOU know, we always talk about how ‘things were better in the good old days’; but did our older generation have it better in terms of racial unity?” my friend questioned recently.

We were sharing a plate of delicious, cooked-by-the-roadside mee mamak, served in an unassuming kopitiam. I was fresh off a panel that discussed Malaysian unity, and she was taking a break from her work that involved rejuvenating the side of Penang I grew up in.