Theme of Patriotism National Day celebration Merdeka! Merdeka! Merdeka!

Each year we will hear the shouts of independence echo from every nook and corner of the country on August 31 to mark Merdeka Day or National Day. Every time I heard the shouting of Merdeka, I will recall back the situation of Tunku Abdul Rahman announcing independence of Malaya from British on August 31, 1957 at Stadium Merdeka. It was a memorable and meaningful event for us as a citizen of Malaysia.

National day celebration is held throughout the country of Malaysia on the occasion of Malaysian Independence Day. The 31st day of August witnesses a myriad of parades, cultural performances and street shows. National Day Celebrations have been held with grandeur for over 50 years, since 1957. Celebrations include parades involving uniformed personnel, corporate players, school children, cultural dancers, athletes and Malaysians from all walks of life.

The National Day Celebration of my school was a month long commemorative event which drew great participation from the students and teachers. It was held successfully last weekend. Activities held during the day were talks, marching band, exhibitions, community works, singing of patriotic songs, competition drawing poster base on theme of patriotic, and others.

The colourful and joyous one-hour parade marching past the road kicked off at about 8am. The participants comprising of school band, students, and teachers. The

parade started with marching band echoing the drum beats of patriotic melody. The spectators applauded when the group of students and teachers began to march past. The students and teachers were dressed completely in Baju Melayu, Baju Kurung,Ceongsam,Sari and Dhoti, the Malaysian national clothes. My school wants us to wear like this because the theme of this national day is 1Malaysia. Besides, through this way we can know more about the traditional costume of each race.

All students and teachers were assembled on the school field after the marching session ended. The field was decorated beautifully with hanging the small national flag around it. The assembly started with principals speech. Next, the head prefect raised the national flag during the national anthem "Negaraku" was played. The students then gave spirited renditions of patriotic songs such as "Jalur Gemilang", "Cemerlang, Gemilang, Terbilang" and the Merdeka celebration theme song "1 Malaysia". After singing the patriotic songs, our principle started the opening ceremony by hitting the gong.

Later, the national day assembly was continued with many performances. There were choir, cultural shows and other performances. The cultural shows were from many races like Malay, Chinese, and Indian. The students were really fascinated by the magnificent shows. The pupils gave good attention to the amazing singing and the eyecatching traditional dances.

The shows continued by the rhythmic gymnastics presented by the well-trained students. The purpose of this show is to give some patriotic spirit on celebrating the National Day to the students. The music was played during the performance. The

picturesque performances look even more interesting and colourful when the gymnasts rolled the ribbons and the hoops and tossed the balls to the others.

The time carried on creeping and it was 12 in the afternoon. Then, the principal gave some speech of hope and wished that the celebration would be held again in the next year and the forthcoming year. The teachers and the students departed the field, symbolically ended the ceremony.

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: Ting Sing Ning : 910304-13-5186 : PISMP AMBILAN JANUARI 2011 BC (A) Reflection When we received this assignment from our English Language Proficiency (ELP)

lecturer, Madam Rozita binti Rashid, we felt confused of the task requirements. We do not know that what we really need to do in the assignment. We were worried about it. However, our English Language Proficiency (ELP) lecturer was given many suggestion and idea to us. And this was helping us a lot. We started to find and collect the materials through the internet. This time assignment got 2 tasks. First, we needed to find three articles on expository, narrative and argumentative writing. Then, the next task was writing an essay by our own base on the theme we get. The three articles that we found are Cousins Death, Should Cell Phones Be Allowed in Schools? and Global Warming. After we found the articles from internet, we started to do the graphic organizer. I found that form a graphic organizer is not easy. This is because we need to be creative to design the shape of it so that people can understand the story easily. After complete the graphic organizer, we started to do our essay. First thing we do before started to write was finding the information about the theme we get. The theme we got was Patriotism. After finding the material, we decided to write about National Day Celebration. In the processing of this assignment, we learnt many things from this assignment such as how to collect materials from internet, how to made graphic organizer base on

the material we find and how to write an essay with the theme Patriotism. We all feel very happy because during the process of completing this assignment we didnt have quarrel happened in between us. This is because we all know that the important having a good communicate between us and quarrels will bring infect to our friendship. Besides, we faced a lot of problem when we were doing this assignment. During we do this assignment we found that there were no related books in library. Fortunately, there were some resources from internet. Besides, I realize that my English level drops a lot because when I wanted to write the essay I found my brain was blank and the English grammar I already forgot. Luckily, this assignment passed up after holiday so that I can ask help from my father to check my essay. Furthermore, the problem that we faced is we dont have enough time to group together doing this assignment. This is because we had a lot of assignment to do besides ELP assignment. Through this problems, we learnt that the important to distribute the time well. Even though doing this assignment we faced a lot of problems, but we also learnt a lot. Through doing this ELP assignment, I knew more about expository, narrative and argumentative essay. I knew the format of these essays and knew how to write. Lastly, we want to thanks to our parents because they give us support when we do this assignment. Even though sometime we tired because we do the assignment till late midnight, but we feel happy because we can complete the assignment on time.

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References 1. http://www.encyclomedia.com/global_warming.html 2. http://ezinearticles.com/?Should-Cell-Phones-Be-Allowed-InSchools?&id=1109196 3. http://www.123helpme.com/view.asp?id=19627