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My son has Malay and Indian friends too in his school and they would come to our house and play . He would mentioned about what they did in school and never has he raised any issue about their race. At their ages, they are all equal and all Malaysians.I guess once he grow up and find out more about life and works, he may change his views and that is also influenced by our politicians, who used race-based tactics to gather support.

My son has Malay and Indian friends too in his school and they would come to our house and play . He would mentioned about what they did in school and never has he raised any issue about their race. At their ages, they are all equal and all Malaysians.I guess once he grow up and find out more about life and works, he may change his views and that is also influenced by our politicians, who used race-based tactics to gather support.

Lucky Aishah, she is not old enough to see the country conditions erode by days.

To the contrast of "Rukun negara"
1. Too many fundamentalist and fanatics define the "God" using their own interpretation
2. Corruption are ramping the country. From Parliaments to the municipal councils. Those people are loyal to their political master and money than anything.
3. Worst, the constitution are open for politikus interpretation : for the worst.
4. And we have acting CJ that want to make law with their hand than just follow it.
5. Just look at the parliament, do you think "kesopanan" ever exist? And don't you all recall the parliament leaking case?

standing up for the rights as written by sonia randhawa in the sun today. So stand up and be counted.
http://www.sun2surf.com/article.cfm?id=19099

When you are young, everything is nice and rosy. After SPM, things start to take place, heck, your chinese friend maypotentially be a victim of NEP, then BN politics set in, keris weaving, racist remarks being made here and there, our whole dream crumble like a house of deck.

This is Malaysia.

jeff, i had best friends from various ethic backgrounds too when i was in school. but the landscape changed when we reached SPM. some will get places in local public uni even with Pangkat Dua! many ethic non-malays who get Pangkat Satu got pushed to Form 6 for two years and even if they did well, they are not guaranteed a place in local public uni. as young adults we will start asking many questions which went unanswerable or shunned because the gahmen deemed ethnic quota as 'Sensitive' issues! Aishah might not experience this. her friends might not experience this. but i'm damn sure that her ethic non-malay friends from rural areas will...

Studying in a residential school as a non-bumi "forced" me to have Malay friends where 9/10 was the ratio where I studied. No problems at all, we studied, ate, sing, slogged, fought and played together. Race mattered little in this school. We faced the same music whether one was Indian, Mamak or Chinese whatever. Sink and swim together they say, as Group mattered more than individual was how we were taught.

All this dissapeared after SPM. I went to Form 6 in a normal school and the Bumis were given various opportunities by the Govt.

No hard feelings with any of them as they are still my closest friends today. When I meet for TehTarik, its odd to see a bunch of Malay with 1 or 2 chinaman in the same group but I know deep down, we'll fight too and nail if any of us were in trouble regardless of race or religion.

If you wish to know which school I studied; Tun Ling will probably know; eventhough he does not know me.

She's so full of innocence and her blog's so pure that I dared not leave any comment there. I've been reading lots of blogs and also politicians comments in the mainstream papers and pronouncements and I feel dirty all over....
I need to go wash up first.

The first name we heard our son mentioned from his kindy was Ibrahim, and he is still his best friend. But as the other reader mentioned above, all this will change when he entered SPM level. Very sad indeed.

^^ I feel the same way too as LC Teh, with all the corruption all around us that we've read in the blogs (of truth!! mind you and not the newspapers), juxtapose it with little Aishah's blog...

I'd like to tell her that things are not as they seem when she is much older. However at such a young age and while she is still enjoying her innocent childhood, its best not to let someone like her and others the 'real deal' too soon.

Then again, her sentiments of patriotism and friendships across all races keeps me looking for that silver lining in everything.

Folks

I thought some of the commenters on Aisah's blogs are way out of line, bringing out all the dirt about adult's prejudices. We adults are poor role models for our kids.

For goodness sake, the young lady is only 11 years old and let her enjoy her young life and innocence..for all you know, she might turn out to be a better person than any of us here, who spew racial comments, prejudices etc.

The fact that she is able to see herself beyond race and religion speaks volumes of the correct upbringing from her mum and dad and her extended family.

We can all pray that the negative vibes of those highly prejudiced adults are never near her and that she will grow, with her parents' guidance, into a person we all Malaysians want to be proud of, and which we were unable to do that for ourselves.

Come on, give her a break. Some of us here in the blogosphere are a bunch of idiots.