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Cleaning Day

It has always been a tradition at Wesley Church that every National Day is also Church Cleaning Day. And as one of the lazier ones who don’t enjoy getting dirty, I never did join it (guilty…). This year, I had to. Well, I didn’t really have to, it was just that, you know, I became part of the Youth Worship Committee. It was supposed to be compulsory for the committee members to show up, but not many did anyway.

So the only thing I did was wipe chairs. They weren’t that dirty, which was a good thing. Then I got lazy and itched to walk around the compound. Watching people work is much more fun than working yourself, at times. The first chance I got, I deserted the other chair-wipers. Down the corridor, past every room, there were people working really hard. Wasn’t fun enough.

The fun is always in the biggest room. For a church, where else would it be but the sanctuary? I found my family there, plus a couple of really cute, chubby kids who were sweating hard as they scrubbed the floor. One guy was perched atop the ladder with a broom lengthened with a couple of poles and sweeping the ceiling.

I spent the rest of the time watching and walking around the compound. I won’t say it was fun, but the whole thing wasn’t too bad an experience.

The National Day of Malaysia falls on today, that is 31 August. I remember we used to watch the Merdeka Day procession in the morning on the tv, watching the floats go by the screen. But the excitement of the whole thing faded away after a couple of years, because truthfully it is very boring. So for most people, National Day has just become another public holiday and another happy day for kids who don’t have to go school. It’s just that not many people, especially teenagers today, are patriotic. And I won’t say I’m patriotic either; I don’t deserve that adjective.

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