The moment you realise that Sep­tem­ber 16 was the actual day Malaysia as-​we-​know-​it was born, you’d realise how great that moment was in his­tory that you’d cheat on that other moment from 1957, marry this one and raise a fam­ily of tiny lit­tle moments in the future.

That warm, patri­otic feel­ing is actu­ally your organs slowly cook­ing. Just kid­ding, it’s love. Because we all love Malaysia.

We love its food; we love the peo­ple; we love Farah Ann; we love the country’s cul­ture; mostly we love food.