MALAYSIA WAS FORMED IN 1963

People are again debating whether to celebrate September 16 as Malaysia Day. Najib says there is only one National Day. I agree with him, or rather, let us concede the point to him. It is a symbolic day just like the King's Birthday is a symbolic day.

But what cannot be denied is that Malaysia was formed in 1963, and not 1957. MALAYA achieved independence in 1957, and that fact should be honoured in some symbolic way, but it must not negate the fact of the formation of MALAYSIA which is 1963. 

No matter how you want to look at it, equating the Independence of Malaya and the creation of Malaysia is simply ludicrous.