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Salam Aidiladha everyone. 😊

inb4 there's conflicting information from listicles online. I don't care. Mentour Pilot says KLIA is #1 and I'll die on that tower. Kthnxbai

We got most of pop media, academic journals, and books covered, but what about photographic media?

cross-posted from: https://monyet.cc/post/418238

Related to the Bunga Mas^1:

According to a Kedah source, the first time a bunga mas was sent, it was sent as a toy for a new-born Thai prince who was the grandson of Sultan of Kedah himself since his kin, a princess was married to the Thai king^1.

This then set the precedence of Malay Sultans being "required" one way or another to send Bunga Mas to Siam. The culmination of the meme is the Siamese invasion of Kedah in 1821^2 partly due to the Sultan ceasing sending bunga mas, making Kedah Sultanate, the progenitor of the practice, existn't for a time.

* This is a Malay expression meaning paying interests. The principal is the pokok (tree) and the interest is the bunga (blossoms).

What things you discovered on your own, that is actually already known and named for a long time? For example, you observe a phenomenon, you write it down, but didn't look it up further for lack of words. Years later, you chance upon the exact same thing on Wikipedia.

Kuala Linggi, Melaka ca. 2014

EDIT: Thread extended to Merdeka + Malaysia Day celebrations

🇲🇾 Unfurl the flags! It's Merdeka Month! 🇲🇾

Welcoming any and all submissions around both Merdeka and Malaysia Days. Let's add our mark to this long-running tradition, for future us and our children to look back on.

This year's might be ordinary, it might be the extraordinary, it might be the last, for the few of us, for all of us. Only time will tell. But as I said, every mark made, every record added, counts.

Enough downer talk, raise our Jalur Gemilang to celebrate that this year, it still flutters free in the wind! 🇲🇾

Malaysia Madani: Tekad Perpaduan Penuhi Harapan