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Some 60 Malaysians born on National Day (Aug 31) and Malaysia Day (Sept 16) celebrated their birthday together with officials and organisers of the 2026 Anak Merdeka Malaysia event in Kuala Lumpur on Aug 31.

They said they were happy to be able to celebrate with the entire country which gained its independence from the British colonial powers 69 years ago.

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00:00How are you doing?
00:02How are you doing?
00:03How are you doing?
00:055 years ago!
00:14How are you doing?
00:155 years ago
00:44I'm America. Of course, I'm proud and grateful. My mother used to call me before. It's because she can't wait,
00:57then operate. That's why I come out on August of 31.
01:02Today is the most meaningful thing because it's kind different like previous birthday. I'm so proud and I love Malaysia.
01:11I'm going to go to the beach and watch people. So, from there she understands why everything is together.
01:21Then, I'm telling her that this is a special day for Malaysia. It's the birthday of her birthday.
01:29So, she feels like, oh, every year I have to go join something like this.
01:34So, she said, okay, she understands. She said that everyone is together for our country.
01:43I feel like she's a child of America.
01:53Not really, I can't really recall, but I just felt to be proud I'm born on the day of Malaysia.
02:01or 31st August. I was really happy that I found out I was born on 31st August.
02:11They just say happy birthday, sometimes give me a gift. That's all.
02:17It's a special day because not only it's my birthday, it's also the country's special day as well.
02:23So, like to be sharing with my country and myself to help celebrating this happiness, it's quite a fortune.
02:29So, I'm quite happy about it.
02:30My mum always asked me to stand at the table in front of a cake and ask me to sing
02:34Mardeka.
02:35So, just say Mardeka, Mardeka, just like smile, just like sing the song.
02:39My mum likes to do that. My family actually likes to do that.
02:41Even now, as of today also, just stand in front of a cake, ask me to sing Nagaraku.
02:45I was like, oh, they're still doing it, yeah?
02:47I see that we are still progressing a lot, that we are still working a lot of problems,
02:53but I see we have a majority of things that we should be happy about,
02:56and we can still be appreciative.
02:59So, just keep moving forward, just be happy, and let's just be one.
03:04Mardeka! Mardeka! Mardeka! Mardeka! Mardeka! Mardeka!
03:10Mardeka! Mardeka!
03:11Thank you all!
03:18I'm sorry.
03:18Mardeka!
03:19I'm sorry.
03:19It's okay, so we're in 1-2 minutes.
03:20I'm sorry.
03:20I'll tell you what I need.
03:20I'll tell you what I need to do.
03:20Malina.

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