Public holiday

So Malaysia won the AFF Suzuki Cup, and the nation got a public holiday on Dec 31 as a result??

Wow. Seems like we all will declare any day as a very important day just cause the nation achieved something.

Yes, the Cup is important, and according to my friend, it finally came home after 12yrs.

My question is, does that seem like a reasonable reason enough to declare a day to be public holiday?

Ohh yes...12yrs....that is long, and we finally achieved our glory. But hey, it took u 12 years. Is that even something to be proud of? And amidst a very known humiliation that our country's football standards had fallen really deep to the very bottom of the heap. The win, of course, gave some bleak hope to this fast degrading national football team.

Is that all? The only reason to give public servants a day off because of a football team even they themselves looked down on?

Yes, i agree, the team should be congratulated and their achievement appreciated and recognised, but this is not they way.

I predict when the team is back in M'sia they will be showered with gifts and titles or honours.

And then, like previous medal winners before them(in other sports of course), fall into a hopeless and pathetic slump, never achieving anything significant again because they get their heads lost in all that materialistic glory.

Yes i am judging, but unless everyone's attitude changes, even those bestowing the gifts, it will happen.