Is declaring Malaysia Day a public holiday a good move?

Recently the government has declared Malaysia Day as a public holiday starting next year. It is a wise move. I think not!. Since it is to be implemented next year may be there is still time to think it over.

The previous government has declared an additional public holiday for Thaipusam. Now this.

It is good intention to declare Malaysia Day for the country integration. It may be good for the 1Malaysia idea. But what does the people get from this? Another public holiday... In time, years to come, it is just another public holiday. Most probably without the appreciation of the meaning and purpose. Why not just make it the theme for next year Independence day.

It is easy to declare a public holiday but if it is to be reviewed later, it is hard to take it back. It will be an unpopular move! So please review.

The Idea is that

We have so many public holidays. If we are to be a great nation we are to work hard and to have momentum of working. The thing about Malaysian is that the momentum of working slows down before and after a public holiday. One more thing about Malaysian is that once they slow down the momentum, they tend to take longer time to build up momentum again. What may this probably results in? Our productivity!.

Extra holidays mean extra cost. If we are to give one public holiday, we are actually losing 3 days of productivity.

How are we going to attract FDI is cost of doing business goes up and there are frequent interruption in work momentum?

Yes, we are to look at people integration. But we have already many holidays to reflect out this intention. What we need is better work culture and inflow of investment.

Think about it