COMMENT | It’s the Hari Raya season and I am excited! I am excited to spend time with my family because I have to admit, I have a pretty cool family and I like to show them off.

I feel so proud that my family is a truly multiracial family if I do say so myself. We boast Malays, Chinese and Indians in our family.

We’re pretty multireligious too with Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, Taoism and Christianity being a few of the more prominent faiths our family members practise.

If you came to our larger family gatherings, there is potential that you might confuse it with one of those BN’s open houses in the 1980s - when Umno, MCA and MIC were still dominating the political scene.

The only difference is that my family members actually interact with each other genuinely without having to think about abiding by any cabinet portfolio or seat allocation rules.

We like each other because...