Ahem, I should have done this years back. Now I wondered to myself why I have been so slacking and waited only until recently to correct the information in my identity card. Perhaps I needed more conviction when I found out that my "MyKad" was not showing the correct religion back in 2004.

I was baptized in 2001, and renewed my IC in 2002 when I lost it inside my company's photocopy machine. During the renewal, I wrote down "Christian" as my religion. And I'd always thought that the people inside the Jabatan Pendaftaran would honor my choice of religion.

So it was that in 2004, when I found out that my religion was incorrectly stated, I thought that it was no big issue since the matter of religion was not the matter on paper by the matter of our hearts. And so it was still showing that I was a "Buddha" (not Buddhist)... haha... right until Feb 20 2009.

How wrong was I when I realized that there may be consequences if my religion was not correctly stated on paper - especially an official document like the MyKad.

By analogy, if a person says that he needed not vote (in our General Election) since his vote only counts 1 in thousands or even tens of thousands, how wrong could he be?

Sometimes, it is good for us to change our perspective about such matters and try not to act too spiritual or magnanimous in matters that require practical action.

One of the consequence of not changing one's religion, I was told, is that our government may disallow the building of churches on the basis of low Christian population.

So, if you read this, please check your MyKad and make sure that your religion is correctly stated. If not, you know what to do.