Memories: Norhayati (right), who was a boarder at Convent Bukit Nanas, with her mum Siti Salmah, who swept floors and scrubbed toilets at Norhayati’s dormitory for four years. Razing our built heritage would wipe out the memory of who we are and what we contributed to the building of a nation. WHAT do we tell our children is the soul of this nation called Malaysia? What would happen if we wake up one morning and discover that a mysterious disease has wiped out all memory of the nation’s history? All the histories of our faiths and beliefs and cultures, gone.