"Eh eh. Digi-man cannot follow you today ah?"
The Bersih 2.0 rally ended yesterday at about 4.30 p.m. (?) in the heart of KL and I do wish that I could have gone but I guess filial duties overrode the patriotic spirit? Dad didn't say much about it but Mom's pretty angry with the rally, deeming it (the rally, not the cause; she supports the concept and would like the campaign to stay virtual) redundant and uncalled for, not to mention slightly hypocritical, because they are disrupting the lives of the citizens and putting the said lives at risk because you know how these street protests always turn bloody.
Well, on a personal side-note, I also think she really empathizes with the three (failed) wedding ceremonies that were supposed to commence in the KL park, seeing as she went through her first "planning-for-my-daughter's-wedding" experience with my sister last year. :)
But a mere sacrifice of a Saturday to shake things up in a politically biased country should do good in the long run. They planned to protest in a very safe manner too, didn't they? A friend of mine (Kuan Ming, the fattening pork/siuyok enthusiast) went there for an hour and claimed it was peaceful. Heck, even the chronological report that I found online described the way the protestors had a taste of local durians (now made more expensive thanks to freaking China demanding imports) at 12.20 p.m. and bought ice-cream at precisely 2.43 p.m. HAHA Malaysia Kini. Seeeeriously?
But he got lucky; there were definitely some "wilder" moments... with tear gas, heavy rain, and incorrect arrests (lol at the poor cameramen). And well, if you start a fight, you'd get hit back eh? Some form of retaliation? So I don't know what to say about the police. Can't side them, but can't fully blame them either.
"Omg I hear they're stopping yellow cars now!"
Also, at 1.33 p.m. there were 58 women arrested, but there were only 47 women (in a cumulative count) arrested 27 minutes later (at 2.00 p.m.)?
Yayyyy eleven women escaped! Good on you!
Woke up this morning, sent in my peer counseling advisee questionnaire to UVa and dug out my brightest yellow shirt, from Platinum expedition back in 2008!
I love this shirt. So many memories. Worn during our "Iron Man" challenge while being baked under the scorching sun in Malacca's fruit farm. Swam in ostrich-chicken poop/fertilizer-infused waters searching for marbles. Did rock-climbing with obscene shorts. Ate the yummiest barbecued chicken wing (shared among six people, how unfortunate). Knocked down coconuts from a 20-foot-tall tree. Unknowingly made suggestive noises while tearing apart old coconuts with our bare hands.
Unfortunately I don't have any pictures from that epic experience thanks to our LOUSY cameraman *ahem Bryan Looi. (So. Upsetting.)
So tieeee a yellow ribbon round the old oak tree~
My leadership night ribbon back in 2009!
I'm excited to see the turnout of our next elections. Bersih 2.0 took the first step, voicing out the distress that we've been too afraid to express publicly for 20 years. Let the nation be ruled by racial parity!
Semangat Malaysia!
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