Sickening News

I hold PM Najib for the total failure, indifference, and incompetency of the Government agencies / Ministries in wasting, swindling, abusing and misappropriating taxplayer's money as highlighted in Audit 2010 report. At the end, nobody will be penalised for what had happened as I conclude based on the given 'track record'. The transformation plan is nothing but a PR front. No matter how hard you work your PR magic, it is just not going to hide the ugly fact that the administration of yours is not going to or incapable of learning the true meaning of integrity, accoutability, responsibility, honesty. The only way for you to go is DOWN.

These news never fail in agitating me and really sickening reading them.

Bali

Bali 4 days 3 nights in August 2011. Sharing some of the photos from the trip here.

Full Of Surprises

The thing about shooting your wedding photos successfully is SURPRISES. At certain times, you  need to play with your imagination and act it out. For examples: -

Showcasing your talent which you never had. Like playing piano is one of them. I was thinking at that time that this could be the worst photo in the lot but it came out quite pleasant.

Stretch your facial muscle to the fullest. 

Photographer: Let me see more of your eyes. More wide open with  your mouth please. Acting surprise!

Me thinking: Obviously, I did not get it right.

Take that personality out of you which you hardly display to your friends. Friends' response after viewing the photos: Really, it that you Eric? You did that? I cannot imagine that was you in the photo etc. 

This could be the easiest pose. Love the simplicity of it. That was when I felt the stiffening muscle around my cheek and chin the result of too much smiling. Took a look at the watch and surprise surprise, it was still in the beginning of the shooting.

Surprise me the truly convenience of the photoshop. Baby-ass like face. Smooth and well-toned face without the magic water of SKII.

Surprise continues: The reclining hairline wasn't showing after all in all the photos. No. didn't ask for the Photoshop help.

The double chin wasn't showing much also. No photoshop also. It was the angle.

 

Surprise me the smiling really come easy after a while.

The best photo. The eyes surprisingly big in this one.

Surprise me I did not think I could do it... three times! That's the smile of lifting the impossible my weight-loss then girlfriend.

Asked to do what I think was too tacky to do: Twirling. Oh my surprise, that came out not too bad like two persons waltzing yeah?

Surprisingly. This came out quite plain.

So there you go, wedding shooting is full of surprises.

The Aftermath

After Bersih 2.0 Rally, the stupid becomes stupider.

(enam ribu sahaja)

The liar... add lies after lies... to his own peril.

(No attack Tung Shin la. Will investigate. Someone try to get me!)

The moron becomes even more moronic... stupider... then ever!

(We can have 1 million protesters anytime + The photos and videos on Tung Shin are taken at the wrong angle)

Another moron not to be missed!

The loud mouth becomes tikus... ha ha ha.

 

The loser become double, triple, loser, evidently...

 (We have 3 millions members you know! Police did a good job. We did not mishandle Bersih Protesters.)

How do you like yellow colour now you bow to it?

At the end, the Bersih movement become grander, popular, and people become braver and united.

Hence the winners!

Yellow Is Power To The People

The time now is 10pm. This has been a great day.

The Bersih 2.0 Rally that I took part today was an eye-opening experience. As we are all aware that the Rally has been negatively spun in the past few weeks by BN-lead media hoping that the Rally would be halted, but really, how can you stop an event that is of national interest? How can you stop the rolling voice of people that demand for rectifying basic human right?

So many dirty tactics were used to stop the Rally, but I am glad to report that the combined will of the people cannot be challenged, depressed, and contained. I am glad that I had witnessed it today and be part of it.

Knowing today was going to be an challenging day, we made our journey to Chinatown in the morning. Lingered around until noon where the crowd become swollen minute by minute. 

The ambiance was unbelievable and you have to be there to feel  the passion. People chanted "Bersih" in unison. Youngs, olds, boys, girls, muslims, non-muslims we were all connected. Hell to the multimillion-funded 1 Malaysia campaign Prime Minister. If you were present, you should feel ashamed that your 1 Malaysia promotion is never effective because it lacks the thing that you could not acquired or inspired: the true spirit of togetherness. But the Bersih Rally did it without much cost.

I was so touch seeing that women were equally involved and most of them are our muslim sisters. 

 

They marched with us. They suffered the tear gas and water cannon just like us.  Even the aunties selling you kuih-muih / nasi lemak dressed up in bersih shirt! Kudos women power!

I am happy to know from my friend who took part in the 1st Rally that there were much more Chinese in the Rally this time around. The Rally was moving steady to Stadium but back down to Menara Maybank but very soon we were joined by another Bersih group marching from Puduraya. Let the photos speak!

You will read a lot of negative things about the Rally for the coming days by BN-lead media. You will be fed with the images or clips which shown that our police worked hard to overpowered untamed protestors. Please switch to the Channel News Asia (If you have unifi TV) or news portals that have creditability of fair reporting. Stop feeding yourself with the cabbage report from the BN-lead media. Let me just say as one of the participants, we were so disciplined and steady. We did not obstruct traffic instead we helped the cars to move away from the rally. We did not provoke. We did not break anything and most importantly, we treated each other like brother and sisters. We helped and we care about each other. We moved away from water cannon and tear gas in an orderly fashion that nobody got injured. I am so proud of what I had witnessed today.

Tear gas were fired and water cannon were used to attack the protesters. Too bad I could not get a photo on those but the tear gas is really something to avoid for good for it stunk my eyes so badly and breathing with difficulty. But the good people of the protesters so helpful they approached us and gave us salt to eat which minimize the effects of the tear gas. 

We ran from Menara Maybank towards Puduraya when the tear gas was fired at us. Dispersed. Regrouped. Moved forward. Then retreated. Regrouped. Moved forward so on and so forth. Eventually, we retreated to Tung Shin Hospital when the unthinkable happened. Police continued to fire tear gas at us. We were outside the Tung Shin's compound but they fire anyway and some of the tear gas got close / hit the hospital entrance / window. I was thinking that police shouldn't shoot hospital. Such action is really unnecessary and inhumane! No, we did not chose to retreat to Tung Shin purposely but just a simple way to ran away from tear gas. Anyway, both sides of the main road were blocked.

The above photo taken in front of Tung Shin's compound. We continued to escape to Jalan Alor, KLCC, then took a cab home.

The government was really hard at us the protesters this time as I read the news just now, 1600 people were arrested. All we did was asking for a rectification on the fundamental right how hard can that be in a truly democratic country? The more repressive the government become, the more aggressive the people would be in pursuing reforms. 

In those moments of running away from the police, it become clear to me that this will be a prolonged fight. It will take time. But I was upbeat knowing that many people are demanding the same and they show up in the protest. There is hope for this Country and I am proud to be Malaysian.

Bersih 2.0 Rally was an incredible experience and since its announcement, I knew I could not skip this. It was something ought to be done in life.