Who's right and who's wrong?

When two groups fight for what's right, who's wrong?

When two groups fight for the right thing but the wrong ways, who's wrong?

D-day/ B-day 2.0?

6:53pm : Just woke up. Seems that the situation has calmed down. No reports on the silat masters being deployed. I guess that's it for today. Let's see what happens the next few days and the next year... and 1,401 was reported to be detained

4:42pm : Things have slowed down. Good thing there's not much bloodshed among the groups. Right now all the police did was made everyone their enemy. I'm gonna take a nap. Let's see what happens an hour or two later.

4:02pm : It seems that now the BERSIH peeps are trying to make their way to Istana Negara.... Don't know how much damage this incident has caused to our economy. How badly our image has been shown to the world. And no, this isn't the fault of BERSIH. This could've been avoided if a stadium was provided. All these needless conflicts.

3:16pm : 670 arrested. Ambiga arrested. Khairy arrested. Ibrahim grounded at home by his wife.

2:10pm : Bersih rally goers reported to be in the 10k region. Patriot in the 300s.

Bersih consists of all races. Patriot... just one.

Overseas there are students with the BERSIH people... though someone posted a what-if situation.

"STUDENTS SCHOLARSHIP REVOKED FOR SUPPORTING MOVEMENT FOR FAIR AND CLEAN ELECTION FOR THE GREATER BENEFIT OF THE COUNTRY"

1:57pm : Bersih protesters arrested, Anti-Bersih allowed to rally? T-minus 3 minutes til 2pm.

And no... this is not a 13 May 1969 where it was based on race. This is for human rights.

1:20pm : 514 arrested... 4000 protesters still on the street with their numbers growing.

12:50pm : I just read news that our PM is doing the George W. Bush thing during 9/11... Our PM seems to feel that attending other events are more important than this uprising in KL. Either he has full trust with the police or he's just evading things. Only he knows...

12:40pm : It has begun. Tear gas fired to about 2000 protesters, media and pedestrians. No news on the whereabouts of the silat practitioners

12:30pm : Funny how pictures and reports coming in showing people protesting in Melbourne Australia without any restrictions as compared to a city wide blockage in Malaysia...

11am : Just thinking that all these equipments (trucks/tear gas) are finally being used instead of collecting dust and rust in the storage. Would they still work? And reading on.... people are reporting that the police are arresting random pedestrians in KL. Be it with a yellow shirt or not.

Oh, the police has also set up barbed wire fences around Stadium Merdeka it seems.

9am : Nothing much happened. Internet's still on (I should've expected an internet shut down but we'll see how things go). Oh~ We made the news on UN on how our freedom to protest/of speech is restricted and how our authorities handled the situation.

“We are very concerned about the various measures that are being taken by the authorities to restrict freedom of expression in Malaysia, including preventive detention, and the Government’s decision to reportedly declare Bersih an unlawful organization,” said Mr. Colville.

Could've handled it better as I've said... Didn't have to put so much negative attention on our country.

And now for some conspiracy theory. Why was a stadium denied? So that the BERSIH people will rally as planned which defies the Yang di-pertuan Agong's orders/wishes. That way those who march on that day can be charged for 'treason?' .

Today... it might be a new page in the history books of Malaysia.

The night before the rally

Stadium denied.

Roads blocked.

3 hours stuck in traffic jam from Sunway to Wangsa Maju...

...by public transportation. People were calm. People went on about their normal lives. Either they don't care or those who are involved in tomorrow's rally are already in meetings/ having a nights rest for tomorrow.

It seems that the rally's going on since BERSIH was denied the stadium of their choice...

Cops are also denying others from protesting the rally.

We shall see.... I still think they should've just given them the gaddamn stadium but then again, the protesting group will protest more since they also wanted the same stadium.... Ish....

Peaceful rally? Let's hope so. I still want my unifi on Tuesday without any problems/ chaos.

2days to Bersih 2.0 rally?

Update on events

Things were getting heated up until the Yang di-pertuan Agong (aka King) voiced his opinions that the rally will bring more harm than good and that he trusts the government will be able to handle this.

BERSIH organizers adheres to the Agong's wishes as well as our PM's suggestion to hold the rally in a stadium (which he offered before the Agong made his statement).

Then, came backlash... the stadium refuses to rent the place out for the rally.

Police are still arresting people and creating roadblocks all around the Kuala Lumpur city area as a precaution if the rally should go on in the city.

Our PM was also seen with Silat practitioners (Malay martial arts) that they will retaliate as well.

My reactions/opinions?

First good speech on the Agong in his attempt to cool the situation down. Wise choice for the BERSIH organizers to take the PM's offer to hold their rally at a stadium. Honestly as much as I support the cause, I wouldn't want Malaysia to have a nationwide war where people start fighting amongst each other. It's bad enough that in everyday life in Malaysia people are always picking fights over small things... but now it's a big scale.

Then came the stadium's denial of allowing the rally to take place along with this news of our PM sitting and doing nothing with Silat practitioners while they were on the verge of inciting violence.

I liken this to me teasing my dog with food. Sometimes I tease them with snacks. Wave it around showing them it's there but refuse to give it to them. (For fucks sake, don't go saying that I'm viewing the government as dog owners and everyone else as dogs. I'm just using this as an example).

If you offer a stadium, give a stadium... don't deny them it since they've already agreed to hold it in one. If you refuse, I predict that they will go on with their initial plans because since they've already hated they way you're running things. What's more, you're hinting over and over again be it directly or indirectly that you're gonna resort to violence. Definitely won't go unnoticed to those potential voters you're trying to get.

Give them the stadium. Let them scream their hearts out in an enclosed space. Everywhere else in the city will be clear and relatively safe. No extremist-racist group PERKASA going around inciting hatred and racism. And our PM will be acknowledged for handling the situation well. Deny them the stadium and well... they'll take it to the streets... and then.... ish... my Liverpool tickets might be rendered useless.

Back In Malaysia

Was back in Malaysia since 4 days ago... just thought I should post this... Though it's pretty obvious from my last two posts.

Rant : Too much spam sms's

Prepaid users receiving alot of sms's I can understand. Postpaid users? Why the hell?

I noticed in Malaysia, prepaid users pay LESS than postpaid users to make calls. Why is that? Yea, the companies can get some cash from the spam they sent out to us but as a postpaid user I'd expect to not see any of these spams since I'm already paying more to make calls and send sms's.

Another thing, I just registered this phone number and I'm already receiving numerous spam messages. No it doesn't hurt but it's annoying to have your phone ringing/notifying you almost every hour that a new message has arrived that is of unimportance to you.

Rant : Internet SUCKS

Screamyx TMNUT... you suck

A 5 mb file is downloaded at 5kb/s on your 1MBPS line. That took me almost 20 minutes of waiting.

Malaysia ~ Where you overpay for slow internet.

I just hope Unifi is much better than this crap