Jangan pandang belakang.

The HINDRAF rally was over without me noticing the clashes or the water cannons but only the trail of trash left afterwards. We passed along Jalan Sultan Ismail and at the junction leading to Jalan Ampang near the Reinassance hotel, we saw strews of empty plastic bottles decorating the roads.
So today i am only reading about it in the newspapers, or seeing it in the news. And knowing how bias our media can be, im taking it all in with a pinch of salt.

Although, what i did go through, was the unnecessary road blocks days before the actual event themselves. And as much as i may not disagree with some of their demands or maybe the purpose of the rally, i still think that it was wrong for the government to use the police as some sort of intimidation to deter the people from the rally. Unless,their purpose was to arouse anger from the rakyat, towards the people demonstrating. Then i applaud them for their efforts.

Last Friday, after taking a short glance at Msiakini's articles on the issues, Im ashamed to admit that i may have said something that can easily be misconstrued as racist. I am not proud to say that I said those words without caring the presence of my officemates, or their racial backgrounds and im even more ashamed to say that it came out more because of my irritation towards having to go through bad traffic on Saturday then any other thing. (where i initially planned for a little shopping trip somewhere in the mids of KL) . Yes there was an Indian officemate in the vicinity and i was pretty sure she heard me and my comrades comments. ... the thing is im sure there are many others who are guilty of blaming the mob, just because it was giving them all this trouble rather than apposing their rights , believes or demands. Because as the general public have put it in many ways, their qualms were not with the local government , and no matter how different their opinions on the issues raised by the group, they still have a right to at least state their stand and uphold to what they believe.
As Nazmi puts it, "Yet, whether one agrees with their demands or not, they have a constitutional right to assemble. At the same time, the reason there is such a stir among the Indians is that they have genuine grievances, and which all Malaysians should take heed."

Well about that officemate?.. I certainly did went to apologize, but thankfully she understood where the remarks came from, and it was more of the disgust towards the jams that were heightened by the roadblocks.