Woke up at 9am and meet up Chin Fui and the big group at Sri Petaling LRT station. You can see people start pouring into the LRT station, giving each other a smile and a nod.
We reached Plaza Rakyat at 11am+ and we can hear groups of people start to chant , clap and cheer. The group gathered at Kota Raya to begin our banner display while waiting to march towards Dataran Merdeka.
Everyone were so cheerful, polite, excited! Took a lot of awesome photo and we meet Aunty Bersih! Haha!
A 70years old unker came to talk to us, he asked us about our point of view on lynas and bersih joining the rally together. I found out that this unker came solo from Ipoh and super genki for the day ahead.
We march towards dataran merderka about 12:30pm but was stopped by the police. Big kudos to the security team by PAS that helped to keep us safe.The group changed location to central market car park to meet up with the leaders, Speaker of Perak, YB Theresa, YB Elizabeth Wong and many more. By that time you can hear the roar of the people like thunder. Everywhere are flooded with yellow and green.
Our group reached Masjid Jamek LRT station but unable to proceed, there were so many people! We manage to come across YB Anwar Ibrahim and Wife while they were trying to make their way to the front line. Btw, we are about 200-300m from the front line. Yup! Where they start moving off the barricade.
In a brief moment, we received news from the front line to duduk bantah. Everyone sat down peacefully, taking pictures, chanting, cheering and clapping.
About 2:45pm, people start telling us to bersurai. Well, before we can move, we can see tear gas smoke popping out from the front line. That's when we start ushering people backwards, the atmosphere start to become tense and you can see the anger and frustration from everyone face.
Sadly, we can't head back to Menara Maybank, we went to the street where HSBC is located and thought that the police wouldn't push forward to us. We waited for 15-20min
Soon after, we saw more and more people coming from the front line direction , shouted us to leave, TEAR GAS!! We planed to follow the road where we were and fall back. What came into our surprise was that our only path to fall back had been tear gas. People are running to us from both direction! We are stuck in between.
That's the time you can feel the sting of the tear gas and the police just kept firing the shells nearer and nearer to us. We were left with no choice but to cramp into the mini car park and force our self through the small tiny alley. Yeah, the whole few thousands of us.
There is no doubt Malaysian are awesome! While everyone were choking, crying in a horrible fashion. We helped each other by giving out mask, salt, water. Keep calm and climb over the fence. I need to thank the beloved pastor and his fellow church member who was with us. Pastor gave me an extra mask which came in handy, better than nothing!
While we were sardin at the small alley waiting to climb over the fence, I was trying to bend down just to catch less tear gas. There was a girl asked me if I am ok, Haha! He thought I was going to faint, I said I am fine ( Sure doesn't look like one) and he start to grab my hand so tight as if she was afraid I am going to pass out. LOL, thanks lenglui!! You left a huge bruise mark on my arm, I am just bending down to avoid direct contact with the gas la!
Another true example of unity. While I was running away choking and eating up salt other people passed me, our group split. I ended up with only two our member, the rest can't be found. We ran towards another street , the mamak boss was sooooooo goood to provide us 3 big bucket of salt water, ushered us to wash our face and get it off. Trust me, it works and it was SOOOO good~~
Stay tune for part two, that's when I eat my second tear gas canister. This time right smack 5 steps infront of me!
