Let There Be Light

Sunday, 29 April 2012

Bersih 3.0 My Experience Part 2

Feel so much better now after a long long hibernate session. Well, both of my leg are now sore like nobody business. Nevermind, worth it.

Part 2 continues here...

After we got our salt water treatment from the kind mamak owner, we continue to ran randomly out of the zone. We can hear tear gas shots been fired from all around us and you bet if you were there you will just run. It was the sense of fear, frustrated, anger and more anger...

We ran with the rest of the people and decided to take cover in Maybank ATM center, we can see some of the people taking cover in there. Everyone were cursing and swearing at the government and the police "standard abusive package". Fuck this government, Fuck you police, Go to hell!, stupid government, useless government are some of the curse we came across. (Including myself..hehe )

2 of our group member that was with me decided to head out of KL for safety while I called Chin Fui to make sure their location and status but no one answered.( Guess they were busy running as well..haha)

We walked to Pasar Seni Putra LRT station and waited there to see if it is safe. There were wave of people in yellow walking out of the city or to any nearby stations. Worried about the group status, I finally managed to call Chin Fui and found out that the the group were at Nandos, right beside plaza rakyat.

No one knew what's going on, and what will going to happen next.. I told the two that was me to stay at the LRT station while I ran to meet the group on the other side, they asked me to stay but I just ran off. Ha! ( A decision I regret , yeah I should had stay put)

As I ran towards Kota Raya, situation were totally different than I expected. People were running away and to my surprise,I heard the sound of the tear gas canister being fired. I was still confident to continue, thinking that people are starting to disperse and ain't no reason the police is going to gas Kota Raya, they should be firing somewhere close.That was what I thought!

It was almost like a movie when my thought was shattered when a tear gas canister landed 5 steps in front of me, puffing out "delicious" smoke! It all happened within 3-4seconds. Holy shit! The only thing I can remember was people shouting Tear gas! Tear gas! and the sound of the shots fired.

Instinct kicked in, I ran backwards to a street with the rest of the people while I can hear tear gas canister being fired behind me, not knowing where that god damn thing is going to land.

I ran into a bar/restaurant that was opened for shelter, only realized after that it is The Reggae Bar. After making sure they didn't fire any tear gas canister towards our direction, I took off and ran back to the direction where I came from via another path. Yup, Pasar Seni LRT station again~ -_____-

When I went back, the two of them can't be found and I was quite sure they found their way out of KL already. Destined to be not alone, my friend Carol and her group called me from distance! What a surprise AGAIN~never expect to meet them here。

People that got up to the station came back down with the news , LRT tutup! Wtf? I joined Carol's group and took some rest. It was the time when we start to share our gas session story with people that we don't even know, scold the police and share any latest news we heard.

Chin Fui finally called to check my whereabouts, apparently the group walked to Hang Tuah Station while Chin Fui stayed to get me tag along. Thank you CF~~~ sob sob

I told Chin Fui that it was like a war zone near Kota Raya and I was too tired to even run back there again. He asked me to wait for him, he took another road to find me. Finally we meet and we walked together to meet the rest of group at Hang Tuah station. My leg start to cramp like no body business, hungry and thirsty to the max.

Finally! We rejoined the group that was waiting for us and we walked to Kenanga whole sell center to have our meal. While we were having our meal, the two that ran off to the LRT station with me came! They came back by car to meet us and offered us ride back to sri petaling lrt station.
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On 28th of April, Malaysian stood up again to fight for the country freedom, liberty and say no to a tyrant government. Everyone are hero.

If you are supporting at home, there is no shame by doing this. I didn't participate in the last two round of Bersih too. (Now I regret...)

If you are being ignorant by saying that it doesn't change anything, resistant is futile and ignorance is bliss?

I believe is time for you to wake up.

For the future generation! Hidup Rakyat!

Saturday, 28 April 2012

Bersih 3.0 My Experience

It is now 11:25pm, 3hours+ after I got back home from a peaceful rally at KL which turned into a tear gas and water canon treatment. Yup! It is Bersih 3.0!

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!