First RPK, now Haris???

Word on the net is that the Gestapo (aka Polis DiRaja Malaysia) came for Haris this evening while he was at Dataran Merdeka for a personal candlelight vigil for RPK. I underlined PERSONAL, because its just him doing his own thing. He posted that he would be at dataran merdeka, and invited all who wished to join him. From what I gather, Haris was just minding his own bussniess, perhaps waiting around for more ppl to come, when the Gestapo came and dragged him off to Dang Wangi 'Police' station, for god knows what....

This police nonsense is realy getting too much. This morning Lim Kit Siang brought up the issue in parliament is the move against RPK is the begining of "The Empire Strikes Back", after BN's humiliating loss at the march 8 polls. Im becoming more and more inclined to think LKS is right.

So to all you idiots out there who can say to me "No la! How can you say that malaysia is a police state??!!" and then say something so stupid and contradicting like "Careful! They will throw you into ISA!!" go back to blissfully burying your stupid heads in the sand.

Haris was later released from the police station, after what they Gestapo claimed to be a 'misuderstanding'. RPK ahs also agreed to post bail and has called off his hunder strike. He is expected to be released frm Sungai buluh Prison tomorow.

Free RPK Now!

If you have no idea of what the title of this post is about, for the love of Malaysia PLEASE take your heads out of the sand! Raja Petra Kamarrudin has been charged for Sedition for his article "Lets Send the Altanthuya Murderers to Hell", which directly implicated Najib and his wife in the Altantuya murder. Read the article on Malaysia-Today (you may have trouble accessing it because of high traffic hehe): http://www.malaysia-today.net/2008/content/view/6604/84/

Now its an open secret that Najib is involved in Altantuya's murder. Theres realy no need to go into details (and it might be considered seditious too!) but the Taxi-driver, Pisang goreng man, the Towkay and the marketing manager all have one thing in common: they will tell you that the government (or gomen) is desperately trying to cover up Najib's involvement. I mean cummon-LAH, malaysians are doing what they do best! Spreading half-truths, rumours and 'Official Secrets" in the kopitiams and mamak stalls.

Anyway, Im all for Najib to clear his name. (Though im another ordinary malaysian who wont believe him either way!) But to bring down the full weight of the governments machinary, the police, the AG's chambers; on RPK will only serve to enforce the public's opinion AGAINST Najib. The speed and ferocity of the government stinks to high heavens of a politically motivated charge that seeks to silence RPK. Who knows, this whole drama may turn into another Anwar Ibrahim cum CorrectCorrectCorrect! if you know what i mean...hehehe...The foreign media has already started to play up the issue, and im sure RPK is gona become another media darling.

Ok I dunwana say too much la, but its clear that the UMNO led government still dosent understand how the court of public opinion works. so bottom line...

FREE RPK NOW!!

Oh of course Lim Kit Siang brought up the issue in parliament. he tabled the whole fiasco as "The Empire Strikes Back" LOL! You should watch it if you can, though im abit upset that LKS only uploaded 4 parts of it. He didnt upload the rest of it, leaving us hanging... :(

My trip to Cambridge

Haha Yes! I went to Cambridge before Derek! (or Cumbwitz as he would call it :P) LOL.

Well I took hours n hours of video (which im gona have hell cutting together- esp since its like 20GB) but i didnt take that many pics...
Anyway, I went with Edith to cambridge on a SU active lifestyle trip. It was only me n Edith cuz long long ago when I bought the tickets no1 was sure if they wanted to go or not. So i just bought 2 tickets cuz i didnt want to go alone, but I didnt wana take the risk wasting too much money either, so i just bought 2 tickets! A few days before the trip, I asked everyone if they wanted to come with me during lunch. Jen said she had something on, Half the people ignored me :( and Edith jumped in to grab the ticket as soon as Jen said she couldnt go! LOL. So thats the story of how Edith n I ended up going to Cambridge together.

The coach left frm East Drive (my uni la) sometime around 9.45 am. The bus ride wasnt that nice...I sat RIGHT at the back, with no leg room and got my usual bout of motion sickness...To make things worse the journey was around 2hours+

Anyway, arrived at Cambridge around 12.40 or so. Dizzy and slightly hungry, I first breathed the nice fresh air and enjoyed the sun for a few minutes. Yes it was a lovely sunny day! Now...we had to find out where exactly we were on the sorry little map were given by the SU. Turned out to be somewhere behind queens college.

So proceeded towards the town centre. While there I opened my sandwich that i brought frm notts. Gave one to Edith cuz she was sooo hungry, and we decided to look for a Subway for lunch (was hungry and didnt know what else to eat).

Id say this, for a small town with hardly and resodent population except students, Cambridge is pretty big, and CROWDED! (yea cuz it was a weekend id say 95% of the ppl were tourists!) Cambrdige has more high street shops than Notts! Oh well, now we all know what sorta shops Derek will be visiting then. There are ALOT of churches too! In terms of shopping your needs are as fulfilled as any other big city! In fact, theres a certain lacking for cheap shops...but then again its cambrdige....youd expect everyone to be loaded anyway ;)

After walkin all around the town (more than once...it can be pretty confusing as your always going in circles! lol) we finaly found a subway. Grabbed lunch n off to the park to eat!

Yea..nice sun, of course you gota eat outdoors...Nice and refreshed started to tour the place...

Ok im seriously getting lazy. I think ill just post a few pics. By the time we got back it was around 8.30pm. (Though the sun was still up all you Malaysian peeps!) Realy tired, but happy. The bus ride home was alot quicker and better too. ok...PICTURE TIME!!!

Kings Cathedral, opposite Kings College. Unfortunately I didnt actully take a picture of the college itself :(


Cant remember the name of this museum, but its really BIG! This is just the main entrance


The Senate House, next to Kings College. Not exactly sure what this is.


Derek's (future)College! I cant be bothered to remeber the name cuz its quite long. Compared to Kings or Trinity its pretty small! HAHA!


At the park where we had lunch


Cambridge University Press. This was one of the better shots. Its a really nice building, but because of the narro streets I just couldnt get a nicer picture.


Bridge over the River Cam (hence the name Cambridge)


St Catherine's College (I think) Stupid cyclist just had to whizz by...

Ok anyway, as you would have probably deduced by now, i didnt go inside any of the colleges. Why? I didnt feel like paying the entrance fee! Plain n Simple! That and, the outdoors was jsut too good to pass up (excellent conditions for filming). Ill go into the colleges some time when I go to visit Derek. And ill be sure to bring my bike too!!

I realy didnt take that many picture, but I have a few hours worth of HD video. Maybe Ill take some stills from the videos and put them up some other time, but theres an awful lot to go through...

Ok thats all for now!

~Baron Out~