one small step...
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For the past many Saturdays, my dear friend, WS, has been a one-man-show standing in front of Malaysia Hall/MSD building in Bayswater. Recently, he went back home (he has been living here for the past 30 years) to celebrate our 50th Merdeka and was really dismayed by the current situation there.
“What happened eh?”, he asked me one day. “… I saw different races eating at different tables… that didn’t happen before!”. “… and all these corruptions. We’re a rich nation yet one little dot in the south is far better economically. This is wrong!”.
Unlike our Royal Police Force, London Metropolitan Police via their Notting Hill Police Station easily issued a gathering permit from 2 – 4pm.
However, at about 3pm two friendly bobbies from the Diplomatic Protection Group (SO16) turned up in their distinctive red car due to a call made by MSD (I assumed they didn’t know about the gathering).
They were not from Notting Hill Station and were not inform of this mini ‘demo’. After taking the permit reference number from the organiser they went into MSD office and speedily left about 10 minutes later.
“Fair election!”
echoed along Queensborough Terrace on this bright autumn day before WS shouted “Daulat Tuanku!”
At about quarter to 4, the bobbies came around again, making sure the tiny crowd keeping to their given time.
…. a small beginning for a bigger change, insyaAllah.
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tambahan:
malunya aku dengar Zam cakap kat aljazeera, kalah budak tadika. malu, malu... ayoyo!