My BERSIH 2.0

There I was, after managing to tow along with the moving crowd, appeared sandwiched in the middle of another mega-crowd. With a vibrating heart, toes chilling and looking somewhat a hooded nihilist, I stood staring at this ugly big red truck staring back at me. Only thing, this one had a bell and water cannons from hell.  

Behind me I swore I could hear the same vibrating chills of hearts of other fellow dear Malaysians, equally fearful but trying hard to be bravehearts. In front of me stood two quaint ladies, small with tudong and scarf, panting and huffing away unfearfully, "BERSIH ..BERSIH." Their screams were ringing away like the clarion call for war.

Then, whhhoossshhhhh, out came the liquid 'evil' water from that red truck aimed at us hell. I turned and ran but the two girls stood their grounds to face 'evil' in their eyes. A nearby BERSIHaite shouted, 'lari...lari'.  My eyes had started to burn. The two moslem braveheart ladies, ducked and faced the water cannons - maybe in that midst I can only gather they started to recite verses from the holy Quran.

The next few minutes it rained pedih pedih. Goosh...how the laws can be this cruel, to douse the BERSIH 2.0 rally martyrs with pepper or whatever upon us. 

What malefic symphony is this?

How big is our crime - all gathered in the middle of the street, with the Constitution as our rights but still told to disperse. 

At this very salient and chaos moment, I saw an elderly Hindu man, grap hold of a Chinese girl and shoved her into a safer place. "Lari ahmoi, lari ..lari" The girl was no where to be seen.

A foul mouthed pakcik cursed the heavens and hell above him for the water had made him partial blind. Nearby, a cheeky Chinese boy took his mineral water and doused the pakcik's synching face, "jangan buka mata..jangan muka mata..pelan pelan pakcik." 

What I felt all this time the very care and comradeship amongst Malaysians over racial enmity, I saw it rekindled and stood witness to the finer fabric of the 1Malaysia put to work right before my eyes. 

Ohh dear, we Malaysians have come a long way to show our love for our fellow countrymen in the face of BERSIH. And how depressing the powers that rule and wield see it iillegal. 

Ambiga did it.  Najib was in Terengganu dancing away.