boring BN ceramah (with ‘big guns’!)
Post on Mar.06, 2008
UPDATED: see report from the star and malaysiakini
last night attended the BN ceramah at rifle range flats car park which see the attendance of badawi and his wife, and all the big guns of MCA and gerakan (koh tsu koon, ong ka ting, lim keng yaik, teng hock nan, and many more).
in the beginning there were about 6000 people… but they came to watch the show! yep, there was show before the speeches. at 8.00pm, there was a combined cultural show, then individual malay, chinese, indian dance and the beijing acrobatic acts, followed by 3 singers.
the first speaker was lim keng yaik. all the speakers (except badawi) seemed to attack anwar so much! what was it with anwar that they fear? of course in their speech they said they don’t fear him but why talked and attacked him so much?
when the show ended and the speeches began there were about 5000 people left. by the time badawi spoke, the crowd had dwindled to about 3000 only. he spoke on a lot of things but i would like to highlight only one part – the decision not to use the indelible ink. yep, he mentioned that issue and of course gave the reason of what the police had discovered – a plan to sabotage the election when they found out some persons/organisation had plan to bought the ink to create chaos. he stressed that the withdrawing of the use of the indelible ink has nothing to do with them fearing they will lose in the election. after discovering the so called sabotage plan, he wanted the police and the EC to made a quick decision as it is near to polling day, so he leave it to EC and i was EC who decided not to go ahead with the use of indelible ink. he also mentioned phantom voters and stressed firmly, "no, we do not cheat. BN do not cheat".
BN ceramah is totally different from the opposition ceramah i see. the opposition ceramah that i attended, the speakers were very fiery and most of them received cheer now and then when a speaker was speaking. this BN ceramah, no cheer at all (er… only 3 or 4 times all throughout, unlike opposition it was all the time – so 100 or more times!). also the MC need to go "tepuk lah!" each time a speaker finish or introduce something. very funny. i thought clapping is up to the crowd but this crowd need to be urge to clap! on the whole, it was pretty boring ceramah.
ok maybe more about the ceramah later. it’s late now. gotta get some sleep. i returned home from the ceramah last night after midnight! today am going for the DAP biggie ceramah again and i guess will return home late again.
p/s – sorry no time to reply to comments as busy with ceramah this week!
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March 6th, 2008 on 2:10 AM
I was attending Lim Guan Eng one at my Taman here and I heard Siti Nurhaliza also come? I didn’t know LKY also come to Rifle Range. LOL.
March 6th, 2008 on 5:16 AM
I was moderating a forum for a group of apartment owners near Scotland Road. Guess what…BN was very lame for not even showing up citing the above you wrote. However, the residents in attendance were mostly fence sitters and because of BN’s non attendance, they were very disappointed with them and probably swang their for votes to Liew Chin Tong and Jason Ong.
Sometimes BN does the darnest things – this is one of them! I am glad their true colors showed. They claimed to be rakyat friendly, but not for this cause though
March 6th, 2008 on 7:41 AM
I happened to walk past an MCA ceramah in Sri Petaling (that’s Teresa Kok’s territory) where Chan Kong Choy was speaking. He was giving the ‘report card’ talk, speaking so slow – sentence by sentence – like he as addressing a funeral. And yes, they served free dinner before the speeches (otherwise there would be hardly anybody). And yes, I saw the sexist posters put up by Carol Chew against Teresa Kok; they were downright insulting and very childish of Chew to do that. Chew Mei Fun and Ng Yen Yen should send her back to school before pushing her out to battle big time against Teresa Kok.
March 6th, 2008 on 8:04 AM
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March 6th, 2008 on 10:50 AM
Thanks Lucia for updating us people from out of state. Now we know the true account..the crowd is there to watch a show (Unlike the Star front page news blowing BN’s trumpet. Maybe the reporter fell asleep halfway and therefore did not note that people left!) Well,it’s BN’s style of campaign. Use singers and corporate figures to entertain and attract the people to come. The candidates have no pull-factor at all. Also resort to paying people to come and giving free food. So pathetic!
Do keep posting on the ceramahs up north. Thanks again.
March 6th, 2008 on 10:53 AM
Yeah, the man Bedol “had forgotten” has come back to haunt him.
You should have seen the reception Anwar got earlier….like him or hate him…the man is like a rock star.
March 6th, 2008 on 12:55 PM
Lucia, what time is the DAP ceramah at Han Chiang school tonite? Thanks.
lucia: 8.00pm. be there early – 7.30pm or even 7.00pm if you want to park inside and get a good seat.
March 6th, 2008 on 4:39 PM
Wow, typical BN ceramah, got show first. Lucia, sorry you had to endure such a boring ceramah. Have fun in Han Chiang tonight. I’ll be in ss2
March 6th, 2008 on 8:57 PM
Your election watch trip had paid off -give 2 sides of the story. Only then one can stand firmer on one’s own belief!
Ong BK
March 8th, 2008 on 1:08 AM
here is the report which i had posted to the northern election watch group.
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The night is known as ‘Malam satu hati bersama rakyat’, and it began with
Chia Kwang Chye (parliamentary candidate for Bkt. Bendera) as the organiser,
giving the welcoming speech (in Mandarin). He talked a little about BN
success and ended by urging the people to support BN.
There was one hour of entertainment before the speakers began. A combined
cultural dance and the 3 individual races cultural dances, 4 professional
singers and the biggest attraction – acrobatic performance from Beijing,
China.
At this moment, there were about 5000 people present, consisting of various
races but mostly Chinese, as Rifle Range is a Chinese dominated area.
Brief points on what the speakers spoke about:
Lim Keng Yaik
Spoke in English, Mandarin but mostly in Hokkien, as he said he wants the
Penang
- criticize Lim Kit Siang’s takeover of Penang e. g. Tanjung 1, Tanjung 2,
Tanjung 3
- criticize Anwar a lot and even hinted at him being a gay e. g accused him
of being the father of money politics when in the government; he is like a
chameleon.
- shot down Barisan Alternative
- make fun of DAP’s slogan ‘just change’
said he spoke more on Hokkien because he wanted the Chinese people to
realize the evil intention of the opposition.
Ong Ka Ting
Spoke in Bahasa and Mandarin
- sing praises of all the parties under BN being united.
- criticize DAP, PAS, PKR as ‘kahwin’ and making a pact together.
- criticize Anwar when he was Education Minister, saying he gave lots of
problems to the Chinese. Said that when he was in power, he did not do
anything, so why should the people trust him now? Also mentioned about the
attack from Chandra Muzaffar, saying that soon others will follow suit after
Chandra to hit out at Anwar.
- warn that if we deny BN the 2/3 majority, the Chinese will be weaken.
- mentioned about the Northern Corridor which creates jobs for all races.
- call on all Chinese to vote BN so that BN can develop the state/country.
Koh Tsu Koon
Spoke in Bahasa and Mandarin
- first thing he did was to ask the people to clap 3x for Badawi
- gave a lengthy situation example of how Anwar refused to promote a Chinese
educationists because Anwar fear the Malays might get angry but when he
approached Najib on this matter, Najib at once approved the promotion.
- also brought up the attack on Anwar by Chandra.
- Ask not to trust PKR, join Gerakan or MCA instead.
He then introduce all the MCA/Gerakan members present who were contesting in
the election. Almost all of them were there. They were then asked to go on
stage and together all of them shouted their ‘Give me 5′ slogan.
Abdullah Badawi
- start off by saying “if you are with us, we will be strong for you” and
informing that even MIC, UMNO were present, showing the unity of BN.(at
this there were cheers from them)
- said that Anwar is no longer important to them (UMNO). They don’t need
Anwar anymore.
- accused DAP as a racial party.
- dig out the situation happening in 1969 where Gerakan and MCA lost heavily
while UMNO won, but yet UMNO gave the CM post to Gerakan. This is because,
he said, knowing the majority of people in Penang are Chinese, they agreed
to a Chinese CM and had been doing that all along.
- parrot his ‘work with me, not for me’ slogan.
- touch on the withdrawal of the use of indelible ink, saying this had
nothing to do with them fearing they will lose in the election. Gave the
reason of the sabotage plan uncovered by the police.
- also touch on phantom voters and said it is impossible for them to cheat
on this area and stressing “BN don’t cheat. We want a credible election. ”
- end by saying they want to forge peace and prosperity among all races.
Occasionally uttered ‘Satu hati’ in Mandarin
Occasionally someone shouted ‘Hidup Pak Lah! ‘ and others joined in.
COMMENTS
- All the speakers hardly receive any cheer… only once or twice but Badawi
got more cheers.
- All speakers ended up with calling for the people to vote BN except
Badawi. He was fair to say “I can’t tell you who to vote. You use your head
and heart to vote. ” (unbelievable! ).
- The MC had to at times said “Tepuk tangan lah! ” to the audience.
- The audiences consisted of Malay, Indian and Chinese, mostly Chinese as
Rifle – Range is a Chinese majority area. More Malays came late as they
only want to hear Badawi talk.
- The large car park was used, where chairs are placed for people to sit.
Tents were also erected by the side. 2 large screen projection were by the
side of the stage. Lighting and sound system all were fantastic.
- The police and RELA personnel were seen. There were also several FRU
personnel who were there waiting for Badawi’s arrival. When he arrived, the
FRU surrounded him to escort him to the stage, and they remained standing
near where Badawi was seated. It was as though they were his bodyguards!
- There were 2 MPPP’s mobile toilet – MPPP come under government right, so
is that the use of government machinery? Well, they were using the service
of FRU, who are government servants!
- Additional note: Few days after this ceramah, a friend told me that one
(or maybe more than one) busload of people were paid RM50.00 to be there,
and another said, she heard people who attended the ceramah received a bag
of rice. Can’t substantiate if these are true.