live blogging – the walk and the talk
Post on Jun.01, 2008
7.45am
left my hotel to NPC. was told by foo to be at NPC early to see to things with wai fongfrom CIJ.
with foo and his wife driving, we went pass dataran merdeka first and notice police presence.
nobody around yet when we reach NPC. foo brief me a little on what to do then left for dataran.
around 9.00am a few people drop in including rocky and nuraina samad.
10.00am
datuk zaid arrived! cameras clicking away everywhere.
9.20
helen ang came followed after a while by haris ibrahim, zorro and a few others.
people from the star were here early around 9.00am
9.50
many people’s from the walk keep arriving. all having breakfast and fellowship.
10.30
speches started by NUJ and NPC then gayathry from CIJ.
did not manage to jot notes as busy with signing of memo giving out handouts, etc.
10.35
datuk zaid turn.
10.50
Q&A time
Filed in general
June 1st, 2008 on 10:02 PM
I personally think you guys have done one walk too many. Surely there must be better ways to do something other than walking ? A bit like lighting candles too. Symbolic maybe but is it effective ? too me exactly like calling on people to boycott papers but on Tuesday only ….illogical and absurd. smacks of something sinister
June 4th, 2008 on 1:31 AM
toni
i hope by ‘you guys’ you don’t mean me because as part of the organiser, this is the first time i (together with the organisers) was planning the walk.
yes sure there are better way to do something than to walk but as you mentioned, a walk is something symbolic, so people tend to like doing it. effective? not 100% for sure and i would dare say not even 50% but there is a teeny weeny effectiveness.
actually i’m one person who is not into/support protest/demo as i feel that though it does create a lot of ‘publicity’ but usually what it wants to achieve, we all know, cannot be achieved fully. and is going through all the trouble of having tear gas fired at or water canon shot at worth it, if what it wants to achieve is not achieved? for example, i find it silly that at one time, some activists like to organise a protest against petrol hike. the petrol price had been increased…no matter how much they protest, the petrol price won’t go down…. so what’s the point?
oh yeah and the thing about boycotting the paper, i’m never into it… that’s why i joined BENAR.
June 4th, 2008 on 8:04 AM
hahaha
no not you Lucia , you being the more sober and down to earth one with the Big Concsience !
I am particularly referring to some who take these kind of ultra serious event as a entertaining gathering of sorts aka a family leisure outing and a Buddy’s Day Out (as detected from their constant glorifying of a certain type of liquid and invariably ending up in a waterhole ) .
then again , I might be seriously wrong to assume that.and would wish to be corrected and realigned. I think you may know who I am referring to.