the malam bangsa malaysia do

the malam bangsa malaysia do went well. about 100 participants turned up for the forum. although i brought my camera, i did not manage to get a single shot because i was too busy running in and out, checking on the food and also at times at the registration counter. i only managed to catch the end part of the forum and some Q&A part.

as i was in charge of the food, i had to see that food turned up in time… which was not the case! that was what made me even more worried, not being able to follow the forum whole-heartedly. i told the caterer to come at 4.30 for tea but they only came at 5.10. then told them to come for dinner at 8.00, they came at 8.20. i had to call the caterer a number of times to check whether he’s coming or not!

luckily the good food made up for the lateness of the food. for tea, there was this special kind of like curry puff in triangular shape. very tasty. for dinner, there were briyani rice, chicken sammah, tau kua pedas, dalcha, mixed vege and mee goreng. the caterer specifically pointed out to me it was ‘the best fragrant briyani rice i specially pick for you’. haha. at first it was tomato rice but he changed to the briyani rice. there was so much food left! see, we had more than enough as we want to make sure everyone are fed well!

we all had our dinner while watching fahmi’s documentary ‘sepuluh tahun sebelum merdeka’. it was a nice show indeed and i admire fahmi’s talent in making the film! there was a Q&A with fahmi after the show. being the shy timid person i did not asked him any Qs but i got the opportunity to ask him on one to one when we, the organising team (with some other participants, including 2 of the speakers) went to the beach-front for some R&R (as haris put it) after the whole thing finished.

it was nice to meet prominent human rights lawyer malik imtiaz  and haris ibrahim face to face and also the others like SK of mageP’s lab ,  tony yew and the talkative most friendly zorro!  oh, glad to meet cheryl too who helped helen ang in the registration. helen ang is a columnist for malaysiakini and i had enjoyed all her articles in malaysiakini, thus i was glad to have met her. oh ya, a big thank you to her for giving me a lift home in the middle of the night!

oh yeah, you can read all about the do in haris ibrahim’s blog. he has some pictures there. sheih @ kickdefella was there armed with his pro DSLR camera, so i hope in time he will put up some pictures in his blog. (he did not stay for the dinner though). you can also read about the event in sk thew’s blog.

the KL organisers did a good job indeed and i was glad to be able to offer my help. i enjoyed myself very much and thank the KL team for bringing the malam bangsa malaysia to penang! syabas!