Ahfook’s Story

One year after Dong Tai Du music fest (动态度音乐节), now comes the BIGGER 2nd Dong Tai Du music fest, with more bands, more creative stalls, more stages and more creative promo video (for first Dong Tai Du promo video, click here)!

Here is the promo video for the 2nd Dong Tai Du music fest. The Dong Tai Du committee has done a good job on the planning, promotion, preparation and production. This is the main attitude of the Dong Tai Du – independant and self initiation.

Let’s enjoy the promo video, and also enjoy the show (I believe it will be a good one!)

Following is the details about the gig:
Date: 17th May 2009 (Sunday)
Time: 12pm – 8pm
Venue: The KL & Selangor Chinese Assembly Hall 雪兰莪中华大会堂 (location map at below)
Ticket price: RM30 (pre sale), RM45 (on door), RM25 (student)
Tickets booking: dtd.ticketing@gmail.com
Tickets also available at Rock Corner (Mid Valley & The Curve), Findars in Central market The Annexe, and 1st floor of The KL & Selangor Chinese Assembly Hall

Location map:

Check out their official website (in Chinese): http://dongtaidu.blogspot.com/

Police is a professional occupation, they receive salary from the tax money that paid by every single people in a country, to protect the civilians and fight with the crime. So in many countries, police are called ‘public servant’.

However, this is not quite applicable in Malaysia. With the high crime rate in Malaysia, our Royal Malaysian Police seems can’t do much with it, and their effieciency is greatly in doubt. But when come to help UMNO to arresting the people against UMNO, they are unbelievable efficient and effective. This could be seen in previous demonstrations, demonstrations that not affecting UMNO’s ruling were not disturbed but demonstrations called by Pakatan Rakyat (People’s Alliance, the opposition) were normally cracked down brutally.

Amran was bleeding after brutally injured by police, 28th May 2006 (Pic by Merdeka Review)

Today, 7th May 2009, the 1 Black Malaysia day, our police force had done a mass arrest at Perak, most of them are innocent. Some folks who passed by that area that not involved in the gathering also being arrested, there were total of 64 people (including 4 Members of Parliament and 5 State Assembly representatives from Pakatan Rakyat) arrested. Before today, the police has arrested few people including civil society activist Wong Chin Huat. All of them might against the laws and rules (set by Barisan Nasional), but what they did do not affect the security of country as what done by rapists, killers, snatchers where exist at all around Malaysia!

Arrest of 7th May 2009 (Photo by The Nut Graph)

The situation is even uglier in the assembly hall. Speaker of PR, Sivakumar was dragged out by police officers in the chaotic assembly sitting today, then Barisan Nasional’s unofficial speaker Ganesan was installed by assistant of police officers too.

Sivakumar dragged away by police (Pic courtesy of Sinar Harian)

This has made the people more upset after the illegal take-over of Perak government led by new Prime Minister Najib Razak. Perhaps today’s event is another coffin nail of the death of Barisan Nasional. Since our Royal Malaysian Police likes to help UMNO so much, why don’t they change name become Royal UMNO Police?

Polis Diraja UMNO

The name of ‘Broga Hill’ gets famous lately, especially after few of my friends (Afoi, Clive, Seng Kit, Nicky, Swee Ching…) went there took photos, their photos are just great. So when my photography friend Victor asked me whether interested to go visit Broga Hill at Labor Day, I confirmed my attendance to him instantly.

7 of us met up at Petronas petrol station opposite of Phoenix Plaza at around 5am morning then continued our journey to Broga Hill which is located in Semenyih, Kajang. I was surpised that some of Victor’s friends are my collegemates, what a small world. We reached at the Broga Hill’s entrance around 6am. It’s opposite of a rabbit farm. It was dark, we need to used torch lights to walk up to the hill.

After 45 min to 1 hour, we reach at the middle of the hill, at there we could already see the sun rise and the “cloud sea”.

Dawn at Broga Hill

After resting for a while, we continued walked up to higher peak, when we reached there, there were already a lot of people there. Whole peak was full of people, like having some kind of carnival there.

Crowd at Broga Hill

 We spent around 3 hours there to take photos. Met with few friends there including Chee Hong and Chester. Here are some photos taken:

Broga Hill

Song Yen, Mei Yen and Clayvon

Broga Hill

We went down from Broga Hill at noon time, and went to Kayu Jati Restaurant near Broga Hill to have our lunch. The dishes are normal, the fishes are a bit salty, the soup was full of pepper/monosodium glutamate (MSG). The boss was quite rude. Not recommended unless you are too hungry.

More photos

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Downloaded Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty Jackalope) last night. Burned into CD and had a quick test with Live CD. It’s greatly improved, now I do not need Google all around just to get my TP-LINK TL-WN321G wireless adapter to work, the driver is included and it just run!

Need to find a time to install and use it, before that, settle my pending stuffs first.

This blog post was written using Firefox 3 under Ubuntu 9.04.

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Paid for broadband 512k and get 9.6k dial up modem speed, this is the BEST broadband service in Malaysia. In Taiwan I can download whole Ubuntu CD in 30 minutes while watching Youtube without lagging.