Yesterday, KL city centre came to a standstill when all roads leading to the city centre was blocked off. People were not allowed to go into the city centre unless they had an important event to attend to or some other good reasons. The reason being, there will be a demo by a group called BERSIH and it's opposition, PATRIOT. I had no idea about all these just that from reading all the twitters about the roadblocks and the major traffic jams, I found out about it.
As a foreigner, I tried to stay away from local politics as much as possible. Maklumlah, menumpang! I stayed away from these 'hot zones' so that I won't be caught for no reason. My brother called to ask how I am and I told him, where I stayed, things are very normal. No roadblocks or whatever. The odd thing was, the road was very clear. Quite unusual actually.
Usually, I am an outsider looking in when things like this happened in another country. But this time, I am in the country where the so-called turmoil happened. From my hometown, friends and families were worried about how we were here. They must have thought that we were caught in a large crowd and running about, trying to find a place to hide. Funny! Hehehehe!!
But as much as I think it's funny, I can't help but to think that the political scenes here are quite dramatic and unstable. This is my first time where I am in a country where such things happened. I can't help but to think ...."Is this where I want to settle down?" The answer is still very vague in front of us... very very vague. What I can see now is a black hole and only God knows where our next destination going to be.
Wherever it may be, I just pray for happiness and good health.
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