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Surprise! A Gift For Badawi

January 7, 2008

Last Friday, a group of young Malaysians consisting of artists, bloggers, poets, writers and activists went to PM Badawi’s office in Putrajaya to present him with a gift. No, these young Malaysians were not part of Damai, the sychophantic group with dodgy membership numbers that presented the PM with a memorandum that lambasted street demonstrations. The gift wasn’t another memorandum (not in the classic sense), but it was certainly something more memorable.

Because the PM was not in his office, the group gathered outside the office, carrying posters that poked fun at Badawi’s Sleepy behavior.

The group’s spokeperson, Badrul Hisham Shaharin indicated that he didn’t expect the PM to answer the group’s ‘memorandum’, because the sleepy PM had failed to reply any previous memorandum by civil society groups.

And the gifts were unveiled:

Wah! Yellow color pillow and bolster, with Petronas Twin Towers, Jalur Gemilang, and bears! Kawaii-desu!!! So cute!

From Malaysiakini:

Spokesperson for the group Badrul Hisham Shaharin said he and his eight other friends had come to the conclusion that the government’s ineffectiveness was due Abdullah’s purported “sleepiness”.

He added that Abdullah had previously been allegedly caught nodding off at various official functions both locally and abroad.

“So we wanted to send a ‘memorandum’ about what the youth wants. This memorandum is in form of a pillow… He can use the pillow to continue sleeping or wake up and realise that his administration is not efficient,” Badrul told reporters.

The funny thing was, the security guards took the gifts seriously enough to run the items through a security scan before it was taken away.

If Badawi receives the gifts, I do hope he enjoys it. He can have the pillow to drool on, while PM’s wife can have the bolster. Can’t wait to see him bring it to official functions as well.
Great example of young people expressing their views in a creative manner. Kudoes to the group.

(If you didn’t hear of this, that’s because the government-owned media doesn’t want you to know about such things. This piece of news was in Malaysiakini, and for RM150 a year, that’s just 41 sen a day. Isn’t it time you ditched your subscription to Star or NST already? I know some of you need to pick up doggie crap or line the pet cages with old newspaper, so I can understand if you only buy the Sunday bumper issue with lots of paper.)

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