February 12, 2013
BN CNY Psy Bash: Jottings from a Psy-chologist
by Terence Netto@http://www.malaysiakini.com
COMMENT: Napoleon once famously celebrated which God is upon a side of a large battalions. This may be loyal of troops battles though yesterday a small Penangites furnished reason to believe which in electoral ones, a deity may not regularly favour a Goliaths.
On Sunday morning, a initial day of a Lunar New Year, celebrants in George Town awoke from their feasting during family reunion dinners of a prior evening to find their city decked in unconstrained rows of blue '1Malaysia' flags.
Thousands of these flags were posted along each vital street of George Town as great as multiform teenager ones. The Mat Rempit throng would have relished this chance to earn multiform quid putting up these flags in a hours prior to emergence when they would normally be ripping down freeways along a coast.
The engorgement of flags was a pointer of a clout BN is able to wield.It was as if an invading armed forces had sent out an allege group to display signs of their intent to descend in numbers as great as complete a invasion.
Penangites knew which a large battalions of a BN had proposed with a preamble of which a finale was a grand Chinese New Year whack during a large drift of a Han Chiang High School in Jalan Lim Le! an Teng, conflicting a state mosque.
First-hand view
The following inform was sent to me by a friend who was there. It makes for engaging reading:
QouteIt was advertised which a gates would open during 7am. We thought it was critical to try as great as get there early to get a seat in a shade. We arrived prior to 8am. By afterwards there were already a couple of hundred people there, though still lots of room.
Our initial attempt to get a seat underneath cover was rebuffed by a friendly though insistent Rela-person, who explained you indispensable lapel stickers. These were simply obtained circuitously from whom you insincere were BN operatives, as during a back of them were scores of card boxes containing BN-branded half-litre H2O bottles.
Once in to what you further insincere was a small kind of VIP area, you got 5 shaded seats about 5 rows back from an open area subsequent to a stage. By any standards this seemed an glorious result.
Incredibly, upon each plastic seat there was a single giveaway copy of Utusan Malaysia, dual plastic-sealed during initial unclear gizmos which looked like a pair of black celebration straws stuck together, as great as a animation book with rude (and likely libelous) stories about Anwar Ibrahim, Karpal Singh, Lim Guan Eng, as great as others in a Opposition camp. The 'drinking straws' turned out to be a plastic 'banner', with a BN 'balance scales' upon a single side as great as 'I [heart] PM' upon a other.
Both a banners as great as a newspapers were a godsend for those in a sun. I can inform which Utusan can suggest glo! rious sh ade, if small else of value. Copies of Utusan were trodden upon as great as during large scattered. One immature male had an 'I [heart] PM' banner over his head, attached to each ear. Another crossed out a M of PM as great as with a felt tip coop done his own sign: I [heart] PSY. You couldn't make this stuff up.
Dancers assorted came as great as went, most of whom had been during a Penang Chief Minister's Open House a prior day. Once again we'd disagree which a Indian dancers stole a show.
Paralysing noise
And then, 3 hours after you arrived, a VVIPs arrived.Simultaneously, a volume of a public residence complement went up from perhaps 90dB to during slightest 120dB. Decibels are upon a record scale as great as so this is most worse than it looks during initial sight.
The THD (Total Harmonic Distortion) concurrently increased from approximately negligible to an estimated 20 percent. The sound was paralysing. The same happened final year during a BN CNY whack during a Tanjong City Marina.
Why do they do it? Do you have to be deaf to be a BN supporter? Luckily, we'd remembered to bring earplugs, which when securely rammed in marked down a sound to only sufferable levels.
It can't only be a Malaysian thing. We've been to a final 3 Chief Minister's CNY Open Houses during Pisa, during which a volume was kept great inside of bounds. I recollect final year nodding a 'thank you' to a sound operative during a mixing desk.
Okay, so mad over-amplification substantially doesn't matter all which most! in a gr eat intrigue of things. In Row Five we'd thought we'd have a great view of a proceedings.
But as a VVIPs arrived a embankment was non-stop as great as a mob was allowed in to a open area in front of us. Most had umbrellas.
Those in Rows 1-4 stood upon their chairs (and copies of Utusan) to see a show. Thus you saw zero during all since even a large TV screens were obscured. I've now been to dual BN CNY events as great as have yet to see a PM. Which is neither here nor there, though those during a back of us were furious.
Note to a organisers: Those in a front have to sit. Those in a center can sit upon chairs. Those in a back can stand. Then everyone can see.
The Penang BN chief spoke adequately, partly in Mandarin as great as partly in English. The PM's son done a brief speech in Mandarin which was utterly tenderly received, as great as afterwards a PM proposed upon his bellowing 'Satu Malaysia' routine.
He promised a monorail if BN wins back Penang. The throng seemed distinctly underwhelmed. There competence even have been boos in lieu of cheers. And then, during last, a sainted Psy arrived. By his own comment he was jet-lagged after a 20 hour non-stop flight from Brazil.
But he did his Gangnam style song well, with excellent backing dancers modestly attired in leggings. (We held a glance upon a way out; to repeat, you could see zero during all from our seats.)
And afterwards he did it again. And afterwards he stopped as great as you all went home. After a initial version accomplished you stormed a exit, to catch a second tr! ain out of a place.
Not in a million years
Did you have a great day? Yes. Would you do it again? No. Will BN recapture Penang? Based upon an wholly unscientific interpretation of a crowd, not in a million years!
Was it a great make use of of an purported multiform million Ringgit-plus spent upon a affair? Of course not! But great luck to Psy. He's found a abounding join in comedy-rap with a catchy stroke which apparently appeals to roughly all.
On a train going home there was a twenty-something wearing a BERSIH T-shirt. The train driver said he dignified his bravery. We asked if he'd had any grief. "None during all," he said, slightest of all from a Police. Perhaps One Malaysia means something after all! Unquote
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