From Sentul To Damansara Heights

As most of the Malaysian Netizens would know by now, on Saturday evening of the 5th July 2008, Raja Petra Kamarudin was summoned to the Sentul police station with regards to his explosive statutory declaration made on the 18th June 2008. I will not elaborate further on this matter as many bloggers and internet news portals has covered it extensively, both the declaration and RPK's appearance at Sentul, and instead present to you a portraiture of the characters who appeared at the Sentul police station to show solidarity with RPK; and later of those who came for the The Alliance of Bloggers' 100 Days gathering at Damansara Heights. However, I would venture to comment that with the recent events that have overtaken Malaysia as of late, RPK's latest appearance at Sentul was something short of a political hangover. But that's just me speaking. Anyway...

...here's Haris Ibrahim of The People's Parliament blog. (Haris is grinning 'cause he just figured out an ingenious plan for RPK that would end all of the latter's predicaments with the cops. Apparently, it involves RM4 and a visit to Comissioner of Oaths or something. Ya the man, Haris!)

Mrs. RPK, naturally, was there as well. (These visits to the police station are gettin' so often, and I was thinkin' mebbe the cops oughta just open a police station at Bukit Rahman Putra just for RPK's sake, ya know what I'm sayin'? The man and his missus deserves at least that much respect.)

Ronnie Liu, State Assemblyman for Pandaraman, was there too. (Sentul? Pandaraman? I'm not gettin' the connection here...)

Ahiruddin Attan of Rocky's Bru blog. (Rocky went to Sentul to show solidarity with RPK but ended up being engrossed with rumors that NYSE suspended stock trading due to a computer glitch. Or was that NASDAQ? Mebbe Rocky's going short on Halliburton...)

Tian Chua, Member of Parliament for Batu, later made an appearance. He came bearing news that the detective who was at the center of a political storm involving two statutory declarations, went AWOL and the detective's nephew had already lodged a police report regarding his "disappearance". He also described the on-goings prior to and after the press conference on the first statutory declaration. I care not to reproduce what Tian Chua had said, but can only agree with Haris Ibrahim that the whole affair was not handled with a higher degree of professionalism befitting its nature and contents.

Somewhere about 7pm, around an hour and a half later after going in, RPK emerges from the police station. Moments later, he is mobbed by the press for a statement. (And I get pushed aside by a moron with camera. What the heck? I thought this kinda of thing only happened when ya shootin' hot babes at the catwalk. I gotta get myself embedded with the Coalition Forces at Afghanistan. Less competition, ya know what I'm sayin'?)

Here's Captain Yusof Ahmad of The Ancient Mariner blog, whom I met at the Blog House at Damansara Heights. I like to thank Melvin Mah of A Little Taffer's Room blog for giving me a ride to the Blog House for The Alliance of Bloggers' 100 Days gathering. Thanks a million, Melvin!

Marina Mahathir, President of the Malaysian AIDS Council and Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Malaysian AIDS Foundation. Please do click on the following shortcut link to the Malaysian AIDS Council and see as to how you may contribute towards "creating an environment free from the negative impacts of HIV/AIDS for Malaysia and her people, through and with its Partner Organizations by strengthening and mobilizing them, as well as giving them proper representation."

RPK and his cousin Walter discussing the vagaries of English history and sharing a few obscure jokes on being Welsh and Irish. (OK, ya got me. Who the heck is Cromwell?)

Between a rock and a hard place. Malik Imtiaz Sarwar of the Disquiet blog, is wedged between Datuk Mukhiz Mahathir (left), Member of Parliament for Jerlun, and Ronnie Liu (right), State Assemblyman for Pandaraman. (Where's a bong when ya need one, huh? Relax, Malik. This is nothin' compared to what those boys in White and Green has got in store for ya...)

TV Smith and Raja Petra Kamarudin. At this point of time, I was down for two Tigers in a can, one in the bottle, three paper cups of red wine, and a vague recollection about me having a low tolerance threshold for alcohol...

Nurul Izzah Anwar, Member of Parliament for Lembah Pantai and illustrious daughter of Dato' Seri Anwar Ibrahim. She's definitely beautiful and I am suspecting more than one heart was broken (or an unspoken ambition curtailed?) when she married her present beau, Raja Ahmad Shahrir.

Datuk Muhkriz Mahathir, Member of Parliament for Jerlun, obliges me for an impromptu portraiture. (So how 'bout it, Datuk? Ready for this comin' December crap game? Ya don't wanna roll for snake-eyes, ya get my drift?)

Check it out! Even Erra Fazira was there that night! Oh, and the guy next to her is her husband. Sorry, dude. That evening was the most productive of all as I managed to get more pictures of well-known Malaysian personalities and bloggers than I ever got in the past six months...

And finally, Nuraina Samad of 3450 Jalan Sudin blog. OK, that's it for now. I attended the early part of the fuel hike protest rally at Kelana Jaya today, but will only be posting them up tomorrow as I am just too tired. I only managed to snatch a few hours of sleep after The Alliance of Bloggers' 100 Days gathering before rousing myself up at 6am in order to scope out the rally at Kelana Jaya. Suffice to say, my next posting will be most interesting as you will most probably be introduced to two extremely singular gentlemen who also attended the fuel hike rally. Synonymously singular. Until then, good night and God bless Malaysia.