We hope you like our sweet pathetic-looking lembu as much as we do! :)
The event as you can see was small scale, but enough to get embassy officials asking if we were students, where we were from, where we lived in the UK, taking our pictures, showing our poor cow the finger when he tried to shake one of their hands and suddenly sending a man out in an olive green jumpsuit and sunglasses armed with a big DSLR to circle us intimidatingly taking photos.
Souvenir pics or Special Branch? We highly doubt it's the former.
Truthfully, we believe they knew we were coming as someone with a small digital camera was already waiting when we arrived. We also believe our cow took them totally off-guard- clearly they weren't used to statements being made through such cuddly means.
In any case, whilst of course it may amount to nothing we feel we made our point very clear. Mr Choi Tuck Wo, editor of the EU Bureau from The Star newspaper was there interviewing us from the beginning and will be writing an article in the next few days so look out for that. He took similar pictures to the ones posted here, but got us to angle the placards in such a way that Hishamuddin's face was concealed. I guess specifying which racist we were referring to was a bit too... well, racy for local press. Of course Hishamuddin has since flip-flopped on his initial opinion and claims he now supports stern action against protesters... too little, too late, too dirty?
Mr Choi has been sent the link to our petition and we feel our message will be far stronger if the numbers increase- please sign it if you haven't already at
We have heard some concerns from people reluctant to add their name for fear of being "caught"- ultimately we cannot force anyone to sign, but the site allows you to use a pseudonym so we hope you will at least do that if you are truly worried.
Thank you to those who turned up (you know who you are), to the two nice British policemen who read our leaflet and agreed we were nice peaceful people who could stay as long as we wanted and to all Malaysians around the world who have sent such supportive messages telling us they wish they could be here.
Let's prove to the administration that no matter how much they try to divide and conquer the races, our anger will only be aimed at them and NOT each other.
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