Candlelight Vigil at Raja Uda, Butterworth DAP Centre

As usual, I was there wayyyyy too early. Reached there about 7pm, went to 'New Town' an 'Old Town' wannabe type of coffeeshop.

At around 8.15pm, the DAP members arrived and started putting up the banner and making preparations for the night.

By 8.30pm, people have started to gather. About 9.00pm, estimated a crowd of 100 people had gathered there. Candles were handed out.
(My personal opinion, I felt DAP had poorly organized this event. DAP BM's last night event was organized much better. Even when the crowd had started to gather, the DAP members just kept among themselves. Hardly any interaction with the public gathered there.)

At 9.15pm, after waiting..and bored, DAP finally announced Penang's CM Lim Guan Eng will be here and he is on his way. By then the crowd have grown to almost 200 people.

9.30pm, CM Lim Guan Eng arrived. Started the event with signing the petition banner by CM Lim GE. After that he made a speech which lasted roughly half an hour. Estimated crowd was at 300-350 people.

The candlelight vigil ended at 10.10pm. After that, CM Lim GE held a press conference there(on a table set-up just on the shoplots walkway).

Finally after the press conference ended at about 10.30pm, the crowd decided to disperse off.

*CM Lim Guan Eng went for Dim Sum supper just around the area at Raja Uda after that. My younger brother met him while having his supper too and managed to get a personal photo shoot with CM Lim Guan Eng(darn! I damn jealous now).



















More pictures, please go to the bottom right of my blog for the album.

Special statement by CM Lim Guan Eng for the civil servants / government sectors employee, the bonus for them will be paid out in two installments. The first installment will be paid on this 19th Sept. while the balance will be paid at the end of December.

CM Lim Guan Eng welcomes Zaid Ibrahim to join Pakatan Rakyat to fight against the abuse of ISA.

All in all, the candlelight vigil was poorly organized. Not much interaction with the public/crowd. There wasn't even any explanation regarding ISA or the purpose of the candlelight vigil being held for. The DAP members were too absorbed within themselves, even when CM Lim GE was giving the speech, there weren't much chanting or interaction or applause.
The DAP members should have encore the applause or chants...

On a personal note, I just realized today that loads and loads of people still have no idea what is ISA or what is going on in our beloved country. While standing there, few passerby came up to me(well, I did look like a reporter there..with all my gears, camera and stuffs). They asked about the candlelight vigil stuffs and its purpose. Most of them don't even have the slightest idea what ISA is! They don't know anything about the abuse of ISA, the detention of Teresa Kok or even the reporter being detained case!
I had a field day(night) just explaining these stuffs to them.