malaysiakini and the March 8th ANNIVERSARY

March 8th marked the first aniversary of the 2008 electoral success of the PAKATAN RAK'YAT; capturing major state governments.
To me it marked a new watershed in politics as it has signalled the awakening of many citizens against the racist "divide and rule" politics of the ruling coalition.
malaysiakini has an article wherein Anwar hails new birth of nationalism.
To mark the occassion, my wife and I attended a PKR Cemarah in JB last night. We arrived early before the stipulated time of 7pm and found the hall quite empty. My wife was against going early as she thought they would follow "rubber time" but I told her I wanted to see how professional it was.
Sure enough nothing happened untill about 7:30pm and they showed a short clip honouring the PKR leader, Wan Azizah who gave up her seat for Anwar to contest.
The speakers were quite good, really.
We listened to William Leong, the PKR MP for Selayang and the newest MP PAS Mohd Abdul Wahid Endut.
The former gave a rather serious talk about how the BN has abused its powers to stay in control of the government. The later was more interactive and lively and received a good response from the crowd that was estimated at 300.
Going by yesterday's event, it seems the mood for change is still strong and Johor could well become the last battle-ground for UMNO before it plays a role as the opposition.
To me that would be a healthy development for Malaysian politics as it is only part of the necessary process to evolve as a 2-party system.