{"id":1026,"date":"2008-01-05T01:00:08","date_gmt":"2008-01-04T17:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/borninmalaysia\/2008\/01\/05\/pm-gets-pillow-and-bolster-as-sarcastic-gift\/"},"modified":"2008-01-05T01:00:08","modified_gmt":"2008-01-04T17:00:08","slug":"pm-gets-pillow-and-bolster-as-sarcastic-gift","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/borninmalaysia\/2008\/01\/05\/pm-gets-pillow-and-bolster-as-sarcastic-gift\/","title":{"rendered":"PM gets pillow and bolster as sarcastic gift!"},"content":{"rendered":"
This guys must be really brave! This must rank as one of the most spectacular new year for PM! Wonder if any entreprising rakyat will make a business out of the pillow and bolster?<\/div>\n
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Group hands Pak Lah special gift<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.malaysiakini.com\/news\/76673<\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

Andrew Ong | Jan 4, 08 4:26pm<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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A group of disgruntled young Malaysians today symbolically handed a ‘gift’ to Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi to express their disappointment with his administration. <\/p>\n

The gift was in form of a yellow pillow and a bolster – both decorated with the Malaysian flag and the Petronas Twin Towers. <\/p>\n

Abdullah however was not on hand to receive the items, which the group left at the doorsteps of the premier’s office in Putrajaya this morning. <\/p>\n

Spokesperson for the group Badrul Hisham Shaharin said he and his eight other friends had come to the conclusion that the government’s ineffectiveness was due Abdullah’s purported “sleepiness”. <\/p>\n

He added that Abdullah had previously been allegedly caught nodding off at various official functions both locally and abroad. <\/p>\n

“So we wanted to send a ‘memorandum’ about what the youth wants. This memorandum is in form of a pillow… He can use the pillow to continue sleeping or wake up and realise that his administration is not efficient,” Badrul told reporters. <\/p>\n

Badrul said the group consisted of artists, poets, bloggers, writters and activists but denied that the ‘pillow act’ was politically motivated. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\"\"<\/td>\nBadrul (right<\/i>) informs security guard on the group's intentions.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n
\"\"<\/td>\nThe group displays posters mocking Abdullah over his alleged ‘sleepiness’.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n
\"\"<\/td>\nA poster referring to a 2006 report by Turkish newspaper Hurriyet<\/i> regarding a luxury yacht allegedly linked to Abdullah.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n
\"\"<\/td>\n“We don’t expect him to reply our ‘memorandum’. Thus far, he has never replied any memorandum sent by civil society groups,” Badrul told reporters.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n
\"\"<\/td>\nJournalists and the police were stunned when the ‘memorandum’ turned out to be a pillow and a bolster.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n
\"\"<\/td>\n“He can come and pick it up later if he wants,” said Badrul.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n
\"\"<\/td>\nThe pillow and several posters were left at the main entrance to the Prime Minister’s Department.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n
\"\"<\/td>\nThe banner reads, “The last hope of the young Malaysians: Continue sleeping O’Prime Minister”.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n
\"\"<\/td>\nSecurity detail took a while to decide how to deal with the items.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n
\"\"<\/td>\nMore security detail arrive to deal with the items.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n
\"\"<\/td>\nThe pillow is scanned for dangerous substances.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n
\"\"<\/td>\nEventually, a security personnel removes the items.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This guys must be really brave! This must rank as one of the most spectacular new year for PM! Wonder if any entreprising rakyat will make a business out of the pillow and bolster?     Group hands Pak Lah special gift http:\/\/www.malaysiakini.com\/news\/76673 Andrew Ong | Jan 4, 08 4:26pm A group of disgruntled young […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[133,225],"class_list":["post-1026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-borninmalaysia","tag-isa","tag-politicians"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1026","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1026"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1026\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}