- Of Riots, Chaos and Anarchy.
- Disorder in Egypt. Their hate was boiling, but kept inside, the bubble of rage burst open when Tunisia's act of throwing out their ruler happened. That was the spark.
- What does this mean to me then? What does this mean to the 10's of thousands of students pursuing their goals, degrees and passion here?
- How quickly can things change? What does it mean to be stranded in a war bravely fought but you are the non-deserving entity standing there?
- How sad is it, that when Malaysians are stranded, when we needed to be transported, some politicians could still rant, point fingers and blame each other.
- What happened to securing the lives of the students first, I had never had a strong side to politics nor have I choose sides. I am always with my stand, but this is ridiculous.
- And don't even get me started with our mass media. Hyperbole, exaggeration, the likes of which we've never seen.
- I get it, everyone's worried, everyone's panicked out of their trousers back home, the first thing they shouldn't do is invigorate the terror to new heights.
- Parents are generally insecure, with their child going off first time into an unknown territory, and the media lashing out all sorts of unnecessary updates, expect panic like never before.
- Obviously the rioting was all happening, just not all of us are really affected face to face by whatever it is that's being reported.
- Moreover, what us students report back or complain to our friends and family, those words then spreads out and goes out of hand.
- In classical Malaysian lingo we'd call this "Talifon KARAT". A piece of news that goes about landing from one ear to another, but as it gets along the A becomes B than it somehow transforms to F,G and so on.
- So that's the flaw there, everyone has their role to play to ensure only the REAL stuff gets through instead of all this non-progressive, immoral reports that's only going to escalate nerves of already worrying parents.
- Now that the situation is slowly receding, we are left questioning when we'll be starting our classes, and there are others left in Jeddah who are awaiting their turns to be transported back to Malaysia.
- Hopefully everything goes well, for the stranded group and Egypt, to be honest their revolution has been long time coming. It is here now, lets hope Egypt gets their long awaited justice and peace they've been seeking. Ameen ya Rab.
