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Tuesday, September 20, 2005
Parliament trip
Today’s trip to the Parliament was quite fun. =P Reached there around 9am. They gave us some briefing about the rules. The rules:-
1. When we hear a bell at about 10am, don’t start screaming and think that’s it’s a fire cos
the bell is just to signal the ahli Dewan Rakyat to come in for their meeting.
2. When the Yang diPertua comes in, we must stand up and bow to him. Also bow to him if u wanna leave the room.
3. Don’t bising….of course we’ll leave the bising-ing to the Dewan Rakyat ahlis. =P
4. Don’t put your hands on the chairs in front of you cos they didn’t want us to accidentally fall asleep. =)
We went into the Dewan Rakyat at 9.30am and waited till 10am for the meeting to start. Watching the meeting were both fun and shocking. My impression of the Parliament is that it’s a very no-nonsense place. Instead, you see the ahlis debating quite informally. When the pembangkang starts speaking, the others boo him and don’t really let him speak. And, when the ahlis agree with something said, they bang the tables with their hands as a sign of agreement. =P But, when they “fight” it’s more interesting to see than when they present their issues. Also, after 1 person presented his points, about 10 ppl will stand up to ask questions. Haha…fun to see who gets to ask the question. Well, basically,it was one eye-opening trip there.
At 11am, they shoo-ed us out of the Dewan Rakyat and into the Dewan Negara where we had another briefing by the Assistant Public Relation Officer (PRO) of the Parliament. He was a funny guy. We could ask him questions about the Parliament but in the end, we found out that he’s engaged and might be getting married at the end of this year. =P Hehe….of course we did ask questions bout the Parliament such as why the ahlis debate like this, why Samy Vellu came for a short while and left and all the little things that my imaginative class can come up with. The PRO was very sporting and did answer most of our questions. =) We spent an hour there and I didn’t even realize so much time had passed. =P
So, in conclusion, I enjoyed myself at the Parliament. Oh yea….I was in the Parliament and I don’t think I even know how it looks like from the outside. =P After the visit to the Parliament, I was trying to make out which was the building from the bus…but I couldn’t recognize which of all the tall buildings in KL was the Parliament. =P Teruknya… =P
1. When we hear a bell at about 10am, don’t start screaming and think that’s it’s a fire cos
the bell is just to signal the ahli Dewan Rakyat to come in for their meeting.
2. When the Yang diPertua comes in, we must stand up and bow to him. Also bow to him if u wanna leave the room.
3. Don’t bising….of course we’ll leave the bising-ing to the Dewan Rakyat ahlis. =P
4. Don’t put your hands on the chairs in front of you cos they didn’t want us to accidentally fall asleep. =)
We went into the Dewan Rakyat at 9.30am and waited till 10am for the meeting to start. Watching the meeting were both fun and shocking. My impression of the Parliament is that it’s a very no-nonsense place. Instead, you see the ahlis debating quite informally. When the pembangkang starts speaking, the others boo him and don’t really let him speak. And, when the ahlis agree with something said, they bang the tables with their hands as a sign of agreement. =P But, when they “fight” it’s more interesting to see than when they present their issues. Also, after 1 person presented his points, about 10 ppl will stand up to ask questions. Haha…fun to see who gets to ask the question. Well, basically,it was one eye-opening trip there.
At 11am, they shoo-ed us out of the Dewan Rakyat and into the Dewan Negara where we had another briefing by the Assistant Public Relation Officer (PRO) of the Parliament. He was a funny guy. We could ask him questions about the Parliament but in the end, we found out that he’s engaged and might be getting married at the end of this year. =P Hehe….of course we did ask questions bout the Parliament such as why the ahlis debate like this, why Samy Vellu came for a short while and left and all the little things that my imaginative class can come up with. The PRO was very sporting and did answer most of our questions. =) We spent an hour there and I didn’t even realize so much time had passed. =P
So, in conclusion, I enjoyed myself at the Parliament. Oh yea….I was in the Parliament and I don’t think I even know how it looks like from the outside. =P After the visit to the Parliament, I was trying to make out which was the building from the bus…but I couldn’t recognize which of all the tall buildings in KL was the Parliament. =P Teruknya… =P
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