{"id":306,"date":"2008-04-18T23:24:19","date_gmt":"2008-04-18T15:24:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.jiinjoo.com\/?p=306"},"modified":"2008-04-18T23:24:19","modified_gmt":"2008-04-18T15:24:19","slug":"join-the-torch-relay-in-kl-april-21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.jiinjoo.com\/?p=306","title":{"rendered":"Join the Torch Relay in KL – April 21"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dunno why they go plan it on Monday… can’t go, but I’m sure there will be news coverage of some protest A protest B etc.<\/p>\n

The Beijing Olympics<\/a> website introduced KL in some seriously “old” fashion. Too bad there’s just no last-time-civilization like Athens!<\/p>\n

Here’s a map made by our disturbed friend Hafiz<\/a>, on the route (if they don’t change) and the protest locations! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

\"Map<\/div>\n

Although I must say that I find this statement slightly disturbing (source xinhuanet<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Lin Xiaohua, deputy director of Torch Relay center told Xinhua that they choose KL as a city hosting Beijing Olympic Torch Relay, because Malaysia and China are good neighbors in Asia, and KL is a multi-lingual and multi-cultural city.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Mmmm…. kawan….. Anyway, take lots of pictures (and post them online for me haha)! Aside: Boon Thye<\/a> took some in the April 13 Ottawa rally (but no torch what!!)<\/p>\n

In the spirit of the Olympics, I hope this will at least serve as a boost for the country’s morale through sports, even as just an observer (or whatever your motive to join the relay might be..). Singapore is doing the Youth Olympics<\/a> in 2010, and besides the investment, it’s simply something where energy can be channeled to create something good. That kind of dream<\/a> can be very powerful to many citizens of a country that has yet to host the games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dunno why they go plan it on Monday… can’t go, but I’m sure there will be news coverage…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-malaysia","content-wrap"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.jiinjoo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.jiinjoo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.jiinjoo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.jiinjoo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.jiinjoo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.jiinjoo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.jiinjoo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.jiinjoo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.jiinjoo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}