New Malaysian Icons?

Is this the new Malaysian icon as depicted in the drawing by Hishamuddin Rais. Hishamudin Rais is an activist and became known during the 70s together with Anwar Ibrahim (now Datuk Seri) in their university days rising up for the farmers then. These pictures was downloaded from mStar that reports the PM's daughter who recently gave birth to a boy (congratulation), bought all Hishamudin's drawings.

According to her, as reported, she bought all the pictures because do not want all the subjects in the collection is not separated between each other. It is funny to look at our own image and Malaysians must be able to accept humour as depicted in the pictures.

The pictures (just guess who they are) was displayed at an exhibition "Bebaslah Malaysia @ 50"

Photo - Grafiti

This picture below is a grafitti that can be seen from the Central Market just across the river. Graffiti is an art that is considered art crime. Hmmm... a crime? It can be considered vandalism because these artist defaced public places with unauthorized paintings and without permission.

According to Wikipedia it has existed since the Ancient Greece and the Roman Empire. Today we can see graffiti on walls and can be appreciated for their the talent if not of the vandalism status. Just like the picture here, it helps to create a better view of the river bank. If you go to Masjid Jamek LRT station you can see Celcom make use of graffiti as their advertisement .

Maybe the vandalism of these graffiti artist can help make Kuala Lumpur more colourful. Instead of the plain concrete walls along the river banks, why not make it colourful with paintings.

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