Saturday afternoon 26th November 2017 we went to Dataran Merdeka or the Merdeka Square to check out an exhibition.
It is called Expo Negaraku 2017.
A number of futuristic looking tents were erected for the month or so long exhibition.
The scene inside a dome-like tent...
We thought they were going to show a movie or so on the ceiling. Well they showed a rather cliche advertisement on solidarity at these shapes in front.
Frankly that advertisement spoiled my mood at the exhibition. I felt like many Malaysians were being intellectually insulted by it. Yet to be fair we went out to check out other parts of the exhibition.
As we came across displays such at this it was apparent that the exhibition was heavily politically motivated. There was a clear attempt to deny the 22 years of progress delivered by a former Prime Minister and false attempt to paint the current one as the father of the future...
Thank God there are exhibitions such as this at another dome.
It is a nice diversion from many of the exhibitions that I felt were heavily tinged with political propaganda.
At least this one featuring the rain forest is subtle, that is if it does have any political points to achieve.
Then there's one part where the viewers were visually and virtually whisked via a 'cable car' and an 'elevator' to view national progress.
But the most astounding visually is inside a dome which resembles a sort of planetarium...
And so future Malaysia was shown almost 3D on wide screen covering the whole dome.
The political flavour trying to paint the current Prime Minister as the master of development is still there. But at least one can forget about that while being engulfed in the visuals...
