Campaigning RWP

Update: All 3 (Sharon Bakar, Dr. Farish Noor, & Jasmine Low) just gave the green light for me to speak for a few minutes to their audience about RWP at their respective events ( Readings @ Seksan, Book Launch, Doppelganger).

Below is me standing at the exit of Pecha Kucha Night by British Council at The Annexe Central Market, distributing RWP Pay It Forward Bookmarks, the same day RA also did the Look Up More flashmob. I was ill the following day.

Today I registered for my Post Grad Diploma today. During the medical checkup, the conversation with my doctor got somewhat lively which ended up me passing her my card.

Within a second, she goes ‘you’re the RandomActs guy! We have a celebrity.’ I replied, ‘don’t be silly. I’m broke, exhausted and skinny and losing more weight as you can see.”

Inevitably, it led me to telling her about the Read while Waiting Project. (I already plan to have at least 10 Pay It Forward Bookmarks delivered to her office by this week.) It seems to be all I talk about. A collision of me wanting to, and having to.

I was telling Niki a few weeks ago about how ever since RWP was launched, I feel like

• I’m a politician
• Earth is my constituency
• 6 billion on the electoral roll
• Sole contestor
• With no election at all

I’ve spoken to an audience about RWP and/or distributed its Pay It Forward Bookmarks at events I am affiliated with, as well as events I have nothing to do with. I scout for events to go to and seek the permission of the organisers to be allowed a few minutes with the audience to promote the project.

28 June Rob! flashmob at KLue Urbanscapes at KLPac
2 July Random Acts of Poetry at Dram Projects
12 July Look Up More flashmob at KLCC
12 July Pecha Kucha Night Volume 4 by British Council at The Annexe Central Market
18 July That Green Thing by YAWA & M.A.D.ness at Dram Projects
20 July Dead flashmob for LAMAN 2008 at Lake Gardens

26 July Readings July (“Stickyish”) @ Seksan
26 July Book Launch for “Di Balik Malaysia: Dari Majapahit ke Putrajaya” by Dr. Farish A. Noor
27July Doppelganger Openmic & Readings at Marketplace

*Not confirmed yet. Subject to their permission. If you’ve witnessed me talking about it before, then don’t waste time coming for that. Come for their event instead. I trust all three would be brilliant, let alone interesting. Precisely why I’ve approached them.