Knowing I was going to be late, I was literally striding like an Olympian to the Pippard Lecture theatre, Imperial College to hear ex-menteri besar of Perak Nizar Jamaluddin. However, I guess I have to get used to YBs turning up late these days as a previous experience with the Seri Setia assemblyperson had somewhat supported this trend.

Nizar was like 45 minutes late and during that time I managed to turn my little town into a 1,000,000 populated mega-city (Simcity lah! ), finished off yesterday's leftover and chatted with an ACCA girl who is an avid fan of Malaysian politics.

Finally, I could see Nizar being greeted and welcomed by enthusiasts and me, wanting to keep myself calm and composed, shook his hands and he asked me if I was a student here. Yes! Someone thinks I still look young! I'm still getting used to the fact that people do grow old and this guy here just gave me the greatest compliment I could have asked for during my torrid time as an under-worked slave in London. So far so good.

Nizar started off apolitically by reciting the verses from the Quraan, since the crowd being mostly of non-Muslims. He referred to the verse telling us not to conceal the truth and another one about loving one another of the different races (Quran 49:13). He then gave the typical greeting to the members of the floor in four different languages (Arab, English, Mandarin and [I think] Tamil) and so, the political talk has officially begun! He should've just used the Arab version ‘Assalaamualaikum’ to everyone, me thinks.

I am not going into the acute details about the things he mentioned because he was basically repeating himself (just like BN’s Zambry Abdul Kadir the last time) and you can find them in blogs and alternative news portals. However, I will point out the fun, crazy, unusual things from the talk.

For a start, when he was elaborating on the Perak issue yadda-yadda-yadda, I may be the only one from the audience who realised he gave us the middle finger each time he was adjusting his spectacles!

I kid you not and I'm not writing to sensationalise! I almost exploded with laughter when people were like so serious listening to the usual bits, Nizar, quite innocently and unintentionally was giving it, WWE The Rock style. LOL.

Okay, okay ,maybe I needed to concentrate more. I wanted to see if the Facebook quiz ‘Which Malaysian leader are you?’ was accurate with my result being ‘Datuk Seri Nizar’. First thing that I learned about this guy was that he is not a lembik puppet as many anti-Pakatan Rakyat people perceive. The other day Anwar Ibrahim also had a talk in London and he hypocritically quoted ‘I may have a bad back, but I have a backbone!’ but in Nizar's case, he did really seem to be one firm leader with a massive backbone.

His arguments were strong, bold and honest. He even answered my simple but tricky question quite well by stating how he is strongly against the act of the 'froggies', more formally 'party defectors'. ‘It is an act of betrayal to the people’. Some Pakatan leaders are calling these defectors names (frogs, ‘katak’, traitors who only help cleanse the party) but at the same time defending the Westminister-style constitution that allows ship-jumping and endorsing and agreeing to the failed Sept 16, 2008 party deception (not defection) when asked.

That's no backbone if you ask me and there was no evidence at that time that I could find Nizar being in support of party defections even from the Bota representative (I used to play football with his kids) double-jumped ship. All I could remember was Anwar, Anwar and Anwar being on the representative’s side.

Sure or not, Jeg? Unfortunately, Nizar has forgotten that he himself welcomed the Bota rep into PKR and claimed there were three more Umno men jumping into the Perak Pakatan coalition in 2009. ‘They came forward to us without us inviting them’.

Well, you could have said then, ‘No, it is an act of betrayal to the people! Go away’. At least, for being strongly against the principle of party crossovers even if they were constitutional, Karpal Singh and I have got the right to condemn these defectors.

Okay now, we all now know Nizar is not a DAP puppet and evidently from his track record he helps people not based on colour or religion. We know he is a qualified engineer and was English educated (Aston University, Birmingham). He is quite new to politics and one guy asked why did he enter politics.

‘Because I see there is some injustice and I feel I need to correct this’. He is also a religious man with a multi-ethnic background (father is Malay, mother is Chinese). He is quite a strong, firm leader, as we all know, with a bit of a sense of humour. His economics agenda and willingness to work with the current Perak BN government seems like a good idea. What else did I miss?

Well, being quite a particular kind of guy, I did not find that many faults in his speech compared to Anwar Ibrahim's a couple of days earlier. I think he did quite well apart from being hypocritical about party defections and Zambry-bashing. However, there is only one and only one part that I could not absorb.

I still think it's a minor issue but it is worth mentioning here just to provoke the minds of you guys. He started his speech by quoting the verse of the Quran clearly reminding us not to conceal the truth. Towards the end of his talk, Nizar said: ‘For whatever reasons you read on the blogs, regarding why the sultan has not dissolved the state assembly, despite what the sultan himself wrote in his book, don't believe them’.

‘Maybe the Perak sultan wants to protect his businesses?" asked someone. ‘The reason is far more beyond that. The sultan already has everything under the sun. Like I said, don't believe whatever you read on the blogs regarding this’.

I was dumbfounded myself. Nizar was not telling. He gave the impression he knew the reason. Why is he now concealing the truth? I want to know the reason! Help! If you are reading this, Datuk Seri, please get me out of this niggling misery. Look for me on Facebook and Twitter and tell me the reason in private message. I swear I will not tell a soul!

Maybe it's just mind games. Politicians...