The official colour at last Saturday's rally by the Coalition for Clean and Fair elections may have been yellow, but it looked more like gold to me.

It was a shining example by Bersih and the bloggers of the kind of mettle Malaysians need if ever they're to rid themselves of the grey, leaden burden of Barisan Nasional (BN).

But the day sure didn't look promising at first. Hunched over this keyboard in Sydney, I was feeling somewhat blue at the possibility that the police might succeed in preventing the rally. And even more depressed by the fact that Malaysiakini appeared to be blacked-out by heavy traffic or hackers or both.