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March 2004

forum – understanding a free and fair election

for those who are in penang: A forum on ‘Understanding Free and Fair Election’ Date: 13th March (Saturday) Time: 2.00pm to 5.00pm Place: Cititel Hotel, Penang Road, Penang The election fever is on! Banners are up, politicians are talking, voters are weighing options. Come and be informed. Learn how you …

our apathy forced them to….

i was alerted to this site/picture by reader sweetspirit who made a comment on my blog ‘obituary of someone else’. when i first saw the photo, i kind of go… “yeech! gross!”. but then later on, it gave me a rude shock. gosh! to think what people would go through …

NEWS FLASH!!

Election Commission announces that the polling day will be on March 21 (sunday) and all parties will have to nominate their candidates on March 13.

obituary of someone else

Our church was saddened to learn this week of the death of one of our most valued members, Someone Else. Someone’s passing creates a vacancy that will be difficult to fill. Else has been with us for many years and for every one of those years, Someone did far more …

monitoring internet and sms?

The Election Commission (EC) has requested the Multimedia Commission and police to monitor election campaigning via the short messaging system (SMS) and the Internet. so says the report here. how does one monitor the internet and sms? bolehtak? it seems impossible to me. who or how can stop, say DAP‘s …

christ’s passion – christ’s horrific suffering

being one who can’t keep quiet, i guess sooner or later i’ll just have to blog on the controversial movie by staunch roman catholic, mel gibson – the passion of christ, a movie depicting the last 12 hours of jesus christ. the 2 main points that bought about all the …

polls on 21 march?

according to this malaysiakini report, polling date would most likely be on 21 march. parliament is expected to be dissolved on friday, and the election commission is expected to call for nomination of candidates on 13 march, which means to say campaigning period will last for only 8 days if …

lent answered

referring to my recent post on lent, a reader, merc commented that she/he would like to know more about catholic practice of lent. i found some good reading materials on Q&A in regards to lent in our catholic weekly paper, ‘the herald’. the points there are down-to-earth and simple to …

BA’s manifesto

what do you think of BA’s (barisan alternative) 10 pledges for a new malaysia? the 10 pledges in BA manifesto: # your rights – we protect # your life – we enhance # your security – we assure # your government – we strengthen # your education – we provide …