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August 2004

happy birthday to malaysia

47 years ago, this man shouted “merdeka!merdeka! merdeka! merdeka! merdeka! merdeka! merdeka!” this man was our first prime minister, tunku abdul rahman putra al-haj (1903-1990), known as the ‘bapa kemerdekaan’ or the ‘father of independance’. our second prime minister, tun abdul razak hussein (1922-1976), known as the ‘bapa pembangunan’ or …

make up a story with the numbers

ok! it’s sunday! so have a laugh…. ———————————— Phua Chu Kang was asked to make a sentence using 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9 and 10. Not only did he do it 1 to 10, he did it again from 10 back to 1. This is what he came up with…… “1 day I go …

tak ‘da! elek!

that’s it. no medals at all from the olympics for bolehland. bolehland tak boleh in the olympic field. and our PM lamented that our athletes failed us. i never for a moment expect our country to win any medals anyway. the olympic is a world-class sporting event with world class …

amusing prayer

remember my blog on one of the most well known and beautiful christian prayer, ‘the our father’ (or also known as ‘the lord’s prayer’)? in it i blog on how rich is the prayer and how the prayer had been modified many times to suit the present situation. actually not …

mahathir’s value system

did you guys came across the news article where our former PM told the malays to change their value system for survival? taking up from there (what our dear dr m said), martin jalleh had written this article for your thought. ok folks, time to grumble about your ex PM …

athens2004

the logo (or rather emblem, as the site refers it) for athens2004 is as above, which is said to be a wreath made of olive tree branch. now i wonder is this the ‘crown’ for the winners also made of olive tree branch? and having seen the er… flowers?… being …

condoms and power struggle

remember my post about contests and concerts declared haram by some mufti? i was talking about tv3’s ‘sure heboh’ concert. i was alerted to an interesting and humouros article about the discovery of condoms at the ‘sure heboh’ concert when i was at suaramalaysia blog. then later on i saw …

striving for the best is patriotism

our PM, pak lah said that a person can be a patriot without having to defend the country in a war. now why didn’t he added in “… without waving the jalur gemilang about or displaying it here and there.” well i kind of agree with pak lah. he sure …

knows

hello. back yesterday at 5.00pm. dead tired after 3 days of running around. had a good time watching the youth singing, dancing and playing games. on saturday had a nice b-b-q with chicken, sausage and lamb… oh and tiger beer too. (shhh!). ok as i’m tired, i will just post …

away for the weekend

this afternoon i’ll be off to sungai petani, kedah, for our SSVP youth camp. no, goodness i will not be there as a participant as i’m too old for that. this camp is for students age 15 to 19. i am one of the organisers so i have to be …