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February 2006

review of my blog

my blog had been reviewed by the blog critic. i copy here her/his remarks (in brown text), with my response below. Lucia Lai has been blogging since Sept 2003 and is still dedicated enough to blog practically every day. That is a big plus in my books. She blogs about …

award for the danish newspaper

whoaa! lookee here! Copenhagen – Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten, which angered the Muslim world by publishing cartoons of Prophet Muhammad last year, has won a Danish critical journalism award for its initiative, the jury said. from news24.com

easily offended

i guess by now you would have heard so much on the NST hoo-haa in publishing wiley miller’s ‘non sequitur’ cartoon. many bloggers had blog on it, notably of course jeff ooi, politics101 and aizuddin’s VOI. howsy of the sensintrovert also had a good round-up of the whole cartoon issue. …

understanding each other’s religion?

Abdullah also praised Penang Chief Minister Tan Sri Dr Koh Tsu Koon who joined in to sit with legs folded in the mosque, listened to recitals of Quranic verses and tazkirah (short sermon) delivered by the Religious Adviser to the Prime Minister, Tan Sri Dr Abdul Hamid Othman at the …

scary or wary of the flu?

ha! i knew it! as soon as news of the bird (avian) flu detected in gombak and setapak spread, this type of news will followed – chicken sales drop, or you see less people in your fav KFC restaurant, breakfast of half-boiled egg not laku anymore and so on. what? …

good guys suffer…

… or at a disadvantage. (before i proceed… a note to the uninitiated – guys here does not mean only the male lah but means persons of either sex.) look… this (picture) is the corridor outside our unit… dark… taken at 8.00pm. there were no lights! of course there are …

thank you but no thank you

“If anyone publishes anything inappropriate about Jesus Christ, we will also take tough action against him or her. We need to enforce tough measures to prevent such articles from creating social unrest” so said our DPM, najib. no thanks, mr DPM. my faith won’t stagger just because someone publish something …

my mother taught me…….

ok guys, ligthen up on a sunday. let’s steer away from talk of cartoons (the non funny kind) and/or the old new cabinet (not the one you find in your kitchen/office) for today and laugh along with things your mother taught you when you were small. let’s see how many …

god is on her side

the fat lady in the cabinet is apparently gloating at us with her: “even if they talk until they foam at the mouth, if god says you stay, you stay.” wow. this isn’t the first time she’s using god’ name, you know. i think during the AP controversy, she was …

guang ming got axed too (though temporary)

first it was the china press (re: squatgate scandal). then the sarawak tribune. and now guang ming daily. yep, after sarawak tribune had been suspended indefinetely, now guang ming daily had been suspended two weeks. gosh. the gomen is really super sensitive… AND double standard – tv3 which showed the …