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Archive for April, 2006:

mgg pillai – the man, THE journalist

mgg pillai, the ‘legendary’ journalist.
(pic taken from jeff ooi’s)
1939 – 2006 (age: 67)
cause of death: heart attack
day/time of death: 28 april 2006, 10.47am

it is with a tinge of sadness that i learned of the death of mgg pillai, first through the ‘beritamalaysia’ newsgroup, then at jeff’s screenshot. it was quite a surprise news as i [...]

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we are not matured enough

oy! this ‘info man’ here is so very smart eh… with the thinking same as those in the west and europe, while those behind him (the flag waving rakyat) are all not as matured in thinking as those in the west and europe. (picture taken from sun2surf)
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i just don’t understand our menteri-menteri. like this zam [...]

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attn bus commuters! get your report cards!

all of you were in school before and know what a report card is right? that is to check on how you are doing in school with the various subjects and overall. well, a group of NGOs who had been monitoring the bus  revamp service in penang, has now come out with a report card [...]

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damn! damn! damn streamyx!

damn! streamyx was down again… for 4 days successively. past 3 days, it was down for 10 mins to 1/2 hour but yesterday it was down for more than an hour!! @*^%)#$!*!^!!! and of all the &^#$!*(! it had to be down after midnight – the time when i’m free to post. grr! last night [...]

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the new malaysian poem

as monday is usually a blue monday to many since it is the start of a week… a long week of work work work… here’s a joke to cheer you guys up. received from forwarded mail.
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Can study continue STUDY
Can’t study, work FACTORY
Cannot rely on CHARITY
Earn a little SALARY
Just enough 4 daily ROTI
Go work no WIRA [...]

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pay only 30 cents extra for petrol, and…

… look what you get! yet you complained! ayo-yo!
well well well, look what i found in my letter-box yesterday – a leaflet from jabatan kemajuan masyarakat (KEMAS).

this is one side of the leaflet. translated, it says:

The public pays only 30 cents petrol increase.
The government gives subsidies to the public.
The public receives help and [...]

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century-old hindu temple destroyed!

… no, not by fire or landslide.. or any natural disaster, but by officers from KL’s city hall (DBKL). bulldozed and demolished by them!!
the worst part of it was that the temple was demolished when about 300 devotees were inside performing prayers. how insensitive DBKL officers can be!
gosh! i am shocked! how could this happened? [...]

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sheer arrogance

‘JAKIM won’t wait for decency guidelines‘ screamed the headline in NST of 19 april.
Muslim couples caught kissing or committing other indecent acts in public will be dealt with by the Islamic Affairs Department (Jakim) regardless of any advice from the Housing and Local Government Ministry.
Department director-general Datuk Mustapa Abdul Rahman yesterday said [...]

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