UPDATED: sunday, 1/07/07, 2:16 AM

najib told press to blackout news (expected lah!)
najib will not issue statement on altantuya murder case - aide (keeping his elegant silence? all the more making the prosecution dare not call him as a witness, i guess. *sigh*)

ORIGINAL POST

aha! i was waiting and wondering when would HIS name appeared… will it ever appeared… and there it was - yesterday’s trial, HIS name was mentioned at last.

malaysiakini’s headline said it all - najib seen with altantuya.
(read from mental jog extra if you are not a malaysiakini subsriber)

the retreat i mentioned was a relaxing one. it was something rather unexpected though but good in its own way. there were 11 of us staff, plus the facilitator.

penang hill had change a lot since i was last there. er… but i was there the last time long long ago so of course it had change. think it was near 10 years i have not been to penang hill.

first thing that greeted me that was so obvious is of course the entrance, as picture here:

this is the bungalow, ‘richmond’ we stayed in:

i’ll be off for my office annual retreat at the richmond’s bungalow in penang hill for 2 days, thus no blogging for me for 2 days. will be back to blogging on friday!

oh yes, of course i will be bringing my digicam. wanna capture some great nature shots of the hill. also of course the bungalow where i will be staying in. haven’t been to this bungalow before.

as i mentioned here that there were lots of events during the weekend and i was kind of torn on where to go. well, i went to all except one! the one i didn’t went to was the food and beverages exhibition.

can you spot my signature (hint: red ink)

the above 2 pics were taken at the pesta rakyat merdeka which i attended yesterday. more pictures and stories to come tomorrow. stay tuned! stories of not only the pesta rakyat merdeka but the other events i attended during the packed weekend.

the following was taken from aliran.

i had blog on this before here and mentioned about it recently too. i will definitely be there. i want to attend the forum so need to be there early. if not, i prefer to sleep late to attend the exhibition and movies only. i sure want to grace the exhibition as my colleagues from penang office for human development (POHD) will be having a corner for exhibit, focusing on ministry of migrant workers.

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Pesta Rakyat Merdeka Organising Committee

c/o Aliran, 103 Medan Penaga, 11600 Gelugor, Penang

YES, YOU ARE THE STUPID ONE, o dear minister in the prime minister’s department MOHD NAZRI ABDUL AZIZ!!l

why? can you believe it when he said this:

“Singapore is not a real country, it is a small island. Singapore’s population is just three to four million and there are no opportunities for corruption, unlike in our country.

corruption happens based on size and population? just because a country is small and few population, corruption won’t happen? oh.. and singapore is not a real country? ROTFLMAO!! soo… stuuuuuuuupid thinking!!

also here:

note: this is a personal ranting, so if you are not interested, you know what to do…

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oh gosh! i had so much to do, so many places to go this weekend, that i have headache deciding what to do.

as i had blog here, i mentioned 3 events coming up this weekend, which are:
today, 23 june - bloggers gathering sponsored by nuffnang at 12 noon to 3.00pm.
tomorrow, 24 june - pesta rakyat merdeka at 9.30am to 5.00pm

the problem is - clashes!

some of you might have missed this article in malaysiakini (esp. if you are not a subsriber of malaysiakini), thus i’m reproducing here in full for your reading before i made some comments.

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Probe May 13 riots, police told
by Joyce Tagal and Su Hui Hsing

Jun 20, 07 2:47pm       

A lawyer has filed a police report calling for an investigation into the May 13, 1969 riots which left more than 100 dead and scores others injured.

N Surendran (photo:right) lodged the report with the Brickfields police headquarters in Kuala Lumpur this morning.

on the first day of the trial…

look… what we have here… t-shirts galore!

yes, the razak baginda’s family showed up bearing t-shirts in support of him. on the front was printed the words to tell everyone how they are related to baginda and on the back the words ‘proud of it!’.

that’s interesting. so they are very proud to announce to everyone they are related to baginda.

OTOH, look at the pictures of altantuya’s cousins….

…they are always hiding behind dark shades and big hats. what a contrast!