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July 2007

best koay teow th’ng in penang

ah sai’s! the best in penang… some say malaysia! beside koay teow th’ng, there are also mee, bee hoon (normal), bee hoon (fat), bee tai bak, mee suah and porridge. ‘ah sai’ koay teow th’ng stall is run by a husband and wife team. the husband’s name is ah sai …

statement from nat

nat’s statement on his detention, both in english and bahasa, is now ready. go to his blog to read. some interesting extract: One of the officers questioning me that evening who refused to identify himself threatened to slap me and throw me across the room. […]. On Saturday itself, a …

what is najib up to?

the recent exclamation of our DPM, najib about our country being an islamic state all along, and never a secular state, had got a lot of people jumping up and down, including bloggers of course, who had blog about it. farish noor asked "is malaysia going down the road of …

forum: no to police state in blogosphere

CnP from tony pua’s blog: Nathaniel Tan, a 26 year old dedicated blogger, a Harvard University alumnus and an aide to Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim has been arrested under the Section 8 of the Official Secrets Act (OSA) over allegations that he had documents linked to Deputy Internal Security Minister …

earn money by reading email

do you agree that you have the right to – choose the ads you want to receive,– only read ads that you are interested in, and– get paid to read those ads? this program has been a great success in singapore and is now open to people from all over …

don’t depend on the 30% equity

just a few days ago the PM said NEP is here to stay. yesterday suddenly the DPM said malays should discard the 30% mindset. huh? apa ini? mr DPM, if you don’t want the bumiputera to rely on the 30% equity to secure contract, then fight for the NEP to …

don’t think you are special, bloggers!

yeah yeah so haven’t you heard? we bloggers don’t enjoy more rights (at mentaljog extra*). KUALA LUMPUR: Bloggers are as liable for defamation as publishers in any other medium, but the difficulty arises when there are anonymous postings on blogs.  According to University of Ulster (UK) senior lecturer in Law …

met groups of marginalized people

remember i mentioned about attending a leaders training session last weekend? it was an interesting 2-days session. the most interesting part was the exposure trip we made to a housing estate in sg. siput. we met some marginalized people through the contact of dr jeyakumar devaraj, an activist and PSM …