UPDATED:  read a good explanation of ‘ketuanan melayu’ from our opposition leader, wan azizah, to counter against shahrir samad’s defence of ‘ketuanan melayu’ at sun2surf.

ORIGINAL POST

who are the indigenous people of malaysia?

any school kids would tell you it is the ORANG ASLI.

do a google search for ‘indigenous people in malaysia’ and you’ll get results of orang asli.

we all know it had been like this all along - the truly indigenous (or shall i say the real ’son of the soil’ - i.e. bumiputera in malay) people are the orang asli.

i am obliged to post the following i received via the e-groups, being part of the organising team. was glad to be among the few members (less than 10!) who were instrumental in picking the tagline and contribute a teeny weeny percentage to the idea of the logo design.

to all my friends out there, bloggers, commenters, readers, i would appreciate it if you could help to spread this message. post the following with the logo and hope you will have the logo displayed in your blog permanently at the sidebar, just like you had the logo of ‘bersih’, ‘bangsa malaysia’, ‘all blogs’ and so on. to some of you, i would be sending you an email regarding this, together with the logo (animated and non animated).  thanks!

gee i may sound stupid or naive but i didn’t know there is such an organisation as balkis - association of wives of state assemblymen and members of parliament in selangor. then there is also bakti - federal organisation of wives of ministers. i only got to know of them a few days ago when i read about it in jeff ooi’s blog.

then  there is one in kedah too known as bidara - wives of the kedah assemblymen and parliamentarians welfare body. in perak too - er… what is it known as? i remember reading about it somewhere but forgot the name; and of course one in penang, known as pertubuhan bunga tanjung.

i had forgotten about mgg pillai’s death anniversary until i read about it in malaysiakini yesterday - a nice piece written by his son, sreejit pillai.

i had known mgg pillai for a very long time… ever since he started ’sang kancil’, the newsgroup duscussion forum. when he passed away, i had blog about it and at his first anniversary, i had also mentioned about it (but no post, just directing to my first post about him). well, since there was a good article by his son on his 21st anniversary, i’d better made a post here to mention his 2nd anniversary.

i went to the mount miriam hospital’s ‘ho chiak’ charity food and fun fair yesterday morning and ran into our CM, lim guan eng, when he came to patronise some of the food stalls. he was there to officiate the event.

when he stopped at the ’siew mai’ stall to buy something, i quickly took the opportunity to take the above photo. many people were seen clicking away taking photo of him too. lots of people went up to shake his hands when he was walking in between the stalls. he stopped at a few stalls to buy the food. at one stall he stop by to buy a drink and there and then drank it and nodded his head that it was good. at one stage, i see some people suddenly asked him to pose for a photo with him and he obliged!

good SSS joke (found somewhere on the net)  that may be relevant to the current happenings in our country re: corruption and judiciary.
(SSS - short, sweet, simple)
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…gave no guarantee that he would not repeat the keris-waving again during this year’s Umno annual general assembly.

what kind of apology is that??? might as well don’t apologise!! cheh!!

man:  i’m sorry for cheating on you, darling.
woman: oh, that’s so touching. glad you apologised.
man:  but i can’t promise you that i will not cheat again.

??

lucia:  i’m sorry i called you a bl**dy idiot jerk just now.
you: 
lucia: but tomorrow i’m going to call you that again!!

???

WTF, mr education minister hishamuddin kerismuddin?? aren’t you being so childish? if you are not sincere to apologise, then don’t!!! 

alamak! the hearing (as i blog here) was postponed to coming tuesday. ayoh! why like this one - our malaysian court, always postphoning hearing/cases (eg. altantuya’s trial). this is the news from malaysiakini (with pictures).

Herald vs Gov’t:  Judicial review postponed
Soon Li Tsin |
Apr 25, 08 2:35pm

The judicial review application hearing for Herald - The Catholic Weekly versus the government was postponed to Tuesday after the Attorney General’s Chambers asked for time to submit on the case.

This was decided by Kuala Lumpur High Court of Appellate and Special Powers Division Judge Lau Bee Lan in a packed courtroom filled with Herald supporters.

NOTE:  maybe by the time this post was out (lunch hours) the hearing will be over.

from sun2surf

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Hearing on use of ‘Allah’ tomorrow
Maria J.Dass

as a woman, if a man outraged my modesty, no matter what mood i am in - moody, sensitive, lousy, disturbed - the fact that my modesty had been outraged is there. oh, and also the fact that the man is a friend doesn’t change anything.

why then did this lounge promoter first made a police report that her modesty had been outraged then later on decided to withdraw the report? what had happened? well, of course one can speculate here and there - the most obvious is, had she been paid to withdraw the report?

according to karpal singh, once a report had been made, it can’t be withdrawn, and the police have the obligation to investigate the report. if not, the woman must be charged with false reporting. so what do you think is going to happen? will the police investigate?

remember, the man involved is a MP and a umnopuotera. oh, and please remember too that the police practice double standard. the man involved is an umno MP - the police might not take any action at all. OTOH, if the man involved is a DAP MP, PAS MP or any non umno MP, they will surely take action. or if you put it the other way round - the one who made the report is a umnoputera, swift action will be taken.

remember how one OTK umnoputera lodged a police report against the CM of penang regarding the NEP issue? even though the report was so siily (that’s why he is OTK), the police went into action! the second option of the woman being charged with making false report, who knows some umnoputera might pull some strings and got her off…or paid her fine. let’s wait and see what will happen.

UPDATED:  the latest i see from the star that the police will continue their investigation. ok so i was wrong on that part about the police won’t investigate. good they are going to investigate…. but…. yes there is a but…. it’s just an investigation… prosecution??

note: i wonder why malaysiakini did not carry this news. the news about altantuya’s dad requesting for international court to hear his daughter’s murder, malaysiakini did not carry it too. maybe the former is not so important but the latter should be an exclusive news… and some news of it that won’t be publish in the MSM, which malaysiakini should be able to ‘dig’ out the news to be publish.