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 [...]

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, [...]

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 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 [...]

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 [...]

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)————————————–
At the height of a political corruption trial, the prosecuting attorney attacked a witness. "Isn’t it true," he bellowed, "that you accepted five thousand dollars to compromise this case?" [...]

…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.
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lucia:  i’m [...]

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 postponedSoon Li Tsin | Apr 25, 08 2:35pm
The judicial review application hearing for Herald – The [...]