it has always been the orang asli! hang tuah is not malay but chinese!

the hot news now that’s been going around the blogs is about hospital pusrawi’s dr muhammad osman’s medical report that saiful was not sodomised at all. almost every SoPo blog i went to (and of course news portal like malaysiakini too), talks about it. so i’m not going to blog on it. it will be like a repetition. beside, as i had blog yesterday, if you want to catch such interesting news, all you gotta do is hop over to susan loone’s blog.

4 days without letting go! arghh! finally had to buy some laxatives and got one of those self pumping one from the chinese medical shop. what a relief when it all came out but i do hope it will be back to normal for me.

yesterday since i was feeling lousy i went to sleep at 10.30pm… very early as i usually sleep at 2.00am. funny thing was that at 11.45pm i suddenly woke up and thought it was already morning the next day (6.30am usual wake up time), time to go for work. i switch on the light, wanted to go and brush my teeth then my mum suddenly said "what’s the matter with you? what are you doing?" "huh" i said, "time to wake up get ready to work". then she told me it was only 11.45pm! haha. what a laugh.

today although i’m feeling better but still tired so will sleep early too. lots of things had been happening but i don’t feel like blogging about them. if you want to read lots of interesting updated news, you should visit susan loone’s blog. i tell you, it looks like that girl blogs non stop! so many latest updated news are all there and she received so many comments. oh yeah, yesterday she just received 2 million hits! in just 2 years! congrats to her and so proud of her, a fellow penangite like me (but not staying in malaysia).

i know many of you already know and visit her blogs regularly but for those of you who haven’t, do remember to bookmark her blog and make sure you visit daily eh!
susan loone’s blog

not feeling well today. down with stomach ache and constipation! this is my first time i experience such terrible constipation. started 2 days ago and today was getting worst so i went to the pharmacy to buy some medicine. i can’t sit for long so thought better go to sleep early.

the first item on the list of the 3 days celebration in george town, penang, on occasion of georgetown being listed as world heritage site, was a heritage trial walkabout, along the ’street of harmony’ by the chief minister and his entourage (not sure who’s who but you can read the paper to find out).  the first place he visited was the church of the assumption (first picture here), situated at farquhar street. (in between the st xaviers’ school and the museum and opposite the convent light street school).

so the talk will continued, so said muhd taib. from malaysiakini:

Umno and its arch-rival PAS will continue to hold meetings but they will be limited to issues pertaining to Islam, said Umno information chief Muhammad Muhd Taib.

islam? religion? but as i had said it before, in our country, religion had always been politicized. so what’s the difference if they meant issues on malay unity too. anyway, if there is to be any muzakarah (dialogue) that centre on religion, all the better if it is a multi-religious one, don’t you think so? yes, all along, we had been calling for an inter-religious dialouge but but oh no, just because some of these islamist think that islam is superior to all religion (remember ‘ketuanan islam’?), islam and the other religions cannot get together. remember the infamous article 11 road-show forum? how it was disrupted by a mob in penang? (also in johor, but not so serious).

briefly, some highlights of the programme are as follows:

friday, 25 july
street of harmony walk
tree planting ceremony at fort cornwallis

saturday, 26 july
heritage zone celebration
official launch of UNESCO world heritage sites

sunday, 27 july
street celebration - upper penang road

see you there!

most probably i’ll drop in at the sunday celebration - that is the only day i’m free. saturday, yes, but only late evening.

… because he is the no. 2 man? because he is above the law? because he calls all the shots? because their career, family or even lives will be threatened? because they have thousands stashed away in their switzerland bank account?

by ‘they’ of course i meant the police, the judiciary, the ACA and others authorities. yesterday, judge mohd zaki had rejected karpal singh’s application to call the no. 2 man, the DPM, najis… oops… i mean najib as witness to the altantuya’s trial.

from malaysiakini:

… and so is UMNO!! yes, even the PM.

from malaysiakini:

Khir said this was proven by the fact that Anwar was being supported by ‘extremist’ Chinese and Indians via opposition party DAP and the Hindu Rights Action Force (Hindraf).

extremist chinese and indians? extremist DAP and hindraf? doesn’t that sound racial and seditious? oh no, it doesn’t when it come from an umnoputera. just imagine if lim kit siang or karpal singh were to say "those extremist umno" - wahh! all those umnoputera will made noises! police will give them warning! some umnoputera or non umnoputera malays will made police report against them. but ah… it comes from a former MB, an umnoputera at that, so no action at all. lesson no. 1 from bolehland malaysia - 2 sets of rules - 1 for umnoputera and one for non umnoputera (particularly opposition).

imagine this - penang CM, lim guan eng, calling on chinese unity, chinese unity is the basis to all unity in penang. what do you think will happen? no prize for the correct guess. then imagine… oh no, no need to imagine… it happened! few days ago the PM was saying something about focusing on malay unity because malay unity means national unity. wow!! did he mean malay unity or umno unity? doesn’t that sound familiar? remember several months ago the kelantan crown prince was saying something like that, which get not only non malays but some malays too jumped up! 

is the PM a PM for malaysians or for malays? why was he calling on malay unity? yes, so he revealed the secret - that he had met PAS to discuss malay unity.  just imagine if MCA suddenly reveal that they had met DAP to discuss chinese unity - all hell will break loose! (among the umnoputera that is). the umnoputera will accused MCA of ’sleeping with the enemy’.  the umnoputera will attack DAP as chinese racist party. the umnoputera will say the chinese are going to take over the country! blah blah blah…

btw, why all these talk about malay unity? as one commenter at lim kit siang rightly say so:

If at all the Malays can be united, then there won’t be so many factions of Malays and the previous Prime Ministers need not shout for Malay unity. And this is a total disgrace to UMNO who displays this shameful signboard with the name “UNITED MALAYS NATIONAL ORGANIZATION” when it has failed to even unite malays within any given state in Malaysia since its inception in 1946. So how can it claim this name and that it has achieved National Unity among the Malays? Such a disgrace!!!!!

umno is a disgrace…to the malays. umno’s interest is for thier own only, never for the grassroot malays. they are only concerned about filling thier pockets. why, we have the richest man in malaysia - the PM! (not robert kuok or anandan) and the richest unemployed in malaysia - his son in law!

note:  please read the views of other from malaysiakini. many, yes, agrees khir is racist!

…. as explained by raja nazrin, the raja muda of perak, the out-spoken sensible ruler who had spoken up many times on many issues. he usually had very good interesting valid points.

raja nazrin said that they as rulers, are not blind, deaf or mute or insensitive to the going-ons in the country.

he also said that the rulers should remain neutral and not be involved in politics.

However, in order to preserve respect for the monarchy, the Rulers must remain neutral and avoid from being involved in political disputes or being used as an instrument by any quarters in the competition to gain political power, Raja Nazrin said.

World Youth Day is a youth-oriented Roman Catholic Church promotional event. While the event itself celebrates the Catholic faith, young people are invited without discrimination.^[1] World Youth Day is not associated with International Youth Day or any of the international observance days.

(from wikipedia)

world youth day (WYD) is held once every 2 years. this year (WYD 2008) it is in sydney, australia and started on 15 july and will end on 20 july, where on 19 july, the youth will be having an  overnight vigil at a park.