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March 2009

15 candidates in a by-election?

yes, 15! this is crazy! 13 independents and 1 each from BN and PKR. why suddenly we hear of so many independents coming up to want to contest? the news is that many indians were not happy with anwar’s choice of PKR’s candidate, s. manikumar, so some of them decided to …

latest on the by-elections – see MAFREL

… MAFREL’s website. yes, don’t forget to bookmark the mafrel’s website for latest info on nomination day and campaigning. mafrel’s observers will be working hard during campaigning to bring you latest updated news and information, mostly with photos. all the updates will come right from the ground. MAFREL – your …

drivers galore

nah, i don’t mean vehicles drivers.  i mean drivers software for your computer. have you ever at one time or other encountered that sometimes after updating your computer, things like the printer or CD rom,  just won’t work well. well, no fear, you can always search for the drivers on  the …

video on the hill-slopes protest

with reference to my post on the hill-slopes development protest, here are the videos are ready edited and uploaded by my partner, lim. as you see from the first video, i was the stand-upper. stand-upper means the person who introduce the video… telling what the video is all about. ohh… …

they sleep on the streets

watch this video. it’s part of our citizen/video journalism project (voluntarily). i was the one who interviewed the indian muslim man, jalil. five of us citizen journalist (lilian, jimmy, lim, koh) were out on the street at 11.00pm to look for homeless people, with the help of vincent, a welfare …

R.I.P. democracy

yeah i know democracy had long been dead in our country but  lately, as we await the impending rise of a new PM, it seemed more than ever dead with these news that i heard: 1.  opposition paper, suara keadilan and harakah banned. 2.  online media banned from covering the …

utusan malaysia banned

yeah right… and elephants can fly! of course you and i not, the above is not true. utusan, umno’s mouthpiece banned? never! why it never even got show-cause letter! we all know how racist and seditious utusan had been, yet it was allowed to go on printing with nary a …

lunch for the homeless/street people

as part of our lenten campaign activities, our parish (city parish, penang) organised a fellowship lunch for the homeless and street people who frequents the lighthouse drop-in centre yesterday. (they are known as ‘clients’ to the lighthouse). (note: if you want to know what is the lenten campaign and also about …