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July 2009

today is najib’s 100th day

so what had he done? making people wear black and asking “where’s democracy?”!! he will be remembered as the PM who engineered the coup d’etat in perak… and with his refusal to have the perak state assembly dissolve, he will be remembered as the PM who more than ever, very …

around the blogosphere… the al-islam issue

UPDATED 15 JULY the nutgraph (al-islam breached code of ethics)  had a second story – this time they interviewed the bishop of penang. then on 14 july, there was a report on this issue in the star (‘reporters who entered church face charges of disharmony’) and the sun (‘police probe …

muslim men spying on churches

my colleagues, joachim and stanley had lodged a police report against the publisher of the magazine, al-islam. refering to the may issue of the magazine, two muslim men had gone undercover to a church with the aim of seeking out malay youth who apostate. they also held a press conference …

goodbye and thanks malaysiakini

UPDATED: ok the video i mentioned is up on youtube now. sorry for the ‘boilsoft’ watermark on it (which i use to convert my avi file to mpeg). i happened to download this software that leaves watermark. will try some other software later. ORIGINAL POST: especially to our CJ (citizen …

body snatchers at it again

“hidup susah, mati susah, tanam pun susah.” that phrase did not came from me but came from a malay journalist (or was it a malay SB?). he said this while we were at the late mohan singh’s house, waiting for his body to be home for the prayers ritual. you …

today, last day at malaysiakini

yes, today will be the last day of our advanced citizen/video journalism training at malaysiakini office. on saturday and sunday, we had two very good speakers. saturday, janet steele, (pic below) who is associate professor of media and public affairs based in US was the speaker. her session was on …

2 days so far of CJ training

UPDATED 4 JULY 1700 HRS – WITH PHOTOS (note: CJ = citizen journalism) it had been 2 days of classes at malaysiakini. i arrived in KL on 30 june afternoon and met up with my friend, sharon, where we went wandering around mid-valley. checked in the hotel in the evening. …

advanced training on citizen/video journalism

from today until next monday (6 july), i’ll be away in KL for malaysiakini’s advanced training on the above subject. 6 of us from penang will be there and there will be some from perak and sarawak and of course KL. this is going to be an intensive training – …