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come, let’s drink kopi-o tonight

UPDATED: HURRAY! i’m going! i’ll try to rush there after my meeting. it’s ok as the time is 9.00pm and later (some plan to stay till midnight!). i’ll be there in my BLACK T-SHIRT of course. ORIGINAL POST: kopi-o session tonight at old town coffee! come, dress in black. there’s …

today is international AIDS candlelight memorial day

light a candle today in memory of those who died from AIDS. this year’s theme is ‘together, we are the solution’. international AIDS candlelight memorial day is an history tradition against HIV/AIDS. a candlelight vigil will be held in 115 countries lead by varied coalitions of some 1,200 community organizations. …

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 …

MAFREL’s press release on march 13

PRESS RELEASE 13 March 2009 MAFREL WILL MONITOR BY-ELECTIONS IN BUKIT GANTANG, BUKIT SELAMBAU & BATANG AI Malaysians for Free and Fair Elections (MAFREL) wishes to announce its activity to observe the by-elections at P.059 Bukit Gantang, Perak; N.25 Bukit Selambau, Kedah and N.29 Batang Ai, Sarawak which was announced …

after a year – how’s the CAT doing?

come, and hear for yourselves. come to the suaram forum ‘CAT ruling – change or the same?’ on this saturday, 14 march (english) and 14 march (mandarin). see poster for details (english poster). (NOTE: for the uninitiated, CAT stands for ‘competent, accountability and transparent’ – the motto of the penang govt.)

do we need the second penang bridge?

as part of our citizen/video journalism workshop, we had to do assignments. one of the assignment was to come out with an article on penang. i choose to write about the second penang bridge. please read about it in my citizen journalism blog, 'reflections'.  (updated: read from below instead) in the …

my citizen journalism blog

i had mentioned about completing the citizen/video journalism workshop organised by malaysiakini. it was a 2 months workshop on every alternate weeks of saturdays and sundays. learned a lot and made new friends. the first weekend classes were on script writing for a documentary conducted by malaysiakini’s maran. second weekend …