… and don’t be greedy to want to pick up money on the floor, thinking the money is yours, when someone pointed out some dropped money to you. apparently this scam i read about in the sun happened in penang too. the thieves would work in group of 2 or …
UPDATED: see photos of CNY mass in church to all those who celebrate the chinese/lunar new year. or the popular greeting – ‘gong xi fa cai’ (never ‘happy chinese new year’ – which is so wrong.)
… because what else you expect in a kangaroo court? the court that is not independent? in malaysiakini nizar said: “This is the saddest day (for) Malaysia as this shows the judiciary is not indepedent. Our target now is to win back Perak.””
by Martin Jalleh Is the Opposition coalition crumbling like a cookie? Is the door for real, relevant and radical change slowly closing in on us? Shall we just call it a day as we witness Umno’s final curtain of a failed State? Or shall we remain committed to a change …
and maybe plus the surau attack too….. but what else is new eh?? many of us had already long suspected that umno is behind the church attacks. ok we suspect or we speculate only. we are not sure. the suspects caught may be young unknown people…. but not many believe …
remember in my selangau trip report here and here, i mentioned about interviewing some of the natives there on the allah issue? most of them respond with “nadai namanama!” – that is, in the iban language, “no problem!”. yes, to the sarawakians, christians and muslim alike, to them there’s no …
(translated: another national waste project) the new istana negara at jalan duta! on my return trip from selangau, sarawak, i stayed over at sharon’s and in the morning she bought me to the new istana construction site and i took several pictures of the site… from a far, the opposite …
an article by my friend, martin jalleh. ———————————————- For a very long time the US government was looking for a political lackey to do its bidding in South East Asia. They scoured the earth and soon found their man in Bolehland – a land where anything is possible. He was …
ok this is a very personal, long-winded post about my trip to selangau, so if you are not into such stuff, ignore this, ok. day 1 – thurs, 14 jan. reached bintulu about 4.00pm. mr sim, our host, and the local activist, was on hand to greet us and brought …
yep, i’m back… on monday actually, then stay over at sharon’s house in kl before taking the aeroline coach back to penang yesterday. indeed it was an eye-opening, totally new, discovering experience for me the 4 days i was in selangau. there were only 2 of us from peninsula (3 …