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Court orders Raja Petra’s release

UPDATED as at 5.15pm Raja Petra freed following court rulingHafiz Yatim | Nov 7, 08 9:46am Controversial blogger Raja Petra Kamarudin was released from his Internal Security Act (ISA) detention at 3.20pm.MCPX The editor of the popular Malaysia Today website was brought to the Shah Alam High Court just five …

Of Pretentious Promises, Parachuting Promotions & Pressured Praise

Of Pretentious Promises, Parachuting Promotions & Pressured Praiseby Martin Jalleh The Palace of Justice has a new “prince” – Zaki Tun Azmi. He was promptly sworn in as Chief Justice (CJ) soon after the Conference of Rulers went through the procedural motions and provided consent to his extraordinary elevation. His …

15 nov, penang, anti-isa candlelight vigil

STICKY POST! please scroll down for new posts. PLEASE NOTE CHANGE OF VENUE!  PLEASE NOTE BACK TO ORIGINAL VENUE! click on the picture for bigger picture with my first post regarding the vigil. please read about it too at masterwordsmith-unplugged.  date:  15 november 2008 (saturday)time:   8.00pmvenue:  esplanade dewan sri pinang  …

remembering the dead

(wanted to blog about the road signs in penang hoo haa but don’t have time. will do so tomorrow. in the meantime blog on what happened yesterday). yes, yesterday, was our catholic church’s all souls day, a special day in the year, where we remember and visit the graves of …

march 8 show malaysian have ‘balls’

here is another excellent review of kee thuan chye's book 'march 8: the day malaysia woke up' by mustafa anuar, a lecturer at USM and who also blog. he was present at the 'book reading' on sunday. this review appeared in malaysiakini. i'm copying verbatim the whole article (complete with …

raya open house at a big house

it might be too late to talk about raya open house? well i went to the open house on 23 oct, and on 24 and 25 no time to blog about it and then deepavali was approaching already too so out of respect for deepavali, i decided not to blog …

blog about photography

my photography skill is really bad. bad? then it means no skill lah. haha. yeah i’m not good at photo taking at all. the fact is very evident when i attended many of the anti-isa vigils and took lots of photos, many didn’t turned out right, and those that turned …