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saw lim guan eng at ‘ho chiak’

i went to the mount miriam hospital’s ‘ho chiak’ charity food and fun fair yesterday morning and ran into our CM, lim guan eng, when he came to patronise some of the food stalls. he was there to officiate the event. when he stopped at the ‘siew mai’ stall to …

PAS MP said it is ok to use ‘allah’

alamak! the hearing (as i blog here) was postponed to coming tuesday. ayoh! why like this one – our malaysian court, always postphoning hearing/cases (eg. altantuya’s trial). this is the news from malaysiakini (with pictures). Herald vs Gov’t:  Judicial review postponedSoon Li Tsin | Apr 25, 08 2:35pm The judicial …

one moment modesty was outraged, the next no?

as a woman, if a man outraged my modesty, no matter what mood i am in – moody, sensitive, lousy, disturbed – the fact that my modesty had been outraged is there. oh, and also the fact that the man is a friend doesn’t change anything. why then did this …

chaly giving me problems but i still love him

ok since today is sunday, i’m not going to talk about politics or any current news/issues. i’m going to do a personal post. actually i had written this on friday (before my trip to ipoh) but i let wordpress publish it on today, sunday. i’m going to talk about my …

why banned makkal osai?

UPDATED:  so now syed hamid gave a reason – from sun2surf: ‘the newspaper did not abide by the media guidelines, besides having received several complaints against the newspaper.’ hmm… and what were the guidelines that they did not abide to? apparently about makkal osai stoking up racial sentiments. *sigh* there …

up… up… up… 2.6 bil… 3 bil… 4.3 bil!!

… that is the 3rd link of penang! the 2nd bridge! the idea of a second penang bridge was mooted in the year 1997 and at that time the cost was estimate between RM2 bil to RM2.6 bil.  then in 2004, when the federal government ok-ed the project., the cost …

penang NGO consultants forum

PENANG FORUM Date: 13 April 2008 (Sunday) Time: 9. 00 am to 4. 30pm Place: Disted College (Jalan Macalister/Jalan  Cantonment) Fee: RM5/participant to cover lunch and refreshments (payable on the day) Registration:  Phone 04-658 5251 (from Tuesday to Saturday during office hours) or email aliran@streamyx.com Organised by: the two dozen-odd …

fitna…

yeah i know this is old news. i had refrain from blogging on it lest people point the ‘islamaphobe’ finger at me. i do have lots to say but since this is old news, and also as i said i would be accuse as islamaphobe (boy! we non muslim just …

what? do away with the ferry?

shocked to read that penang plans to scrap vehicular ferry service once the second bridge is ready. the reasons being that the second bridge might be able to handle the traffic volume and also that the ferry service had been running at a loss. penang port chief said they, however …