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terima kasih, tuanku-tuanku!

yesterday evening while i was in church having a meeting discussing about ways how we can help some vietnammese migrant workers who attend mass at our church, an SMS came in from zorro: pass this msg around. rulers rejected extension of CJ. power to the rakyat. whoa! what good news! …

An Open Letter to YM Sultan Azlan Shah

An Open Letter to YM Sultan Azlan Shah Your Royal Highness, Thank you very much for portraying the truth about the state of the country’s judiciary and your accompanying clarion call for major reforms in the judiciary during your opening address at the 14th Malaysian Law Conference recently. You acknowledged …

factions within the police force

  whoa! after the lingam tape, here comes another kopi-tiam talk for all of us – an interesting revelation by commercial crime Investigation department (CCID) director ramli yusuff (picture, left, taken from malaysiakini) that he was the person being investigated for the RM27 million in undeclared assets. not only that …

irene fernandez wins libel suit

good news! CnP from malaysiakini:Migrant-labour activist Irene Fernandez won her defamation suit against Malay-language daily Utusan Malaysia at the Kuala Lumpur High Court today and was awarded RM200,000 in damages. “I am of the opinion that the article was not a piece of responsible journalism,” justice Tee Ah Sing said …

zam, zam, alikazam! i was right!

yippy! i was right! so  happy! thank you, zam, thank you! on 18 oct. when i blog about the RSF press freedon index, at the last paragraph i wrote: —"gee, i wonder if our government will heed all the calling. first of all, will the govt. bother with RSF’s index …

hari hartal

oh well, since everybody (well almost… everybody of SoPo bloggers i mean) were blogging about this, i might as well jump in the bandwagon too… before midnight strikes, thus no more 20 oct. haha. i guess not many of you heard of hari hartal, no? (hartal, ok, not natal… which …

press freedom in m’sia going to the dogs

yep, righto!.. because it has plunged not 5, not 10, not 23 but 32 notches down from last year’s index of 92. this came from reporters without borders‘ (RSF) world press freedom index 2007. you will be able to see the full list of all countries under the index at …

mansion stay for orphans… ??

now you see it… now you see it more! … because the owner is an UMNOputera bigshot.… because there are two laws in our country – one for UMNO, one for others. yes remember the zakaria mansion that was illegally constructed that became an issue last year? how even though …

there goes our space flight participant

SHORT UPDATE:kittykat had pointed out in comments, to me this dr SMS is not the first muslim in space (much as i guess). oh well, but then do you know they label him as ‘first muslim in space during ramadan monht’. what’s this obsession about being first eh? if they …

the lingam tape – facts from the conversation

i love malaysiakini. see how hard-working they are – to analyse the conversation and came up with facts connecting to the conversation. kudos to them! since i realised i have not blog on the lingam tape (specifically, but mentioning it when blogging other stuffs, yes) before, now i will CnP …