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here we go again…

… the foreign minister, syed hamid said that singapore should apologise for lee kuan yew’s ‘racist’ remarks. earlier, if you remember, he also opened his big mouth to say the pope should made a full apology. “They should (apologise) for the sake of the two supposedly good neighbouring countries, they …

advices for motorists re: motorcyclists

ok it’s sunday, so i’ll let go serious stuff, i.e. all those pope talk, UMNO talk, racial talk, curry talk… er… khairy talk. something light today. i spy this in boringest blog – 10 things all drivers should know about motorcycles – and since i am a motorcyclist, i can …

penang bus forum

yesterday, at 5.30pm, i was at the penang bus forum where the groups BUG (bus users groups) and CEPAT, with some NGOs met dr teng hock nan. interesting meeting with dr teng. he announced a 2nd bus revamp plan coming soon. you can see the pictures and some short write …

Global Voices…

this post was supposed to go out yesterday but as i stated in the earlier post, something went wrong with my blog. so here i am posting this now. ————————————————————– remember my post on the bus report card? well surprisingly, it was picked up by global voices online. my post …

attn bus commuters! get your report cards!

all of you were in school before and know what a report card is right? that is to check on how you are doing in school with the various subjects and overall. well, a group of NGOs who had been monitoring the bus  revamp service in penang, has now come …

BUG to bug dr teng hock nan

calling penangites who uses the public transport! (people rushing for the transit link bus. picture taken from china press.) if you do not know yet, i.e. if you do not read the star paper or surf the penangwatch website, a new group known as ‘bus user groups‘ or BUG in …

die! more vehicles on the road soon!

prices of cars are going cheap! thus you will see more people buying cars. so predicted the road and transport department (RTD). hmm… and the gomen wants to solve congestion problem on the road? hey, don’t you know more cars add to the congestion? the RTD director was heard to …

new bus system

grrr! so much talk about the new bus system! do you know i am one of the casualty (if not the first… or earliest) of the new bus system? it was because of the new bus system that caused me to tripped and fall and hurt my eyes!! why can’t …

‘gifts’ for penangites?

when the 9th malaysian plan (9MP) was unveiled, it was said that penang received not one, but two ‘gifts’… or 2 1/2 gifts if you like. what were they? a second link, monorail and the penang outer ring road (PORR), which had already been implemented long ago. (thus the 2 …