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penang blitz? boo!

‘penang blitz’ was the heading on the star’s paper but the online version has the heading ‘BN big guns roll into penang‘. who were the big guns? of course the biggest of all – the PM. then MCA president and his deputy and MIC deputy and secretary general. there were …

general election and the common good

GENERAL ELECTIONS & THE COMMON GOOD the following is CnP, an interview with abdul malek  husin, chairman of MAFREL (picture), in the catholic asian news (CANews), february 2008 issue. note: for other highlights of the CANews, which include 2 articles on the common good, click here. ———————————————————– What are the …

aliran is shocked at the RCI…

… but i’m not! aliran is shocked and devastated at the royal commission of inquiry’s (RCI) decision not to call anwar as a witness. i was not shocked because this was as expected lah! it was anwar, and not only him but including others like lim kit siang and the …

looks like i wrote this – did i?

looks like our neighbour down south across the border is laughing at our "looks like me, sounds like me" lingam man too. a columnist from the singapore business time by the name of jaime ee wrote this hilarious piece. i got to know of this via rocky’s blog, who in …

lingam: “i was bullshitting…”

yeah right…. and you are now bullshitting us too, mr lingam. the latest circus act lingam put on "i was bullshitting and bragging" according to malaysiakini (and beritamalaysia). this came after his infamous "it looks like me, it sounds like me". i thought he had said "it looks like me, …

monitoring the election (2)

UPDATED:  just notice, after posting this, that in the star paper, a writer had written about the different electoral system. click here (the star) to read or at beritamalaysia. ———————–ORIGINAL POST this is a continuation of my post ‘monitoring the election‘. please read that post first (if you haven’t yet) …

monitoring the election

on 20 jan, i attended a workshop organised by MAFREL. as you can see from the file cover picture here, the name of the workshop. translated to english, it is ‘workshop on monitoring works for the 12th general election, northern region’. (or simply ‘election watch…’ instead of ‘monitoring works’) it …