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mother teresa – the one i admire

blessed mother teresa of calcutta (new title as of 19 oct. 2003) hey, what do you know… the pope and i have one thing in common… no no i’m not suffering from parkinson’s disease mind you. both of us admire the same person – the late mother teresa (aka saint …

a song for mother teresa

this is a continuation of the blog below (‘mother teresa – the one i admire’). i don’t want to make a blog post too long, so i’m continuing my say of mother teresa here. make sure you read the post below first! a few days after the death of mother …

ahh… here it comes again

oh no! oh no! here it comes again. my headache! or is it migrane? never like to use the word migrane as it sounds so scary. on 1st oct. i had blog about this headace of mine here. it is the same kind… pain just below the eyebrow (and eyeball …

sad news

i was shocked when i went into jeff’ ooi’s blog (screenshot) and saw this: ===== Al-Fatihah Johan Ismail of Joe-Blogs fame has returned to rahmatullah peacefully early this morning. Received the devastating news from Dinesh Nair who sms-ed me from outstation immediately when he woke up. He made several phone …

sleepzzzzzzz…. how much is needed?

many interesting current issues like the OIC and dr m’s ‘jewish speech’ had already been blogged by many others so i will give those a miss. what to blog about now? ahh… why i’m still up now. it’s 5 past 2.00am. though i feel sleepy i’m still up. but thank …

Of wind, whistled judges and whistleblowers

my good friend martin jalleh email me his article this afternoon, which of course i’ll be glad to put it here in my blog to share with you all. he wrote this immedaitely after learning of irene fernandez’s sentence. ————— Of wind, whistled judges and whistleblowers The winds of change …

irene fernandez

yesterday was another sad day where the judiciary is concern. irene ferandez was found guilty. do you remember the irene fernandez case? it was the longest trial in malaysia. to jog your memory…… irene fernandez is from ‘tenaganita‘ a rights group that focus on women and migrant workers. her trial …

astronaut, cosmonaut, taikonaut, what-not

and it is ‘angkasawan malaysia’ (malaysian astsronaut) for malaysia, so said our defence minister datuk seri najib. he said: “The person selected will be promoted as a Malaysian Astronaut and not Astronaut or Cosmonaut,” (silly, if the person is from malaysia, of course understood s/he will be a malaysian astronaut) …

the island of feelings

as last night i returned home late after a meeting and supper, i don’t have anything to post, so instead am going to post here a beautiful story call ‘the island of feelings’. —————- ISLAND OF FEELINGS Once upon a time, there was an island where all the feelings lived: …

flood and links

well thank god there’s no more incessant rain in penang these days therefore no more flooding. it seems that in those 3 days of incessant rain which started from 8 oct, it was recorded that in the mainland, they had the highest rainfall ever ever since… a decade ago! it …