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what is globilisation?

perhaps some of you have came across this before: ————– What is the height of globalization? Answer: Princess Diana’s death Question: How is it? Answer: An English princess with an Egyptian boyfriend crashes in a French tunnel, driving a German car with a Dutch engine, driven by a Belgian who …

aliran latest issue

go get the latest issue of aliran! interesting read! there are 3 articles from people i know. anil netto, a church friend, like martin jalleh. dr cecilia ng, whom i know just casually, and finally from the office of ‘penang office for human development’ – the ‘branch office’ of my …

going gaa-gaa over google email

apology to all gmail lovers… this is a grumbling of a non gmail lover. the god of email??? oh enough already!! gmail! gmail!l gmail! everywhere i go – blogs and forums – people were talking about gmail. i noticed many bloggers like huai bin, oliviasy, meesh, sashi, ash, etc, etc, …

slowing down….

from today onwards, you won’t see me blogging everyday as I’ll be very busy. first of all, I had taken up two ‘moonlighting’ jobs. the first one I blog about it before – a job with a software solutions company, forest software solutions. i had already finished one job for …

travellers’ tales from FEER

no time to blog again, so here’s are some interesting and amusing stories from my favourite coloum “travellers’ tales” from the far easter economic review (FEER). ——————————————————————————————————- From The Far Eastern Economics Review Issue cover-dated June 24 2004 TRAVELLERS’ TALES By Nury Vittachi China Discovers People The Middle Kingdom’s press …

a day for fathers

to all the fathers, daddies, papas out there…. and in other languages: ;Dia Del Padre Feliz! Giorno Del Padre Felice! Tag Des Glucklichen Vaters! Le Jour Du Pere Heureux! Dia Do Pai Feliz! i had 2 short stories… er… articles actually written about my late father which appeared in the …

ways to say someone is stupid

very very tired last night, after returning from a mass and dinner, of which i’m in the organsiing committee. it’s no joke organising such a big event, mind you (national level, with 400 people in attendance at the dinner). so tired running around. will blog about this later. in the …

of a right hand, old hand, & heavy hand

haha. martin is at it again. good write-up here, hence i’m producing it here verbatim in it’s full glory. ————————————— Of a right hand, old hand, & heavy hand By Martin Jalleh When the premiership was handed over to him, Pak Lah had promised that much-needed change was close at …

ex PM, the tun talks

well well, whaddya know. long time we no hear anything from our ex PM but suddenly last week, he was in the news when his gift of timber to zimbabwe president, robert mugawe was discovered. in case you have missed aliran’s excellent write-up on this matter, pont your browser to …