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pak lah’s ‘change’ a mere cheer ‘n chant

today am very tired so have nothing to post except to draw your attention to martin jallen’s article in malaysiakini tittled ‘pak lah’s ‘change’ a mere cheer ‘n chant’. an excerpt: A vote for Pak Lah is a vote for a hegemony of growing executive dominance which has reduced the …

the P of politics

oh no. last night came back so late after the talk on ‘election 2004: vote for democracy’ (organised by POHD and aliran) that i have no time to blog. already now it’s over 2.00am… suppose to be in bed now! just to mention one of the talk by dr francis …

ha ha! padan muka!

yipee!! one down for the BN! 2 of his BN kaki had been caught for offering bribe to a PAS contestant for not standing for the election. yes i’m happy but the PM seems to be angry. although our PM was angry and regret the incident, but the menteri besar, …

playing with words

jikon lai in his latest blog post had creatively come up with some interesting names for the political parties’ acronym. UMNO – Upwardly Mobile Natives Organisation BN – Blighted Nationalist MCA – Mangled Collusions Association MIC – Muddled Infighting Coterie DAP – Dithering Allegiance Party PAS – Party Against Secularism …

manifesto, manifesto

going through BN’s manifesto, under religion, apart from just mentioning islam is the official religion but malaysians are free to practise other religions, there is nothing else for the ‘other religions’. apparently BN’s manifesto for religion concentrate on islam and islam only and no other religions. sure i understand, since …

democracy and you

voters’ education talk on ‘democracy & you’ date: 18th march (thu) time: 8.00pm place: wisma katholik, 288 macalister road, penang organiser: POHD & ALIRAN

the ads started

if you read the star paper yesterday, you would have notice 5 full pages of ads from who else but BN. 3 of the ads were belittling DAP and PAS. the last words on the ads said: every vote for DAP only weakens barisan nasional’s ability to fight PAS. a …

excellence, glory and distinction

here it comes…. the excellent, glorious, distinctive (cough!) manifesto of BN. “We will pursue comprehensive and balanced development, based on first-class governance, management, service, mentality and noble values among all Malaysians,” said Abdullah, who is leading the BN in a general election for the first time after succeeding Tun Dr …

the election commission

what do you think of the election commission (EC)? do you agree with aliran that it had been unfair? aliran cited the main reason of EC being unfair due to the short campaigning period it fixed. the short period seems to favour the ruling coalition. aliran said that EC in …

mishaps with chaly

ok so much politic talk for past days… or rather election talk, today some personal yakkity yak from me ok. now to get on with the story of chaly and me getting into some mishaps. remember my last blog on chaly and me? i mentioned i would be telling stories …