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Lucia Lai

my mykad but is it my religion?

shocking! (or not?). teresa kok, the MP for seputeh disclosed that she had proof that more than 300 christians had their religion stated incorrectly in their mykad. “the names were collected from churches around the country. with the help of the national evangelical christian fellowship (NECF), this information will be …

day of the dead

the dead. today is their day! no, not halloween day nor the chinese’ hungry ghost day. today is the ‘day of the dead’ or more commonly known as ‘all souls day‘, a day where christians remember thier loved ones who had gone before them. today many people will be going …

8 golden rules to observe on the road

1) plan your journey. if you are tired, sleepy, drunk or in an emotional state, postpone your journey; 2) adhere to speed limits; 3) give signals and observe rules when changing lanes; look at the side mirrors and rear view mirror; 4) comply with traffic rules at intersections, especially at …

nicol david did it again!

yip yip hurray!! our true malaysian idol, nicol, did it again! she won the carol 2005 carol weymuller cup, a game played in new york yesterday. read about it here: squash talk (where the above picture was taken from). you know, i forwarded to nicol’s mum the few blogs that …

detained on strength of mere suspicion

read the account of these two people, dr. cecilia ng and br. anthony rogers, who are catholics, about their days under ISA (internal security act) during the infamous operation lallang in 1987. i met dr. cecilia ng before twice and just managed to casually talk to her for few minutes. …

inhuman bastards maniacs

how could they? targeting innocent civilians. in a busy market area. at this time when the victims were going to celebrate deepavali. how could they? beheading three innocent school children. reason being they were of a different religion from them. as jeff ooi said, this is worrying. yes, dead worrying …

you do not exist for yourself

YOU DO NOT EXIST FOR YOURSELF. ———————————————– The only hurdle between you and what you want to be, is the support of others. Your success depends on the support of other people. Put yourself in another’s place, and you’ll know why they think and do certain things. You can succeed …

re-setting your password

first of all, before you continue reading further, can you please read liewcf’s post here? you see, i had wanted to make some comments on that post of his but i found my comments to be so long (longer than his post!), that i thought, it’s better for me to …

what to call the indians in hokkien? part 2

actually the above heading should be ‘what to refer to the indians in the hokkien language’. i realise that in the comments of my previous post, i did not make myself so clear when i mentioned what to call the indians in hokkien…. when we only have the word ‘kelinga’ …