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Lucia Lai

what to call the indians in hokkien?

although in my opinion, i don’t find keling derogatory but it was not right for that bad-ruddin guy to use the word keling in parliament. i mean he could had just use ‘indian’. bad-ruddin, the MP for jerai, the same one who shouted to lim kit siang, DAP opposition leader, …

tudung for ALL ladies in universities

ladies, i.e. non muslim ladies, you thinking of going to the U after your form 5 or form 6? be prepared to comply with the U’s uniform – wearing of tudung (headscarf)! (at least for now just the international islamic U). say thank you to the government for it, dears. …

female foreigners discriminated again

as if it’s not enough that foreign wives are discriminated on a few issues like foreign wives not allowed to work in our country (correct me if i’m wrong), a school in jinjang, KL, wants children with foreign mothers to pay extra school fees. and why foreign moms and not …

reply from pak lah’s website

for those of you who have left a condolence message to pak lah at the office of the prime minister website, you would have received the following thank you email, which comes in bahasa and english. i append here, ad verbatim, the english one. the email has subject ‘penghargaan terima …

a blogger i can’t forget

oh no! i missed out joe’s 2nd death anniversary. it was on 18 oct. but all the while i thought it was on 23 oct. (where i wanted to blog on it yesterday but no time). i wonder how on earth i could have mistaken the date 18 as 23 …

alternative sayings

UPDATED: have to get this clear. i did not came out with the following sayings. i copied them from some old joke website. 1. Do not walk behind me, for I may not lead. Do not walk ahead of me, for I may not follow. Do not walk beside me, …

the things our MPs discussed in parliament

about 2 weeks ago, some MP mentioned that citzenship of singer hattan should be revoked because he abuse the national anthem, negara-ku! he accused hattan of jiving up the negara-ku or something like that. this lead to the recent (3 days ago) discussion of the origin of negara-ku. what? you …

a great woman

pak lah and endon in happier times – such a loving couple. yesterday, at about the time of datin endon’s funeral, the sky open and the rain came pouring. it was as though heaven was weaping… weaping at the loss of a great well-loved woman. most of all so loved …

PM’s wife passed away

picture taken from PPS blog. original source not mentioned. latest news as from new strait times: Prime Minister Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi’s wife, Datin Seri Endon Mahmood, passed away at 7.55 today morning at her official residence in Seri Perdana, Putrajaya. the nation mourns. datin seri endon was such …

at low’s peak, mt. kinabalu

no no, of course it’s not me. where i have the stamina to scale the highest mountain in borneo. it’s huai bin (@killuminati) of sixthseal. as i’m totally astounded by his blog on his climb to low’s peak, i would like to share with you all his write-up on the …