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UMNO merdeka story a lie

CnP job from the penang human rights link yahoo groups. ——————————————- TIME TO RE-WRITE HISTORY UMNO MERDEKA STORY A LIE *Kuala Lumpur**, 29 August 2007* A demand was made that the nation’s history be rewritten and the true story be told. This was welcomed by the audience, a crowd of …

orang asli – forgotten and marginalised

when one of malaysiakini’s merdeka special highlighted the forgotten people – the orang asli of the jahai tribe , i can relate to the story  (what the orang asli disclosed i mean) very well as i myself had heard straight from the horse’s mouth, so to speak of another orang …

50 posts to merdeka

remember the ‘50 posts to merdeka‘ project started by nizam bashir of poetic justice? i was tagged at no. 16 by dr. hsu (no. 15), and i in turned tagged politics101 (no. 17). the posts moves in descending order, with of course nizam being at no. 50. we have famous …

aliran 30 anniversary dinner

date:  2 september (sunday) 2007time:  7.30pmvenue: in penang. enquire from aliran for the exact venuecost:  RM60 per ticketin performance: the instant cafe theatre company  with patrick teoh, edwin sumun and nell ng.contact: aliran, tel. 04-6585251 should have informed this earlier but forgot. never mind, i’m sure there are still tickets …

this… is merdeka?

regular visitors would have notice that lately after each of my post, i ended with ‘apa ertinya 50 tahun merdeka?’ (translation: what is the meaning of 50 years of merdeka?).  this phrase came from a plantation worker in one of the estate in sg siput, perak, that i and friends …

new cocktail for merdeka 50!

UMNOnised – add a pinch of race and religon, top up with islamisation, sprinkle with may 13 and stir with a keris. serve with no apology. this (above) was my answer to walski’ question on facebook  – "If you were to name a cocktail in honor of the coming Golden …

my dear malaysia – what has become of you?

yesterday i CnP an article from the catholic asian news. – a view from a young man, and now read a view from a veteran. the writer here, k. george – name is familiar. i think he had written to malaysiakini a few times. ———————————————-Catholic Asian News August 2007 (Veteran …

malaysia – the next 50 years

as a run-down to our golden merdeka this friday, i will be posting articles from our catholic magazine, catholic asian news that touch on merdeka. i had already posted ‘50 years of isalmisation‘ on 2 aug., and here now is a view from a young man, colin nunis. ——————————————Catholic Asian …

will mykad tells that you are a blogger?

yeah i was wondering about this after i read in elizabeth wong’s blog about how suaram director, dr kua kia soong was denied entry into sarawak because his mykad contain information that he had been blacklisted for his involvement in anti-logging activities. oh, and his mykad also tells on him …