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Of Pretentious Promises, Parachuting Promotions & Pressured Praise

Of Pretentious Promises, Parachuting Promotions & Pressured Praiseby Martin Jalleh The Palace of Justice has a new “prince” – Zaki Tun Azmi. He was promptly sworn in as Chief Justice (CJ) soon after the Conference of Rulers went through the procedural motions and provided consent to his extraordinary elevation. His …

excuse me, they are graduates??

… with this kind of mentality? A newly-formed NGO comprising Malay graduates today filed a suit seeking a High Court injunction against both the state government and the Penang Island Municipal Council (MPPP) from erecting the signboards. The group calls itself Gabungan Graduan Melayu Muda (GGMM) or Young Malay Graduates …

detained by police for wearing t-shirt

what’s this i read? damn silly!! read from malaysiakini and see how silly the police were! (full article below). this man, KS oliver, attended a deepavali open house and was wearing one of those anti-isa t-shirts (created by RPK’s supporters – i have one too but different design). just because …

15 nov, penang, anti-isa candlelight vigil

STICKY POST! please scroll down for new posts. PLEASE NOTE CHANGE OF VENUE!  PLEASE NOTE BACK TO ORIGINAL VENUE! click on the picture for bigger picture with my first post regarding the vigil. please read about it too at masterwordsmith-unplugged.  date:  15 november 2008 (saturday)time:   8.00pmvenue:  esplanade dewan sri pinang  …

remembering the dead

(wanted to blog about the road signs in penang hoo haa but don’t have time. will do so tomorrow. in the meantime blog on what happened yesterday). yes, yesterday, was our catholic church’s all souls day, a special day in the year, where we remember and visit the graves of …

zaid: malays are not under siege

ok this will be another case of lazy blogging – a CnP job. learned of this term ‘lazy blogging’ from malaysiakini. anyway, i CnP this is because it is related to what i had posted 2 days ago, which i titled as ‘racism and social contract (NEP) everywhere‘, which looks …