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ktemoc goes all ‘piggy’

… i mean in his posts. 🙂 …on the issue of the melaka state government trying to cull pigs in paya mengkuang, melaka. ktemoc, the very articulate out-spoken good blogger friend of mine, had 3 posts up on it already and there is still part 4 coming up. do read …

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 …

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 …

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 …

makkal osai will appeal

from malaysiakini, extract: When contacted, Makkal Osai general manager SM Periasamy said the letter noted that the publication of the image was inappropriate and could endanger public order. "We will be appealing to the government. It was a genuine mistake on our part and we have apologised to all parties," …

robbers and karaoke singers

remember the port klang assemblyman and councillor who build a mansion without permission? all 37 charges against him had been dropped!! yep, you heard me right. dropped!! just like that! god help us!! i first knew of it through jeff ooi’s blog, then later on at aisehman’s. (2 of my …

national anthem in different version

in the light of the wee meng chee negaraku (national anthem) controversy, what do you think will happen if i post some different version of negaraku? should i? dare i? will the gomen made noise i insulted the national anthem? will i be charged under the national anthem act? yesterday …