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sheer arrogance

‘JAKIM won’t wait for decency guidelines‘ screamed the headline in NST of 19 april. Muslim couples caught kissing or committing other indecent acts in public will be dealt with by the Islamic Affairs Department (Jakim) regardless of any advice from the Housing and Local Government Ministry. Department director-general Datuk Mustapa …

BUG to bug dr teng hock nan

calling penangites who uses the public transport! (people rushing for the transit link bus. picture taken from china press.) if you do not know yet, i.e. if you do not read the star paper or surf the penangwatch website, a new group known as ‘bus user groups‘ or BUG in …

earthquake proof buildings?

The committee comprises experts from the Public Works Department (PWD), Penang Island Municipal Council (MPPP), Seberang Perai Municipal Council (MPSP), the Department of Environment (DOE), the Mineral and Geo-Science Department, Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM) and the Institute of Engineers Malaysia(IEM). what committee? apparently this committe is to: “gather information on …

kissing and hugging at DBKL

did you happened to walk by the city hall office (DBKL) yesterdayafternoon? if you did, you would have witness a lovey-dovey scene where couples hugged and kissed and exchanged roses. wahh! why they so brave to do that when lately we heard so much about this court judgement on that …

there is a need for IPCMC

there is an interesting article in malaysiakini that talks on ‘the most dangerous place to be’. can you take a guess where? none other than inside the police lock-up! why is that so? because there seemed to be lots of people dying while in police custody. In the last five …

online petition for IPCMC

i guess many of you are aware that there had been lots of objection to the PM’s call to set up the independant police complaints and misconduct commissions and (IPCMC), from members of the police force and several barisan nasional MPs. later on, we heard that the minister in the …