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article 11 forum in johor

learned from howsy’s blog that the forum ‘federal constitution: protection for all’ by article 11 forum will be held in johor this time. Date : Saturday, 22 July 2006 Time : 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Venue: Hotel Selesa Jalan Dato Abdullah Tahir / Jalan Tebrau, Johor Bahru and here …

B&L: extra polymer the cause of fungus infection

remember few months back there was this ‘eyecare scare news’ with regards to a popular brand of contact lens solution – bausch and lomb’s renu? the renu moistureloc was said to cause some eye infection after using it. well at that time i was using B&L’s renu moistureloc and when …

police let the mob rule (contd.)

this week i am very busy with work (office and voluntary) thus no blogging from me. what i can do is of course a CnP job… provide you with some interesting read from the newsgroup, beritamalaysia (for those who have not subsribe to it). can you believe it? in response …

mgg pillai – the man, THE journalist

mgg pillai, the ‘legendary’ journalist. (pic taken from jeff ooi’s) 1939 – 2006 (age: 67) cause of death: heart attack day/time of death: 28 april 2006, 10.47am it is with a tinge of sadness that i learned of the death of mgg pillai, first through the ‘beritamalaysia’ newsgroup, then at …

century-old hindu temple destroyed!

… no, not by fire or landslide.. or any natural disaster, but by officers from KL’s city hall (DBKL). bulldozed and demolished by them!! the worst part of it was that the temple was demolished when about 300 devotees were inside performing prayers. how insensitive DBKL officers can be! gosh! …

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 …

typo mistake on bill

with reference to my earlier post on the ridiculous way off mighty expensive bill from telekom, the latest news now is that telekom said it was a typo mistake and firmly deny they were at fault. the RM806,400,000,000.01 as reported earlier was actually RM80.640000000000001 so said telekom, and it was …

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 …