Archive for August, 2008
Posted by Steven Sim on August 27th, 2008 | Categorized as Government, Malaysia, Politik | Tagged as Anwar Ibrahim, Arif Shah, Election Commission, Permatang Pauh
My friend, CH sent me an interesting calculation…
At the closing of the poll, it was reported about 65% of the voters turned out (Malaysiakini even reported this piece of info being quoted by Election Commission secretary Kamaruzaman at 6.55pm). But in the end, Election Commission reported that the actual turnout was about 80%. That’s 15% of [...]
Posted by Steven Sim on August 27th, 2008 | Categorized as Government, Malaysia, Politik | Tagged as Koh Tsu Koon, Lee Kah Choon, Parti Gerakan Rakyat Malaysia, tan kee kwong, Tan Lian Hoe, Toh Kin Woon
During the polling day at Teluk Wang, there was a sole Gerakan member who presumably was a voter at the polling centre there. I respect his loyalty to racist UMNO (I mean, they were the ones who shouted “Cina mati” at us), he even led in the cheer a few times…way to go bro!
Anyway, this [...]
Posted by Steven Sim on August 27th, 2008 | Categorized as Government, Malaysia, Politik
I got this nice little statitistical data on email this morning…The turnout was almost the same during 308 GE and 826 BE with only 477 voters lesser on 826 BE, but UMNO suffered a greater lost compared to 308! Arif Shah’s vote was 1426 lesser than what UMNO received earlier in March. And Anwar Ibrahim [...]
Posted by Steven Sim on August 26th, 2008 | Categorized as Government, Malaysia, Poetry, Politik | Tagged as Anwar Ibrahim, Permatang Pauh, Reformasi
An intense week of campaigning just ended for me…
I was on duty at the Teluk Wang polling district for the P44 Pmtng Pauh By-Election since about 8 am this morning. Some interesting observations:
1. Although there were waves of blue Barisan Nasional posters and flags everywhere, the presence of a single race Malay supporters in Arif [...]
Posted by Steven Sim on August 21st, 2008 | Categorized as Government, Malaysia, Politik | Tagged as Barisan Nasional, P44, Permatang Pauh, UMNO
I met with my old fren Chris today, he is volunteering with Mafrel to monitor the P44 BE. We went out for dinner together with another key Mafrel leader, BK Ong. It was good meeting with Chris again, after dinner he showed me some photos taken by Mafrel volunteers worthy to match the Puteris in [...]
Posted by Steven Sim on August 20th, 2008 | Categorized as Community, Government, Malaysia, Penang, Politik | Tagged as Dato, Lee Chong Wei
UPDATE: My boss, State Youth and Sports Exco’s press statement can be found here
After Dato’ Nicol David who was conferred the State title during the Yang Di Pertua Pulau Pinang’s birthday this year, another young athelete, Penangite and Malaysian Olympic hero, Lee Chong Wei will be awarded with the Darjah Setia Pangkuan Negeri which carries the [...]
Posted by Steven Sim on August 18th, 2008 | Categorized as Malaysia, Penang, Politik | Tagged as P44, Permatang Pauh, Puteri UMNO
What are they (Puteri UMNO members) doing pointing to the poor boy’s behind? “Undi-lah Barisan Nasional”.
Anyway, did PKR really whack journalists? Who knows? There were tens of thousands of people that day and even if the Rocky was wearing Pakatan Rakyat tshirts, PKR kept throwing out free tshirts to the crowd, by the hundreds. And [...]
Posted by Steven Sim on August 18th, 2008 | Categorized as Malaysia, Politik | Tagged as Parti Gerakan Malaysia
We’ll all wait for October to see if Gerakan really have the guts to make the right decision to quit Barisan Nasional. Their most conscientious leaders such as Dato Dr. Toh Kin Woon and earlier, Dato Lee Kah Choon and Dr. Tan Kee Kwong had already opening stood up to support the Pakatan Rakyat’s cause.
Perak Gerakan mulls calling [...]
Posted by Steven Sim on August 17th, 2008 | Categorized as DAP, Government, Malaysia, Politik | Tagged as Anwar Ibrahim, Barisan Nasional, Pakatan Rakyat, Permatang Pauh
Some tit-bits on P44 by-election
1. I was working on Nomination Day - had to launch two events on the island - so I missed the fun at the Nomination centre. My comrades were all there and they reported about 70% of the tens of thousands (some said 30k, some said 100k, most news paper said [...]
Posted by Steven Sim on August 15th, 2008 | Categorized as DAP, Government, Malaysia, Politik | Tagged as Anwar Ibrahim, by-election, P44, Permatang Pauh
PR and BN said there’ll be about 100, 000 people at the Nomination Centre tomorrow. It’ll be helluva logistic nightmare…Two entry points to the Maktab Perguruan Tengku Bainun are the Butterworth-Kulim Highway, and Jalan Berapit (from Bkt. Mertajam).
The green arrow is the entry into the road leading up to the Maktab (marked by the blue A buble). There [...]