The press statement I issued as secretary of DAP Jln Tembikai branch today:
The despicable incident which happened to YB Elizabeth Wong should indict us as a society and as a nation. We seemed to have lost the civility and moral direction as a people if we allow a State leader, a woman or even a [...]
Been on books shopping spree this month. The below short reviews are not exactly a critic, it’s the “feel” kind of review after I’ve read the first couple of chapters. I have not finished reading any one of those books yet, now starting with Mandela’s autobiography. And I just realized they are all on politics and economics… [...]
This morning, we sang Graham Kendrik’s The Servant King at church.
I admit, I cried a little when we sang:
There in the garden of tears
My heavy load He chose to bear
His heart with sorrow was torn
‘Yet not My will but Yours,’ He said
This is our God, the Servant King
He calls us now to follow Him
To bring [...]
I never felt good about party defection in the Parliament, even previously. And I wrote after Perak, defection game is not for us to play.
Yet I can’t help but to think that we are not comparing apple to apple when we accuse Anwar of losing his own game of political defection.
The first accusation is that Anwar Ibrahim [...]
God of our weary years,
God of our silent tears,
Thou who has brought us thus far on the way;
Thou who has by Thy might
Led us into the light,
Keep us forever in the path, we pray.
Lest our feet stray from the places, our God, where we met Thee,
Lest, our hearts drunk with the wine of the world, [...]
My quick thought on the Perak episode:
The defection game is not for us to play. I used to think about Sir Winston Churchill when justifying defectors, but UMNO representatives have not Churchill’s character nor wisdom to make good ethical defection. We will end up having leaders with no backbones or a trojan horse – both [...]
Najib’s Call for Change?
It could have been taken as a speech off Obama’s script.
Our next Prime Minister’s recent call to his party, Barisan Nasional (contrast Obama’s call to his nation), “Change or else…” seemed to resonate with the current of our times.
In fact, he acknowledged that, the Obama-effect has trickled down to everywhere around the [...]
I came back to find this…
I’ve arrived in Malaysia! After almost three weeks away in the land of the free and home of the brave, Amerika Syarikat!
There are many things to be shared there, but I will slowly digest them and try to write it out as soon as possible.
For now, I am quite happy that the two articles I [...]
