Steven Sim

Words are more treacherous and powerful than we think - Jean-Paul Sartre

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Of Heroes and Gotong Royong…(1)

Sometimes, most of the time, heroes don’t come in capes and red undies.
For almost 10 years, or maybe more - the Indian auntie I met said it was already “sepuluh tahun”, it doesn’t matter, the point is, the people of Taman Permata flat had been living in a very run-down neighbourhood for a long time.
The [...]

Bayan Baru UMNO Youth Should Debate Issue Intellectually Rather Than Making Police Report(2)

The action of Bayan Baru UMNO Youth to lodge a report against Penang State Deputy Chief Minister II Prof. P. Ramasamy is both unnecessary and malicious.
 
Prof. Ramasamy speech did not criticize the affirmative action concerning the Malay community, but merely critized, substantiated with statistics, how UMNO has maneuvered a communal monopoly of the public sector [...]

Teresa: Saint or Prophet?(0)

Kit Siang called Teresa Kok a saint. 

St. Teresa of Seputeh
I think she’s somewhat of a prophet as well…
Excerpt from an interview of YB Teresa Kok by Guang Ming Daily the same week after her release from unjust detention under the Internal Security Act (ISA)
Q: Will this arrest affect the way you do things in the [...]

Titbits on P44 BE(2)

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 [...]

P44 Nomination Day - Change Dream Team(0)

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 [...]

Markets(1)

This Saturday, 24 May 08, I’ll be accompanying Chong Eng, Lydia, Michael Tan and the Yang Dipertua of Majlis Perbandaran Seberang Perai (with his guys) to tour the public markets in Bkt. Mertajam. We’ll start from Berapit Market at 8 a.m. Most of the market facilities were not well-maintained nor well-managed.
Take for example the Kg. [...]

Rocket Science(2)

Curious about what makes Penang a hub for rocket science? Click to find out :)