The grandson of an immigrant family from India felt the need to reassert his “Malayness” and decided to remind everyone that the non Malays were “penumpang” rightly or wrongly. Then a journalist from a Chinese press did her job and reported what was said because the statement by the grandson was made in a public [...]
My previous post on the Ahmad Ismail-Koh Tsu Koon episode was published in the Micah Mandate website today, albeit with some alteration (too partisan?? hehehe…)
I have been receiving SMS-es to boycott nasi kandar restaurants for their purported support of Ahmad Ismail’s unapologetic racism and just a few moments ago another SMS asking people to stay [...]
The Ahmad Ismail-Koh Tsu Koon episode has exposed Barisan Nasional’s true colours in terms of racial unity - they have none. I think BN’s accusation of Pakatan Rakyat’s marriage of convenience now echoes loudly back at them. There has never been room for true racial integration in Barisan Nasional’s communal politics. Each of its main [...]
As I was reading Ahmad Ismail’s statement and his reiteration of the supposed “racist” statement, I remembered a little “berbalas pantun” I had with a Malaysiakini reader two years back:
He wrote:
Ishak Abd Rahman:
Surat protest di katakan ultimatum Pemuda
Memorandum komponen BN dikatakan permintaaan saja
Jeff Ooi dan Malaysiakini nak main isu apa?
Bebaik nanti termakan kata kata [...]
A suprising paragraph from a new book I bought:
Brian Keenan (An Evil Cradling) describes how, after being beaten by one of his captors, his first thoughts of revenge were replaced by something else:
As my anger diminished I felt a new and tremendous kind of strength flooding me. The more I was beaten the stronger I [...]
Someone was reported to have made these remarks over the weekends, “Babi, Balik Cina”.
My Country, ’tis of Thee,
Sweet Land of Liberty
Of thee I sing;
Land where my fathers died,
Land of the pilgrims’ pride,
From every mountain side
Let Freedom ring.
My friend Y and I was at Starbucks the other. I must admit that I have been a little stressed up from work these days (and the news of Anwar’s arrest didn’t help at all) and wanted a breather and some good coffee…and Y was a great company, as usual.
We chatted from politics to philosophy [...]
I first ate at Pak Hainan Kopitiam (Hainan Loh) in Alor Setar. It was really good, the black Hainanese coffee and their curry chicken rice. I mean their chicken rice is way above the other Shop named after the dish. And their kopi O (local black coffee) is, in my opinion, better than the Ipoh [...]
SUKMA 12 has ended…
Penang got 8th placing. 27 golds. Not unexpected but I didn’t think we will do more than 6th. Some blame it on the participation of national athletes this time around. But for me, it’s time for active reflection about our sports management. Post mortem before the end of this month…
But before that [...]
I’ll be flying to Terengganu in a three hours time. The orginal flight was supposed to be 9.35 am but was postponed to 11.05am. But nothing to complain, FireFlyz. It’s cheap, fast and seriously, inflight service was reasonably good despite having only two cabin on the Penang-Kuala Terengganu route.
Had some photos to post, but I’ll [...]
