Preeta Samarasan, and my other blogs

I am enjoying Preeta Samarasan “Evening is the Whole Day” on my lovely balcony this morning. Having my coffee and keeping Bangkok’s state of emergency (again!) tucked away, for the moment, at one corner of my mind, to be visited, maybe later today.
Preeta is one amazing writer, and I can relate to her great story because I [...]

State of emergency in Bangkok, some news for stranded Malaysians

I’m taking a break guys, for 2 days at least, from this blog. So enjoy this music from Bjork, which is also titled “state of emergency”. But you’ll get a different feeling listening to it. Don’t worry about me, I am not stranded and I am okay.
The state of emergency has [...]

No to ISA forum on 1 December

(Image of slab stone by Wits)
A people’s forum (no to ISA) will be held on 1 December, to flag off a mass gathering against ISA scheduled on March 2009.
Five panelists will grace the forum to share views and discuss about the cruel Act, which is planned to take place at the Bar Council Hall, at 8.00pm.
Organised [...]

Khalid Ibrahim – what are you saying???

SUARAM strongly condemns the suggestion made by Selangor Chief Minister Khalid Ibrahim on public assemblies in Selangor following an agreement reached with Selangor Police Chief.
Suaram is of the view that the suggestion has clearly undermined the fundamental rights guaranteed by the Federal Constitution and is against the principles of freedom of peaceful assembly set forth [...]

Deadline for new government: next life?

Anwar Ibrahim’s “It will happen” [with reference to Pakatan Rakyat taking over the government], sounds just like Abdul Razak Baginda’s “I know” [with reference to Najib Tun Razak and Rosmah Mansor ever knowing Altantuya Sharibuu].
Don’t you think so?
You can’t continue to say these things and hope that the people will continue to believe you.
Some people [...]

I’m living in Bangkok zoo

These are what my friends in Bangkok are saying. And this is what Associate Professor Giles Ji Ungpakorn of Chulalangkorn University has said about the entire Bangkok-seige fiasco:
How did the PAD thugs manage to seize Bangkok International airport? Airports are supposed to be high security areas. Thai airports are controlled by the Thai military. It [...]

Trust issues in the Altantuya case

Image by Wits, thank you.
“Aristotle (384-322 BC), writing in the Rhetoric, suggested that Ethos, the Trust of a speaker by the listener, was based on the listener’s perception of three characteristics of the speaker.
“Aristotle believed these three characteristics to be the intelligence of the speaker (correctness of opinions, or competence), the character of the speaker [...]

Thanks to all! Irene Fernandez acquited!

After 13 years, Irene is free at last! Read it on MALAYSIAKINI.
Earlier, I received this appeal letter from Jennifer Mourin of Penang. Friends, please show your support for human rights defender Irene Fernandez by signing the online petition on http://www.foodsov.org/html/petition11.php.  Thank you very much.

Tuan, not all is lost in Malaysia!

There is still hope left for good ol’ Malaysia with thoughts and people like this!
Source: The Nut Graph. Thanks to Shanon Shah.
“If anyone deserves to be called the ‘tuan’ of this land, it’s the Orang Asli.” Nur Farina Noor Hashim, the People’s Progressive Party (PPP) Puteri bureau head.
“I love Malays and I love Malaysia,” says [...]

Code of ethics from an unethical character? Forget it!

While I am all for a code of ethics for bloggers, I don’t need an unethical person who scoffs at the law of natural justice by signing orders for detention without trial under the ISA, to tell me, that I, a blogger needs a code of ethics!
Do you, as a blogger, believe this guy or [...]