Posted in Activities, Party, Announcement on Feb 28th, 2007 No Comments »
“PARTI KEADILAN RAKYAT CHINESE NEW YEAR OPEN HOUSE”
“MAJLIS PERAYAAN TAHUN BARU CINA PARTI KEADILAN RAKYAT”
Date: 2 March 2007 (Friday)
Time: 20:00hr / 8:00 pm
Venue: Selangor Chinese Assembly Hall (SCAH),
No.1, Jln Maharajalela, 50150 Kuala Lumpur
Program include: lion dance, cultural perfomance, songs, music and so on. Speech by: Party Advisor Dato’ […]
Posted in Activities, Party, Announcement, Current Issues, Toll on Feb 27th, 2007 No Comments »
Angkatan Muda (Youth Wing) of Parti Keadilan Rakyat will hold a press conference in party HQ (Brickfields) at 11:00hr tomorrow (28 Feb). The press conference is said to reveal the SMART tunnel toll agreement. The government earlier announced that all contracts will be opened for public. It is not enough for the government to allow […]
Posted in Activities, Party, Current Issues, Toll on Feb 25th, 2007 1 Comment »
Anti Toll Hike Coalition (PROTES) organized a small leaflting exercise on Saturday (24 Feb) at Masjid India area. We gathered about 15:00hr in front of the Mosque, some 20 activists turned up. We moved around the stalls to distribute leaflets on toll hike to shoppers and stall owners.
Unfortunately the weather was not the best for […]
Posted in Activities, Human Rights on Feb 23rd, 2007 No Comments »
In 1996 Malaysian NGOs hosted an international event known as the second Asia Pacific Conference on East Timor (APCET-2). The first conference was held in Manila in 1994. The Kuala Lumpur meeting was shocked the world when a mob of Barisan Nasional Youth disrupted the event violently. One hundred or so participants were later arrested. […]
Posted in Activities, Human Rights, Current Issues, Crackdown on internet on Feb 22nd, 2007 No Comments »
The defamation lawsuit by the New Straits Times against bloggers was heard in chamber today. The trial was heard in the Civil Court in Wisma Denmark. Whenever I attend cases here, I always thought of Hemlet’s “something is rotten in the State of Denmark”. The phrase aptly reflects the state of judiciary system in our […]
Posted in Viewpoint, Politics, Toll, Freedom of Information on Feb 20th, 2007 2 Comments »
Now there is another twist on the OSA issue. On 19 Febrauary, the press reported that Samy Vellu made a new turn about on toll agreements. Samy claimed that the Prime Minister has in principle agreed that highway toll agreements should be declassified. In other words, the government will no longer treat toll agreements as […]
Posted in Viewpoint, Politics on Feb 19th, 2007 No Comments »
“Continue with NEP!”
That was PM Abdullah’s Chinese New Year gift to Malaysia. On 18 February Pak Lah was interviewed by Al Jazeera to talk about his vision.
I normally have no access to Astro. In fact, I don’t watch TV at all. It happened that I was back in my hometown Melaka to have my reunion […]
Posted in Activities, Friends & Family, Festival on Feb 19th, 2007 No Comments »
Chinese New Year is my annual escape from politics. It is not easy to find time to catch up with family members and friends. My friends in hometown are mainly school mates from primary and secondary schools.
Interestingly most of them are not staying in Melaka anymore. Quite a few live in KL. We never see […]
Posted in Activities, Friends & Family, Festival on Feb 18th, 2007 No Comments »
The dinner of Chinese New Year Eve is a solemn affair for the family. It is the time for reunion of the whole family.
My family was much larger when I was young. In my childhood, CNY Eve dinner was the reunion of the entire extended family. Family members from all my (paternal) uncles sat in […]
Posted in Viewpoint, Politics, Festival on Feb 18th, 2007 No Comments »
CNY Deco in the street of Melaka
Happy Lunar New Year!
Welcome to the year to golden pig! I was reminded to be mindful this new year as some of our Muslim friends might feel uncomfortable with the Zodiac sign this year. In Melaka, some MCA leaders requested all signs representing pig should be removed from the […]