Posted in Activities, Festival, Friends & Family, Party on Feb 18th, 2007 No Comments »
After attending wedding reception in Hutan Perca, we went over to visit an old comrade in Machap Umboo.
Sun San-pao (å™ä¸‰ç‚®) was a party activist since the Labour Party days. In the 50s and 60s, Machap council was dominated by the Socialist Front. He joined Parti Keadilan Rakyat in 1999. He was the only one who [...]
Posted in Activities, Friends & Family, Party on Feb 17th, 2007 No Comments »
I attended two wedding receptions just prior to the Chinese New Year.
On 15 February, Bardrul Hisham Shaharin and Erahanem Md Zaki got married. The two young reformasi activists have been my very closed friends throughout years of struggle. Badrul now goes about with his nick name Che’gu Bard is a brave and intelligent young man [...]
Posted in Activities, Party on Feb 15th, 2007 No Comments »
15 February (Day 4)
Our lawyer Amir who was absent yesterday continued his cross examination on Yusof today. The nervous police officer was using a soft tone all the time. He insisted that he could not remember the content of the briefing by Tuan Bakri.
Amir asked him whether he knew of another operation against assembly in [...]
Posted in Activities, Party on Feb 14th, 2007 No Comments »
14 February (Day 3)
The witness called was Taharuddin bin Idris, a retired corporal aged 59 who is now living in Sg. Limau Perak. He appeared in the attire of a Pak Haji, wearing a white kopiah in court.
He was a police photographer between 1985-2003. He was shown a set of photos and he managed to [...]
Posted in Current Issues, Freedom of Information, Politics, Toll, Viewpoint on Feb 13th, 2007 2 Comments »
I am amazed with Nazri. Sometimes I wonder he is a chameleon or is suffering some form of schizophrenia. Last year (19 September 2006) Nazri told in the Parliament: “We need the OSA to carry out the government’s task efficiently and without disturbance.â€
The Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department now claimed that he disagrees with [...]
Posted in Activities, Party on Feb 13th, 2007 No Comments »
13 February 2007 (Day 2):
Today we started our trial at 11:00hr. The DPP brought a photographer Inspector Ismail bin Abdul Rahman with the rank of Sergeant to be the witness on the stand. He seemed nervous. Throughout the testimony and cross examination he spoke softly and carefully.
He said that he attended a briefing at Dataran [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Feb 12th, 2007 No Comments »
Forgive my French. I was corrected by a friend that the subhead of my blog “la vie existe à cause du choix” was inaccurate. I was reminded that “à cause” is normally referred to unfortunate event, the more appropriate phrase should be “la vie existe grace aux choix”.
Thank you for this assistance.
Let me take this [...]
Posted in Activities, Party on Feb 12th, 2007 1 Comment »
I had to attend a court case this morning. About 28 people were charged together in so-called Arsenic 2 case. The case was linked to a protest in 19 October 1999.
In September 1999, Anwar’s hair and urine samples were tested positive with arsenic. This news stunned the whole nation. On 18 September a mass demonstration [...]
Posted in Incident, Party on Feb 12th, 2007 1 Comment »
Dr Xavier’s house was attacked this morning about 1:30hr 12 February. White paint was thrown from outside and the culprit escaped on a motorcycle.
The family’s two cars were spilled with paint and took hours to scrub clean with the help of neighbours and friends. The whole family had a sleepless night till 5am in the [...]
Posted in Activities, Festival, Parliament Batu on Feb 12th, 2007 No Comments »
On the Sunday (11 February) before of Chinese New Year, I and a team of activists from Batu Service Center visited Sentul market. We distributed mandarin oranges to the residents and stall owners of all races as a gesture of friendship and harmony. We were warmly received. The festive atmosphere was shared by all among [...]