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After the public holiday and National Day parade that accompany Merdeka, Malaysia Day is usually acknowledged simply in passing. But that doesn’t mean it’s not there. It’s always baffled me why we celebrate our independence with such aplomb but give little more than a cursory nod to the day Malaysia was formed. Isn’t this the [...]
I keep a list of thoughts and topics that come to me or that I might want to explore later on in my writing, and one of the things that’s been sitting there for quite a long time is this phrase, “Some things cannot be unsaid.”
I’m not going to share the incident that prompted [...]
By now you would probably have heard about the cow’s head temple demo incident, where a group of people marched with a severed cow’s head, took turns stepping on it and threatened bloodshed in the name of Islam. All because they didn’t want a Hindu temple relocated to (their) Section 23 in Shah Alam.
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When we were in Beijing, Em asked our tour guide what happened in Tiananmen Square. She gave some ill-informed answer about the protesters not liking Deng Xiaoping’s successor. I say “ill-informed” because I believe maybe, just maybe, she didn’t know the whole truth. How she uses that to justify people being run over by tanks [...]
If we were American, would Y and I be among the hundreds of thousands streaming onto National Mall? Yes, we would.
I am not an American and I did not vote for you. But I have embraced your message of hope and change and believe that you will make the world a better place. Dear [...]
Last night at 8.30pm, a few of us lit candles in front of my house, in solidarity with those that had/have been detained under the ISA (Internal Security Act).
Earlier in the day, soon after I had woken Y up telling him, among other things, exactly what I thought about samsengs [...]
This is probably one of the most deluded articles I’ve read in a while.
Besides the fact that it disrespects what I thought was an admirable and fantastic effort on the part of the artistes involved in ‘Here In My Home’, it’s also so incredibly misinformed and ridiculous that I actually [...]
Heading to the polls. That’s my mum and dad walking up front.
The streets were all dressed up for the occasion.
The opposition, who went on to win on our watch.
Where all the action took place… for this constituency, anyway.
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I am voluntarily getting up at 8am on a Saturday morning… so I can cast my vote before the crowd gets in. Typing it out hasn’t made it any more believable, especially when I know the polls are open till 5pm. But I will be getting up, and I will be going to the polls, [...]
To commemorate Women’s Day 2007, The Body Shop and Women’s Aid Organisation (WAO) put together a ‘Walk of Love, Celebrating Women’ event at The Curve. For RM30, members of the public could sign up for a limited edition t-shirt, a 1-2km ‘walk of love’, dinner and an all-women concert. For working in the media, my [...]
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