Massive spoiler alert! Don’t read this if you haven’t seen the movie.
Indy 4 is almost here!! The early reviews are starting to trickle out already but I’ve been forcing myself not to read them – I gather it at least doesn’t suck though. Which at least says something given all the hype surrounding it.
To entertain myself (and you!) during the wait, I’ve been comparing what we [...]
You may recall that some time back the government tried to spin on their rating in the Global Competitiveness Report, claiming that we were “eighth” among nations with a population of above 20mil – a completely arbitrary categorization, conveniently excluding Singapore of course. We had actually fallen two places. (Hey Pak Lah, isn’t it even [...]
w e n ** will you , now? says:
john williams isnt he a composer
w e n ** will you , now? says:
u mean indiana jones song no lyrics one?
We are certainly lucky to be Malaysian.
And no, it’s because we are so muhibbah, or because we are an independent nation, or even because we have oil. It’s because natural disasters are rare here. In the floods of Dec 2006 for example, “only” six people died. Not that I am belittling anyone else’s suffering, but [...]
Last week saw a landmark case – the (first?) recognized deconversion from Islam. From AFP:
Apostasy, or renouncing the faith, is one of the gravest sins in Islam and a very sensitive issue in Malaysia where Islamic sharia courts have rarely allowed such renunciations and have also jailed apostates.
Penang Sharia Court judge Othman Ibrahim said [...]
Continue reading about One down, a thousand injustices to go…
It was only a matter of time before RPK was hauled up for the statements made on Malaysia Today. He is a great man, but even I find it hard to swallow his posts sometimes. I stopped reading MT regularly partly because of this, and partly because the unadulterated anger in the hundreds [...]
Last week’s TIME had an article about the diary of Rutka Laskier, a Polish Jew whose diary had been found and kept by a friend for 60 years. It outlines four months in 1943, before Rutka and her family were sent to Auschwitz and killed.
If you’ve read the diary of Anne Frank, you’ll find haunting [...]
Apologies for missing this last week, was busying watching HIMYM :P
Malaysia
Dr. Mahathir joins the ranks of the unemployed lying females in Malaysia.
MCA newsletter editor Wong Chun Wai follows suit.
The Sun aggressively calls for reform of press freedom laws.
Newly appointed CM of Penang Lim Guan Eng is spotted flying economy class. Meanwhile, in a written reply [...]
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