Well now seriously. When Khalid Ibrahim made his suggestion for 10% of UiTM placements to be opened up to non-bumis, who did you think he was looking out for? The non-bumis? When was the last time you heard Chinese or Indian students clamouring for UiTM allocations? A degree from UiTM is probably worth less than [...]
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 [...]
Note: I was planning Snippets to be just a mishmash of everything interesting I find on the Web but would never have the time to blog about. I thought making it a fortnightly thing would be fine, but it appears a lot happens in two weeks :/. Oh well.
Malaysia
Hamilahton, mother of maths prodigy Sufiah Yusof [...]
Teh Internets
60% of all Photoshop users are pirates (sample size: 500).
Adobe launches Photoshop Express, a stripped down version of its flagship product. Focus is on community and “family” functions.
Torrentspy.com, which was once the most visited BitTorrent site, shuts down in the face of MPAA suits.
Firefox 3 will debut in June 2008, fixing its memory-hogging.
[I still [...]
Sickening, really.
Just 5 months ago 20 people died in a bus crash at Bukit Gantang. The driver (who at least died in the accident) was later found to have had 13 outstanding traffic summons. There was talk about demerit points and discussion over how it happened. There were also a series of other accidents; in [...]
Picked this up from Digg, Leaky Cauldron is running the highlights of a recent Q&A with JK Rowling on that series of hers.
Among the usual “who-marries-who” and “what-ifs”, Rowling answered a thoughtful question:
“Did Dumbledore, who believed in the prevailing power of love, ever fall in love himself?” by outing him as gay and revealling that [...]
Wong Chun Wai is the new Editor in Chief of the Star. (From rocky’s bru).
If you read his editorials you’ll know that he’s (relatively) level-headed and at least tries to be fair in his opinions. Here’s hoping he’ll be the one to lead the Star to rise above the lalang.
Today’s Star had this bit about the (much belated) police crackdown following the recent bus fiasco:
Konsortium Express Penang manager Albert Chew said his company was having problems getting replacement drivers after 20 of its 140 drivers went missing after Ops Bersih started on Aug 22.
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A Gunung Raya Express ticketing officer Abadi Abdul Kadir said 30% [...]
Fresh on the heels of the Joy case is a little gem from Reuters:
A Malaysian Muslim man switched at birth in a hospital mix-up has filed a lawsuit seeking to become a Buddhist and have his name changed, newspapers reported on Saturday.
The gaping logic hole that is our constitutional definition of “Malay = Muslim”, coupled [...]
The clown we have for an Information Minister strikes again:
“I hope local journalists will not dance to the tune of their foreign counterparts.
“There are local journalists who think too highly of the foreign media, and to me, this demonstrates an inferiority complex,” he said when launching the Malaysia Creative competition organised by Bernama here.
Referring to [...]
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