JUNE 16 — There was a blackout in Sepang today, and the main meeting room in the council building got all uncomfortable for a good hour without airconditioning.
Might as well, as the representatives from Alam Flora (AF and not to be mistaken for Akademi Fantasia) were already sweating it out, and a lack of ventilation would be a better excuse for themselves than just saying outright that they didn’t have the answers. Continue Reading »
JUNE 2 — PAS gets to pick its leadership again, and so much is made of how much different PAS has become in the last five years.
Pause.
Has PAS become a different party or has it become a party more adept to appearing different?
The core battle in PAS, and it even predates the rise of Erdogan or even the Ayatollah, has been about it being a Malay party or a party of egalitarian Islam. Continue Reading »
May 22 — Drink up mate, before 7-Eleven gets you! Diabolical as it may sound, the leading convenience store franchise has come out strong in support of using its employees to cut beer supply to Muslims in Selangor.
In what is as apparent effort to win brownie points with Pakatan Rakyat coalition member PAS, Mentri Besar risks raising the ire of the many who loathe to have government overreach. Continue Reading »
MAY 21 — Welcome to America in the 21st Century. Huge strides, but you can’t ignore the pitfalls waiting for you on both sides, and dead centre.
It has come far enough to say a gay person is worthy of all things, it just won’t give him or her, these things they apparently “are worthy of”.
Cue: “American Idol’ Season 8, and its controversial winner, Kris Allen. The controversy is more aptly about the rival he ousted to the title — Adam Lambert — than his talent. Lambert had been for months the judges’ firm favourite; however in the last few weeks there has been reluctant admission from them that most of America would not crown the San Diego native as the next American Idol. Continue Reading »
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