Archive for June, 2008

A colleague of mine shared with me today that his hometown Taiping slowly going to be a ghost-town. Light industries are moving out and job security is diminishing as we speak.
There are probably a hundred Taipings in Malaysia. For every reinvigorated Kulim or Rawang, there are these other towns, whose advantages are dissipating with a [...]

If you think of it like cricket, someone is claiming a wicket from a wide and the umpire is obliging.
It would be difficult for Anwar Ibrahim with his amazingly full schedule and poor back to organise afternoon rapes of his special aide. I’m not buying it, but more importantly Malaysians are completely unimpressed. And where [...]

It is a glaring prolonged aberration of reason that this country still has an incarceration system that involves no opportunity for the accused to defend themselves in a courtroom.
That there are those in this country who can stand up and suggest the usefulness of such a law is incomprehensible not to mention morally reprehensible. [...]

King Lear is playing in a parliamentary district near you.
In Shakespearean light the drama in Malaysia is so close in resemblance to the story of a King with children who give him different fortunes.
We are not talking about his biological children ( Mukhriz, Mirzan or Mokhzani) but his political children, those whose power places have [...]