Malaysia’s ‘Subsidy’ Conundrum

I read an ’opinion’ last week, titled “Pampered Lives and Price Hikes“ in The Star newspaper dated January 11, 2008.
I’m not an economist or a mathematician. I’m a commoner, a lowly coolie if you will. Someone who’s trying to survive in Kuala Lumpur. Like you, maybe.
I just have a few (stupid) questions that maybe you’ll be able [...]

The Ramly Burger Song

Someone sent me this video today… it’s so good! I think Ramly Burger should pay them for such a great sounding jingle!
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I love it so much ‘cos it shows a bunch of guys - of all races singing a song together about Malaysian hamburgers!!! They sure look like good buddies… [...]

Charge Negligent Parents?

So in my last post about being sensitive to victims and families, the press and our country caretakers have devised a way to “solve the problem”. In my last post, I had stressed that our sense of community was lost and how nurturing of good traits should start at home.
It is true that over the past week, outrage, [...]

Sensitivity & Respecting Victims & Families

How can I not comment? Well actually I very easily can but I feel some things need to be said.
The insensitivity of the press has irked me a great deal. First of all, you don’t publish a picture of a dead person. Never never never! Besides creeping the daylights out of us and maybe making [...]

Malaysia’s Fall 2007 TV Line-Up

*Applause Applause*
Can you believe we have one of these? As in, a Fall 2007 TV Line-Up? Well, fine, maybe not fall since we have no season but it’s so exciting. Hail Media Prima! Man, they are so much better than Astro.
Edit: Might I add that a lot of these are new shows that are only just airing in [...]

Beyonce told to Cover Up in Malaysia

First Mariah Carey, then Gwen Stefani and now… Beyonce?
The ‘Crazy In Love’ singer was asked by promoters to keep her show, which is
due to take place in Kuala Lumpur in November, “family friendly” to appease Muslim critics.
Malaysia has certainly gone mad. I wish music artistes will stop ‘kow-tow’-ing to the desires of mere Muslim critics. [...]

Are you lacking in Merdeka Spirit?

Our country is reaching 50 years old and I can’t seem to muster any kind of patriotism.
Maybe because our government hasn’t poured enough money, time and effort into trying to instill a sense of gratititude into us? Or maybe they haven’t poured their own spirit into this Merdeka. Do they care as a government? Am I [...]

Should Gwen Stefani still come to Malaysia?

We make headline news again for the wrong reasons! We are no.1 on E!Online’s website today. Aren’t you proud Malaysians?
“Gwen Stefani’s Malaysian Cover-up” - E! Online
To placate a conservative Muslim student group that is protesting her upcoming appearance in Kuala Lumpur, the pop star has said that she won’t wear any revealing costumes when she takes [...]

He doesn’t deserve to be free

Malaysia is a strange place. What more can I say? We bicker about pathetic issues and let the crucial issues slip us by.
The boy who murdered his tuition teacher’s daughter does not deserve to be free. He deserves a longer jail sentence of at least life imprisonment. Who cares if he feels remorse? As the reports [...]

Muslims think other religions are better?

From where I live, Malaysia seems to be the land of Boring. Nothing happens on the home front, we get by watching tv all day, taking a nap or two, wishing for things to do in this country of ours.
I’ve been surfing the internet relentlessly, hoping to chance upon something interesting and here’s the first [...]