Posted in Activism on October 5th, 2012 No Comments »
Given the nonsense going on with respect to NGOs and foreign funding, I am glad IDEAS has come up with something: Press Statement on foreign funding for Malaysian entities Barisan Nasional MPs should not be so paranoid about the incoming of foreign funds to support NGOs in Malaysia. After all, Barisan Nasional parties also receive American support, [...]
Posted in Activism, Photography, Politics & government, Society on April 28th, 2012 2 Comments »
And so I went. I went because I remembered a line from CNN long ago. The news network ran an advertisement showing videos of important development from around the world. It ended with a line, “where were you?” I do not want to answer, in the future, “I was in my bed.” I will not [...]
Posted in Activism, Politics & government, Society on April 28th, 2012 2 Comments »
I am currently at home, contemplating whether I should be going to the biggest event of the year so far or stay at home in my bed, reading books or simply enjoy the Saturday. The biggest event of the year yet is the Bersih’s sit-in in Kuala Lumpur. I participated in both the previous incarnations [...]
Posted in Activism, Society on April 3rd, 2010 No Comments »
It was a day in May some five years ago that I hopped on an airplane alone from Detroit to San Francisco. I rarely go anyway alone. That is partly due to the distress I experience each time I find myself in a new neighborhood. I like the comfort of familiar surroundings. Whenever I am [...]
Posted in Activism, Environment, Events on August 5th, 2009 No Comments »
If you are concerned about climate change, or simply want to know more about issues surrounding climate change, and you are young, this might be of interest to you. I have been to one of the events when I was back in Malaysia. This actually one of few things that will lift your spirit, if [...]
Posted in Activism, Liberty on May 8th, 2009 1 Comment »
This started to sound like a sequel to a movie but Wong Chin Huat was still there in lock-up and the pressure had to be maintained. Unfortunately, a smaller group of people joined this one compared to the day before although as the night progressed, more members of the society including politically prominent individuals started [...]
Posted in Activism, Politics & government, Science & technology on May 7th, 2009 No Comments »
…please tag your tweets as “#1BM” or “#1BlackMalaysia”. Remove the quotation marks. We need more sources on the ground. By the way, those already on the ground are doing a great job. p/s — follow the whole wave at http://twitter.com/#search?q=1BlackMalaysia
Posted in Activism, Liberty on May 7th, 2009 1 Comment »
Probably, nobody knew if Wong Chin Huat was actually locked up in Brickfields police district headquarters but that did not turn people off. Why Brickfields was a mystery of the day. I joked to a friend that it could have been that somebody threw a dice and decided which poor officers would have to suffer [...]
Posted in Activism, Politics & government on April 25th, 2009 1 Comment »
Seminggu yang lalu, saya secara sukarelanya mengurus satu petak kecil yang diberikan oleh penganjur Pesta Fotografi Kuala Lumpur kepada Persatuan Pencinta Alam Malaysia (persatuan ini lebih dikenali luas sebagai Malaysian Nature Society; MNS) bersama beberapa sukarelawan yang lain. Di situ, saya menemui satu sebab yang kukuh yang mengatakan bahawa penyertaan di dalam parti politik bukan [...]
Posted in Activism, Liberty, Society on April 12th, 2009 2 Comments »
Knowing that this might be my last opportunity to attend an edition of the Northeast Malaysia Forum in Kuala Lumpur, I decided to be there. Although the KL site was not be as big as main site — as true for two previous editions organized in 2005 and 2008 — I saw great improvement this [...]
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