Ijok was interesting, because BN’s tricks were on display. They’re strategies are varied, as far as I can see:
- Focusing on the apparently successful multiracial partnership between component parties.
- Pork-barrel politics, ranging from the ridiculous (really?) offer of sewing machines, to the granting of land title ...Continue
Saturday, April 28th, 2007
With a majority of about 1,800+ votes in favour of Parthiban against Tan Sri Khalid. Voter turn out was a massive 81.8%, this time round, one of the best turn-outs in any election. Live coverage of the electoral win over at TV1 with PM Badawi and DPM Najib trundled out to give their congratulations to each other.
General elections by the ...Continue
We’re one day away from the Ijok elections and I’m quite excited about the outcome. It’s obvious that BN has pulled out all stops to secure a win, and PM Abdullah Badawi coming down to Ijok just proves how important a win is going to be. I think people have ant ...Continue
Thursday, April 26th, 2007
I suppose during the Spanish Inquisition, the horrors perpetrated by the Roman church were unspeakable. It just goes to show how religion, essentially an ideology or system of beliefs, dehumanizes a person - or does it? It’s ironic in the case of the Roman church because, and if I remember my catechism right, the Christian faith was suppos ...Continue
Wednesday, April 25th, 2007
My firefox installation was acting up so I had to remove everything and then re-install everything… and then I forgot to completely clean up stuff in the application folder so everything was back to the way it was. Which called for a second clean-up. And the painful recovery of cherished bookmarks, too, did I mention that?
By the way ...Continue