I’ve not written for over a month now, and I must confess that my absence has been in part due to some personal issues. The main reason, however, is my utter and complete disappointment with Pakatan Rakyat’s promise for change on 16th September 2008, and Anwar Ibrahim’s later admission that the change of government would now be difficult.
...ContinueI wouldn’t want to be Burmese today.
If I were Burmese, alive and standing amidst the bodies floating on still water, like the bodies of buddhist monks face down in dark streams, how would I feel. I don’t know. I wouldn’t be sane, by then. I would be a gibbering mess, laughing and trying to claw my eyes out.
I won ...Continue
Wanna help the Burmese and the Saffron Revolution?
You can help put pressure on the governments that can actually do something about it.
I’m reproducing an urgent appeal for support and signatures by Avaaz.org to put pressure on the “non-interfering” actors of the ASEAN stage, amongst others, to get a life and do som ...Continue
Been away for almost a week or so, what with the year-end crunch time. So it’s truly good news to hear that Alan Johnston’s been freed. Hamas has, definitely, proved itself capable of delivering on its promises - which is the whole point of the efforts to free Alan Johnston.
Of course the effort was driven by politics, but the ...Continue
I was driving back from Pasir Gudang when I heard a horrendous, horrendous story on BBC’s Outlook programme (check out the Wednesday, 23rd May 2007 edition). It featured a young mother from the ...Continue