Tag Archives: Anwar Ibrahim

two months later and presidential elections

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.

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consequences

They’ve already turned RPK, Teresa Kok and Tan Hoon Cheng into matyrs and national heroes for those who believe that BN’s days are due. I wasn’t watching Anwar Ibrahim’s speech on the net and other places this evening, so I don’t know what he’s said. I don’t want to know, really, because I don’t wan ...Continue


victory. next?

He’s won, he’s been sworn in and he’s now in parliament. What next?

On the net and in blogs I watched and read as so many rejoiced in Anwar’s win. Even KayTee put aside his grouses with DSAI and offered congratulations. I would, too, if I thought DSAI’s win was the beginning of a new dawn. I do see his win a ...Continue


shadow play

In the midst of the (alternative) media storm was news that a blogger had been hauled up and taken away by the fuzz. I feel both DSAI’s day in court today and Penarik Beca’s arrest confirms that to me that we are firmly in it, and the final pieces ...Continue


change

Events have moved pretty fast, and I didn’t think way back in March how things would have turned out for DSAI. Over the weeks and months that followed Pakatan Rakyat’s victory in five states, I watched as the UMNO-BN machine got into gear; the assault has been breathtaking. Already the rumours on the blogosphere is that this online sp ...Continue