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Election approaching - Stray dogs in Penang safe
Star Online - Batu Ferringhi gets one-star rating on TripAdvisor after dog attacks (extracts):A dog chasing away the birds from its 'territory' on the Batu Ferringhi beachGEORGE TOWN: No tourist...
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Mahathir and his Japanese
Malaysiakini Headline (only) - Dr M: Fear of Najib greater than during Japanese occupation:I wasn't born yet during the Japanese occupation of Malaya, but when I asked my Uncles about what Mahathir has...
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Most Important Day for Hokkiens
In Penang, in a few more hours the Chinese (mainly Hokkiens) will be thronging along the road leading up to the Temple of the Jade Emperor (Thnee Kong Tnua) at the base of Penang Hill (Bukit Bendera),...
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Shaken not stirred
(1) TMI - BN shaken as more than half Johoreans say new faces welcome (extracts):... a new poll showing that more than half of Johoreans are agreeable to new faces running the state.In a poll conducted...
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Emperor's Forty Horses
Inspired by the 1810 nursery rhyme:Humpty Dumpty sat on a wallHumpty Dumpty had a great fallAll the king's horses and all the king's menCouldn't put Humpty together againAnd how many horses of the...
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New chow-kow (running dogs) in town?
I once left a slightly caustic reprimand against Sebastian Loh at Malaysia-Today, well, because I did not agree with his article. I can't remember what was that article but in my comment I said...
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Voting & the military
MM Online - Military vets say voters can be traced ‘theoretically’, but process too tedious (extracts):KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 25 — While tracing ballot papers to their voters is theoretically possible, the...
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Hadi Awang's culture of strife
TMI - Amanat Hadi 2.0 now targets DAP instead of Umno (extracts):PAS president Abdul Hadi Awang has issued an updated version of his divisive 1981 decree: this time making it haram (forbidden) for...
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3 of the worst in election campaigns
There is a Western folk superstition that all things (good or bad) come in threes.hmmm, after serious considerations, I assess the above as 'good', wakakaka nah, wakakaka Not surprisingly, there is...
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DAP surrenders seats
Malaysiakini - In Alor Gajah, DAP justifies surrendering seat to Bersatu (extracts):Lim KS' new flag for the DAP f**k off DAP, I was here first DAP national organising secretary Anthony Loke tonight...
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Déjà vu (6)
MM Online - One hurt, massive jams in MRR2 crane collapse in Ampang (extracts):PETALING JAYA, Feb 26 — A man was injured after a crawler crane collapsed onto the middle of a highway during construction...
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How much is RM20,000,000,000?
From FMT (extracts):........ an example a 20-year gaming concession for sports betting which was given out without tender by the finance ministry in June 2003 — just four months before Mahathir retired...
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Zaidi Ahmad - Mach 2.0 in politics
However I might have been unkind to Major (rtd) Zaidi Ahmad for (a) violating Armed Forces Council Instructions (AFCI) in making unauthorised press statements and sneered at him for (b) being a...
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Azmin Ali self-evacuating from Gombak?
Star Online - Azmin may contest in 'safer' seat instead of Gombak during GE14 (extracts):KLANG: PKR is considering moving Azmin Ali out of his Gombak Parliamentary constituency, which is a PAS...
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Minister Nazri hits below the belt with pondan call
Malaysiakini - Contest in GE14, don't be a 'pondan'– Nazri opens fire on Kuok (extracts):Tourism and Culture Minister Nazri Abdul Aziz is the latest Umno leader to train his guns on billionaire Robert...
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Equine-feed vs Quinoa
Malaysiakini - Najib: My quinoa diet cheaper than Dr M's horse feed (extracts):Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak today rebutted criticism that he was out of touch due to his pricey quinoa diet,...
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Maria Chin Abdullah - from BERSIH to PKR?
I've written several posts on the songsang-ness of BERSIH after it has been chaired by Maria Chin Abdullah. Maria took over from the, to me, the very proper-&-BERSIH Ambiga Sreenevasan, who is an...
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Pakatan common logo
MM Online -Pakatan to contest GE14 under one logo — but which one?:unlikely to be approvedKUALA LUMPUR, Feb 27 — Pakatan Harapan (PH) has agreed to use one logo to represent the Opposition pact in the...
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Wee Ka Siong's tunnel dirt might well be closer
It seems that now the furore a la much-ado-about-nothing over the alleged covert funding of the DAP by Robert Kuok could well be over, following news that PM's aide said Najib welcomes business magnate...
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BEST political statement 2018 (2)
I have always been delighted by clever play of words as my matey Dean Johns (former Malaysiakini columnist) has been - I missed his tongue-in-cheek articles with puns galore at Malaysiakini.Dean Johns...
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