Human Behaviour is Hardest To Change

Earth Day … 22 April … has come and gone.
Your jaw dropped when you watched “An Inconvenient Truth“.
You said, “yeh, I should do something about it”, when you watched, “The 11th Hour“.
But after all the fanfare involved in staging Earth Day every year, involving over a hundred countries on the 22nd April, has anything tangible [...]

Scholarship – A Parent’s Greatest Frustration (2)

Yesterday, I wrote about the need to have ‘transparency’ and ‘fairness’ when it comes to university entrance exams and how JPA Scholarships were being offered – albeit I believe, are skewed in nature to certain ethnic communities. In this Part 2 of the article, I would like to explore how we can make the offering of [...]

Scholarship – A Parent’s Greatest Frustration (1)

I’m 39 this year. It will not be for another decade until my son & daughter goes to University. By then I might need to look for scholarships for them to further their studies either locally or overseas. I believe many parents who are now in their ‘mid’ to ‘late’ forties will have the same worries [...]

Beginning of a New Era in Malaysian Politics

Tomorrow 28 April 2008 marks the beginning of a new era in the politics of Malaysia. The score is currently 140 vs 82. Heaven knows what will happen in the days to come. Will there be defections, unilaterally or multi-laterally. Will we see a change in Government? Will the emergence of a Two Front System, akin [...]

Chittirai Puthandu Valthukel

Firstly I would like to apologise to all my Indian friends that I’ve completely forgotten about the Indian New Year on 13 April 2008 up until last night. May I wish you a good ‘Chittirai Puthandu Valthukel’ to all my Indian Friends and comrades and also to all my Indian supporters in Batu.
After 39 years [...]

Hang Tuah Would Be Very Sad

If Hang Tuah was still alive today, he would be very very sad to see that the people of his country would need to apologise for raising the magical wavy knife call the ‘Keris’. Why, because in the old days, it was a symbol of a man’s faith and courage, almost phallic in nature, and [...]

When Si Pin Met Tony Pua

It was really a breath of fresh air when I met YB Tony Pua again on Thursday 24 April 2008 at the Asli-CPPS ‘Mid Term Review of the 9th Malaysia Plan’ being held at the Wawasan Open University, KL. The first time we met was at the Young Malaysians Round Table Discussion on National Unity.
One [...]

Thank you to Mr Kenny Law for your advice

In response to a post that was posted by Mr. Kenny Law, the owner of the site, “Malaysian Say The Darndest Things!” He suggested that since I was a newbie in the world of cyberspace blogging, it would be a good choice for me if I were to open up the comment page without needing any registration [...]

The Kah Choon That I Know

It was sad to hear that Lee Kah Choon had finally made a decision to leave Parti Gerakan all together and concentrate on bringing development to the State of Penang. His taking up of the post at Penang Development Corporation (PDC) and also InvestPenang was quite a ’shocker’ to me.
I’ve known Kah Choon or ‘KC’ [...]

The Basic Criteria For Becoming the Malaysian PM

We did a talk on what are the basic criteria for a Malaysian to become the PM of the country. And eventhough how ‘unpopular’ Pak Lah is at this moment in time, if you think a step deeper, do you trust any of the other ‘would-be’ or ‘wannabe’ PMs if Pak Lah so decide to prematurely [...]