Netmoirs of A Solemn Rover

9th By-Election in 9th State

There we go again! Another by-election for Pakatan Rakyat to test their ground has just appeared with the death of BN's assemblyman Azman Md.Noor, the incumbent of Bagan Pinang, a small Malay concentrated constituency located in the south of Port Dickson. With issues of Hindu temple in Selangor and Kg.Buah Pala still looming around, this breaking news was indeed a karma-come-around slap in the Election Commission's face for favouring BN in the Perak constitutional crisis. Nonetheless, it...

New Malaysian Terms After 8th March Political Tsunami

The March 8th political tsunami had made a big impact for Malaysians until new words were coined up. I got this from email circulars which I think is really funny. I have added few more terms below to add up to the list. Altantuya: Refers to our new .... also refers to 'that' Mongolian lady BABI: Formerly used to refer to the swine family. Now used in Umno circles as an acronym of Brother Anwar Bin Ibrahim. Balkis: A Travel and Shopping Club for wives of Umno politicians. membership...

Battle of Batang Padang

Batang Padang is my district where I dwell ever since I was born. It has always been a BN stronghold but the most recent tsunami does create some confusion and uncertainty. Things will never be the same again after March 8th as no BN seat is a safe seat, if not now but definitely for the coming GE. Here are my analysis on my district's verdict. P72. TAPAH Datuk M. Saravanan (MIC) (n) Tan Seng Toh (PKR) Tapah has always been an UMNO-BN stronghold. Having an MIC there is not a problem as...

Codename J.O.H.N: Destination Perak

My day was shocked and shattered by the news of the 'collapse' of my homestate; Perak. The usual browsing routine suddenly became lifeless as I was stoned in front of my monitor reading 'simplified' frontpage of Malaysiakini. The 'simplified' page was due to high traffic earlier in the morning surging towards the site by die-hard Pakatan supporters. It made my 'day' for awhile as I usually glued to my PC this hour but my normally fun routine became almost like a sort of 'mourning'. Since...

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I wasn't born then but my dad was. Bidor was nothing but a small mining and agricultural town with scattered Chinese new villages, remnants of the colonial past. Township was situated at an intersection where two rivers meet and just up north of the intersection lies the main federal trunk road of Ipoh-Kuala Lumpur that divides the township into the east side and west side. The centre of township predominantly Chinese, dwelled in the west and scattered small Chinese new villages including...

Merdeka After All

In conjunction with our nation's recent Independence Day, UK papers has published a section with articles dedicated to Malaysia's economy, social and politics. Believe it or not, I was rather startled to have stumbled across a section with KLCC with other skyscraper published as the frontpage of the column. I soon found the articles rather biased on certain matters. I refrain from elaborating much as the pic below will tell much more; Our proud skyscrapers "On the path to a brave...

Visit Malaysia eYerrr!!!!

Ok, saw this column in The Star today that says; NEW YORK: Malaysia has been voted the world's best tourism destination for 2006 by a prestigious US travel magazine, ahead of such destinations as Hawaii and Bali. This is the finding of a poll conducted by Global Traveller Magazine, a monthly travel magazine that has 60,055 subscribers. The questionnaires, which covered 42 categories, were made available as an insert in the subscriber copies of the magazine and online on its website....

Jinxed By VMY2007

I have been observing this closely and worryingly about the safety standards taken by the tourism authorities in Sabah in high risk areas such as beaches and mountains. I was unsure if this was merely a jinx from VMY2007, but all the incidents that have already claimed lives of tourists must be taken seriously. There is no point promoting tourism concentrated only in the areas of beauty, facilities and decoration if one of the most important aspects of all – health & safety was taken...

Toll Hike Protest Puns

Warning: Heavy image content. Ok, here is something less intense about yesterday's post regarding the toll hike protest in Sunway Pyramid that has witnessed for the first time female FRU positioned on the frontline alongside their all-rowdy male counterparts (behind) 'kononnya' to promote a much crowd-friendly atmosphere during the protest demo. The approach kinda worked though as the demo disperse peacefully with no unwanted incident. Some puns for a laugh below, nothing too...

Velu-ed YB Tak Be-Toll

I know I am in UK too long and I shouldn't 'menyibuk' (nosy) on issues like this. As a Malaysian citizen I was very much sadden with the political and economic atmosphere that my fellow countrymen is experiencing and I have the rights to share the same disappointment like the rest of you too. I was pretty much shocked when Tian Chua revealed that our most Velu-able YB, Samy has been lying to the 'rakyat' who voted and giving him mandate into believing that he, on behalf of the...