The Dude abides.

The Angkasawan Programme is a political sham

Colin Charles beat me to the blog post but his writing mirrors the thoughts I have been having about the Angkasawan sham since it was announced some years ago. When the Angkasawan programme was first announced, I wrote and predicted in a different blog that the programme would be used as a political “feel-good” tool [...]

Penang Indians have nothing

“Penang Indians have nothing“, so MalaysiaKini reports. They present the following statistics:

80,000 or 60 percent were wage earners in the lower income brackets.
Average monthly income was between RM500 and RM1, 000 per household.
Seven percent were living in hardcore poverty.
About 80 percent in the manufacturing industry, Penang’s biggest revenue earning sector, were low-level workers.
Involvement in the [...]

Happy Merdeka!

It’s Malaysia’s 50th year of independence from the British Empire. We gained our independence on the 31st August 1957 andas a nation, we have made substantial progress in various spheres.
Yet there is deep unhappiness over the status quo. It took an Economist article titled “Tall buildings, narrow minds” to eloquently sum up Malaysia at its [...]

In light of the Revathi issue …

“The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience.”
- To Kill A Mockingbird, Harper Lee

May the 13th riots a scam?

Were the May 13 1969 riots, responsible for the much maligned NEP, a conspiracy to remove Tunku Abdul Rahman from power? A recent report by the reputable MalaysiaKini on a book by sociologist Dr Kua Kia Soong seems to indicate so. It makes for interesting reading though in all fairness, one should not take it [...]