Monthly Archives: December 2010

Goodbye 2010

Because I love clas­sical music, and people hav­ing fun. And because I am very par­tial to Britain.

Malaysian Student Activism

Apathetic hip­ster douche-bags. Cit­izen Radio intro­duced this catchy phrase for young, mostly well-off indi­vidu­als who couldn’t care less about whatever goes on around them. The term refers to lib­er­als who would rather not move a fin­ger, per­haps com­plain­ing about the trouble­some nature of actu­ally work­ing for social change — who sniff at elec­tions say­ing their

Azwan Ismail, Unfazed.

Azwan Ismail was very briefly quoted in theSun. Very very briefly. Any journ­al­ists around to explain the shod­di­ness in report­ing the biggest social upheaval of the year? “I expec­ted these one-sided com­ments, but per­haps not to the extent of mak­ing death threats. We are only exposed to one point of view on homo­sexu­al­ity,” he said when

Merry Christmas 2010

All hail Brit­an­nia! A bit of news from the Guard­ian via Pharyn­gula. I think this calls for fur­ther expres­sion of pat­ri­ot­ism on behalf of Bri­tain by a non-Britain. 1985 Athe­ists: 34% 2010 Athe­ists: 51%

Azwan Ismail is Gay. And He is (Probably Not Going to be) Okay.

Sur­pris­ing news to be found after a par­tic­u­larly nasty trek in my study site yes­ter­day. Rain, the cold, steep slopes, leeches (one of them left a trail of itch­ing punc­tures up my right leg), and road­b­locks in the form of rot­ting, fallen trees turned my pre­con­ceived ideas of a quick data gath­er­ing ses­sion to a

To Put Mastercard and Visa in Perspective

There is a good con­nec­tion from within my study site today, which allows me to surf the web for a bit. While it has been tough, I am still informed enough about the recent per­se­cu­tion of Julian Assange and Wikileaks to feel abso­lutely naus­eous that a great many smart people would con­demn these whistle-blowers who have