Monthly Archives: April 2012

Security Offenses Bill Offends Civil Liberties.

Malik Imtiaz has an art­icle on his blog regard­ing the law inten­ded to replace the Internal Secur­ity Act, bet­ter known loc­ally as the ISA. I am no fan of the ISA, and say­ing those three let­ters out loud con­jures up a sen­sa­tion of shit churn­ing about in my digest­ive tracts. Throw in Salam Satu Malay­sia

To Not Watch Movies.

One of the biggest news within the geek com­munity for the past few months has been the seizure of assets and the com­plete destruc­tion of Megaup­load and other sub­si­di­ar­ies of Kim Dot­com. Not too long ago, it was revealed by a US dis­trict court judge Liam O’Grady that charges against Kim Dot­com may not even

Denk Reviews The Great Animal Orchestra.

I will only read reviews under a few arbit­rary con­di­tions which can be summed up as: I am uncon­cerned about spoil­ers because it’s about a crappy story I won’t read or watch any­way. It’s a review of music. It’s about non-fiction. Jeremy Denks review of The Great Animal Orches­tra would fall under cat­egory 2 and 3. It

One Race, So Say We All.

Edward James Olmos at the United Nations giv­ing a brief but rous­ing speech on the human race. The end­ing of Battle­star Galactica was less than sat­is­fact­ory, but intro­du­cing EJO to the world as Wil­liam Adama was noth­ing short of bril­liant. So say we all.

All Atheists are Invited to Apply

to the fol­low­ing pro­gramme that me and a few of my com­rades at the Malay­sian Athe­ists Organ­isa­tion (self-titled) in the interest of bring­ing much needed under­stand­ing of who (or indeed what) athe­ists are. For the past two weeks, the enclave of athe­ist act­iv­ists have been dis­cuss­ing when to hold a meet­ing with a politi­cian who wishes

Missing Dog and Lost Dog

Con­tinu­ing the exten­sion of my volun­teer­ing work with SPCA Pen­ang, I bring you a miss­ing dog, and a lost dog. First, the miss­ing dog. Note that I am get­ting these mater­i­als from SPCA Pen­ang so all mater­ial are provided as received, no mat­ter how skewed the edit­ing, they are pub­lished as received. And finally, a lost dog.

Finally, a Witty Inflight Interlude.

My exper­i­ence with air­line safety instruc­tions are rather for­get­table. The announ­cers seem to con­sider drawl­ing over words with a thick Malay­sian accent to be the appro­pri­ate means of com­mit­ting the quite import­ant pro­ced­ures to decrease your chances of dying should the flight encounter an unex­pec­ted crash-and-burn, mid-flight explo­sion, engine fail­ure, or a myriad of other