Category: Helen Ang

  You can hear an inkdrop. What eloquent silence from mainstream media editors on Dr Mahathir Mohamed’s damning indictment that it was they who self-censored rather than Malaysian authorities curbing Press freedom. Tun Mahathir at the recent Bloggers Universe Malaysia (BUM 2009) gathering also alleged it was at the editors’ own initiative that they slanted… Continue reading The emperor’s New Media clothes

  ‘Elizabeth Wong close-up shots and p*****e parts’ — reads the headline of a blog posting yesterday. The posting provided a link to a ‘new’ batch of pornographic photographs alleged to be of Selangor state assemblywoman Wong, and was published yesterday in a Malaysian blog which has a hit count of half a million-plus. The… Continue reading More explicit pix of Eli Wong in anonymous blog, so how?

  The Chronicles of Oilwell continue… Oilwell is a petroleum-exporting, egg-sucking planet ruled by Big Enders – folks who crack their eggs at the big end. Opposition Little Enders knock their eggs on the small end while Middlers break an eggshell in half. Egg defines an Oilwellian’s life and whenever he fills an official document,… Continue reading Who’s afraid of Mahasneer?

Now that Najib Razak is set to become Prime Minister, we can look to a Cabinet reshuffle and irregardless of whether Hishamuddin Hussein remains Education Minister, the decision on Math and Science in English (PPSMI) should be announced soon. Dr Mahathir Mohamad will likely descend on Najib with the gale force of three Furies combined… Continue reading Mahathir merajuk, ‘let them eat silicon chips’

  Last weekend, Utar held its convocation for 1,313 graduands. Of the graduating cohort, 99.9 percent were non-Malay. Aside from a sprinkling of Indians, the university enrolment is overwhelmingly Chinese even though there is no bar on Malay entry. Utar’s mono-racial counterpart is UiTM which on the other hand does close its door to the… Continue reading Language policy: The Utar-Mara Chicken and Duck Talk

  We have completed one cycle of PPSMI. In 2008, the pioneer batch that was taught Math and Science entirely in English finished their Year Six.   Yet last year, only 31.1% of Year Six pupils elected to answer the UPSR Science paper fully in English, while 68.9% opted to use Malay, or vernacular (Chinese/Tamil)… Continue reading Math and Science: The case for BM (2)

  National laureate A. Samad Said who is 76 years old choked on teargas at the ‘Daulatkan Bahasa’ gathering to uphold the sovereignty of our national language. Police fired volley upon volley of teargas; some reports said up to 200 rounds. Pakciks, Makciks, Uncles and Aunties, undergrads and students were smothered by the stinging gas… Continue reading Math and Science: The case for BM (1)

In response to Umno Youth mobbing Karpal Singh in Parliament, Umno information head Muhammad Muhammad Taib said the DAP chairman displayed the behaviour of “an old man who refused to understand Malay culture and customs???. Mat Taib, also a federal minister, claimed the words ‘celaka Pemuda Umno fellow’ uttered by Karpal is a grave insult… Continue reading The Muhammad Muhammad type Malay culture

    In tandem with the rapid fire developments in Perak, the media itself is also being cast an intriguing role. Even whilst it reports, it has become a topic reported about too. The Home Ministry seized almost 20,000 copies of Suara Keadilan which frontpaged the Perak constitutional crisis, PKR information chief Tian Chua told… Continue reading You know what the 3 Aduns did last March?

The current information overload and images overkill on Gaza has inevitably raised public awareness, even mine and I am highly resistant to mainstream media influence.   I’ve just come to know that a Qassam rocket is roughly the height of a tall Caucasian man and it can carry a payload of 10-20kg explosives.