10 Films That Inspire Me

I think several years ago I tried writing a series of blog posts in my old blog about the ten most influential films in my life. I never quite finished it. By ‘most influential’ I don’t necessarily mean the best I’ve seen, but rather, something about these films tickled something in me. Instead of writing [...]

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Flaming Perakians and the whole Race Thing

So since election day until now, Perak has been in hot water. From taking ages to name a PAS MB to a a state exco mess and now an almost opposition-coalition-demolishing resignation of DAP’s A Sivasubramaniam. He  resigned this morning due to his unhappiness over how poorly the Indians were represented in the state government. [...]

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On a Personal Note

Ok. Here’s the thing. I haven’t been blogging much because I’ve been writing something else. A paper. An academic one.
It’s entitled “Reality and Subjectivity: Digital Films as Cyborg Texts in a Post Modern World“. Some months ago it got accepted for a conference called International Symposium of Electronic Arts 2008, held in Singapore.
Anyway, the [...]

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The East

So the issue is arising. East Malaysia wants to govern.
About a month ago, I put up a post (click here) about how I believe this is an opportune moment for East Malaysia to take the lead in nation building, and I actually showed some joy in the appointment of three East Malaysians as cabinet ministers. [...]

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Temporary Suspension

Dear readers. Due to some technical glitch on my end, I can’t blog as often as I would like for the remainder of the week. I will ping wherever needs pinging the moment I am back to full capacity.

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The English Premier League

Let me say that Manchester United did not beat Liverpool because they are good, but because Liverpool played badly.

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Kayveas: Our Role Model of Walking the Talk

So I read in the papers today that Datuk M. Kayveas, former MP for Taiping, president of PPP, part of the ruling coalition, made some comments about our nation’s leadership.
Bernama reported it.
The Barisan Nasional chairman and deputy chairman should take responsibility for the coalition’s dismal performance in the March 8 polls, said PPP president Datuk [...]

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Go Dig

Happy Easter, everybody.
Jesus died on the cross for our sins. He can do such a thing, bearing the sins of all humankind, because He is God.
He took our punishment. Then rose from the dead, because He is God.
And He lives. He lives.
And all who believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life.
Go dig [...]

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Race Politics 2: Eliminate the Races

I had to go through a session about racial and ethnic stratification with my class the other day, and we discussed the difference between ‘race’ and ‘ethnicity’, and all the issues that ensued after properly defining them. In preparation for that that class, I had to throw out the textbooks that I used as a [...]

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Race Politics 1

Race is always an issue in Malaysia. Let me tell you why?
Our system is trapped in it. Our political system is mired in it. All the talk about ‘racial harmony’ and stuff like that doesn’t work. It never has, and I think if Malaysia continues to function the way it functions, it never will work.
Why [...]

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