Assalamualaikum.
“Let’s dash the final 100 metres to Jannah.”
The words kept ringing in my head, long after they were uttered.
Yesterday, I travelled for almost two hours in a train from Manchester to Nottingham, and back again by bus which took almost five hours including transit time, just for a three-hour session with Dr Amaluddin Ahmad organized [...]

Umum mengetahui bahawa kekalahan BN, baru-baru ini adalah disebabkan kepincangan PM, Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi. Beliau tidak harus menyalahkan sesiapa kecuali diri sendiri kerana membiarkan diri diperalatkan oleh ahli politik muda berbakat besar, tetapi sangat rakus dalam mengejar kuasa dan populariti, Khairy Jamaluddin.
Kebenaran memang pahit, tetapi jika kepentingan peribadi mendahului rakyat,janganlah kita menyesal suatu [...]

Wan Saiful: Perak State Government (read the insightful comments that follow the entry)
The ethnicity of the MB candidate should not matter as long as the person
receives backing from all 3 coalition party.
But, if the ethnic criteria really is in the state constitution, then the
first move of the new state government should be to amend it. [...]

Well I guess all of us are still in the state of shocked from the fresh PRU-12. Most people will remember this occasion as the worst campaign for BN since independence. Apparently, I strongly think it should be remembered as the time Malaysians wake up from their day-dreaming state and critically deciding from the ballot [...]

Salam and hye all. I found this interesting article written by Little Bird. Issues discussed and facts written might be subjected to further discussions. However its a nice little piece for us to glance through.
Kawan-kawan, please fasten your seat belts now. I thought that I knew something about what is really going on in the [...]

Two videos from Malaysiakini’s Youtube channel below record the panoramic opinions of two young academics on Malaysia’s 12th General Elections. For a person growingly dismayed by our superficial political discourse regardless of party, my take-home point from these interviews is that we need an educated voting public. Only an educated public will vote wisely based [...]

So we’re all excited about the prospect of Obama elected as President and the immense symbolic value such possibilites offer. But substantially, what does Obama offer for us? Does he really stand for new politics or is he the latest revolusionary to be dragged into the status quo of American hegemony? I’ve often shrugged off [...]

I generally avoid discussing local politics as it really doesn’t interest me. I skip reading local news altogether apart from occasional glances at the MKini RSS feeds on the right column. There is seriously nothing to take from in terms of debates on public policy apart from silly banter over race and religion.
But, as rumor [...]

After almost 10 years ago, the call for reformasi (reform) can still be heard from the streets and fields of Kuala Lumpur.
Indonesia, our nusantara neighbor, did succeed in this reform movement. Soeharto was removed by people power (makal sakti to borrow this phrase from the Malaysian Indian community) in May 1998. Unfortunately, reformasi in Malaysia [...]

I have been an enthusiastic observer of the American Presidential Election recently. Last year, when he declared his intention in contesting for the Presidential Nomination, Barack Obama has been predicted as one of the candidates that will win the sit for the White House, representing Democrats.
Living in the United States for almost two years had [...]