July 24: RPK in high spirit

Raja Petra Kamarudin in his latest article, An evening with an ‘accomplice’ on Malaysia-today.net

I am now facing one sedition charge and three criminal defamation charges. They say Muslims are allowed four and I have just reached my limit of four. Nevertheless, my great-grandfather, Sultan Ala’eddin Suleiman Shah, the Fifth Sultan of Selangor, had ten wives. He also had 44 children from these ten wives, my grandmother, Tengku Badariah, being one of those 44. Needless to say, with the track record set by my great-grandfather, would I be satisfied with stopping at just four? Certainly not! And, today, I am going to chalk up my fifth ‘criminal charge’, whatever that charge is going to be. [......]

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July 23: Food prices hike not only happening in Sarawak but whole Malaysia

This is what the Minister said during this interview,

Zakaria said the ministry did not have the power to stop price increases at food outlets unless it involved controlled items. He urged consumers to stop patronising shops and restaurants that continued to impose higher charges without reason.

He also said,

“The price of fuel has stabilised. There are no more increases in petrol or diesel prices, so transportation charges have stabilised. Therefore, prices of foodstuff should not keep increasing. However, it seems that some meat sellers, coffeeshops and restaurant operators continue to raise prices at will. They have no valid reason to keep charging higher and higher. This increase will encourage other businesses and service providers to raise charges,”

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July 22: Extremist? My foot! 02

Chinese, Indian, and other races already in Malaysia for century(ies). However, in order to gain back power, they dare to play the flame by playing racial card again and again. Are they really care about the nation? Power is most important than other?

Umno-PAS rule in S’gor - ‘Anwar ruined it’
Syed Jaymal Zahiid | Jul 22, 08 4:04pm

Former MB Dr Mohd Khir Toyo blames Anwar for derailing the plan and lambasted the opposition leader for not wanting to see the Malays unite.[......] Khir said this was proven by the fact that Anwar was being supported by ‘extremist’ Chinese and Indians via opposition party DAP and the Hindu Rights Action Force (Hindraf). [......]

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July 22: DNA sample too old?

Dear Bachelor/M.Sc./PhD. of molecular biology/genomics,

Have you ever heard the DNA sample can be too old after a decade IF under proper preservation such as precipitation with EtOH and NaOAc at -80°C freeze? Under what kind of condition the DNA sample will degrade? Kept at room temperature near to your coffee machine? Introduce some DNases to it like saliva or introduce some digestion enzymes when making your coffee? Read the rest of this entry »

July 21: Should we concentrate on economy than sodomy?

Sodomy, sodomy… what else the public is concerning nowadays? Wake up. This is not the matter we should focus on! How much price of goods you used to buy daily have been increased in less than 2 months after the fuel price hiked 41% in a night (00:00 at 5th June 2008)? You want a list, here you get a list. Read the rest of this entry »

July 18: Tell me what do you think

Hopefully you could spend a little bit of your time tell me what do think about this site? Thank you very much. Read the rest of this entry »

July 17: Enough-lah

Massive jams again in Kuala Lumpur this morning. The massive jams on Monday already disturbed entire daily of many people, for example missed the exam paper like mentioned in the news. Pray hard no one in live or die condition during that time. Enough-lah, police. Read the rest of this entry »

July 17: Nice timing to do so?

Anwar was out from the Kuala Lumpur police headquarters on police bail. On the other hand, Raja Petra was arrested the Kuala Lumpur police headquarters. The timing is so nicely “match”. If anyone is looking for lucky number, perhaps you can consider asking it from police. Read the rest of this entry »

July 16: What people said about the debate yesterday?

Malaysiakini have a poll immediately after the debate. About 19,000 readers participated in that poll (Surprisingly). What people thought about that debate? Read the rest of this entry »

July 15: Fuel price debate, on.

Answer this survey by Malaysiakini. Watch online Global Media Channel or BernamaTV.

Watch this historic debate at Youtube. Read the rest of this entry »