Everybody is aware of what’s going on in Malaysia at the moment. At the time of this writing, four churches were attacked following the issue of the word Allah being use to represent God in Malay language Christian publication. Read more...

The time was around 6p.m. I was alone at the office when I felt it. My first thought was that I’ve been working too hard, and that I need to get some food. It gets worst when I got up. It felt as if the office building was shaking. The same sensation you feel in a moving LRT train, but a little bit less. My first instinct was to check Twitter to confirm what I had in mind. First few Tweets has the word “earthquake” on it. I was right. Read more...

Decided to ditch work today and went to MPH MidValley Megamall. It was all Sinatra_Z’s idea, blame him. If you haven’t checked out this blog, ‘Catatan Seekor Lipas Sepi‘, writings of a lonely cockroach, I suggest you do so. Read more...

Last Saturday, we saw BB Plaza’s rooftop car park area transformed into a venue of music, arts design and fashion. All hell broke loose as teenage fans gathered in a small confine area for a free gig and some cheap thrill. Even though it rained a little bit, but that didn’t stop the havoc that’s taking place on the roof top. Security was good, for a free gig. Read more...

It’s a James Bond mania at the cinema right now. As everybody gets excited to see their favorite British secret agent in action, I was not as much.

I didn’t went to see The Quantum of Solace like everybody else on Friday, instead I went to see Budak Kelantan. That somehow had put the movie Budak Kelantan (Kelantan Boys) in a difficult position. Is it worth putting Quantum of Solace off to watch Budak Kelantan? Will it pass the test?

After watching Budak Kelantan, I’ve to say that I am glad that I put off the James Bond flick for another day. I mean James Bond will always be James Bond, cars, guns, bond girls, explosions are all as expected. However, movie like Budak Kelantan only comes once in a blue moon.

First of all, this movie, Budak Kelatan had zero hype what so ever. The reason I watch it because someone I know said it’s worth watching, and from blogs that I read, giving it a fairly good review. The movie only means of promotions were probably only by word of mouth, apart form the lame ass stupid movie poster.

Yes thats a really lame poster. I remember laughing so hard at the cinema lobby after seeing the poster for the first time. One part of the whole production of the movie that went disastrously wrong would be the poster design. Please do not take the poster seriously, instead I suggest you watch the trailer, I’ll embed the Youtube video after the synopsis.

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The Malaysian Internal Security Act (ISA) is there for a reason. I strongly urge the powers to be or the would be powers to be, NOT to abolish the ISA.

I am saying this specifically to the oppositions parties. All of what these guys had achieves were thanks to the Malaysian Internal Security Act (ISA).

If there were no ISA, if the ruling government had never bothered to throw people, most of them are oppositions party members, into ISA detaining centers, do you think the rest of the Malaysian people (the rakyat) would have heard all their voices? No.
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I had a similar idea with The Hoppers & Ahli Muzik, the difference is that they, The Hoppers & Ahli Muzik, go ahead and done it while as for myself, it is nothing more then just an idea.

The Hoppers & Ahli Muzik is a travelogue turns reality TV show. Every Sunday 10:00pm at 8TV. I miss out in seeing the first two episode, will try to catch the third one. Their online blog/website, thehoppers.com.my seems to be down at the moment.

It’s a bunch of your everyday guys who wants to get out of the hectic city that we all known and love, K.L. just to see what Malaysia’s other states have to offer.

The show was shot with two cameras, one held by one of The Hoppers to capture the intimacy and interaction between them, and another is held by a professional to capture the the beauty of the destinations. They also features music from local acts as its soundtrack, cool.
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Went to watch KAMI the movie during the first day of Raya. After all the boring Raya usual ritual stuff in the morning I went straight to Cineleisure Damansara. Interesting to see everyone with their pretty baju Raya at the movies.

I wanted to write this sooner, but life has other plans for me, and I had to launch MakanByte a food blog. Anyhow, this is my take on the movie.

It was well written and all that I had expected it to be. It was good but not great. I wont be going too detail as I do not want to reveal spoilers for those who haven’t yet watch the movie. And I do recommend you watch this.

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KAMI is a local TV mini series that made its debut on 8TV sometime ago and was re-aired recently. It has now gain a small but fast growing cult following among young local teens.

The first thing that got me watching this mini series was the music. My brother caught the series trailer on 8TV, he then record it on his phone and showed it to me. It has this cool wacky music track, it was Meet Uncle Hussain‘s La La La Kerja Lah.

That was enough to grab my interest to watch the show.

The first episode blows my mind away and got me hooked for the rest of the show. When it comes to local Malay TV series, I’m not much of a fan. You can expect the same thing again and again.

KAMI on the other hand feels fresh and doesn’t feel like most of the typical local Malay drama series. I’ve to say that I am quite impress with how the series was written.

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No matter what the outcome of the by-election polling result at Permatang Pauh, Barisan Nasional will lose. Read more...

Apparently web censorship is so bad in Turkey that blogs are shutting themselves down in protest. According to this TechCrunch post, it started with one blog that shuts itself down and put up a single message:-

Bu siteye erişim kendi kararıyla engellenmiştir

which roughly translates to:

The access to this web site is prevented by its owner’s free will.

After that nearly 200 Turkish blogs made the same move in protest. This is to show web surfers what the Internet would look like if the censorship continues unabated.

Now, that is what I call a protest.

Not some silly shenanigans rising or displaying a graphic image of an upside down national flag on their blog.

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There is an interesting post on TechCrunch about the increasing number of bloggers who had being arrested throughout the years, from 2004 till 2007. Looking at the graph above, taken from Swivle, the trend is going up.

One may think that this sort of thing only happen in countries with oppressive governments such as Egypt, China, Saudi Arabia and Iran. However, if you take a look at the uploaded spreadsheet, you’ll see there are bloggers arrested in countries such as Canada, France, Greece and even the U.S.

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