Posted in Major Big Deal on December 29, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Verily we are from Allah and to Him is our Return.
Watch the first YouTube videoclip from the AlJazeera English Channel here that was aired in mid-October 2007 as Tim Friend tells of a Pakistan gearing up for the expected return of Benazir Bhutto. Compare this with Hashem Ahelbarra’s report, aired on 18 December 2007, on her [...]
Posted in Major Big Deal on December 28, 2007 | 5 Comments »
I saw the news ticker tape scrawl across the TV screen at about 10pm last night and jumped out of my chair. This can’t be true I blurted aloud! But it’s true, Benazir Bhutto was killed after gunfire and a suicide bomb attack targeted her at a campaign rally [...]
Posted in Major Big Deal, tagged Blogger, Blooks, Growing Up in Terengganu on December 27, 2007 | 16 Comments »
Bloggers are making big scary waves in the global mainstream media in Malaysia here, in Taipeh here, Saudi Arabia here, and United States here. On the bright side, South Korea hails the Citizen Reporter using Internet blogs as an influential tool of online journalism in 2007 here. Media Daum, South Korea’s largest Internet news service, named 14 users as the [...]
Posted in Major Big Deal on December 26, 2007 | 4 Comments »
Where were you on 26 December 2004, the day the Tsunami struck 12 Indian Ocean countries from East Africa to Indonesia and killed hundreds of thousands of people irregardless of race, nationality, religion, age and gender? I remember following news of this, mostly online, and the horror I felt at the rising death [...]
Posted in Ample-tude on December 25, 2007 | 7 Comments »
I was thinking of Madeleine McCann on this gloomy Christmas Day in Malaysia and no, she is not home to celebrate it with her family as widely touted earlier here. And while the bells jingle merrily in sunny Malaysia, I wonder why being Muslim is so tough in the world today? I am born Muslim, brought up moderately religious, went soul searching in the pondoks of [...]
Posted in Bloggers for Nurin Alert, tagged IGP, missing child, Nurin Jazlin Jazimin, police investigation on December 24, 2007 | 8 Comments »
News Update: It seems everyone, including Bernama, is asking the same question: Will there be a conclusion to Nurin’s Murder Case? here. Last night it was clarified on TV3 that a suspect can be re-arrested upon the discovery of fresh evidence linking him/her/them to the case, so a situation of double jeopardy does not [...]
Posted in Ample-tude, tagged Anthony Bourdain, In the Jungle, Malaysia, No Reservations on December 22, 2007 | 12 Comments »
I gotta admit that I have a thing about men who can cook. So after the hot Brits, I think a dose of sexy Bad boy chef cum food adventurer Anthony Bourdain here should be fair. A hunk of a man you can’t shove aside, Tony was born in New York and spent time in Paris, France. Couch potato that I [...]
Posted in Major Big Deal on December 21, 2007 | 4 Comments »
Yesterday, Muslims in Malaysia celebrated Eid-al-Adha or Hari Raya Aidil Adha on the conclusion of the annual Haj pilgrimage to Mekah with the ritual of animal sacrifice that always means blood will flow. This used to puzzle my vegetarian English colleague and I had a hard time explaining that the blood bath was not an offering to appease a vengeful and blood [...]
Posted in Bloggers for Nurin Alert, tagged Nurin Jazlin Jazimin on December 19, 2007 | 9 Comments »
Just do a quick Google search of Nurin Jazlin Jazimin on the internet and you will get about 131,00 references in 0.3secs. 148,000 on Nurin Jazlin in 0.24secs, 337,000 on Nurin in 0.12secs and 76,500 Nurin Alerts in 0.17secs. Aside from the earlier news articles, take a closer look and you will find that most of it reverberates around [...]
Posted in Ample-tude on December 19, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Didn’t feel like writing about bad news today so I am turning to a naked man’s place in the home ie. in the kitchen! Actually, I am a fan of Jamie Oliver, not just the chef but the nice regular bloke he really is. He shatters my perception of the staid [...]
