Last voice for the 'Spirits' from Hishamuddin Rais.

Jon Stewart - The Sanity Rally - Modern day political revolution

From the tea party rallies to the rally (s) to restore sanity and/or fear! With the worst economic crash since the great depression; the american ppl have woken up; taking competing ideas of public policy. All done with free and fair election. Real democracy in action.....Anyway, JS's woodstock type rally...music..theatre, comedy, and a FU moment to the media..n right & left wing politicians.

JS at times passionate plea that we are actually working together everyday (to overcome fear with simple truths) , but the media & politics tell a different story.

The benediction was nice..plea for signs from god..and religions to sit on common needs like those who dont eat pork....

JS screams on the exhauting effort it takes to hate...marks the moment of his revolution.

JS makes more sense on public policies that work. He is deeply inquisitive in questioning guests and puts most political media to shame. His skids make fun of our fundamental insecuritiees; that we learn from it.

JS must really like Obama for calling him a dude...lol

some of JS words..

Magnify everything; hear nothing.
Animis not enemy

Hard times not end times.
We do work together to get things done every damn day.

Fellow traveller.
You go; I go.

Malaysia - God's Name - Feb 2010

Troubling news about church attacks over the use of the Allah. No one died. These attacks were really minor (compared to similar events world wide) and in a weird way...good...because it shows Malay culture in its actual form. Peace loving people.

I am not saying there are no extremist among us...but aren't we all racist. It’s fine to be proud of race and not religion.

Anyway about religion, as a Hindu I had never conceptualized the church/christians using the world Allah, growing up in KL & La Salle Boys school! The name was associated to the muslims, but later learnt Arabs of the Abrahimic tradition use the same name –Allah.

The church had done a lot of good work in east malaysia & proselytizing the bible in Bahasa, using the term Allah, as God. I disagree with the Church because theologically one only gets to Allah following the muslim path. If you follow the Christian path, then call it something else. I am lucky (being a Hindu) because I can call god many names.

I am sad the Church is taking legal action over a mere word when teaching the words of Christ is more important.

RPK - Fugitive Freedom Fighter - 2010

Malaysia's first modern freedom fighter, Raja Petra Kamaruddin or RPK is one the run, escaping the country unseen and unheard, from the clutches of the Judicial & Political system.

Well he is never unheard, blogging about the inner sinister secrets of our politician, from both sides of the aisle.

Whats really spectacular is; his claim of access to information,initial skepticism aside; often turn out true.

Is Rocky Bru pro-umno?

Perhaps. But not the traditional pro anything goes umno. I think in a way he prefers a strong 2 party system; based on his writings all these years. He is not pro PKR. I have read most.

Note umno/mic/mca have long histories...my dad started mic in our neighbor hood helping poor indians with dues/etc. But there is too much corruption and we need the 2 party system to eradicate or reduce corruption. I am not anti MIC...but certainly not pro MIC. Lets give PKR 5 year and impose term limits for PM. Else vote the reformed umno/mca/mic back!

Some of his post appear unfair towards the opposition. News Links to pro-gov blogs are often done with minimal differing views. I don't blame him for what other pro-gov bloggers say. He does have side links to diverse sites..even MT.

Anyway, Rocky is not unreasonable in his blogs, unlike many other pro-gov bloggers; and he takes a more matured discussion of views.