Peaceful Public Gathering

A number of non-governmental organisations, civil society groups and political parties are organising a peaceful public gathering to be held on 10 November 2007 at 3pm. They will gather at the Dataran Merdeka, the place where Malaysia's first independence shout was heard in 1957.

All this organisations/parties (as below) have endorsed an organisation called Bersih (Clean in english language) in calling for a clean and fair election of which it could be held any time now.

Non-governmental organisations:-
1. Group of Concerned Citizens (GCC)
2. SOS Penang
3. Tamil Foundation
4. Aliran
5. Writers Alliance for Media Independence (WAMI)
6. Jaringan Rakyat Tertindas (JERIT)
7. Community Action Network (CAN)
8. Malaysia Youth and Students Democratic Movement (DEMA)
9. Malaysian Trade Union Congress (MTUC)
10. Suara Rakyat Malaysia (SUARAM)
11. Labour Resource Centre (LRC)
12. Pusat Komunikasi Masyarakat (KOMAS)
13. Civil Rights Committee, KL-Selangor Chinese Assembly Hall (CRC)
14. Persatuan Ulama Malaysia (PUM)
15. Women’s Development Collective (WDC)
16. Centre for Independent Journalism (CIJ)
17. Unit Pemikiran Politik, Institut Kajian Dasar (UPP-IKD)
18. Malaysian Voters Union (MALVU)
19. All Women’s Action Society (AWAM)
20. Gabungan Mahasiswa Islam Semenanjung (GAMIS)
21. Research for Social Advancement (REFSA)
22. Solidariti Mahasiswa Malaysia (SMM)
23. National Human Rights Society (HAKAM)
24. ERA Consumers (ERACON)
25. Citizens’ Health Initiative (CHI)
26. Pusat Janadaya (EMPOWER)

Political parties:-
1. Parti Islam Se Malaysia (PAS)
2. Parti Keadilan Rakyat (PKR)
3. Democratic Action Party (DAP)
4. Parti Sosialis Malaysia (PSM)
5. Sarawak National Party (SNAP)

The police has said that they will not approve of such public gathering as the organiser has not submitted an application for it. Bersih has called for all people who wants to join in in their peaceful gathering to be in yellow attire for that day. I would say if you support their cause and can't be there, wear something in yellow just for that day. The organiser and others will walk to various parts of the city and end up at the King's palace where all this organisations/parties will hand over a memorandum.

The organiser together with the endorsees are trying to get 100,000 people to participate in their peaceful walk to the King's palace. What about the police permit? Is it necessary? Will this peaceful public gathering materialise? Let's see.
Tags: Bersih, Non-Governmental Organisations, Civil Society Groups, Political Parties

Which Sex is the Better Driver?

In my journey from home to office and back I tend to bump into some terrible drivers who are either careless, couldn't be bothered type or those learner or lady drivers.

Sometimes, I would stereotyped lady drivers that they are the terrible ones when they couldn't decide where they wanted to go or when they decide to do it, they did it there and then without signalling or expected you to stop for them. When some of these events happened, I tend to think - "it must be a lady driver".

A lady friend of mine was more than happy to send the following photos:-1) Car park exit (for Tanglin Shopping Centre) from right hand side of the picture.
2) The exit is on the left of the picture where the black coloured was.
3) The driver of the white car turned right after leaving the car park.
The main thing my lady friend wanted to highlight in these photos - the driver was a MAN!
Tags: Sex, Driver, Lady Driver, Tanglin Shopping Centre, Singapore

Scouting Around for Video Shooting

In wrapping one of the dramas' video shootings, we were scounting around Taman Desa's pasar malam. A pasar malam is like a night market which is held weekly at a designated place in a particular residential area.

In this scene, we were trying to show the teenage girl's parents running all over the place looking for their girl who left home.

We were waiting for the right number of people to appear at the pasar malam and then show the parents on their toes, sticking their heads up, here and there, in the sea of people.

The mom (Susan) in black t-shirt and dad (Ritchie) first person on the right were just lingering around that spot while waiting for the crowd. Thank God yesterday night's weather was perfect.








While walking around, I saw this stall selling clothings and this big banner was hanging on the side of his van. A Liverpool banner!!!!!!!!!! Hello uncle, where's the Man Utd's banner??? I didn't ask about the price ..... if Man Utd's banner, I would have asked.

After the pasar malam scene, we went to a nearby food court. A continuance of the parents looking high and low. They ran towards a curry mee stall, whom the owner is known to the parents and enquired whether the stall owner has seen their daughter.

Yeah, I got the lady stall owner to be part of the drama. Later our cameraman and myself ordered 2 bowls of her curry mee (you call this a bribe or in support of her helpfulness?)

Guess this scene would make my church members baffled as to how did you get the food court people to participate. That's the fun part.
Tags: Christmas, Christmas Drama, Pasar Malam, Food Court, Curry Mee, Liverpool, Man Utd

Explosion in My Blog

Noticed that my blog posting on John Arne Riise's Payslip has gotten lots of readers from Europe accessing my blog owing to them being curious on seeing his payslip. Normally, blog readers from United Kingdom would be less than 3% of the total daily visitors but on Friday itself, the percentage jumped aggressively out of a total of 600++ visitors.
Tags: United Kingdom, Europe, John Arne Riise, John Arne Riise's Payslip, Payslip

How Dangerous is Your Work?

Which do you rank as the most dangerous?

Tags: Work, Occupation, Profession, Danger

Birthday Presents

A wife mentioned to her husband that for her birthday, she would like something that accelerates from 0 to 100 in four seconds.

She was expecting something like this........ ....

But her husband presented her with something very different...

The husband is now in a critical but stable condition in ICU!

Tags: Birthday, Porsche, Weighing Machine, Funny, Humour

John Arne Riise's Payslip

Just as I was reading Reds to probe internet leak of Riise's wage slip - Soccernet about Liverpool's John Arne Riise's payslip, an email came in attached with a photo of that same payslip. How co-incidental. He received a gross income of £139,634.62 for the month of Aug 2006 [assuming it was so as the date of that payslip was dated 1 Sept 2006 - of which £120,000 (for monthly salary), £250 (point bonus), £4,000 (appearance) £15,384.62 (2006/07 Champions League salary increase)].

And he paid £55,508.28 under the Pay As You Earn (PAYE) system, a staggering 39.7% of his gross income. Next, I will show Steven Gerrard's payslip............

Reading: John Arne Riise angry at public payslip - Liverpool Pies
Tags: Liverpool, Payslip, John Arne Riise, Pay As You Earn, PAYE, Steven Gerrard