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With effect from December 01th, 2006, the blog “Ada apa dengan ShinShin?” have finally relocated to our new server with the domain disagrees.net…

Please check out our new home at http://myshinshin.disagrees.net, and renew your bookmark.

Also setting up blogs in our new server including Arhthoau, Clara, Dr. Zaliha, Emmanuel, Eva, Hafiizh, Kian Keat, Yee Aun, and we are expecting a few more, including academicians as well as politicians.

See you there!

Bob visited Lucia in Penang, the Tong Sampah Pearl of the Orient, together with his mates Irene and Mini. Upon arrival in Penang, they flagged down a trickshaw, and went their way off to Love Lane.

They checked into the presidential suite with jacuzzi in Lovers’ Inn and Health Spa, for the rate of RM 3000 per night.

As they were too eager to enter the room, they didn’t bother to pay at the counter. Instead, each of them took out RM 1000, paid the amount in cash to Menj, the conscierge who showed them the room, and let the conscierge bring the cash to counter.

At the counter, Lyn the cashier being kind and gracious, decided to offer them a discount. Thus she kept just RM 2500 and gave the remaining RM 500 to Menj, asking him to return it to Bob and company.

Menj thought that there’s no way RM 500 can be divided completely among the three, thus, evil Menj decided to pocket RM 200, and just give back RM 100 to each of Bob, Irene and Mini, and he did just that. Bob and company were very happy that they had a discount, and each of them happily put RM 100 back into their wallet.

Each of Bob, Irene and Mini had forked out RM 1000 and took RM 100 back, meaning that they have paid RM 900 each, or RM 2700 altogether. Add that to the RM 200 that Menj has pocketed without permission, it was still only RM 2900. So the question now, where did the remaining RM 100 go ?

p/s: on the good advice of Bob, wish to add a disclaimer that all names and accounts are purely fictional

Sdr Tian, who is profoundly obsessed with demonstration, had held one in collaboration with the residents of Bukit Indah, don’t ask me where is it, against the illegal factory occupying the space below TNB high tension power lines, TNB as well as the Land Office.

Sinchew had the mercy of publishing the photo of this demonstration in their Metro supplement, August 11th, 2006, with complimentary mosaics blurring the message on the banner.

So much about press freedom in Malaysia.

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This is what my little bird emailed me recently, titled “What’s the point?”. How dare they are to ridicule our fundamentally pious guests of honours from the Holy Land?

Baru je bangun, Acai called, tanya kalau nak sarapan. Kita minum kat somewhere in Kelana Jaya. Nampaknya Acai sebenarnya cuma diperintah somebody untuk bawakan I ke sini.

Tepat pukul 10, CheguBard dah muncul. Nampaknya Bard nak kita revampkan sket website Gerakan Korupsi dan Anti-Demokratik Gerakan Demokrasi dan Anti-Korupsi (Gerak), sebuah NGO anti-rasuah yang diketuai Ezam, yang juga merupakan Ketua Angkatan Muda pusat.

So Ezam, Bard dan I dah adakan sket brainstorming, cuba fikirkan apakah yang kita perlukan untuk memeriahkan lagi website Gerak. Sebenarnya kandungan dah hampir mencukupi, design pon okay jugak, mungkin buleh kita kemaskan sket kot. Selepas meninjau ke web Aliran, PenangWatch, Keadilan Penang dan sebagainya, kita putuskan apakah yang Gerak perlukan ialah satu Content Management System (CMS) Joomla.

Okay, so, kita nak installkan Joomla. Tapi server sucks, cuba upload fail-fail Joomla ke dalam server beberapa kali, sumernya stuck halfway sebab disconnection. Maybe next time baru kita install kot.

Watch out!

Pada petang 23 Jun 2005, Faisal Mustaffa a.k.a. Acai, Ketua Biro Antarabangsa Angkatan Muda Keadilan Pusat, telefon aku, tanya kalau nak minum. Aku okay je. Tapi jejaka nie sampai pukul 3 lebih pun tak muncul. So aku baca buku sampai tertido kat sofa. Tetiba, aku tertengar orang honk, dan mommy bagitau, “Eh, saper tu yang letak kerete depan umah kita?” Owh, nampaknya Acai dah sampai, tengah merokok lagi kat luar pagar kita nie. Cemarkan udara PJ.

Faisal pakai sebiji kerete pacuan 4 roda yang macho. Entahlah saper punya, Amir Sari penyelaras IKD ke kengkawan diorang kot. Acai kata keretenyer masuk bengkel. Instead of pi minum kopi, Acai sebenarnya akan ambik gambaq dalam pertemuan di antara YB Karpal Singh (Bukit Gelugor) dan Datuk Seri Anwar kat umah Karpal nanti, so kita kenalah carikan di manakah umah Karpal dulu.

Kita tiba di Pusat Bandar Damansara (Jabatan Imigresen & HELP Institute), tapi dah buat beberapa bulatan baru dapat cari masuk jalan ke sebelah sana Damansara Heights. Pada suatu ketika, semasa mendaki bukit di Jalan Semantan dekat Bangunan Shell, tetiba kerete kehilangan power. Nampaknya Acai yang tak biasa dengan kerete yang boleh dikawal dengan kedua-dua gear manual dan automatik nie tertekan sesuatu secara silap, dan daripada gear auto kita tetiba jadi gear 1 yang manual pulak. So beliau started kan enjin sekali lagik, dan kita terus mendaki bukit.

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Ada apa dengan ShinsShin strongly supports any effort to protect our little freedom of expression. CIJ is organising this workshop, whose objective is to impart information about the various laws in Malaysia that aim to regulate cyberspace. These laws potentially threaten freedom of expression on the Internet especially the blog-o-sphere. Despite government pledges not to censor the Internet, the Communications and Multimedia Act 1998, action against Jeff Ooi and Mack Zulkifli, among others, warrants precautionary steps by bloggers.

Date Saturday, 1 July 2006

Venue Centre for Independent Journalism (CIJ)
27-C, Jalan Sarikei
off Jalan Pahang Barat
53000 Kuala Lumpur
(location map)

Time 9.30 am - 4.30 pm

Speaker Sonia Randhawa, Executive Director, CIJ

Fee None Whatsoever

Equipping yourself with information is one of the best way to protect your rights to freedom of expression. We look forward to your participation in the workshop.

For more information please contact the cute CIJ Advocacy Officer,

Wai Fong 03 4023 0772
waifong AT cijmalaysia DOT org

Bloggers Workshop: Protect Yourself from Legal Pitfalls

It’s His Majesty King’s Birthday today. A day when most Malaysian regard as just another public holiday (less so now that Saturday is already an off-day for many, holiday or not). To promote a healthy discourse on public affairs, I would like to discuss the pros and cons of absolute monarchy vis-a-vis constitutional monarchy, and what day would it be more appropriate than today?

In Australia, there was a “Republic Referendum” in 1999, in which the public was asked whether the Governor General (Queen’s representative in Downunder) should be replaced by a Parliament-appointed President. It was rejected with the ‘no’ side receiving 54.4% of the vote.

That scares the house of Windsor tremendously. At any given time, the percentage of opposers of Monarchy in UK is about 25%, plus or minus, thus seeing 45.6% of Australians requesting a republic is indeed frightening.

Constitutional Monarchy, as we know, checks the power of the government. As in Malaysia, the appointment of Prime Minister is one of King’s discretional power, eventhough conventionally he would choose the head of parliamentary majority. But there’s no law barring the King from choosing, say, YB Ms. Fong Po Kuan or YB Datuk Seri Semi-Value (Perak Boleh!), as long as the appointee is elected into the House of Commons.

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KLCC, 28 Mei - Cikgu Badrul Hisham Shaharin, Timbalan Ketua Penerangan Angkatan Muda, Kak Nora, aktivis Reformasi, Ronnie Liu, Setiausaha Perhubungan NGO DAP, Dr. Wardah Abdullah, AJK Lajnah Pengguna PAS Pusat dan Salahuddin Ayub, Ahli Parlimen Kube Keghie dan Ketua Pemuda Pas antara 20 orang termasuk 2 wanita (Kak Nora dan Wardah) yang ditahan polis dalam tunjuk perasaan membantah kenaikan harga minyak dan tarif elektrik di KLCC tadi.

Protes di KLCC tadi adalah yang terakhir daripada siri protes kenaikan minyak yang dinamakan “Protes Sampai Turun“, menurut penganjurnya, Dr. Hatta Ramli.

Dua orang penunjuk perasaan mengalami luka parah, termasuk Amran Zulkifli, 38 yang dipukul pengganas Unit Simpanan Persekutuan (FRU) di bahagian kepala dan Lim Ban Teng, 24, bendahari Pergerakan Demokratik Belia dan Pelajar Malaysia (Dema) yang mengamali fracture di tangan kanan.

Amran telah dikejarkan ke Hospital Pusat Rawatan Islam (Pusrawi) dekat sini oleh mereka yang baik hati.

Ketua Polis Dang Wangi, ACP Kamal Pasha mengesahkan 18 orang ditahan, termasuk dua orang wanita. Mereka ditahankan di Balai Polis Hang Tuah a.k.a. Penjara Pudu.

Bantahan yang disertai 2000 orang menurut laporan Harakahdaily, dan, 500 orang menurut Malaysiakini itu bermula dengan lancar. Menurut little bird kita, blogger Eva, bilangan pnunjuk perasaan hari ini jauh melebihi demonstrasi terdahulu pada 10 Mac lepas.

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i am wondering why did Minishorts tag Menjadi-jadi, and Menjadi-jadi tag me.
i just wish they don’t spread any web-borne virus to me.
i said thank you Nurin and CheguBard, Pengkalan Pasir was fun.
i want to rid our beloved Malaysia of fundies, extremists and terrorists.
i wish those idiots can stop accusing Keadilan of being Pas’ partner in crime in Islamic state.
i hate the fact that Keadilan have to stuck in this marriage of inconvenience.
i miss drinking tea with Budu, Alvin and Bob in mamak near my house.
i fear nothing eventhough dudes advised me not to be so outspoken.
i hear Israeli toddlers crying everytime lunatics carry out homicide bombing.
i wonder whether disengagement from Strip and Bank reduces or encourages violence.
i regret Hamas winning Palestinian Parliament, not that I like Fatah.
i am thinking if I should attend SDP’s Roadmap to Democracy workshop tomorrow.
i sing Siti Nurhaliza’s Biarlah Rahsia when oppositions won 8 seats in Sarawak.
i cry when I couldn’t find my darling’s shweetly-written letter to me.
i am worried that my birthday present might reach her after her birthday.
i made my sweetie a hand-made birthday card two years ago, but nothing this year.
i write rarely now that we have keyboards.
i confused Izzah from Imaan, and said “Owh, your in-law” when Budu mentioned Izzah’s dad.
i need to learn more from people like Clarissa, Hasmi and Fathi, they are amazing.
i should promote Yee Aun’s blog since he’s really talented and opiniated.
i start to know Yeen Fern when she emailed me her Malaysiakini survey.
i finish this meme thingy at 1530 hrs, 26 May 2006, now Fadlyn, Yeen Fern and Nore it’s your turn.

Photo copyright: Malaysiakini

Pas, Keadilan, DAP and PSM together with Non-Governmental Organizations will hold a big scale demonstration and protest against the recent extraordinary fuel hike, as well as the impending electricity tariff hike effective 1 June, at 10am, 28 May 2006, KLCC (facing Jalan Ampang).

All are welcome. Let’s exercise our freedom of assembly as guaranteed by UN UDHR and Federal Constitution to speak up against injustice and mismanagement of the country by the Barisan Nasional (BN) regime.

Queen-controlled DPM Datuk Seri Najib tells us to change our lifestyle, let’s tell them, we want Regime Change!

For more info, please visit Fuel Hike Protest blog by Dr. Hatta Ramli, and don’t forget to download Fuel Hike issue leaflet (pdf, 3 MB).

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I really love this song, 李彩樺的我愛雨天。 It recharges my tired self, day in day out. I feel energitic after listening to it. Those who wish to grab the Music Video please contact Menjadi-jadi.

We have discussed the ban on Laki-laki Komunis Terakhir in our entry dated 14 May, 2006, Laki-Laki Komunis Terakhir and my proposal, in which we suggested the ban be put to a nationwide referendum, which would be preceeded by a nationwide screening of that melo-drama-documentary that prepares voters for the referendum.

Today, new development takes place. Minister of Homely Affairs, Datuk Seri Radzi Sheikh Ahmad, who happens to be also Umno Secretary-General, announced that the issue would be brought up to Umno Supreme Council meeting in June.

According to him, the excuse for him to exercise his discretionary power in banning the movie, which was approved by Censorship Board and Special Branch, was “Umno members’ sentiment during Umno’s 60th anniversary in the month of May“.

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Days ago, Menjadi-jadi published a so-called satire designed by a fellow stakeholder in an extremist Muslim version of Answering Islam site, which was meant for soliciting donations. The so-called satire called for destruction of Christianity faith, among others.

The Malaysian blogging public reacted passionately on this. Menjadi-jadi, now under fire, decided against my good advice to block Malaysian visitors’ access to his blog. To show solidarity to my fellow countrymen, I decided to self-impose a ban on visiting Menjadi-jadi’s blog, eventhough my Internet Protocol (IP) was not among the range he banned.

I hate to let this Menjadi-jadi dude occupy too much of my space. Yet, I need to discuss it slightly, from the perspective of equality among all religions, as well as the attitude of some extremists.

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Dear all,

Peace be with you and Good day.

A workshop on blogging, “Blogging as a means for political communication“, organized by Frederick Naumann Stiftung Foundation, will be held on Sunday June 11th, 2006, from 7pm - 9pm in Hotel Micasa, Jalan Ampang, Kuala Lumpur.

Famous bloggers Nizam Zakaria & Jeff Ooi will be the resource persons in the workshop, which moderator will come from Frederick Naumann Stiftung Foundation. The workshop will be conducted in English.

Those who wish to find out more, and those who are interested please RSVP via email to … Places are limited, please register as soon as possible. The workshop is free-of-charge. All are welcome.

As of now, DJ Novin from Ipoh is the first registered participant.

DAP won 6 seats, namely Pending, Batu Lintang, Kota Sentosa, Bukit Assek, Kidurong and Meradong. Keadilan Supreme Councillor Dominique Ng Kim Ho was elected in Padungan, while Engkilili went to SNAP. All 8 seats won at the expense of SUPP. Also, an independent candidate has won in Nyemah.

All the opposition wards fall within urban limits. As Advisor of Sarawak Solidarity Front (BBS), former Deputy Chief Minister Datuk Daniel Tajem pointed out, it is indeed ironic that, those who benefitted the most under BN’s “Politic of Development” rejected BN the strongest, while areas that have never gained anything under BN’s “Politics of Development” instead voted favorably for it.

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The Ninth Sarawak State Election is approaching. Nomination has taken place last Tuesday, seeing all seats apart from 2 being contested.

Keadilan, Sarawak National Party (SNAP) and Malaysian Dayak Congress (MDC) have formed a Sarawak Solidarity Front (BBS). Thanks to an election pact, BBS components and DAP will not fight against each other, as disclosed by Wan Zainal, Keadilan Sarawak Liaison Chief in a press conference that I’ve attended, on Dec 23, 2005 in Hotel Istana, KL, on the sideline of 2nd Keadilan National Congress.

Meanwhile, Pas is also given a seat to contest in Beting Maro, and surely we must thank them for saving Keadilan from one more defeat. Maybe we don’t need to go that far, but a blogger just told me, “Hope they hilang deposit!”

So what’s the focus for this election? When we asked ourselves the same question prior to Pengkalan Pasir by-election last year, I knew what we want. We have to defend Malaysia’s only non-BN state government, which was a difficult challenge, given Pas’ mediocre track record, but we wanted to choose the lesser evil, and the keyword was “Democracy”. What about this time?

Sarawak politic is a battle without ideology. For ages we’ve seen BN legislators of different camps, usually divided along ethnic lines, fighting against each other for larger share of cake, in the forms of government construction contract or logging consessions, among others. The Ming Court Power Struggle Affair had nothing to do with democracy, mind you.

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