Went to Churros Royale Bandar Puteri Puchong for the first time yesterday to attend a kid's birthday party.
It is the flagship store of Churros Royale, a revolutionary F&B chain outlets specialising in the fine art making Spanish fried fritters with its original Spanish name “Churro”.
Pretty cool place, I would say. Attractive ambiance.
Churro is similar to our local char kway except that it tastes much better and more filling. ;)
For more information, check out the official Facebook:
I just did and it is the first organization that I'm following - just to find out how it's like. ;) Well, pretty much like adding a new contact in WeChat. ;)
Popular blogger Mohd Nur Hanief Abdul Jalil 27 who posted "Skandal Seks Sultan Selangor Dengan Kavita Kaur?" has this time posted photos in an album entitled "Sultan Selangor & Kavita Kaur (2010)" in his Facebook page.
JAN 23 ― Sometimes, I think the nation would be better served if Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad’s vocal chords took a trip to Siberia.
After all, few things have been as powerful and as destructive as his voice.
With that voice, he suggested Operasi Lalang. With his words, he brought low two institutions: the royalty and the judiciary.
But to silence him forever is to play by the rules he set. Kill dissent, smother criticism, strangle freedom of expression.
We may not like to listen to Dr Mahathir, but we have to give him the same rights we long for and deserve.
As he enters his twilight years he continues digging his own grave,
this time by insisting we scrutinise the citizenships granted to the
non-Malays during Malaya’s independence.
That he equates Sabah’s illegal immigrants with the Chinese and Indians is insulting. But hardly surprising.
Dr Mahathir believes that to elevate the Malays, it is necessary to
trample on the other races. In his heart, Malaysia has always been
“Malay-sia.” Land of the Malays, for the Malays, by the Malays.
What a lie.
And it is a lie perpetuated by the fools in Perkasa and the more right-wing elements in Umno.
This country would be nothing without the “pendatang.” Dr Mahathir
also forgets that many so-called Malays have ancestors who were also in
their days “pendatang.” The Bugis. The Minang. The Javanese.
Go to Kelantan and you will see Malays who have Thai ancestry. Go to
Johor and you will find Malays who can name Chinese among their
forebears.
USM professor Zilfalil Alwi, wrote a paper “Asal Usul Melayu
Berdasarkan Fakta Genetik” (Tracing the Origins of the Malays by
Analysing Genetic Data) where he theorised that early Malays could also
have been Indian priests who had arrived at the Malay peninsula to
propagate the Hindu faith.
That would make sense, seeing the predominantly Hindu Malay
population in Bali. Who eat pork unreservedly, to the horror of our
Malays when they visit the island.
Dr Mahathir says “Melayu mudah lupa” but himself forgets that
non-Malays have worked for the country, fought for the country, died for
the country. If tomorrow, should all the non-Malays leave en masse, the
country would be crippled.
Non-Malays have served in government, in the armed forces, as well as
in the police. Can Sabah’s illegal immigrants say the same? Can we say
that Sabah’s “instant citizens” fought off the communists or, in the
Confrontation, say they fought off Indonesia’s armed push to put an end
to Malaysia?
Unlike Sabah’s illegal immigrants, the Chinese and Indians did not
come from countries who still privately believe that Sabah and Sarawak
should belong to them.
If one day Sabah’s illegal immigrant population dwarfs the natives,
would it be surprising if either Indonesia or the Philippines attempts
to again “claim” the Borneo states as many of its citizens are there
anyway?
While Sabah’s illegal immigrants have contributed to the economy, the
natives do not embrace them as kin. They cannot claim a shared history,
they cannot pretend to have become part of the process that led to
Malaysia’s birth.
They did not win the right to citizenship. They do not deserve to be
citizens merely because they are willing to vote for Barisan Nasional.
Dr Mahathir also forgets the Orang Asli, who, among all the peoples
of Malaysia, most deserve to be called “sons of the soil”. But they have
benefited the least and suffered the most from Malaysia’s creation. We
take their land, send missionaries to “save their souls” when we can’t
even save them from poverty.
To the Orang Asli, we are perhaps the real pendatang who have taken everything and given them little in return.
They are barely even recognised in our history books or schools. How
many Malaysians, for instance, can name the many Orang Asli tribes?
Instead of recognising the Sakai and Jakun as the “real” bumiputera,
“sakai” and “jakun” are now Malay derogatory terms.
If you insist on semantics, Dr Mahathir, then technically we are all pendatang.
KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 15 — A pro-Barisan Nasional (BN) woman activist has become the latest Malaysian Internet phenomenon with her “Listen, listen, listen” diatribe after video clips of her public rebuke of a local university student went viral.
Parodies of Sharifah Zohra Jabeen, president of the little-known organisation Suara Wanita 1 Malaysia (SW1M) that is seen to be aligned with the ruling BN, have spawned on various social media platforms including YouTube and Facebook and has also been picked up and incorporated by a couple of food and beverage joints as part of their advertising gimmick in the last 24 hours.
Controversial Johor-born singer-songwriter Namewee, was even inspired to pen a song dedicated to Sharifah, which he titled “Listen” (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Qcd6GkPM-k&feature=player_embedded) and uploaded on YouTube earlier today as part of his “Tokok” series.
“Listen, listen, listen, listen, listen. This is a democracy country. I allow you to speak. But when I speak, you must listen.
“Listen, listen, listen, listen, listen. Don’t compare our country with other countries. If you want to compare, what are you doing in Malaysia?” said the bearded 29-year-old, sporting a black “Tokok” tee and goofy silver-rimmed dark shades of two hands with their middle fingers extended upwards.
“But we can compare to the animals. We should compare to the kuching in Cuba, the tikus in Argentina, anjing di Malaysia because the animal are happy with the government [sic],” he added spoofing Sharifah’s remarks to University Utara Malaysia (UUM) student, Bawani K.S. in a video recording of an the open forum held last month.
The three-minute clip has generated 24,404 views and drawn 2,970 likes and 58 thumbs-down at the time of writing.
The artiste, whose real name is Wee Meng Chun, shot to notoriety in 2007 with a rap parody of the national anthem “Negaraku” and is well known for his musical satires on a wide variety of subjects.
Grilled chicken restaurant chain, Nando’s, also took a jab at Sharifah, in its latest advertisement, telling Facebook followers to “Listen. Listen. Listen. Listen. Our Chicks are A-Okay”.
Local pub, Dukes & Duchess, also sent out an open call to its Facebook patrons to join them in a “Listen, listen, listen” party this Saturday.
In a promotion, the watering hole, located in the Taman Tun Dr Ismail suburb on the fringe of the national capital, urged patrons to “bring your pets to D&D and listen to their problem~If you are not happy to what you heard you can leave [sic]”.
Other Internet memes featuring portraits of Sharifah with her now infamous tagline “Listen, listen, listen” and various punch lines have also taken off.
A meme is defined as an idea, behaviour or style that swiftly replicates and spreads from person to person within a culture.
Screenshot of Sharifah Zohra Jabeen (right) berating Bawani at the forum.
The original video posted last week, featured Sharifah as host of a university forum publicly chewing out law student, Bawani who had stood up to voice her views on the Bersih electoral rally and free education — with remarks such as “when this is our programme, we allow you to speak” and “when I speak, you listen”.
Cutting off Bawani mid-way, Sharifah told the student to “Listen!” a whopping 11 times and even took away the microphone to stop the former from speaking further.
“Number one, when this is our programme, we allow you to speak,” Sharifah said, and then added, “Number two, when I speak, you listen.”
Sharifah also quelled another student who attempted to speak out, saying insistently, “Let me speak” before asking the rest of the auditorium audience: “Students in the hall, 2,300 students everywhere. Did I give her respect? Did I give her respect? I came up to her, shook hands with her and gave her respect as another woman. Do you think I need to answer her question with this attitude?”
She then labelled Bersih co-chair Datuk Ambiga Sreenevasan an “anarchist”, and criticised Bawani for highlighting the need for free education in the country, even telling her “if you equate Malaysia to other countries, what are you doing in Malaysia?”
“Go to Cuba, go to Argentina, go to Libya, go everywhere. Because all the students in this hall are happy with whatever the government does for them,” she said, and ticked Bawani off for having “a very least of pendidikan [education]”.
The forum, titled “Seiringkah mahasiswa dan politik?” (Are graduates and politics aligned?), was held at Universiti Utara Malaysia (UUM) in Kedah on December 8.
Undergraduates in local universities have in recent years become increasingly more vocal and critical of the government, more so after the Najib administration moved to loosen the law allowing students to participate in politics, in a bid to draw support from the younger generation who are seen to make up a substantial voter demographic group.
Last year, several student groups took part in demonstrations nationwide to demand greater freedom and free university education.
A Toyota logo is pictured at Geneva Car Show at the Palexpo in Geneva March 3, 2009. — Reuters pic
KUALA
LUMPUR, Jan 11 — At its peak, four of every five cars sold in Malaysia
was a Proton, but the carmaker is now in danger of slipping into third
spot in sales behind Toyota and Perodua, the second national car company
that has ruled the roost for over six years.
Industry sources told The Edge newspaper in an article published
today that Proton saw its market share slip in December 2012 to just
17.7 per cent, with Toyota now a close third at 17.1 per cent share of
passenger vehicle sales in the country.
“Perodua (Perusahaan Otomobil Kedua Sdn Bhd) is the runway market
leader while Proton over the last few years has been a strong second.
Now Toyota is closing in on Proton’s position,” an unnamed executive
told the financial daily.
Proton is controlled by Tan Sri Syed Mokhtar Al-Bukhary’s DRB-Hicom.
Industry executives told the financial daily that Proton’s sales fell
by over 11 per cent to 140,000 units from 158,000 units a year earlier,
missing the company’s target of 200,000 units by a wide margin.
Proton was established by Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad in 1983 and became a
poster child of the former prime minister’s industrialisation policies.
Dr Mahathir had made it patriotic to buy a Proton, but the company
has seen its sales slump in the last decade due to increasing
liberalisation of the Malaysian market.
In the early days, Protons were rebadged models from technical
partner Mitsubishi’s older range, which provided a solid foundation for
the fledgling automaker but also limited its ability to innovate.
It later succeeded in developing its own vehicle platforms
independent of the Japanese carmaker but has since gone back to the
practice of rebadging with the Inspira, which is based on the Mitsubishi
Lancer.
Malaysians were also unhappy with being able to afford only Protons
as a result of protectionist taxes and duties meant to shield the
carmaker in its early years but later became indefinite.
The backlash following the relaxation of vehicle import and local
assembly rules saw buyers abandon the local manufacturer for the
increasingly abundant range of foreign makes.
According to The Edge, Proton’s lack of new models bar one for 2013
will also put it under added pressure this year, given the growingly
competitive market.
The news about a video of wedding proposal by Low Taek Jho to Elva Hsiao of Taiwan first hit the local online media in August 2012. A few days or weeks later, the video on Youtube was no longer available and there was a message displayed - "This video is no longer available due to a copyright claim by Taek Jho Low".
This video was originally in Vimeo, then uploaded in Youtube but now it has resurfaced in Facebook Politicalgags on 20 December 2012.
Since I read her postings, I could generally recall a few things such as:
The suspected molester is a Malay boy whose father is a TNB staff while her mother is a school teacher.
When the police arrived at the "crime scene" - Shell station opposite Bank Simpanan Nasional - she was asked if she wanted to lodge a report (obviously, hinting at her to give the boy a chance lah).
She also had a bad experience in the police station when her demand to amend her report was rejected by a female officer who told her, "Sudah key in, tak boleh..." or something to that effect.
This is a moment to mourn. But grieve with anger in our
hearts. And remorse. And yes, do look down at your hands. Because they
are red. Blood red.
All of us today have blood on our hands. Because despite the chilling
statistic of a rape every 20 minutes, we took it in our stride in our
third-rate obnoxious chalta hai attitude, as if it was okay for
people on our streets and inside our homes to turn beasts thrice in an
hour. This is a moment not to rest in peace. Because it is our attitude
of moving on with life that has caused this terrible tragedy. This is
not the time to revel in that meaningless phrase called ‘resilient
spirit’.
Just think of the parents now in that Singapore hospital. Surrounded
by strangers in a faraway land, with no one in whose bosom they can cry
their heart out. The government, to prevent a violent backlash, took the
political decision to move the girl away. While the political
establishment can conveniently claim it had the victim’s well-being at
heart, everyone knew it was only wishing away potential trouble from an
India that has looked incensed for the past 12 days.
Hospital
staff carry the body of the gangrape victim to the police morgue
vehicle at the Mount Elizabeth hospital in Singapore. AFP
Think of the mother who would have smiled looking for the first time
into the face of the little baby girl she gave birth to. Think of the
father who would have cradled her for the first time nervously but with a
great degree of pride. Think of her brother. Their memories of the
many, many moments of togetherness.
Think of them now. India needs to know and imagine what they must be
going through now as they hug a lifeless body, wrapped in black. A young
life brought to this horrible, abrupt end by six men who subjugated her
to their perverted sense of manhood in a moving bus in Delhi. Almost as
if cocking a snook at all of us, daring us if we can really do anything
about it.
Her family will have to now carry her once again, for one last time
on their shoulders. To say they would have died a thousand deaths would
be an understatement. What does India say to her mother? As a nation
given more to cacophony and chest-beating than real action on the
ground, we have failed miserably and exposed our impotence.
We are all sentimental and emotional about the murder of a girl and
the violation of her dignity – and understandably so – but India will
have to treat this death as a wake-up call. And resolve to show zero
tolerance towards sexual harassment and violation of dignity. Of any
kind.
What can you and I do? Here are 10 things:
1. True homage to the 23-year-old will be if the next time we see a
girl being harassed or a child being abused, we do not look the other
way. Reach out to intervene, help. Treat such acts with the strong
societal scorn and disapproval it deserves. Whether it is the
sensational Srilakshmi case in Vijayawada in 2004, where the girl was
stabbed in front of her classmates by a man whose overtures were spurned
by her or the acid attack case in Warangal in 2008, the girls had
complained to the college authorities, the parents, the police. But it
didn’t work.
2. Stop advising girls and women to take acts in their stride that
which we have insisted on indulgently labelling ‘eve-teasing’. Those are
early warning signals. Pay heed to them and act to instil a healthy
respect of the law and the woman, if not putting the fear of punishment
in those indulging in it. Those murderers on the bus did not turn
rapists overnight. Repeat offences and no deterrence would have
progressively emboldened them.
3. Every rapist is a mother’s son. I am not saying this with the
intent of blaming any mother, but because she is our biggest hope for
change and influence. Let every mother make a conscious effort to
recognise traits and habits that may be the reason for concern and
worry. Speak up, get help for your child before it is too late. The
responsibility is also with the teacher and the school. Not to label any
child but to identify what may be problematic issues and create an
environment where corrections can happen. Those formative years are the
time when characters are etched out.
4. A lot has been spoken and written over the past two weeks over how
we are a deeply patriarchal society and blaming our ‘culture’, the way
men (or boys) are brought up in Indian families. An Abhijit Mukherjee,
Anisur Rehman, Botsa Satyanarayana or even a Mamta Banerjee only hold a
mirror to us and reflect our societal attitudes. These individuals are
visible, so at this time they got noticed and blamed for their acts of
indiscretion. Getting them to say ‘sorry’ is to buy temporary peace.
Nothing inside probably changes. Not the attitude, nor the thought. They
are only careful not to say it again. We need short-term and long-term
changes to address that.
5. Someone joked that it is time one half of our society doesn’t step
out of home past 9 pm to ensure the safety of women. The men, that is.
It’s not that crimes occur only in the cover of darkness. But it is time
to also confront the dark. Ensure safety in public places and
transport. We need to invest in that. Both in infrastructure and in
technology that can serve as a deterrent. Delhi Chief Minister Sheila
Dikshit took on Police Commissioner Neeraj Kumar over policing issues.
Surely, those who operate buses in Delhi and the blatant violations by
the mafia involved are surely neither unknown to her nor beyond her
jurisdiction.
6. Take on the wolves who come out, hunting sometimes alone,
sometimes in packs. India has been advocating the law of the jungle to
be adopted in getting rid of such wolves. In a so-called civilised,
democratic set-up that is not the solution. What we need is laws that
are implemented, time-bound trials, quick justice and punishment. So
there is fear of the law in potential violators. We also need to invest
heavily in technology to prevent such crimes.
7. The proposed national database of rape convicts is welcome. What
we need is a master register with the DNA profiles of regular or known
offenders, so that we can quickly zero in on culprits, reach
psychological help and treatment or lock them away in case they are too
dangerous to be let loose.
8. Fast-track courts and helpline numbers cannot be for Delhi alone.
That city may have earned for itself the unfortunate sobriquet of a
“rape capital” but sexual offences are happening everywhere and we need
helplines and PCRs to reach out and fast. What we could also seriously
consider is to have CCTV cameras at police stations monitored at random
or round-the-clock by independent, certified agencies to make sure
police stations function the way they are meant to, showing sensitivity
and concern and registering complaints.
9. There is no reason for us to believe that women may be more
sensitive to gender issues but there is certainly a case for having more
women in uniform. Presently their representation in the uniformed force
hasn’t crossed single digits. A conscious effort by the government to
increase their numbers has not worked out. An example: Andhra Pradesh’s
Home Minister said they had recently tried to recruit 2000 women, even
relaxing norms. They were not able to get more than 400 women.
10. A study conducted in 2007 showed that at least 52 percent of our
children suffer sexual abuse in some form or the other. A majority of
rapes happen within homes and are perpetrated by people related or known
to the victim. There is also research to show that those who are
violated and subjected to abuse as children often grow up to be
offenders themselves. We need to talk about and address this. First
within our families and then our society. Encourage victims to speak
out. Break the conspiracy of silence.
The night the 23-year-old was gangraped in Delhi, she was returning with her friend after reportedly watching the film Life of Pi, a filmabout hope. India needs to realise she gave her life in the hope that she leaves behind a more awakened India.
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KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 15 — A pro-Barisan Nasional (BN) woman activist has become the latest Malaysian Internet phenomenon with her “Listen, listen, listen” diatribe after video clips of her public rebuke of a local university student went viral.
