February 2007 « MageP’s Lab

Silly and rubbish: Too harsh!

Describing the "silly and rubbish" statement as too harsh, Perlis Menteri Besar Shahidan Kassim came out to the defence of former Home Minister Azmi Khalid and asked Home Minister Radzi Sheikh Ahmad to withdraw his statement.

"He should not describe the earlier measure as stupid. If he wants to change what Azmi did, then do [...]

Radzi: Silly and rubbish!

Yesterday, The Star reported that the Transport Minister Chan Kong Choy has directed to terminate a cash reward contest, citing possible abusement as the reason but why it’s being offered to the public at first place, Minister Chan knows.

Today, Home Minister Radzi Sheikh Ahmad called off a lucky draw which was offered by the Home [...]

Minister Chan: Stop the “Press, Send and Win” contest

Last Friday, the Road Safety Department (JKJR) launched a contest by inviting public to submit photographs of motorists committing traffic offences, with daily rewards of RM150 for the best picture of the day, RM100 and RM50 for the second and third best pictures.

Subsequently, the pictures will be displayed on the department’s "Hall of Shame/Hall of [...]

MAS: Upbeat on second black

"Make money in 2007, increase profit in 2008," said Malaysia Airlines’s managing director Idris Jala.

While MAS is set to release its full-year earning on Feb 26, Idris is confident of second straight quarterly profit ended Dec 31, 2006. Among measures taken are reduction of about 3000 personnel through its mutual separation scheme and discontinued unprofitable [...]

Pray for Tun M

While Tun is OK as according to the doctors, let’s pray for his well-being too.

Toilet management in Malaysia

You’re right, the Government is planning to introduce college courses in toilet managment, as part of the toilet revolution.

If what Deputy Housing and Local Government Minister Robert Lau said was true, we’ve became more and more like Singapore, albeit in an unintended way.

Look at how international press laughing at our "toilet revolution ".

Open letter to Google from Issao Mao

This is what happened in China.

(SOURCE: RebeccaMack’s Photostream)

When Google failed the people of China, Isaac Mao wrote an open letter to Google founders, with the hope to save Google and Internet in China.

"All of all, the pure the better; the more compromise, the worse," he said. Excerpt:
Google is not alone. There are still several [...]

Power crazy?

Jan 27, Penang Chief Minister Koh Tsu Koon condemned the Democratic Alliance Party (DAP) as "power crazy" after the latter initiative to govern Penang state in the next election.

(SOURCE: Sin Chew Daily, 27 January 2007)

Yesterday, Kelantan State Umno information chief Alwi Che Ahmad said the party is going to reveal a masterplan to take [...]

MageP’s Lab: Two years

Today marks the second anniversary of MageP’s Lab.

Throughtout the year, I’ve been communicating and meeting up with so many people across industries and professions, all thanks to various involvement of blogging activities. I truly appreciate the opportunity to learn a bit or two from each and everyone that I’ve came across, be it in [...]

Tun M on the Government

Last Friday, Malaysiakini editors interviewed former Prime Minister Tun Mahathir Mohamad at the Perdana Leadership Foundation office in Putrajaya.

Initially, he had wanted the interview to be all about his campaign against war crime. However, according the report by Malaysiakini, Tun couldn’t resist giving his views on current affairs when being asked over the Free Trade [...]