"You look so tired-unhappy, bring down the government, they don't.. they don't speak for us." - No Surprises by Radiohead
No matter how peaceful a demonstration is, the government considers it illegal and people are arrested. Aren't they there to speak for us?
How can our voice be heard?
- yc, with his final bellyache
Showing posts with label freedom. Show all posts
Showing posts with label freedom. Show all posts
Saturday, January 26, 2008
Thursday, January 3, 2008
Flash Mob?
It just so happened that I was there, coincidently or not. Click here for my picture.
Read more from:
Or Google.
- yc
Read more from:
Or Google.
- yc
Friday, December 14, 2007
I thought I was Recharged
For a moment, I thought I was recharged after a cool holiday with some church kids in the past 4 days.. but now, being back to the real world, I feel so tired again.
One exciting news to share about is that I won a place (not the top-3 though, I heard) in the eGenting programming competition. And I'm on my way to attend the presentation night in an hour time.
Updated: I got a merit, not too bad. I believe it's the rich use of Java APIs (Pattern, Comparable, Collections) on the merge-sort question that made me one of the winners.
But there are more bullshit than good news, all thanks to GPRS (little Jen doesn't support 3G). See:
We have just set up a series of polls in our company (internal wiki) for the "Best of 2007". Now I wonder, what're the "Best of 2007" in Malaysia and how're you going to end yours.
- yc
One exciting news to share about is that I won a place (not the top-3 though, I heard) in the eGenting programming competition. And I'm on my way to attend the presentation night in an hour time.
Updated: I got a merit, not too bad. I believe it's the rich use of Java APIs (Pattern, Comparable, Collections) on the merge-sort question that made me one of the winners.
But there are more bullshit than good news, all thanks to GPRS (little Jen doesn't support 3G). See:
We have just set up a series of polls in our company (internal wiki) for the "Best of 2007". Now I wonder, what're the "Best of 2007" in Malaysia and how're you going to end yours.
- yc
Sunday, December 9, 2007
Human Rights Day
"When lawyers and the rakyat fail to march just because the police prefer to arrest people rather than protect them - the nation loses big time...
This is our right to march peacefully on the street. We can’t let them take it away from us."
10th of December is the Human Rights Day, the Malaysian government, however, hasn't been respecting it much and arresting the people happened to peacefully walk today.
The quote above is taken from Li Tsin's recent entry, do check it out. More stories in Jeff Ooi's blog.
- yc
This is our right to march peacefully on the street. We can’t let them take it away from us."
10th of December is the Human Rights Day, the Malaysian government, however, hasn't been respecting it much and arresting the people happened to peacefully walk today.
The quote above is taken from Li Tsin's recent entry, do check it out. More stories in Jeff Ooi's blog.
- yc
Sunday, November 11, 2007
Demonstation, a Display of Democracy
You could hardly see a mass peaceful demonstration in Malaysia. And it happened yesterday:
Pictures at Flickr.
- yc, pffft
- Jeff Ooi - Screenshots - How They Painted it Yellow
- Jeff Ooi - Screenshots - Paint it Yellow
- AFP - Malaysian opposition slams government over protest clampdown
"If they (the Opposition during the Bersih rally on Saturday) can gather 10,000 people, the Government through Barisan Nasional can gather even more people.I wasn't there because of the opposition. I was there because I could see that the country needs a change and what they have built so far are shame, corruption, stupidity, and ruining freedom and democracy.
"But what is the use if such demonstrations only lead to the possibility of ruining what we have built for the country?" he said.
Pictures at Flickr.
- yc, pffft
Friday, August 17, 2007
RE: Reason Behind The Recent Condemnation Against Bloggers
Note: I'm a technical blog writer and if you are reading this from a Java/IT blog-aggregator, it's probably that I labeled it incorrectly for some reasons.
This blog entry is written for the sake of being patriotic (patriotic doesn't mean that you are siding any party but you love the country for your own god's-sake reasons) and not being a quiet blogger, in response to:
If you read about one of my entries earlier ago, I attended a blogger's meeting and one of our forum discussions was about being a responsible blogger and how we should exercise the freedom of speech. That simply says that bloggers in Malaysia do meet up to talk about serious stuffs and care much about the country's future, but sadly, bloggers are wrongly labeled by the Malaysian media and government as irresponsible and culprits (citation needed).
In the discussion, we mentioned about the impact of blogs to the upcoming election in my country. (And for my dad who did not really understand what bloggers truly were but did read about some influential one being a DAP guy from the paper, I spent some time to explain to him about cyber communication, and I urge you to do the same to your parents.) And at that time, I did not really realize about how our government would react like today's, and it would have not been fun if I did realize, perhaps, would just feel a little bit more disgusted.
A few years back when it was our last election, Internet and blogs couldn't play a role in driving and educating the people, mainly because at that time Web 2.0 has not exploded yet and personal homepage could hardly be widespreaded unless you hosted interesting contents, and simply at that time, the voters preferred reading cooked-up news from the local media (citation needed), which I believe could be the matter of age. Right now, as people move with Internet daily or in another words: Internet moves and feeds people to be more intelligent, the decision of casting a vote can be more rationally made than emotionally, and surely for that, our government freaked out (did they? citation needed) and all the hypes of arresting and suppressing bloggers came out (citation needed).
To brief you, in case you do not know or read the links above, blogs make some parties unhappy and they thought of eliminating or controlling them as they could for other protocols, say, newspaper. Being a blogger and all-time geek in responsible of helping the growth of my country in terms of Information and Technology, I have a few words to say: the tool is neutral and innocent but opinions are always subjective. I would love it, if, besides of reading all other political blogs, my government and the ruling party could set up some good blogs to write about what they have done good for our country daily.
If any piece of the content above is offensive and considered breaking the laws of Malaysia, please let me know, as the content is written when I am physically in Sydney and the data is stored in Google's server which I believe do not have an immediate mirror service located at Malaysia at the point I commit this cyber crime (at the point I press the submit button).
yc, BLOGging
This blog entry is written for the sake of being patriotic (patriotic doesn't mean that you are siding any party but you love the country for your own god's-sake reasons) and not being a quiet blogger, in response to:
If you read about one of my entries earlier ago, I attended a blogger's meeting and one of our forum discussions was about being a responsible blogger and how we should exercise the freedom of speech. That simply says that bloggers in Malaysia do meet up to talk about serious stuffs and care much about the country's future, but sadly, bloggers are wrongly labeled by the Malaysian media and government as irresponsible and culprits (citation needed).
In the discussion, we mentioned about the impact of blogs to the upcoming election in my country. (And for my dad who did not really understand what bloggers truly were but did read about some influential one being a DAP guy from the paper, I spent some time to explain to him about cyber communication, and I urge you to do the same to your parents.) And at that time, I did not really realize about how our government would react like today's, and it would have not been fun if I did realize, perhaps, would just feel a little bit more disgusted.
A few years back when it was our last election, Internet and blogs couldn't play a role in driving and educating the people, mainly because at that time Web 2.0 has not exploded yet and personal homepage could hardly be widespreaded unless you hosted interesting contents, and simply at that time, the voters preferred reading cooked-up news from the local media (citation needed), which I believe could be the matter of age. Right now, as people move with Internet daily or in another words: Internet moves and feeds people to be more intelligent, the decision of casting a vote can be more rationally made than emotionally, and surely for that, our government freaked out (did they? citation needed) and all the hypes of arresting and suppressing bloggers came out (citation needed).
To brief you, in case you do not know or read the links above, blogs make some parties unhappy and they thought of eliminating or controlling them as they could for other protocols, say, newspaper. Being a blogger and all-time geek in responsible of helping the growth of my country in terms of Information and Technology, I have a few words to say: the tool is neutral and innocent but opinions are always subjective. I would love it, if, besides of reading all other political blogs, my government and the ruling party could set up some good blogs to write about what they have done good for our country daily.
If any piece of the content above is offensive and considered breaking the laws of Malaysia, please let me know, as the content is written when I am physically in Sydney and the data is stored in Google's server which I believe do not have an immediate mirror service located at Malaysia at the point I commit this cyber crime (at the point I press the submit button).
yc, BLOGging
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