February 27, 2007 |
Malaysian censorship board has banned 2 movies produced by Malaysian directors lately.
The first being axed was “Village People Radio Show” (Apa Khabar Orang Kampung) by director Amir Muhammad, who also had his movie “The Last Communist” banned last year. Amir blogged about why Village People Radio Show was banned, read it.
If communist related movies are judged too sensitive for Malaysians’ viewing, the 2nd banning is rather peculiar. The movie is “I Don’t Want to Sleep Alone” by international renowned director Tsai Ming Liang.
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February 4, 2007 |
“The Malays are not a lazy indigenous group, having proven themselves over time in numerous fields,” said Deputy Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak. [NST]
Not all Malays are lazy. In my 3+ years of study in local university, I met some of the most diligent people that are Malays; but majority of the laziest students I have ever met are Malays.
Don’t want to be discriminative here… but unless there are massive improvements over the past few years, large groups of Malays are still being lazy in local varsities.
I don’t want to jump into conclusion that they are lazy by nature, Najib could be right to say that it’s not ‘indigenous’; perhaps some Malay lazy graduates have reasons like not being able to catch up with the studies and low English proficiency (English was a huge problem for lots of local undergraduates).
My point is however, that government leaders like Najib could look into the large problems more seriously instead of being proud with some small achievements. Things cannot be improved if they cannot accept the fact that they need improvements.
February 2, 2007 |
Joe Jer and Zabrina won the first ever The Amazing Race Asia, congrats.
I believe lots of The Amazing Race Asia (TARA) fans are happy to see the girls winning it; personally I’m quite fond of their happy-go-lucky attitude as well.
TARA made a good debut, I like it. I love the contestants… perhaps Asians are more polite, and more fun-going (some of them even having fun playing with bull-shit) and it’s good to see more diversity.
Hope to see TARA 2 soon. The premiere of Amazing Race All Stars is in a couple of weeks, can’t wait for that too.
January 29, 2007 |
Taiwan actress Beatrice Xu Wei Lun passed away on Sunday (Jan 28) because of her injuries from a car accident on late Friday.
Didn’t see this coming at all, she’s just 28 and should have a bright future ahead of her. That’s life, it’s just so unpredictable.
Rest in peace Beatrice, condolences to her family.
January 22, 2007 |
Korean singer U-Nee committed suicide and passed away on Jan 21.
When Mongolian Altantuya Shaaribuu was murdered in Malaysia a few months back, some photos were widely spread, mistaken as Altantuya; but in fact the photos belong to U-Nee (or Lee Hye-ryeon).
U-Nee’s death is nothing less tragic then Altantuya; she’s said to be suffering from depression from various pressure, including abuse and defamation from various online sources.
Defamation kills, think twice. RIP U-Nee, RIP Altantuya.
January 8, 2007 |
Dinner with mum and sister at Sunway area yesterday, jammed for an extra half an hour because of the protest at Sunway Pyramid against the hike of toll rate.
I wonder why the protestors chose to demonstrate at Pyramid… it’s private property and as far as I am concern, Sunway Group has nothing to do with the toll hike. I wonder why they didn’t held the demonstrations at the toll instead?
The protest disrupted the businesses nearby, the boss of the restaurant I was dining told me that their business could drop by 30-50% because of the protest. It just showed that the protestors were being inconsiderate in some sense.
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January 4, 2007 |
Visit Malaysia 2007 doesn’t started brightly… first it’s the incident where 30+ Taiwan visitors refused to get off a MAS plane after it landed in KaoShiung Taiwan, in protest of flight delay and poor treatment; and then here comes the BBC article that claims Malaysia authorities being racist.
I already mentioned in some of my previous post that 2007 is just a stepping stone for Malaysia tourism; it’s undoubted that they will be a rise of tourists this year, but what matters the most is that the experiences of these visitors will determine the reputation of Malaysia tourism for years to come.
Every little bits of travel experience matters. I can still remember how I was being troubled at the London airport where I was stranded for 25 minutes answering some stupid questions from the immigration officer… and 14 months later now I am still doing free but bad promotion for them.
There’s a good chance that Malaysia will do well though, Malaysians are mostly friendly people and with various joint efforts, Visit Malaysia Year 2007 should be a good one… despite not starting too well.
January 3, 2007 |
Malaysia disbanded the national hockey team that finished sixth in the Doha Asian Games and is planning to be replaced by a new squad of mostly national juniors. [NST]
It’s kinda funny that sports organizations in Malaysia always like to ‘build for the future’ and not thinking of anything that’s needed NOW.
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