50 Merdeka Stories This is an excellent series by the Sun Malaysia, which I hope they’d compile it and publish it as a book once it’s finished. Reflections on the Rukun Negara This brings back so many memories of me standing in front of my fellow students during our school assembly leading them to recite…
Category: Malaysia
Addicted To Love
This was much better than the sermon I preached this morning 🙂 Thanks Haris Ibrahim for sharing.  Addicted To Love A young lady e-mailed me about two weeks ago and asked, amongst other things : ‘How did you come to this point of your life? Doing what you’re doing, writing what you’re writing?’ I had responded…
Riz Khan- Islam in Malaysia- 08 August 2007
(thanks to Haris Ibrahim for the link)
Malaysian Bloggers & Websites
f i f t y r e f u g e e s M a l a y s i a Stories are so important and they give us a human, a heart and a context into what often degenerates into abstract bouncing of opinions – which very often are uninformed opinions. Writing by Amir…
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 Malaysia neither secular nor theocratic state, says Abdullah Now let’s explore these two terms “parliamentary democracy” and “constitutional democracy” 🙂  PM: Malaysia is neither a secular nor theocratic state This caught my attention, I wonder what is the aid and how we can access it as religious organizations:  “Be it a surau, masjid, temple or…
Merdeka Statement
(Note: I thought it would be nice to add some pictures to the write up of the Merdeka Statement is Officially Launched. You may download and read this “living” document in pdf here. I’m perplexed by the reaction and comments by our information minister. I would expect that at the very least the government would…
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Keynote Address by Duli Yang Teramat Mulia Raja Muda Perak Darul Ridzuan Raja Nazrin Shah Ibni Sultan Azlan Muhibbijddin Shah at The Young Malaysians’ Roundtable I heard him get quoted so many times today. A quick glance through this particular speech had this leap out. “Malaysians of all races, religions, and geographic locations need to…
Picnic with United Voice Members
I was very encouraged to see about 18 of our church members spent the Sunday afternoon 29 July 2007 after the Sunday worship gathering to hang out and have this picnic with our friends at United Voice. BLC and UV has had a pretty long relationship of about 7 years. And I think slowly but…
Though Many, Yet One
This is one of the last videos I managed to capture for yesterday. Enjoy! I’m throwing in a bonus picture … Now go ahead and philosophize, psychologize and theologize (or have a thoughtful conversation) based on these images … 🙂
Is Malaysia an Islamic State?
Two important statements here, I have nothing much to say for now I’m resorting to prayer first:  Malaysia is a Constitutional Democracy, and Not an Islamic State  The Christian Federation of Malaysia wishes to express its concern at the following remarks of Datuk Seri Najib Abdul Razak on 17th July 2007 in response to questions from…