Raja Petra Kamarudin
How many of you remember KAL007. No, I am not talking about one of those James Bond movies if that is what you are thinking. Still don’t remember? I thought many of you would not.
KAL007 was the Korean Airlines flight 007 that took off from runaway 32, Merrill Field airport, in Anchorage, Alaska, at 4.30am on 31 August 1983. The Boeing 747 plane was bound for Seoul’s Kimpo airport. Aboard the flight were 240 passengers, a cabin crew of 20, a three-man flight crew, and six other Korean Airlines crew members.
Thursday, June 29, 2006
Monday, June 19, 2006
To know you is to love you
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Monday Morning Blues
Raja Petra Kamarudin
The Malays say, if you love your wife then leave her, and if you love your children then beat them. In Bahasa Malaysia this would be: kalau saying isteri ditinggal-tinggalkan dan kalau saya anak dipukul-pukulkan. Not sure whether my Malay grammar is correct or not but I am sure you catch my drift nevertheless. I suppose the English concept to this would be ‘absence makes the heart grow fonder’ and ‘spare the rod, spoil the child’. Yes, sometimes familiarisation does breed contempt and the occasional ‘space’ would certainly make you miss the one you love. After all, love can be suffocating at times, if you know what I mean. But make sure the ‘absence’ is not a case of ‘out of sight, out of mind’.
The Malays say, if you love your wife then leave her, and if you love your children then beat them. In Bahasa Malaysia this would be: kalau saying isteri ditinggal-tinggalkan dan kalau saya anak dipukul-pukulkan. Not sure whether my Malay grammar is correct or not but I am sure you catch my drift nevertheless. I suppose the English concept to this would be ‘absence makes the heart grow fonder’ and ‘spare the rod, spoil the child’. Yes, sometimes familiarisation does breed contempt and the occasional ‘space’ would certainly make you miss the one you love. After all, love can be suffocating at times, if you know what I mean. But make sure the ‘absence’ is not a case of ‘out of sight, out of mind’.
Monday, June 12, 2006
It is not what you know but who you know
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Monday Morning Blues
Raja Petra Kamarudin
Scomi Group Bhd is an investment holding company with subsidiaries involved in the oil and gas support services. As at 2nd March 2006, Scomi has a total of 995.2 million shares of RM0.10 each with an authorised share capital of RM300 million and paid up share capital of RM99.52 million.
Scomi Group Bhd is an investment holding company with subsidiaries involved in the oil and gas support services. As at 2nd March 2006, Scomi has a total of 995.2 million shares of RM0.10 each with an authorised share capital of RM300 million and paid up share capital of RM99.52 million.
Monday, June 5, 2006
Tengku Razaleigh: the last Malay gentleman
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Monday Morning Blues
Raja Petra Kamarudin
Those aligned to Anwar Ibrahim feel I am very harsh towards him. Those aligned to Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad also feel I am very harsh towards him. Those aligned to Najib Tun Razak feel I am very harsh towards him as well. And of course, when it comes to Khairy Jamaluddin, he himself feels I am just too brutal.
Those aligned to Anwar Ibrahim feel I am very harsh towards him. Those aligned to Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad also feel I am very harsh towards him. Those aligned to Najib Tun Razak feel I am very harsh towards him as well. And of course, when it comes to Khairy Jamaluddin, he himself feels I am just too brutal.
Monday, May 29, 2006
Selling religion for money
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Monday Morning Blues
Raja Petra Kamarudin
One of the religious leaders (mufti) of a certain state in Malaysia has condemned men who allow their wives to become the breadwinner of the family while they, the husbands, stay home as househusbands. According to him, the accepted order of nature is that the wives should stay home as housewives while the men should go out to earn the money to support their families.
If a man allows his wife to become the breadwinner of the family while he stays home to look after the children and do the housework then the marriage is not blessed, argued this religious leader, the head honcho of religion in that state. Considering this decree (fatwah) comes from the top religious man in the state who also doubles as the adviser to the Sultan, the head of religion of any state in Malaysia, this is certainly most serious indeed.
One of the religious leaders (mufti) of a certain state in Malaysia has condemned men who allow their wives to become the breadwinner of the family while they, the husbands, stay home as househusbands. According to him, the accepted order of nature is that the wives should stay home as housewives while the men should go out to earn the money to support their families.
If a man allows his wife to become the breadwinner of the family while he stays home to look after the children and do the housework then the marriage is not blessed, argued this religious leader, the head honcho of religion in that state. Considering this decree (fatwah) comes from the top religious man in the state who also doubles as the adviser to the Sultan, the head of religion of any state in Malaysia, this is certainly most serious indeed.