‘Politik kedai kopi’ emerged as ‘politik Starbucks’

Malaysians are very familiar with the term ‘politik kedai kopi’. Since Malaysians now more ICT-exposed, people can get easy access through Internet, SMS, blogs. etc from the most rural place that you can name in Malaysia. This surely shows that communications among Malaysians are getting better. What used to be ‘politik kedai kopi’ has now [...]

Will Kedah ever be the same again?

You heard the result! Kedah is now in good hands of the Opposition (PAS, PKR and DAP). PAS will now create a new state government for Kedah, which means the current Menteri Besar, Datuk Mahdzir Khalid is out of the game. I’ve been to Kelantan and stayed there for 5 months and I knew what [...]

Colours of the General Election

Today is the day for Malaysian citizens go out and vote. I’m not 21 yet but I sure can understand what’s going on. Obviously. Flags, manifestos, banners etc. are hung everywhere by all the political parties, competing for the seats in the parliament. People have been talking about politics since the last couple of weeks, [...]