Archive for January, 2007
Tuesday, January 9th, 2007
Oh, America
Not content with messing up Afghanistan and Iraq and indulging in some sabre-rattling with Iran, the US now goes off and launches air strikes in Somalia.
I’ll put my hand up and admit that when Afghanistan was invaded, I wasn’t too unhappy. The Taliban, I felt, deserved a kicking for the way they were treating Afghan […]
No Comments » - Posted in The World by oj
Monday, January 8th, 2007
National schools, or Islamic schools?
By the time I finished reading Optimuz’s letter in today’s malaysiakini, I was gobsmacked.
Optimuz alleges that at his daughter’s new primary school, all students were automatically enrolled in Arabic language classes. Nothing alarming there, except that he/she then says: “Prior to starting the lesson, the teacher made all the students rise and lift their hands […]
No Comments » - Posted in Being a Muslim, Malaysia by oj
Friday, January 5th, 2007
Not much to say
… other than have a good weekend.
I think, after all the holidays and activities over the past three weeks or so (various Christmas parties, then Christmas, Boxing Day, Eid/New Year’s eve, New Year’s day), I am going to need this weekend, because coming back to work properly has been rather a major shock to the […]
No Comments » - Posted in Misc by oj
Thursday, January 4th, 2007
What would you do …
… if you too had a child whose mental ability would never exceed that of a three month old baby?
Would you give the child the “Ashley treatment”?
Having read the blog as well as the message board discussing the treatment, I cannot find it in my heart to judge Ashley’s parents. What an incredibly difficult decision […]
No Comments » - Posted in Thinking about stuff by oj
Wednesday, January 3rd, 2007
A Brush with the Past
One of the (not many) things I did over the Christmas/New Year break was to clear out my wardrobe.
I don’t really have a lot of clothes (well, not compared to the SPG anyway!!), but I did need to clear some stuff out. Naturally I mentioned this to Hubby (the conversation went something like this: […]
No Comments » - Posted in Navel-gazing, The old days by oj
Tuesday, January 2nd, 2007
KL-London on Air Asia?
So there I was on the tube this morning, still in my post-holiday stupor, listlessly flicking through my copy of the Metro (which, if you didn’t know, is the free London newspaper that’s distributed to most - all? - tube stations every weekday morning). I scanned through most of the articles … a tragedy […]
