Posted on 16 July 2011 by Administrator
Written and compiled by Chrisanne Chin (CCM Youth Moderator)
Bersih and Biblical Advocacy. Bersih has special significance for me. It was in 2007 when I had my first encounter with biblical advocacy and justice issues. Thanks to Bersih1.0, this led to CCM Youth’s inaugural participation in the rally. The impact…
Posted on 14 July 2011 by Rama Ramanathan
Last night I was again outside the HQ of the Malaysian Police. I keep wondering why I go. It’s as if I’ve been possessed. I know I will not enjoy anything else I attempt to do between 8 and 9 pm daily. I’m struggling to understand myself. Things came to…
Posted on 12 July 2011 by Administrator
For me personally when the ruling authorities start telling blatant lies and oppressing the ordinary citizens in the country, they lose their moral authority to govern the nation. Once they lose the moral authority to govern, they can only do it through sheer brutal physical force which is what we…
Posted on 11 July 2011 by Administrator
By Kim Cheng
When I now think back on 709, my heart weeps! As with many other fellow Malaysians probably… whichever side we may be on, whether we support 709 or not. My heart weeps with sadness at what has happened to beloved Malaysia. My heart weeps with being overwhelmed…
Posted on 11 July 2011 by Administrator
by Annette Arulrajah on Sunday, 10 July 2011 at 23:27
After a great internal debate TO GO or NOT TO GO, I decided to go for Bersih. I decided, no one will know what is in my heart unless my presence speaks it. I support the 8 calls of reform…
Posted on 23 August 2010 by Rama Ramanathan
I stopped the car at the end of a broken, unpaved, rutted road with tall grass growing in the middle. They unloaded the car. We had brought rice, eggs, baked beans, cooking oil, biscuits, milk powder for mothers and for infants. Also some clothes. All the stuff we brought was…
Posted on 02 August 2010 by Rama Ramanathan
I went to the anti Internal Security Act (ISA) protest at AMCORP Mall in Petaling Jaya tonight. One of my friends has been arrested for just being there.
I went because (a) I wanted to see for myself whether what I had heard about police provoking protesters is true, (b)…
Posted on 01 April 2010 by Goh Keat Peng
Children are God’s most wonderful and precious gifts to us. The world may be run and monopolised by grown-ups but a world without children will be deprived of the unique ways in which children force us grown-ups to view, learn and understand the fundamentals of life. The child’s perspective is…
Posted on 15 March 2010 by Goh Keat Peng
No matter how uncomfortable a fence may be as an improvised seat, the alternative to sitting on it, that is, to get off from it may for many be not a very comfortable option.
The human anatomy having got used to a certain position or posture may prefer to stay…
Posted on 04 March 2010 by Goh Keat Peng
Of all the places one can think of, the fence must be about the most uncomfortable place on earth to sit (or perch) on. To sit on the fence for a while may be alright but certainly not for long. Fences will poke and scratch us in our most tender…
Posted on 23 September 2009 by Administrator
Waking up at the wee hours of a cool Wednesday morning, a group of the University of Tasmania students from Malaysia got out their beds into the freezing Tasmanian morning and met in the residential college’s dining hall to meet to fast. Yes, to fast.
According to news portal TheStar…
Posted on 09 September 2009 by Tricia Yeoh
It has been a strange year of Death for many Malaysians, culminating personally in that of Teoh Beng Hock, political aide to a Selangor Exco Member – a colleague and acquaintance of mine.
Several weeks had passed since his death, but still it is shrouded in mystery. As the inquest…