<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><rss xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:openSearch="http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/" xmlns:blogger="http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008" xmlns:georss="http://www.georss.org/georss" xmlns:gd="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005" xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0" version="2.0"><channel><atom:id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23196158</atom:id><lastBuildDate>Fri, 30 Jan 2026 00:31:34 +0000</lastBuildDate><title>PabloPabla&#39;s Whatever</title><description>Whatever, whatsoever, howsoever, whereas, wherefore etc...</description><link>http://pablopabla.blogspot.com/</link><managingEditor>noreply@blogger.com (Unknown)</managingEditor><generator>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>459</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23196158.post-2664086183431164516</guid><pubDate>Mon, 11 Aug 2008 04:29:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-08-11T14:36:26.435+08:00</atom:updated><title>Words...and interpretation</title><atom:summary type="text">Threat :-1. An expression of an intention to inflict pain, injury, evil, or punishment.2. An indication of impending danger or harm.3. One that is regarded as a possible danger; a menace. (source)Context - Harsher actions if Bar Council holds more forums on religion, warn Muslim protestors.Muslim protesters threatened to take harsher actions against the Bar Council if it holds similar forums on </atom:summary><link>http://pablopabla.blogspot.com/2008/08/wordsand-interpretation.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Unknown)</author><thr:total>1</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23196158.post-4233076103397005122</guid><pubDate>Fri, 08 Aug 2008 06:45:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-08-08T14:47:45.593+08:00</atom:updated><title>Hacked!</title><atom:summary type="text">My blog buddy&#39;s site got hacked! Daryl Lau, whom many bloggers know, owns a couple of sites, the main ones of which are earn-money-blogging.com and www.clinke.com and both have been hacked!I better go update my sites :P</atom:summary><link>http://pablopabla.blogspot.com/2008/08/hacked.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Unknown)</author><thr:total>1</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23196158.post-5279770760026745434</guid><pubDate>Fri, 01 Aug 2008 03:44:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-08-01T12:36:55.363+08:00</atom:updated><title>Growing Pains</title><atom:summary type="text">Quite frankly, never in my wildest dream had I envisaged our country&#39;s opposition parties to have done so well during the last General Elections in March. Perhaps, I did not have enough faith. But then again, I was but only one of the many Malaysians who felt that even if I voted for the opposition (which I did) with a hope that there would be more effective check and balance in this country, I </atom:summary><link>http://pablopabla.blogspot.com/2008/08/growing-pains.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Unknown)</author><thr:total>2</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23196158.post-7166627566812990520</guid><pubDate>Fri, 13 Jun 2008 07:02:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-06-13T15:17:27.357+08:00</atom:updated><title>Fuel Hike Protest Report from Sogo</title><atom:summary type="text">I was just at Sogo Shopping Complex in Kuala Lumpur about 5 minutes ago (2.55pm) and managed to catch a glimpse of the fuel hike protest. There were about 1000 to 1500 in the group of demonstrators and the &quot;leader&quot; was telling the group to remain calm and be orderly. There was also a group of men in red-shirt who were keeping the group orderly and in line. The demonstration is peaceful as they </atom:summary><enclosure type='video/mp4' url='http://www.blogger.com/video-play.mp4?contentId=86df3021ec2b7702&amp;type=video%2Fmp4' length='0'/><link>http://pablopabla.blogspot.com/2008/06/fuel-hike-protest-report-from-sogo.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Unknown)</author><thr:total>1</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23196158.post-7653714013040388843</guid><pubDate>Tue, 27 May 2008 04:07:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-05-27T12:22:00.660+08:00</atom:updated><title>A Call To Boycott Malay Newspapers</title><atom:summary type="text">The Pakatan Rakyat alliance has called for an immediate boycott of Malay newspapers Utusan Malaysia and Mingguan Malaysia for what it said was unfair reporting and for allegedly fanning racial sentiments. In a joint statement issued at a press conference in the lobby of Parliament, Opposition leader Datin Seri Dr Wan Azizah Wan Ismail said the mainstream media had shown signs of opening up since </atom:summary><link>http://pablopabla.blogspot.com/2008/05/call-to-boycott-malay-newspapers.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Unknown)</author><thr:total>3</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23196158.post-6932792559082379383</guid><pubDate>Thu, 22 May 2008 02:29:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-05-22T11:29:07.074+08:00</atom:updated><title>The Threat of the White Blouse</title><atom:summary type="text">Which comes first in an ordinary man&#39;s mind when he looks at a group of school girls in their white blouse uniform? Lust or Uniform? According to the vice-president of the National Islamic Students Association of Malaysia, Munirah Bahari, whom I presume is a lady / girl, “The white blouse is too transparent for girls and it becomes a source of attraction”. “It becomes a distraction to men, who </atom:summary><link>http://pablopabla.blogspot.com/2008/05/threat-of-white-blouse.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Unknown)</author><thr:total>7</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23196158.post-8360426434296993401</guid><pubDate>Tue, 06 May 2008 06:31:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-05-06T14:50:49.258+08:00</atom:updated><title>Malaysians Taken For A Ride By The Election Commission</title><atom:summary type="text">I have been very busy with work lately so much so that blogging has been sporadic. That does not mean, however, that I have not been following the news.  It&#39;s just that I have not felt the urge to blog about the silly things and statements uttered by our politicians of late. Not until this piece of news greeted me on Malaysiakini - &quot;No case of indelible ink smugglers&quot;. Apparently, the Election </atom:summary><link>http://pablopabla.blogspot.com/2008/05/malaysians-taken-for-ride-by-election.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Unknown)</author><thr:total>4</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23196158.post-2906165063520096372</guid><pubDate>Fri, 18 Apr 2008 02:45:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-04-18T11:41:48.608+08:00</atom:updated><title>Si Pin lawan Jeff Ooi</title><atom:summary type="text">Arising from the ashes of defeat of the 2008 General Elections, many politicians from the Barisan Nasional and Pakatan Rakyat divide have ventured into blogging - an effective tool which many found to have made considerable impact in the run-up to the General Elections. From a reading of the MyMP and MyADUN feature columns in The Star newspaper, it is quite obvious that some who do not blog are </atom:summary><link>http://pablopabla.blogspot.com/2008/04/si-pin-lawan-jeff-ooi.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Unknown)</author><thr:total>2</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23196158.post-2358005445341731652</guid><pubDate>Wed, 16 Apr 2008 07:06:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-04-16T17:55:33.651+08:00</atom:updated><title>Makkal Osai Banned</title><atom:summary type="text">When we have draconian laws like the Printing Presses and Publications Act 1984 which requires all print media in Malaysia to obtain a licence and abide by its strict regulations (read : Home Affairs Minister), we get instances of newspapers being refused a permit to publish.Today, Makkal Osai has been issued a letter from the Ministry of Home Affairs which informed them that their publication </atom:summary><link>http://pablopabla.blogspot.com/2008/04/makkal-osai-banned.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Unknown)</author><thr:total>3</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23196158.post-5930446653960967146</guid><pubDate>Thu, 10 Apr 2008 05:04:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-12-09T14:55:27.345+08:00</atom:updated><title>There&#39;s A New Blogger In Town</title><atom:summary type="text">There is a new blogger in town and he is the pot calling the kettle black. This blogger is non other than Mohd Ali Mohd Rustam, Chief Minister of Melaka and Vice-President of UMNO. Go dig for his url as I am not generous with linking to a pot who calls the kettle black.In his posting of the 2nd April, 2008 with the title : Pakatan Rakyat...Untuk Apa?, he claims that Pakatan Rakyat is a political </atom:summary><link>http://pablopabla.blogspot.com/2008/04/theres-new-blogger-in-town.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Unknown)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiofSR1QGmCnnT59PuoGZgnOw_Gmo8JkRzyaF8umiUolzMEnRyqVBnW2XdArcuK_s4HHITlXrksTrlFqO_1ih-NxBsq4_ONYzsIjOrSWFSUa9DRi7ly5uH_yuErICPLshlT2yc1/s72-c/alirustam.jpg" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>2</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23196158.post-6057254050219720250</guid><pubDate>Fri, 04 Apr 2008 03:39:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-04-04T11:41:23.143+08:00</atom:updated><title>One Way</title><atom:summary type="text">You are the way, the truth and the life!</atom:summary><link>http://pablopabla.blogspot.com/2008/04/one-way.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Unknown)</author><thr:total>1</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23196158.post-7894438628237077005</guid><pubDate>Mon, 31 Mar 2008 07:52:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-03-31T16:31:51.289+08:00</atom:updated><title>Good Riddance to A Racist Politician</title><atom:summary type="text">Well, he got rid of himself anyway. Buntong assemblyman A.Sivasubramaniam has quit DAP, thus leaving the DAP-PKR-PAS coalition government in Perak with 30 seats in the State. In a letter to DAP secretary-general Lim Guan Eng dated March 31, Sivasubramaniam said he had lost confidence in the Perak DAP as it failed to fulfill its promise to appoint two Indian state executive council members. He </atom:summary><link>http://pablopabla.blogspot.com/2008/03/good-riddance-to-racist-politician.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Unknown)</author><thr:total>2</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23196158.post-6977583574671603412</guid><pubDate>Mon, 24 Mar 2008 03:38:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-03-24T12:11:43.068+08:00</atom:updated><title>Walk the Talk - Resign Immediately and Hold By-Elections</title><atom:summary type="text">Bernama reported early this morning that the 23 Barisan Nasional (BN) assemblymen in Terengganu who are against Kijal assemblyman Datuk Ahmad Said being appointed the state&#39;s Menteri Besar may resign if the latter is sworn-in to the post. According to Terengganu Umno liasion secretary Datuk Rosol Wahid in a press conference here Sunday night, said this might happen as his appointment did not get </atom:summary><link>http://pablopabla.blogspot.com/2008/03/walk-talk-resign-immediately-and-hold.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Unknown)</author><thr:total>2</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23196158.post-8602742076949940184</guid><pubDate>Wed, 19 Mar 2008 03:34:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-03-19T23:03:14.455+08:00</atom:updated><title>A Barisan Nasional Revolt Starting?</title><atom:summary type="text">Yesterday, the Prime Minister of Malaysia announced his new Cabinet Ministers at around noon. Datuk Anifah Aman (younger brother of CM of Sabah, Datuk Seri Musa Aman) was named as the Deputy Minister for Transport - his third term as a Deputy Minister. Last night, he declined the appointment in an apparent slap at the Prime Minister of Malaysia. It was also reported that the Sabah BN is unhappy </atom:summary><link>http://pablopabla.blogspot.com/2008/03/barisan-nasional-revolt-starting.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Unknown)</author><thr:total>6</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23196158.post-9000105777085551338</guid><pubDate>Tue, 18 Mar 2008 07:03:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-03-18T16:22:15.833+08:00</atom:updated><title>Malaysian Cabinet Ministers 2008 - The End of The Good Guys?</title><atom:summary type="text">At the risk of repetition, this is the full list of Cabinet Ministers newly appointed by the Prime Minister:-Prime Minister Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad BadawiDeputy Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun RazakMinisters in the Prime Minister’s DepartmentTan Sri Bernard DompokDatuk Seri Nazri AzizDatuk Ahmad Zahid HamidiDatuk Mohd Zaid IbrahimDatuk Amirsham Abdul AzizDeputy Ministers in the Prime </atom:summary><link>http://pablopabla.blogspot.com/2008/03/malaysian-cabinet-ministers-2008-end-of.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Unknown)</author><thr:total>2</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23196158.post-5216649082411840341</guid><pubDate>Mon, 17 Mar 2008 07:53:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-03-17T16:35:06.742+08:00</atom:updated><title>The Ugly Side of Barisan Nasional</title><atom:summary type="text">Well...we all know how ugly Barisan Nasional leaders are (1. not how handsome or pretty but how crude they can be 2. but if you are a BN supporter, I can&#39;t blame you for not knowing) in the days leading to the 12th General Elections. Campaigning on racial sentiments were in full force and character assassination (Anwar) was common. We were all asked to believe that BN is THE (coalition) party </atom:summary><link>http://pablopabla.blogspot.com/2008/03/ugly-side-of-barisan-nasional.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Unknown)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23196158.post-1142886385455097527</guid><pubDate>Fri, 14 Mar 2008 07:50:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-03-14T17:24:13.278+08:00</atom:updated><title>Shahidan Got Sabu-ed</title><atom:summary type="text">Malaysian politics has just got wind of its latest shocker - Shahidan Kassim, who yesterday confidently told the press that he would be re-appointed as the Perlis menteri besar, has been sabu-ed. Instead, Bintong state assemblyperson Mat Isa Sabu will replace him as the new Perlis Menteri Besar. Umno secretary-general Radzi Sheikh Ahmad&#39;s pre-election campaign to oust Shahidan seems to have </atom:summary><link>http://pablopabla.blogspot.com/2008/03/shahidan-got-sabu-ed.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Unknown)</author><thr:total>2</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23196158.post-6613279935732443081</guid><pubDate>Fri, 14 Mar 2008 04:47:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-03-14T13:13:16.282+08:00</atom:updated><title>6:3:1 That&#39;s More Like It</title><atom:summary type="text">What a week it has been! The topsy-turvy drama-laden make up of the new Perak State Government Coalition seems to have found peace with a 6:3:1 formula in the DAP:PKR:PAS ratio - thanks to early news from Malaysiakini. Apparently the parties&#39; leaders had a late meeting yesterday to resolve their differences and came up with a solution to their deadlock. I am sure the people of Perak would be most</atom:summary><link>http://pablopabla.blogspot.com/2008/03/631-thats-more-like-it.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Unknown)</author><thr:total>1</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23196158.post-2792937428500103892</guid><pubDate>Wed, 12 Mar 2008 14:38:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-03-13T12:23:18.302+08:00</atom:updated><title>My piece of mind to LKS and DAP Perak leaders</title><atom:summary type="text">Lim Kit Siang&#39;s blog is experiencing heavy traffic and I couldn&#39;t put in my 2 cents to his latest piece of news that the DAP Perak Assemblymen will be staying away from the swearing-in ceremony for Perak Mentri Besar scheduled tomorrow. This is my piece of mind and I hope he reads this.LKS,This is probably your worst ever political move and could probably spell the end of DAP as far as Malaysian </atom:summary><link>http://pablopabla.blogspot.com/2008/03/my-piece-of-mind-to-lks-and-dap-perak.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Unknown)</author><thr:total>6</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23196158.post-7135363916562282052</guid><pubDate>Wed, 12 Mar 2008 09:28:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-03-12T17:52:33.465+08:00</atom:updated><title>Ashes to Ashes, Dust to Dust</title><atom:summary type="text">Are you human? Save for the search engines which send their bots to track new contents on websites including this blog, chances are you are human. And if you are human, you were once born helplessly needing an adult (or two) to meet your needs. Be it feeding or cleaning up after you have done your biological job. In time to come, you will also pass on and leave this place call earth. Depending on</atom:summary><link>http://pablopabla.blogspot.com/2008/03/ashes-to-ashes-dust-to-dust.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Unknown)</author><thr:total>2</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23196158.post-5179755169837926824</guid><pubDate>Tue, 11 Mar 2008 03:11:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-03-11T12:06:02.872+08:00</atom:updated><title>What The Rakyat Really Want</title><atom:summary type="text">The GE is over and the dust has not yet fully settled in some states where the opposition has taken over the state government. According to Malaysiakini, Lim Guan Eng has just been sworn in as the new Chief Minister of Penang. It is definitely a defining moment for Penang. Yesterday, Kedah also had its new Chief Minister, a representative from PAS.Naturally, expectations are high and I believe </atom:summary><link>http://pablopabla.blogspot.com/2008/03/what-rakyat-really-want.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Unknown)</author><thr:total>2</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23196158.post-8742462418619265318</guid><pubDate>Mon, 10 Mar 2008 09:33:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-03-10T17:47:30.872+08:00</atom:updated><title>Exactly How Efficient Is Our Jabatan Pendidikan?</title><atom:summary type="text">Today, my wife and I went to register our daughter for Primary 1. She (our daughter) is only 5 years old and will only step foot into Primary 1 in the year 2010. Registration for Primary 1 for the year 2010 began last Monday and is supposed to continue till end of this month, I think. We are told that we would get our reply sometime in July 2009 (16 months from now) on whether our daughter gets a</atom:summary><link>http://pablopabla.blogspot.com/2008/03/exactly-how-efficient-is-our-jabatan.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Unknown)</author><thr:total>1</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23196158.post-6020907057133020307</guid><pubDate>Sat, 08 Mar 2008 06:00:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-03-08T14:13:13.506+08:00</atom:updated><title>Observation From SRK Desa Pandan Polling Station</title><atom:summary type="text">At around 10am this morning, I dutifully made my way to the polling station under the Titiwangsa Parliament seat constituency. It was pretty quiet but orderly. Most people knew what they had to do - find out their polling stream (room number), get to the room and cast their vote. The main grouse was that many of the rooms were located on the 2nd floor of the school and it caused many voters </atom:summary><link>http://pablopabla.blogspot.com/2008/03/observation-from-srk-desa-pandan.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Unknown)</author><thr:total>2</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23196158.post-4879590903201030663</guid><pubDate>Fri, 07 Mar 2008 09:21:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-03-07T17:35:58.589+08:00</atom:updated><title>Lim Guan Eng&#39;s Message To All Malaysians</title><atom:summary type="text">Lim Guan Eng speaks to all of us Malaysians. Watch this video, copy it and spread it to others so that they can be informed of DAP&#39;s plans and vision for this country of ours.</atom:summary><link>http://pablopabla.blogspot.com/2008/03/lim-eng-guans-message-to-all-malaysians.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Unknown)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23196158.post-8837106787606932256</guid><pubDate>Fri, 07 Mar 2008 05:46:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-03-07T17:21:13.714+08:00</atom:updated><title>Khairy Jamaluddin&#39;s Website</title><atom:summary type="text">So, the self-proclaimed rising star in UMNO has now got his own Laman Web Khairy at www rembau net. From one look, this web site looks very much like those of Obama&#39;s and Clinton&#39;s. According to Khairy, this web site is for him to tell the people what Khairy stands for and what his ideas are.There is a streaming video in the site which shows Khairy rebutting Anwar Ibrahim&#39;s ceramah speech - on </atom:summary><link>http://pablopabla.blogspot.com/2008/03/khairy-jamaluddins-website.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Unknown)</author><thr:total>3</thr:total></item></channel></rss>