Bersih 3.0 : Here We Go Again

So, history will repeat itself this Saturday.

A total lockdown of Dataran Merdeka is now set into motion.

It is now Day 2 to to the much anticipated sit-in.

If the people are fearful of the authorities, they will buckle and seek alternative venues.

If not, then it will be head-on and see who inevitably blink or play chicken.

Let us see how Saturday 28 will turn out.

Sing A Song of Digi

Yesterday's announcement that Digi will pay an interim dividend to shareholders 5.9 sen for each 1 sen share for the year ending December 2012 must have been music to their ears.

To top it all, Digi will also, as a special payback, distribute special dividends from the value it acquired from the diminution of share value in Digitel from 10 sen to 1 sen denomination.

That means every shareholder with 1000 Digi shares will stand to earn RM 123.00.

So,it came as no surprise when Digi shares were sought after from mid-morning today.

The shares added 10 sen on the close with 1,360,960 shares traded.

Would we see more upside?

Come Drink With Me Again and Again

I managed to walk down memory lane tonight to feel again the nostalgic vibes of the mid 1960s through one of the most classic wuxia films to come out of Shaw Brothers Studio in Hong Kong. Come Drink with Me directed by famed King Chuan stars the delectable and vivacious Cheng Pei Pei as Golden Swallow combating a brigand of outlaws trying to set up a prisoners exchange.

Though, without the aid of computer graphics and special effects, the movie continues to hold me in awe and the other stars like Yueh Hwa as the Drunken Cat and Chen Hung-Lieh as Jade Faced Tiger do provide excitement to the film through their acting prowess.

A good movie and ranks in the top league of sword play movies such as the benchmark making The One Armed Swordsman and the original Dragon Inn.

Bersih 3.0-A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Dataran Merdeka

The Peaceful Assembly Act has been passed en masse in Parliament much to the frustration of the dissenting voice.

There were some peaceful demonstrations lately and the police acted accordingly because they believed the numbers were small.

Then Bersih 3.0 was declared.

Then everything went haywire.

The Home Minister says fine, it is allowed. But with a caveat as the venue is subjected to the approval of DBKL.

DBKL says no.

Home Minister says that they should provide alternative venues for the sit-in.

The Mayor came back with three venues from Titiwangsa to Cheras.

Bersih says no-adamant with sitting in at Dataran.

DBKL warns of punitive action.

To make it worse, the Dang Wangi District Police Chief bans the sit-in saying it is sensitive to security, upping his boss,the Home Minister.

What a comedy of errors!

So, the stage is set once more for heavy street drama.

For many, a definite confrontation is good news and they will brave the elements to participate.

Will the police and the law enforcement agencies come out hard as on July 9, 2011?

Will there be a lock down, counter to what the Home Minister had said earlier on, that he over-reacted to Bersih 2.0?

A Funny Thing is really happening on the way to Dataran?

Anyone laughing?

The Searchers Continues to Thrill

For an old 1956 movie, The Searchers, continues to be as exciting today as it was yesterday.

A John Wayne evergreen, the movie pans out a tale of a man in seek of his niece taken away by a blood-thirsty Comanche war party.

Though the movie needs a little more tightening in terms of its film editing to be as exciting as today's movies, I still enjoyed the movie.

You will see a young Jeffrey Hunter playing alongside the Duke as they braved through both sandy barrenness of Texas and New Mexico of the desert to the cold snowy waste of the north.

Vera Mills starred as the delectable lady in waiting for Jeffrey Hunter.

Good movie like having a fun drive along the countryside in the pale moonlight of yesteryear.

Obnoxious People-Met Any Lately?

You may have been lucky. Not me.

In my many years of meeting people near and far, friends and relatives, colleagues and classmates, and whatever they may be; I have seen good people and the not-so-good ones.

What I distinctly abhors are the obnoxious know-alls and pointing finger types. They are so full of themselves.

Not only are they loud and unbearable, but they show the most shallow minds on almost everything yet professing to be masters of all.

To themselves, looking introspectively with the 'sun' being themselves, every one is below their station.

Pets make better companions.

The Lady-Intensely Real

This Luc Beeson movie, a biopic of Aung San Suu Kyi, is truly engaging.

For the unitiated of Burmese history and politics, it could really be educative.

For me, it managed to plugged some holes or gaps that I do not know in the tapestry of Burmese political history.

Michelle Yeoh and David Tewless did one fine job as Suu Kyi and Dr Michael Aris. Their endeavours to bring about democracy in a lawless land ruled by machine gun and bullets is well documented in the movie.

The movie would have been better if it has taken in what happened this year when Suu Kyi won her seat in the Burmese Parliament.

A Milestone of a movie.