Comments on: Merdeka: My colour-blind rose-coloured glasses http://www.nikicheong.com/blog/merdeka-my-colour-blind-rose-coloured-glasses.html Sat, 20 Mar 2010 15:18:41 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: lam mun seng http://www.nikicheong.com/blog/merdeka-my-colour-blind-rose-coloured-glasses.html/comment-page-1#comment-4838 lam mun seng Sun, 30 Aug 2009 13:10:41 +0000 http://www.nikicheong.com/blog/?p=1354#comment-4838 Hello Nikki, I could not have said it better. Your parents must be very proud of you. Keep up the good work(and WORDS). Watching from London!!! ;-))))) Hello Nikki,

I could not have said it better.

Your parents must be very proud of you.

Keep up the good work(and WORDS).

Watching from London!!!

;-) ))))

]]> By: onekind http://www.nikicheong.com/blog/merdeka-my-colour-blind-rose-coloured-glasses.html/comment-page-1#comment-4835 onekind Sun, 30 Aug 2009 07:09:02 +0000 http://www.nikicheong.com/blog/?p=1354#comment-4835 This resonates with my own experiences with Malaysian friends, but they are (and, with respect, I suspect you are) members of the cultural elite, who feel they can afford to be post-race. The poor and working class in every country, not just Malaysia, tend to take racial divisions a lot more seriously -- and they make up the mass of electors. This resonates with my own experiences with Malaysian friends, but they are (and, with respect, I suspect you are) members of the cultural elite, who feel they can afford to be post-race. The poor and working class in every country, not just Malaysia, tend to take racial divisions a lot more seriously — and they make up the mass of electors.

]]> By: atif http://www.nikicheong.com/blog/merdeka-my-colour-blind-rose-coloured-glasses.html/comment-page-1#comment-4833 atif Sun, 30 Aug 2009 02:54:48 +0000 http://www.nikicheong.com/blog/?p=1354#comment-4833 i just found out about this today and am absolutely disgusted. i think so many malaysians still live isolated lives, primarily with their own "kind" and as a result they cant appreciate how others, while different, are just like them. i think those people should be very ashamed, especially doing such thing in ramadhan of all the months, where you're not just asked to restrain from food and overindulgence but also anger and sheer stupidity. what crossed my mind as i read about this news is that these very people - if they were for real, if they were the jumud (narrow-minded) blind-following sort of zealots typical of some people i know - would have blown up to learn about something like the Quran flushing incident in Guantanamo. yet here they are doing something just as despicable... and it's all the more ironic given the fact that the qur'an expressedly forbids insulting other faiths (i know the verse). im not just angry as a malaysian, but significantly more as a muslim that they can even do such a thing using islam as an excuse. but yeah, cheer up niki, the outrage expressed so far shows pretty much that these few people don't own malaysia, and they have no right to shape our opinion of it :) my rose-coloured glasses are probably as tinted as yours. i just hope the opposition nor the government politicises the matter tho (as slingshot pellets against each other), that's just further insult by trivialising the issue. i just found out about this today and am absolutely disgusted. i think so many malaysians still live isolated lives, primarily with their own “kind” and as a result they cant appreciate how others, while different, are just like them. i think those people should be very ashamed, especially doing such thing in ramadhan of all the months, where you’re not just asked to restrain from food and overindulgence but also anger and sheer stupidity. what crossed my mind as i read about this news is that these very people – if they were for real, if they were the jumud (narrow-minded) blind-following sort of zealots typical of some people i know – would have blown up to learn about something like the Quran flushing incident in Guantanamo. yet here they are doing something just as despicable… and it’s all the more ironic given the fact that the qur’an expressedly forbids insulting other faiths (i know the verse). im not just angry as a malaysian, but significantly more as a muslim that they can even do such a thing using islam as an excuse.

but yeah, cheer up niki, the outrage expressed so far shows pretty much that these few people don’t own malaysia, and they have no right to shape our opinion of it :) my rose-coloured glasses are probably as tinted as yours.

i just hope the opposition nor the government politicises the matter tho (as slingshot pellets against each other), that’s just further insult by trivialising the issue.

]]> By: Summer http://www.nikicheong.com/blog/merdeka-my-colour-blind-rose-coloured-glasses.html/comment-page-1#comment-4831 Summer Sun, 30 Aug 2009 01:49:30 +0000 http://www.nikicheong.com/blog/?p=1354#comment-4831 I can only wonder long will the politicians take until they start listening to the people that makes the country - us. I can only wonder long will the politicians take until they start listening to the people that makes the country – us.

]]> By: niki http://www.nikicheong.com/blog/merdeka-my-colour-blind-rose-coloured-glasses.html/comment-page-1#comment-4828 niki Sun, 30 Aug 2009 01:00:59 +0000 http://www.nikicheong.com/blog/?p=1354#comment-4828 Jackster: Yes, I know. Thanks for dropping by :D Jackster: Yes, I know. Thanks for dropping by :D

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