Latest from Malaysiakini today, 23 Sept 9 a.m.

Raja Petra to be sent to Kamunting
Sep 23, 08 9:34am
Malaysia Today editor Raja Petra Kamarudin will be sent to Kamunting Detention Centre in Taiping, Perak today to begin his two-year detention under the Internal Security Act, said his lawyer.

The home minister has signed his detention order last night to be held without trial under section 8 of the tough security law. Under the Act, the government can renew his detention indefinitely.

Lawyers said that the police had informed them this morning that they would be taking Raja Petra to the detention centre.

The Kuala Lumpur High Court is to hear a habeas corpus bid by Raja Petra's lawyers to overturn the detention of the controversial blogger today.Habeas corpus is a writ ordering prisoners to be brought before a judge to ascertain if there are any procedural defects which could render their detention unlawful.

the above pictures were taken in Phuket recently. I enjoyed the round the island trip, where we went to a lagoon...beautiful...(the second photo). can't remember where exactly in phuket the third photo was taken....the first photo...i believe it was in Phuket Funtasea....

Oh well....actually the actual photos are bigger, can see the background....i guess you have to be satisified with these photos which focus on me...hehehehe...for the background, just google for Phuket or go there to see for yourselves.....hehehe

Another blogger arrested

Today, Malaysiakini reports another blogger arrested..Syed Azidi. I remember him, he taught in my uni once, in my faculty, in fact.
It is sad that the state of the country has to come to this stage. I pray that all will be well.
In fact, all of us should start praying...(if you don't believe in prayers, well, then....start meditating and trasfer positive ya-ba, da-ba positive waves).....

Peace to all Malaysians.

Moving on....to Kampar

Oh well, the time has come for me to step down as dean of FCI in PJ, and move on to Kampar. Looking forward to this, and with sadness too that i will be "leaving" PJ. I put "leaving" in quotation marks, because i will not be away for good. I will still be around, in the university. But as one of my staff puts it, 'things will be different'...whatever the case, looking forward to my 'new' posting in Kampar....a really beautiful campus, and I wish the new dean (whoever is going to take over) the best, and I know (s)he will do a good, if not a better job, at leading the faculty.

Cheerio....