Sebuah gereja telahpun terbakar, apakah nanti ada masjid yang terbakar? Di mana-manapun aku tetap akan bersedih, jika agama menjadi alat hasrat rakus politikus.

by Sharon Chin

Walls, stones and dust.

Thoughts on the destruction of Pudu Prison.

by Simon Soon

Art writing in Malaysia gets its fair share of flak from informed audience all the time. Here’s one reason: Writers think readers are too stupid to understand so called ‘difficult art’.

by Zedeck Siew

Obituary: Yasmin Ahmad, 1958 – 2009

The dreamer, her films I didn’t like, and why we will miss her.

poem by Maung Day

I shouted to them
they looked puzzled and were staring at me
I shouted again
and they kept looking
their eyes were like those watery eyeballs of fishes…

by ARTERI

Critical responses to Rock Kaka by Fahmi Redza, Yin Shao Loong, Eva McGovern and Simon Soon.

by Zedeck Siew

On 4 June – or was it 3 June? – two gentlemen walked into Valentine Willie Fine Art KL. Their target: Fahmi Reza’s Najib’s Head Stolen From Billboard.

Fahmi’s Najib was behind yellow police tape. “So, basically it means that our PM is behind a crime scene, is it?”

by S.M.K. Seri Kembangan Fighters

Finally, our fight caught the media’s attention, Deputy Education Minister Datuk Wee Ka Siong has come to see us, our actions can be viewed in YouTube. Cool. We are the SMKSK rockstars. The ‘victim’ is a science stream student, we are the filthy-faulty-frantic delinquents from the art stream.

by Zedeck Siew

Finding myself at a loss one afternoon during the Umno general assembly, I decided to take a stroll through PWTC. I passed the entrance to Merdeka Hall, where speeches and sycophancy continued, rounded the corner – and, lo and behold, discovered a painting exhibition.

by Zedeck Siew

It wasn’t your fault you missed your 8pm cut-off. The office was too noisy because of the new Guitar Hero guitar, or you couldn’t have a cigarette all day. Your boss has probably given up on you. No use crying over missed deadlines, now. Another hour (or so) won’t matter: you’ll finish by tonight so she’ll have it in her inbox in the morning.

by Fahmi Fadzil

Lim Kit Siang wrote last March 16th, when Karpal Singh was to be charged with sedition: “Darkness descends every day with Najib Razak getting closer to become the next Prime Minister.” So, now that Najib has indeed become Malaysia’s next premier, many questions arise, including:
− How will Putrajaya’s relationship with the media (old and new) change?
− Post-Perak and Umno General Assembly, how will the sixth PM further strengthen his position?
− How will Malaysians take to this new steward? Or equally valid: How will he take Malaysians? Will he take them in (literally)?