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TO GUANGZHOU, CHINA AND ON TO LOS ANGELES, U.S.A.…

NO TWO FILMS FESTIVALS ARE THE SAME…AND THE STRANGE THING WITH THE MALAYSIAN FILM INDUSTRY.

WHO’S STANDING IN THE WAY OF MUSLIM, CHRISTIAN AND JEW RELATIONS?

‘1965’ – NOT A VERY GOOD FILM ON SINGAPORE OF THAT YEAR WHEN THE COUNTRY WAS EXPELLED FROM THE FEDERATION OF MALAYSIA BARELY TWO YEARS AFTER IT WAS FORMED

BUMPING INTO MUHAMMAD ALI IN THE ELEVATOR OF THE KUALA LUMPUR HILTON, JUNE, 1975.

TUNKU ABDUL RAHMAN AND PRESIDENT SUKARNO OF INDONESIA MET IN TOKYO TO SOLVE THE PROBLEMS WITH THE CONFRONTATION BETWEEN MALAYSIA AND INDONESIA IN THE EARLY 1960s….

SANA’A AND YEMEN IN MARCH, 2011…AND TEN HOURS OF VIDEO… AND THE STATE THE COUNTRY IS IN NOW….

THE BLACK FILMMAKERS IN AMERICA DO NOT SEEM TO HAVE ANYTHING ORIGINAL TO SHOW IN THEIR FILMS, SO NO WONDER THEY WERE NOT REPRESENTED IN THE NOMINATIONS OF THE 88TH ACADEMY AWARDS.

LEEPU AND THE PITBULL, A CAR REDESIGNING PROGRAM ON HISTORY CHANNEL WITH A DIFFERENCE, WITH A BANGLADESHI IN THE LEAD

‘OLA BOLA’, DIRECTED BY A CHINESE WHO HAS DIFFICULTY SPEAKING GOOD MELAYU

LAND, WATER AND SAND AND NEW IMMIGRANTS…

BETONG, IN SOUTH THAILAND…MORE CHINESE AND MELAYU…BUT MOSTLY THAI IN IDENTITY, DUE TO THEIR COMMON SCHOOLING SYSTEM.

SEMAN: A LOST HERO, P. RAMLEE AND NORDIN KARDI…AND THE NEW MALAYSIAN CINEMA THAT NEVER CAME…AND THANKS TO FINAS FOR HAVING BEEN TURNED INTO A TRAVEL AGENCY…

WHEN GIVING REGIONAL RECOGNITION TO P. RAMLEE AND SOME OLD MELAYU FILMS WAS GOOD BUT

OSCAR-WORTHY FILMS BY MALAYSIAN FILMMAKERS…AND HOW THIS CAN BE ACHIEVED. …AND IMAGINE IF THERE IS A FILMMAKER FROM MALAYSIA WHO GETS SOME OSCAR NOMINATION!

OSCAR-WORTHY FILMS BY MALAYSIAN FILMMAKERS…AND HOW THIS CAN BE ACHIEVED. …AND IMAGINE IF THERE IS A FILMMAKER FROM MALAYSIA WHO GETS SOME OSCAR NOMINATION!

FLYING BUSINESS CLASS ON PAKISTAN INTERNATIONAL AIRLINES (PIA) WAS NOT INTERESTING. …AND GETTING STALE HALAL FOOD ON NORTHWEST AIRLINES AND VOMITING…

THREE MALAYSIAN-MELAYU STUDENTS OF COLUMBIA, HARVARD AND M.I.T. TRAVELING FROM ITHACA TO DEKALB

FLEA MARKET IN KUALA LUMPUR AND ELSEWHERE…A LIVING MUSEUM, GALLERY AND LIBRARY

DISADVANTAGES OF THE VERNACULAR MANDARIN AND TAMIL SCHOOLS….AND WHO DOMINATES THE CRIMES SECTOR IN MALAYSIA.

DID THE FILM FESTIVALS IN EUROPE AND THEIR COPYCATS IN ASIA, THE ASIAN FILM FESTIVAL AND THE OTHERS HELP TO DESTROY THE CINEMAS OF THE COUNTRIES IN THE ASEAN REGION, WHICH WERE THRIVING AND MUCH APPRECIATED BY THEIR VIEWERS?

HAS FINAS FOUND ANY REAL AND CONVINCING REASON FOR ITS EXISTENCE? NOT THAT I KNOW OF.

WHEN ‘POVERTY IS BLISS’…THAT CAUSED THE BANGLADESHIS TO BE BACKWARD

FORMER COMMUNIST PARTY OF MALAYA (CPM) CADRES AND THE CHINESE VERNARCULAR SCHOOLS

WHY ARE THERE NOW MORE CHINESE THAN MELAYU AND INDIANS IN THE BERSIH 4.0 RALLY? AND THE WEIRD DEMANDS FOR SELF-SEGREGATION DEMANDED BY THE CHINESE AND TAMILS…

PRIME MINISTER NAJIB RAZAK’S IMPASSIONATE PLEA AT THE UNITED NATIONS GENERAL ASSEMBLY IN OCTOBER, 2015

BANGLADESHIS IN MALAYSIA, ENGLAND AND EVERYWHERE…AND THE MYANMARS, NEPALESE AND VIETNAMESE…

ASTORIA, QUEENS IN NEW YORK CITY: THEN IN 1980 AND NOW…

THE 27th MALAYSIAN FILM FESTIVAL, SATURDAY, 5 SEPTEMBER, 2015:

ARE SUPPORTERS OF THE VERNACULR MANDARIN AND TAMIL SCHOOLS PROOF THAT THEY DO NOT SUPPORT ASSIMILATION?

CHINA LISTENS AND DOES NOT PREACH; AMERICA PREACHES BUT NOT LISTEN, SO SAYS A CHINESE SCHOLAR AT A BEIJING UNIVERSITY WHO STUDIED AT HARVARD…TO RESHAPE THE WORLD SLOWLY AND TO WHOSE BENEFIT

THE PRETENDER TO THE THRONE OF THE SULTANATE OF SINGAPURA, A SULTANATE ESTABLISHED BY THE BRITISH ON 31 JANUARY, 1819

THE PRETENDER TO THE THRONE OF THE SULTANATE OF SINGAPURA, A SULTANATE ESTABLISHED BY THE BRITISH ON 31 JANUARY, 1819

WHO ARE THE REAL MASTERS AND WHO ARE THE SLAVES IN TODAY’S WORLD?

RABBLE WITHOUT A CAUSE…

MALAYSIA’S THIRD RATE JOURNALISM HAD CREATED POOR QUALITY DISCOURSES AND WHICH COULD BE EASILY MANIPULATED BY THE OPPOSITION

DID THE EARLY ULAMA OF BANGLADESH CAUSED THE COUNTRY TO BECOME BACKWARD, WHEN THEY SAID THAT ‘POVERTY IS BLISS’

MALAYSIA’S ‘POOR QUALITY EDUCATION SYSTEM’ HAS CREATED PEOPLE WHO CANNOT THINK AND BEHAVE INTELLIGENTLY.

BALI, BOSTON, BANGKOK…AND BERSIH 4.0 BOMB BLASTS NEXT? …’B-BOMB BLASTS!’

LOW YAT PLAZA IT CENTER CONTROVERSY

YEMEN…SO CLOSE TO SAUDI ARABIA NOW ITS NEMESES….AND HOW IBN KHALDUN HAD FAILED TO UNDERSTAND THE MENTALITY OF THE ARABS.

ARE SUPPORTERS OF THE VERNACULR MANDARIN AND TAMIL SCHOOLS ARE PROOF THAT THEY DO NOT SUPPORT ASSIMILATION;

IS THIS THE PROFILE OF THE MALAYSIAN LEFT AND STREET PROTESTERS?