“Making the difference with whatever YOU have”. That’s the message that Hannah and the gang are trying to spread across to all Malaysian youth.

Hannah and the rest of the speakers of the ‘H’ Factor workshop was at Werners KL for a press conference. I was invited to be the official photographer since the actual official photographer from Shaolinphoto.com couldn’t make it yesterday.

It was a great night as Hannah, Hans Isaac, Reymee, Serena C, Pietro Felix, Fellest Yan, Joey Khor and David Lai each took turn to introduce themselves and explain what ‘H’ Factor is all about.

The H-Factor Speakers – Front row: Serena C, Hannah Tan, Hans Isaac & Joey Khor.
Back row: Pietro Felix, David Lai, Fellest Yan & Reymee.

It was also a night to introduce all the sponsors for this Nationwide Creative Youth Workshop. The workshop will be held in four states beginning with Penang, then to Johor Bahru and Kota Kinabalu before coming back to Kuala Lumpur.

DawgByte.com, my very own creative & web design agency is also one of the sponsor for the workshop together with Air Asia, MOL, HOT magazine and Advertlets.

Hannah & myself pointing at my DawgByte.com logo at the press conference backdrop.

My first photo with Hannah during the H-Factor Press Conference @ Werners KL

Hmmm, come to think of it, this is the only photo I took with Hannah although I’ve been working on her official website, Hannahtan.com for months now.

Well, not to worry, I’ll get more chance to snap away with the rest of the H-Factor gang at the workshops that will be going on from October 12th till November 2nd.

I’ve been doing some following up on the stories of 2 more people being detained by ISA after RPK was being picked up earlier.

I’m trying to make up what’s going on and what prompted ISA to detained these individuals.

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RAJA PETRA KAMARUDIN
“Malaysia-Today” Blogger

Status:
Detained under ISA

Reason:
For various statements published by Raja Petra in his blog “Malaysia Today”, the latest being a commentary which allegedly ridiculed Islam and Prophet Muhammad.

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TERESA KOK
DAP MP for Seputeh

Status:
Detained under ISA

Reason:
DAP stalwart was detained for allegedly telling mosque officials in Kota Damansara, Sri Serdang and Puchong Jaya to tone down the call to prayer. She had denied the allegations.

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TAN HOON CHENG
Sin Chew Daily reporter

Status:
Detained under ISA

Reason:
Tan was arrested over her report on alleged racist remarks by Datuk Ahmad Ismail.

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DATUK AHMAD ISMAIL
UMNO Bukit Bendera division chief

Status:
Having a long holiday – 3 years. Probably meeting up the rest of the MPs in Taiwan.

Reason:
For his remark of ethnic Chinese as “squatters” and “immigrants” who sought to “become like the Jewish in America” by trying to dominate politics and the economy. [source]

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So can somebody tell me what’s wrong here?

Seriously, what is Internal Security Act (ISA) all about? I don’t see it serves any purpose at all. Well, at least not to me. Or perhaps it’s just another government body for certain individual or party to manipulate code of ethics?

Bukit Bendera MP, Datuk Ahmad Ismail made a racist remark against the Malaysian Chinese and it was a big issue. BN had an emergency meeting. Umno had a Supreme Council meeting. Umno suspended Datuk Ahmad Ismail from the party for three years and stripped him of all his posts and membership rights. PM made the announcement and the punishment takes effect immediately!

Yeah…Big deal!

RPK wants to expose the truth. He made political remarks and accusations of the government. The government took him in and he was in jail for awhile. He was then released. Weeks later, the governmen decided to block his blog MALAYSIA-TODAY.NET from Malaysian readers. RPK decided to branch out and mirror-ed his blog to other servers where Malaysian readers can access. Today, he was arrested by ISA.

Months ago, a few indian lawyers gathered in front of the British High Comm. They wanted to present a letter to them. They too got arrested by the ISA. If I’m not mistaken, they are still in jail now.

Datuk Ahmad Ismail getting only a 3 years suspension, it’s like a holiday for him while others have to suffer behind bar.

So, is this justice?