Ex-NST chief operates his personal blog now

One of my (second from left) sifus in the mainstream media, ex-NST chief Datuk Kadir Jasin (third from left) has finally joined the rank of critical thinkers and writers by setting up his own personal blog titled The Scribe A Kadir Jasin at http://kadirjasin.blogspot.com

Whether we agree with his view on this or that issue or not, I think Kadir still writes passionately. There is, for example, a recent entry where he bangs DPM Najib Tun Razak on the fuel price hike and the remarkably EQ-less "change-lifestyle" call. Enjoy.

This photohraph shows we were together in the National Press Club in Kuala Lumpur in 1999 welcoming a delegation of the Commonwealth Press Union (CPU) whose chairman (third from right) was a former Member of Parliament of the British Conservative Party. As journalists and commentators, we, like all good politicians, meet and talk to all kinds of people, high and low, from left to right on the political spectrum.