Ian Chai

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Subtle Idols My Friday long lunch break meditation on Mark 2
https://ianlifejournal.blogspot.com/2026/05/subtle-idols.html

Indeed, when I first saw the statue, I immediately thought of the Bunny song...

(Note of those unfamiliar with Veggietales, that's from the 1995 Veggietales retelling of the Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego story)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AmzD5A_p-fQ

Didn't VeggieTales Warn Us About Giant Golden Statues??

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Veteran journalist R. Nadeswaran delivers a blistering critique of outgoing MACC chief Azam Baki, arguing that “courage” became selectively defined, accountability theatrical, and dissent dismissed as madness.

https://www.malaysiakini.com/read4free/775097/YAa8vxDI5#comment-or-azams-courage-conveniently-defined-in-farewell-opera

Prof. Khoo Ying Hooi argues that Malaysia is not lacking memory of May 13—it is lacking truthful engagement with it. And until that happens, racial fear and political manipulation will keep being reproduced.

https://www.malaysiakini.com/read4free/775031/0PUc9e779#comment-or-may-13-didnt-end-in-1969-it-became-a-way-of-governing

TikTok - Make Your Day

Persist in Repentence
Meditation on 1 Kings 21 - 2 Kings 9

https://ianlifejournal.blogspot.com/2026/05/persist-in-repentence.html

Note: the illustration is AI generated

Anwar Ibrahim campaigned on press freedom. That was one of the reasons I voted for him. Now his gov't raided a Malaysiakini journalist's home for investigating a migrant worker platform — no rebuttal, no press conference, just police. Madani = BN! 😡

#PressFreedom #AnwarIbrahim #betrayal
https://www.malaysiakini.com/read4free/774318/x4R6gt1ys#comment-or-world-press-freedom-day-celebration-for-politicians-minefield-for-journos

A Lancet study estimated that the rollback in development aid could cause 9.4 million excess deaths by the end of the decade.

A coordinated campaign of half-truths led by billionaire Elon Musk, WikiLeaks, and free-speech advocates successfully engineered the collapse of the US Agency for International Development (Usaid) in early 2025.

https://www.malaysiakini.com/news/774207#friendshare-link-wDbve_svU-0eb48e16bf83ea398898f93ef4ec91ee-2a8b6402635c14d87c3469209250dbdbi9

Excerpt:
Politicians love to wrap themselves in religion and culture when it suits them. It’s a convenient cloak, shielding them from scrutiny while they dictate what ordinary Malaysians can watch, eat, or celebrate.

Yet, behind the curtain, the same guardians of morality are busy enriching themselves, trampling the very values they claim to defend.

https://www.malaysiakini.com/read4free/774126/DB4atIDLa#comment-or-greatest-confusion-lies-not-in-symbols-or-celebrations

COMMENT | Greatest confusion lies not in symbols or celebrations

Politicians love to wrap themselves in religion, culture when it suits them.

Malaysiakini
Great Jumpin' Jehoshaphat!
My meditation on 1 Kings 22
https://ianlifejournal.blogspot.com/2026/04/great-jumpin-jehoshaphat.html