Of all the almost 400 columns I have written for Malaysiakini , the one that I recall as receiving the most critical reader comments was my July 14, 2010 effort entitled, ‘How about Maliesia?’

Many apparently misread it as a gratuitous slur on the ‘good’ name of Malaysia, when on the contrary it was a tongue-in-cheek attempt to make the blindingly obvious point that Umno-BN had given the nation a bad name.

Such a bad name as a result of chronic, systematic lying, falsehood and fraud by the ruling regime, that the country might as well be called "Maliesia". Or alternatively, in recognition of the regime’s anal obsessiveness in its persecution of opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim - "Malarsia".

Considering how many hackles were raised and cages rattled by these name-change proposals way back when I first made them, I can’t wait for the reaction this time around.