If we give up our late-night mamak, what's left of our dignity?

Kuala Lampur, April 25 -- He calls me late at night. He's incensed. Apparently, the folks on radio did it no justice. At first flattered, he thought me best to write about it, to advance his fears sh... Read More

Not running in track-bottoms, how the heatwave adds to the excuses

Kuala Lampur, April 18 -- It is the easiest activity to ignore and not get penalised in our public schools. Now, they've made it easier. Even rewards people to loathe it. The price is paid way down t... Read More

More of Malaysia to run Malaysia

Kuala Lampur, April 11 -- My friend from Bangsar via Kluang has a simple solution for our country's problems, have fewer Malaysians in the problem-solving. To him, it's the people who are the problem... Read More

Sock it to haters? You missed the chance to lift Harimau Malaya

Kuala Lampur, March 28 -- Do we know each other enough? Do we need to know each other enough? Is knowing each other enough, possible? While you the Malaysian ponder, a short esoteric segue into the... Read More

Do the simple and normalise smoke free areas, before egging on GEG

Kuala Lampur, March 21 -- The Lincoln and Douglas Illinois senatorial race of 1858 may be an odd place to begin a discussion about the collapsed effort to enforce a Generational End Game (GEG) here in... Read More

The price is never right: Malaysians struggle with ++

Kuala Lampur, March 14 -- In my younger years - when dinosaurs roamed the planet and selected shopping malls - I felt the government forced people to calculate mentally actual and displayed prices for... Read More

Never have so many with so little expected so much: Graduate jobs mess

Kuala Lampur, March 7 -- It perplexes. Every year the overall results of our secondary school leaving examination, SPM, only powers on even stronger. Come what may, pandemics be damned! Yet, them pas... Read More

On how sceptics make horrible dinner guests, and a bit on scams

Kuala Lampur, Feb. 29 -- It's hilarious when Malaysian authorities ask citizens not to be scammed. This is not to insinuate there is hilarity when Malaysians are duped. It's awful, it wrecks lives an... Read More

(Hi, you are Indian) Can you afford this? (VIDEO)

Kuala Lampur, Feb. 22 -- They were six young lads. They were six Malaysian Indians, by appearance. To quite a few Malaysians, they were Malaysian Indians by behaviour. The comment from one viewer of ... Read More

Common, dominant or representative, a minor discussion about heritage

Kuala Lampur, Feb. 15 -- How many of the 600,000 persons transported out of rural Malaya under the Briggs Plan were terrified? Gathered unceremoniously and asked to pack their belongings before being ... Read More

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