It became a domino effect, as infected people took foolish risks, knowing full well they could spread the virus. — Jason Medina, author, photographer and artist I am surprised to discover that some people haven’t bothered to follow the latest news on the coronavirus outbreak which began in China. When
‘In the New Year, never forget to thank to your past years because they enabled you to reach today! Without the stairs of the past, you cannot arrive at the future! – MEHMET MURAT ILDAN, TURKISG AUTHOR AND PLAYWRIGHT Happy Chinese New Year to all of you who will be
I look forward to spring cleaning and putting things in their place. It’s therapeutic for me. – KIMORA LEE SIMMONS, INVESTOR, ENTREPRENEUR, FASHION DESIGNER, TV PERSONALITY, AUTHOR AND MODEL By the time you read my column today, I will be taking my annual leave. Annual leave is paid time off
Today is the third day of the new school term for primary and secondary schoolchildren in Sarawak. The new school term began last Thursday. Many parents, especially mothers, with children in primary and secondary schools, have to wake up early during the weekdays to help their children prepare for schools.
Your success and happiness lie in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties. HELEN KELLER, AMERICAN AUTHOR, POLITICAL ACTIVIST AND LECTURER Wishing you all ‘Happy 2020’. Tomorrow, at the stroke of midnight, we welcome a brand-new year — 2020.
Christmas is the spirit of giving without a thought of getting. It is happiness because we see joy in people. It is forgetting self and finding time for others. It is discarding the meaningless and stressing the true values. THOMAS S MONSON, AMERICAN RELIGIOUS LEADER AND AUTHOR Merry Christmas to
The increasing frequency of extreme weather events, droughts and floods is in line with what climate scientists have been predicting for decades — and evidence is mounting that what’s happening is more severe than predicted, and will get far worse still if we fail to act. David Suzuki, Canadian academic,
Term, holidays, term, holidays, till we leave school, and then work, work, work till we die. C. S. Lewis, British writer and theologian Have you ever worked while you were in high school? I am prompted to ask this question after I met a bunch of high school kids who
The long year-end holiday has officially begun. One of my nephews shared the news with me recently. Last Friday was the last day of school for his younger children. He also proudly told me that his third child, a girl, did better than expected in her UPSR exam. The second
I try to save money whenever I can, but lately I have been visiting a laundromat a lot. Rural folk in remote areas generally don’t know what a laundromat is, and those who know what they are can’t use them because their places don’t have electricity. The word laundromat is