Wednesday, 30 July 2025

Author: Medecci Lineil

The mind’s darkest hour

The simple truth of things is that bad dreams are far better than bad wakings – Stephen King, author I always get sleep paralysis whenever I’m running a high fever — complete with hallucinations and zero control over my body. It feels like I’m covered in needles, with a core

The Zen of 4 am

‘If it’s your job to eat a frog, it’s best to do it first thing in the morning. And if it’s your job to eat two frogs, it’s best to eat the biggest one first.’ – Mark Twain (1835 – 1910), American writer. I drafted this column at 4.01 am

The gentle corrector

‘When fishermen cannot go to sea, they repair nets.’ – Steve Jobs (1955 –2011), co-founder of Apple. The best part of this job? That’s easy: readers. Some days, readers like me; other days, they can’t stand me; sometimes, they want me to quit the business and get a job knitting

I didn’t see that coming

Unexpressed emotions will never die. They are buried alive and will come forth later, in uglier ways. – Sigmund Freud Book title: The Silent PatientISBN: 978-1-250-30169-7Author: Alex MichaelidesPublisher: Penguin Random House US Would you judge me if I said I did not see the ending of “The Silent Patient” coming?

Parenting little lefties

Left handers don’t just write differently, we also think differently. – Anonymous Only about one in ten people in the world is left-handed — but the percentage is much higher just in my immediate family. My father, brother, wife, kids and I are all lefties, and proudly so. Over the

Calculator in the water

If you caught my business column on Wednesday (Aug 7), today’s piece builds on that discussion. Sally Douglass, an economic postgraduate and the second-fastest swimmer in American swimming events, has always been great with numbers. But before she enrolled at Columbia University, she never considered swimming itself was a math

It’s not all gold medals

I want to be able to look back and say, ‘I’ve done everything I can, and I was successful.’ I don’t want to look back and say I should have done this or that. — Michael Phelps, former American swimmer and most successful and decorated Olympian of all time, holds

Cash and trash tips for better living

KUCHING: Communities need strong financial management skills and environmental awareness, particularly in waste management, to ensure sustainable growth, said Bukit Begunan assemblyman Datuk Mong Dagang. “Acquiring knowledge through education can lead to better decision-making for solving problems,” he said when officiating at a recent community project on Empowering Financial and

The night I woke up

‘The FAKE MSM (mainstream media) is working so hard trying to get me not to use social media. They hate that I can get the honest and unfiltered message out.’ – Donald Trump, the Republican Party candidate in the 2024 US presidential election. On the night of the first US

Memories in brewed time

SBN: 978-1-5290-2959-8Author: Toshikazu KawaguchiPublisher: Picador You can spend minutes, hours, days, weeks, or even months over-analysing a situation; trying to put the pieces together, justifying what could’ve, would’ve happened … or you can just leave the pieces on the floor and move on. – Tupac Shakur, (1971-1996) A few weeks