Author: M Rajah

Murderers… very often start out by killing and torturing animals as kids. – Robert K. Ressler, FBI agent and author A recent incident involving a pet dog not far from the place I am living set me thinking about what Anthony Douglas Williams, author and animal rights activist, once said

I gave my father $100 and said, “Buy yourself something that will make your life easier.” So, he went out and bought a present for my mother.   —  Rita Rudner, American comedian I was searching the internet for some inspirational sayings about Father’s Day when I came across comedian Rita

There’s a scam for everyone, and that means everyone is a potential victim. – Susan Grant, US military veteran and author Last Tuesday, a Macau scammer, or rather two of them, thought they could pin me down to reveal my financial details. Instead, I sent them packing. These conmen and

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.  – Nelson Mandela, South African president There are only two educationists that I hold in high esteem. One is Brother Albinus Michael O’Flaherty and the other, Tan Sri Lim Kok Wing. Both are no longer with

Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies. – Groucho Marx, American writer-comedian Some of our politicians have the tendency to say the darndest, dumbest and most outrageous things, and end up being paloi (stupid). Datuk Seri Tajuddin Abdul

I don’t understand the public’s fascination with having titles added to their names to such a point they are willing to fork out ridiculous amounts of money. – Datuk Seri Michael Chong, MCA public services and complaints department chief So, you wish to have the title ‘Datuk’ in front of

It may be possible to gild pure gold, but who can make his mother more beautiful? – Mahatma Gandhi, nationalist and political ethicist Today I am going to write about my mom. Yes, I know, Mother’s Day went by last week. So? It doesn’t mean I can’t pay tribute whenever I

You can motivate by fear, and you can motivate by reward. But both those methods are only temporary. The only lasting thing is self-motivation. – Homer Rice, American football coach I would have never imagined the media’s innocuous query on the form of incentives for diving queen Pandelela Rinong following

Be fast, have no regrets … If you need to be right before you move, you will never win. – Mike Ryan, WHO epidemiologist The Covid-19 situation in our country isn’t getting any better. Neither is the situation in Sarawak. The grim figures speak for themselves, and so long as the