A person in public without a mask during a pandemic is a walking septic tank. – Abhijit Naskar, best seller author This week my topic will still be on Covid-19. I had wanted to write on violence against women after I came across a video clip showing Taliban troops beating
Teachers have three loves: love of learning, love of learners, and the love of bringing the first two loves together. – Scott Hayden, American composer So, we have some 2,500, perhaps more, anti-vaxxing teachers in the country who are giving the authorities a headache by their refusal to get vaccinated.
I am better for knowing you, better for having met you. May you be as blessed in the next life, my friend, as I was in this one by knowing you. – Anonymous I found myself at a loss for words, shocked by a late-night WhatsApp message that I received
A silver-tongued charlatan and a half-wit society are made for each other! When these two come together in an election, a great disaster happens: Charlatan comes to power! – Mehmet Murat ildan, Turkish writer There’s a standing joke that goes like this: It’s very difficult to get into the Malaysian
I know they are not happy about my stance of refusing to entertain some of their (Umno faction) demands, which include insisting that I interfere in judiciary affairs to release some of the individuals currently under criminal trials. – Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin Malaysian politics cannot get more interesting than
I’m aging like fine cheese. – Unknown I followed diving queen Pandelela Rinong’s Tokyo Olympics events religiously despite my very tight work schedule. I won’t miss her events for anything; she’s the only Sarawakian in the Malaysian contingent, and apart from athletics, I love water sports — and that include
Covid-19 vaccine must be accessible to all nations and people. – Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin, Prime Minister It’s heartening to note that Malaysia’s National Covid-19 Immunisation Programme (NCIP) has been gaining traction since late February. So far 29 percent of our adult population have completed both doses of the vaccine.
The world’s going to be different for a long time, so if you’re not getting nose-swabbed in the next month, you might be getting nose-swabbed at training camp next year. – Jordan Martinook, Canadian ice hockey player The damn coronavirus has not spared anyone or anything — people from
They will put that on my gravestone. “Here lies Tinker, her heart was in the right place, but her foot was in her mouth and god knows where her brain went.” – Wen Spencer, American fiction writer Once again, our country has become a laughing stock; no, not because
I will go down with this ship and I won’t put my hands up and surrender; there will be no white flag above my door… – Dido, singer-songwriter A former collegemate, a retired Polis Diraja Malaysia ASP staying in Kelana Jaya, Petaling Jaya — let’s just call her Siti —