Tuesday, 23 December 2025

Category: Column

Connecting with our armed forces

Brave men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war. – Seneca (or Seneca the Younger) (c. 4 B.C.E. – 65 C.E.), a

Wait for me, my love

The first time I read these exact words was sometime in the mid-1960s in a letter that a young woman brought to me because she

A Kuching stray dog story

Money can buy you a fine dog but only love can make him wag his tail. – Kinky Friedman, American songwriter Gina, a dear old

Rolling the dice

There is a respectable body of economic thought that holds that casino gambling is actually economically regressive to a state and a community. – Mario

I’m on a weight loss journey

‘If you want to accomplish anything in life, you can’t just sit back and hope it will happen. You’ve got to make it happen.’ –

Hey! Just one day for moms?

Youth fades; love droops; the leaves of friendship fall; a mother’s secret hope outlives them all. – Oliver Wendell Holmes, American jurist and legal scholar

Sullied sovereigns

To dare a thought is to risk being wrong. – James Dale Davidson, American investment writer Your first contract with government is triggered by your

Much ado about starving

‘Prepare for the best, prepare  for the worst and expect the unexpected.” – Gary Busy, American actor. DEAR friends, the Scout Motto “Be prepared” is

The Malay rhetoric and schism

Rhetoric is a poor substitute for action, and we have trusted only to rhetoric. If we are really to be a great nation, we must