Friday, 9 January 2026

Category: Column

Managing expectations

I have learned that as long as I hold fast to my beliefs and values – and follow my own moral compass – then the

Return trip by cargo ship

After three days with the Basap cave dwellers we had to take the long journey home by a sea vessel. From Teluk Sumbang I hired

No permanent friends or enemies

We are torn to pieces by parties and animosities. For my part I see no end to them. ― Anne Somerset, English historian Lately, Puncak

The Reid omission

The omission of good is no less reprehensible that the commission of evil. – Plutarch, Greek philosopher Malayan legal heavyweights like Dr. Radhakrishna Ramani, Yong Shook

Let us cook without oil

‘Cooking is like painting or writing a song. Just as there are only so many notes or colours, there are only so many flavours –

Heralding a new era

The new one is the most beautiful of all; he is so young and pretty. And the old swans bowed their heads before him. –

The power within us

To See a World in a Grain of SandAnd a Heaven in a WildflowerHold Infinity in the palm of your handAnd Eternity in an hour