Wednesday, 8 April 2026

Category: Column

Hey! Go pick up a book!

A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies. The man who never reads lives only one.  – George R. R. Martin, American novelist What

Happy to be gardening again

A garden requires patient labour and attention. Plants do not grow merely to satisfy ambitions or to fulfill good intentions. They thrive because someone expended

Fabian friends and fiends

Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory. Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat. – Sun Tzu, Chinese strategist Usually attributed to

March 25 — Kelabit leap of faith

Sometimes all you need is a big leap of faith. — Sean Bean, English actor Mist covered the entire Kelabit highlands as the first batch of

Tawie

Dragon by day, Keling by night

I believe in everything until it’s disproved. So I believe in fairies, the myths, dragons. It all exists, even if it’s in your mind. Who’s

Don’t expect Umno to fade away

I think the government and political parties reward their employees based on corruption, and not based on performance. If not, why all of them are

5R — The bite-sized way

I only feel angry when I see waste. When I see people throwing away things we could use. – Mother Teresa, Indian Roman Catholic nun

Get the guts up, take the jab!

One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn’t

A moral contagion

Pure truth cannot be assimilated by the crowd; it must be communicated by contagion. – Henri Frederic Amiel, Swiss philosopher To reasonably understand law, justice,