Thursday, 2 April 2026

Category: Column

Chronology of Sabah elections

Leaders set high standards. Refuse to tolerate mediocrity or poor performance. — Brian Tracy, motivational public speaker Congratulations to Sabah’s Gabungan Rakyat Sabah (GRS) for

You can run but cannot hide

In large commercial cities, the money power is, I fear irresistible. It is not by open corruption that it always, or even most generally, operates.

Sabah polls over, let’s move on

The goal in the end is not to win elections. The goal is to change society. – Paul Krugman, American economist By about 9pm on

Sabah! What next?

Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on offices, a rottenness begins in his conduct. –Thomas Jefferson, third US president The polling booths opened

Same old, same old

When you have a general election result you don’t like, you don’t have another general election. – Nicholas Soames, UK member of parliament Some things

Te whetu Orongo

Crocodile tears

I will neither yield to the song of the siren nor the voice of the hyena, the tears of the crocodile nor the howling of

Schools for a noble cause

Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves. — Ernest Dimnet , author It’s good news to hear

Searching for dead lover in Sebayan

Stories, especially that of Iban folklore, sometimes have unexpected, surprising plots, twists and turns, even unusual ending. Perhaps this could be because in the olden