Monday, 15 December 2025

Category: Opinion

Embracing the Sounds of the Season

‘The future enters into us, in order to transform itself in us, long before it happens. Let life happen to you.’ – Rainer Maria Rilke

Lily of the Pond

‘Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch, but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same.’ –

Aki Paku: A Granduncle Remembered

“In family life, love is the oil that eases friction, the cement that binds closer together, and the music that brings harmony.” Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900).

Time to embrace Total Fire Safety

IN the smouldering aftermath of each fire outbreak, communities are left grappling with the devastating consequences — homes reduced to ashes, livelihoods destroyed and lives

Celebrating a shared love for cars

“If we have to, overnight parts from Japan.” – Jesse, from The Fast and The Furious (2001) LAST Saturday (May 4) night, Kuching city came

Plugging the brain drain

The rich countries also contribute to the brain drain from developing countries by more willingly accepting people with higher skills. These are people who could

Bitter, blunt and bold

In order to be able to think, you have to risk being offensive. – Jordan B. Peterson, Canadian clinical psychologist Jordan B Peterson has brilliantly

Reunited and it feels so good

‘Growing apart doesn’t change the fact that for a long time we grew side by side; our roots will always be tangled. I’m glad for

Sweet potato fries

Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live – Dr Jillian, hepatologist at Columbia