Author: Adeline Liong

If Jolie, Middleton and Sophie can, so can we

Recycling is a good thing to do. It makes people feel good to do it. The thing I want to emphasise is the vast difference between recycling for the purpose of feeling good and recycling for the purpose of solving the trash problem. —  Barry Commoner, American biologist If you

Many life lessons from ‘Squid Game’

You don’t trust people because they are trustworthy. You do it because you have nothing else to rely on. – Song Gi-Hun, main character of Squid Game It is brutal, violent and dark. Yet many are watching it. And it is currently the most talked-about piece of entertainment online. My

So, you want to live past 100?

Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter. – Mark Twain, American author How long do you want to live? Forever? According to a new research, humans can probably live to at least 130, and possibly well beyond. The outer limit of the

It pays to get your cat microchipped

A pet is never truly forgotten until it is no longer remembered. — Lacie Petitto, paediatric nurse Do you know that it pays to microchip your cat? If your feline has been implanted with a microchip and it goes missing, a microchip can trace the cat back to you. In Aberdeen,

Love locks for Satok Suspension Bridge?

Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness. —  Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., American physician The newly restored Satok Suspension Bridge was in the news recently after images of the first love lock on it being removed went viral on social media. The bridge, originally constructed in

Working from home during Covid-19

Computer literacy is a contact with the activity of computing deep enough to make the computational equivalent of reading and writing fluent and enjoyable. As in all the arts, a romance with the material must be well under way. If we value the lifelong learning of arts and letters as

They succeeded against all odds

It’s never the differences between people that surprise us. It’s the things that, against all odds, we have in common. —  Jodi Picoult, American writer A new era has dawned for powerlifting in Malaysia — thanks to two Paralympic athletes who brought fame to the nation at the Tokyo Paralympic

Show me your digital vaccine cert …

With Covid-19, we’ve made it to the life raft. Dry land is far away. — Marc Lipsitch, epidemiologist Now, if you visit supermarkets in Kuching, some of them will demand to see your digital vaccination certificate. “Your MySejahtera app, madam. Please turn to profile,” advised a staff stationed at the entrance

How about an ‘Olympic factory’ for Sarawak?

It’s going to be a journey. It’s not a sprint to get in shape. – Kerri Walsh Jennings, American beach volleyball player We all know that education is the key to success. This has been stressed umpteen times by grandparents and parents to their children, teachers to their students and

Valuable lessons from the YouTube

Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are: precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way. – Al Franken, former US senator If you watched the Olympic women’s 10m platform diving event recently, you would have loved Chinese teenager, Quan Hongchan