To be haunted is to glimpse a truth that might best be hidden. — James Herbert, writer Whether you like it or not, or want to deny it or not, logging is the biggest destroyer of the environment. We all know it but cannot come to terms with the myth and
Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly — they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced. — Aldous Huxley, English writer and philosopher. It’s a crying shame that we continue to make mistakes in the media about historical or geographical facts all too often. It’s bad
We admit that we are like apes, but we seldom realise that we are apes. — Richard Dawkins, British evolutionary biologist, ethologist and popular-science writer Last weekend, I received an urgent call from the Semenggoh Wildlife Center informing me that my “foster” son Ritchie had disappeared. It was not the
Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly — they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced. — Aldous Huxley, writer As I wallow in the glory of being named ‘Tokoh Wartawan Sarawak 2020’, I realise I am just a rookie when compared to the great Sarawak
The biggest sources of opportunity are collaboration and partnership. And today, with digital communication, there is more of that everywhere. We need to expose ourselves to that as a matter of doing business. — Mark Parker, ex-CEO of Nike One of Borneo’s most adventurous communities are the Muruts of the
After you grow as an adult, the age is just not a number, but a mindset. — Shesh Nath Vernwal, research scholar They say old is gold but how old is old? I realised this when I turned 70 not too long ago and found that I had spent too
Hockey is a sport for white men. Basketball is a sport for black men. Golf is a sport for white men dressed like black pimps. — Tiger Woods If I claim to be the first person to score a hole-in-one at the Sarawak Constabulary golf course more than 50 years
A good example is the best gift you can offer to your children. In your absence, your example is present, which means you are present always! — Israelmore Ayivor, inspirational writer and speaker I read with interest the story of a university student under quarantine, who blatantly ignored the Covid-19
All television is educational television. The question is: what is it teaching? — Nicholas Johnson, law lecturer I grew up in Kuching at a time when the only means of entertainment was through Radio Sarawak. The Blassan brothers, namely Elvis impersonator Wilfred Vincent ‘El-Vince’ Ragam or crooners like ‘Frank Sinatra’ A Harrisman
The English language is nobody’s special property. It is the property of the imagination: it is the property of the language itself. — Derek Walcott, poet and playwright Sarawak has re-introduced its own state-owned international school education system which is now the envy of the country. Despite its noble ideals,
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