Author: Dr Lucy Sebli

I don’t ever tell someone to stop doing what they’re doing. But if somebody is using an e-cigarette, that tells me it’s filling some gap for him.   – Frank T. Leone, director of comprehensive smoking treatment programmes at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania In 2016, vaping was all

If we as a nation are to break the cycle of poverty, crime and the growing underclass of young people ill equipped to be productive citizens, we need not implement effective programmes to prevent teen pregnancy, but we must also help those who have already given birth so that they

The youth of a nation are the trustees of posterity. – Benjamin Disraeli, British politician Recently, drug abuse among youth has once again made news headlines — even politicians are talking about it. Earlier this year, Home Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin issued a statement saying that a total of

Music is the greatest communication in the world. Even if people don’t understand the language that you’re singing in, they still know good music when they hear it. – Lou Rawls, American musician It was Friday October 4 and I have been looking forward to this day for quite a

Higher education is confronting challenges, like the economy is, about the need for a higher number of more adequately trained, more highly educated citizenry. – Margaret Spellings, US Secretary of Education Three weeks ago, my university and faculty were busy preparing to receive new students. Everyone at the university was

Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership. –General Colin Powell, former US Secretary of State

Office politics is bloody minded but weak on content. – Mason Cooley, American aphorist known for his witty aphorisms What is office politics? We often hear this phrase and it is very common in many institutions, either government or private. Office politics is an action and behaviour involving competition for

Broken vows are like broken mirrors. They leave those who held to them bleeding and staring at fractured images of themselves. – Richard Paul Evan, American author As we celebrate the 56th anniversary of our nation, let us reflect on the circumstances which led to the formation of Malaysia which

It is already 8am, Monday and I was going to have a three-hour class on security and national defence — a rather boring and dry subject to have early in the morning, as far as my students are concerned. Not all thought it was a dry subject, at least based