Category: Column

Compulsive politics

Politics have no relations to morals. – Niccolo Machiavelli, Italian diplomat It is an inexorable fact that one of the serious penalties the concerned citizenry

Finding a lost puppy

If a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience. – Woodrow

Malaya first mentality must go

Government proposes, bureaucracy disposes. And the bureaucracy must dispose of government proposals by dumping them on us. – P. J. O’Rourke, American libertarian political satirist

I hope you dance

When you dance, your purpose is not to get to a certain place on the floor. It’s to enjoy each step along the way. –

My 2,000km flight to Long Nawang

We know about every massacre that has taken place close to the present, but the ones in the distant past are like trees falling in

War hero out of scoffed mongrel

All his life he tried to be a good person. Many times, however, he failed. For after all, he was only human. He wasn’t a

Augmenting democracy

We still have a long way to go. I hope that the passing of the anti-hopping law will encourage us to reach for greater heights