Category: Column

What do we do with these teachers?

Teachers have three loves: love of learning, love of learners, and the love of bringing the first two loves together. – Scott Hayden, American composer

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

Tawie

Changing with time but amiability intact

Hospitality knows no gender or race. —  Danny Meyer, entrepreneur Most Iban children are taught to be polite and hospitable to visitors, including guests at

Merdeka, 64 years on

Independence means you decide according to the law and the facts. – Stephen Breyer, American lawyer and jurist “Malaysia Prihatin” is the theme for the

The logjam that we are in

I am somewhat bemused by the word logjam. Here’s the story that triggered this present dalliance with the word. Last Sunday, August 22, a friend

Can’t accept he’s gone

I am better for knowing you, better for having met you. May you be as blessed in the next life, my friend, as I was

Exiting the darkness

But stars cannot shine without darkness. — Anon The unknown, the unknowable and, by extension, total ignorance, repose in darkness as a choice. In politics, the