Questions
Part of being successful is about asking questions and listening to the answers. – Anne Burrell, American chef and TV personality There are some questions that never really get answered because no one really has a proper answer. However, not having an answer is not a reason to not have questions. The older we get, […]
Winners and whiners
Winners practise nuances of contentment with noticeable endurance. Whiners find contentment with their inalienable tendency to moan, groan, haw and hem over everything with unbridled petulance. Winners effortlessly convert every unfortunate event into an opportunity to find solutions and remedies. It has been said that the feeble soul merely whines and complains. Whiners can fool […]
Food, glorious food at Kuching Festival
‘There is no love sincerer than the love of food.’-Irish playwright, George Bernard Shaw. If you love food, you must visit the Kuching Food Festival which is being held at the car park of the Kuching South City Council‘s community hall in Padungan. The famous food festival, organised by the council, opened on July 28 […]
A 40-year journey with maneaters
Crocodiles are easy. They try to kill and eat you. People are harder. Sometimes they pretend to be your friend first. — Steve Irwin, Australian conservationist Long before I became a journalist, there was Fort Margherita, named after Sir Charles Brooke’s English wife and cousin Margaret Lili Alice de Winte! Fort Margherita and its surroundings […]
While my guitar gently weeps
Sometimes you want to give up the guitar, you’ll hate the guitar. But if you stick with it, you’re gonna be rewarded. – Jimi Hendrix, American guitarist, song writer and singer I started learning to play the guitar at a very late stage in my life. My brother was always the talented guitarist in the […]
My first book is out
‘There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate’s loot on Treasure Island.’ – Walt Disney, American motion picture and television producer. Dear friends, I am on top of the world because my book “Straight from the Heart” has just been published. No rewards for those of you who guessed correctly. Yes, the […]
Grim reminder of sufferance
There is a secret in our culture, and it’s not birth is painful. It’s that women are strong. — Laura Stavoe Harm, educator and writer Despite my year-long absence (June 2019 to June 2020) from this daily newspaper, I was still very much involved in journalism. Not only was I still contributing as a columnist […]
