How can we call ourselves moderate when after 56 years of never whipping women we now want to engage in public spectacles of such a barbaric nature?

Politics is not going to solve all our problems. Our dirty toilet habits are our own and we only have ourselves to blame, not others, nor the Government.

There are still many problems in our education system yet the reforms needed are moving at a glacial pace, compared with the world our children will grow up in.

We should be grateful that the war of words doesn’t actually spill blood becauseotherwise the cyber sphere would be strewn with dead bodies by now. Still, theremust be a lot of wounded.

Though nobody has officially announced the date of the generalelection, an official announcement now seems redundant assome have already been campaigning for about two years.

For so long we have managed to live together quite happily, regardless of race or religious differences.

Both sides seem to campaign on the premise that voting for the other side means a dubious future. But what I would really like to know is how voting for any side would lead to a bright future.

We often like to believe what we want to believe, often because the real facts challenge us too much. It is far easier to wallow in our prejudices than to seek out the truth in anything.

The newly-inserted Section 114A of the Evidence Act is another example of a law that was rushed through Parliament without much debate and discussion, to the detriment of us all.

We learn much folk wisdom – some couched in semi-superstition – either from other people or simply from experience.

In a land of opportunity for all, people should remember John F. Kennedy's famous words: Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.

We are great at railing against idiotic politicians at mamak stalls and on social websites, but when it actually comes to doing something, we make excuses; and with that, we disempower ourselves.