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Malaysia’s diversity on display
And waiting for a government to be formed is a bit like playing Wordle, says the writer.
The conversation underpinning democracy must be opened to all
WELL, the silly season is upon us again. Along with interminable rain, we will now have to suffer a deluge of fanciful speeches, false promises and fake smiles.
A curious fascination
Like many of us, the writer was also glued to the screen watching the funeral extravaganza of Queen Elizabeth II last Monday.
The ‘citizens’ playbook’
It is up to us to be vigilant and hold our leaders to higher standards of action to better our lives.
Women matter
We need to deal with the inherent misogyny now before we lose even more Malaysian women to the rest of the world.
Break the bias this year
Just as the theme for this year’s International Women’s Day on March 8, #BreakTheBias, highlights, we need to change our outmoded views on women.
We need the leaders we truly deserve
These days political gaffes seem to come fast and furious until you develop a perpetual crick in the neck as you hold your head down so that you don’t have to face the raised eyebrows of disapproval from your overseas friends.
What’s in a name?
A lot, it seems, as some people simply get off on spinning giant controversies from innocuous things.
‘Brain fog’ during the pandemic
Wouldn’t it be great if we could peek inside the head of some of the more mind-boggling lawmakers?
Let’s embrace the disruption
If this Merdeka is to have any meaning at all, we need to free our minds from the same old formulas.
The power of knowing what you don’t know
We can only grow and come up with better solutions when we decide that we need to rethink everything that we know.
Talking straight
IN the alternate universe that some of our leaders inhabit, a new dictionary is being invented. It takes words that are normally understood by most people to mean something and gives them new meanings indeed. The most famous – some might say “infamous” – is of course the word ‘soon’.
