The Podcast – Relief for the Distracted
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THE RADIO WAS the key vehicle for the spread of popular music during my generation. In Penang, where would all those who were in their teens have listened to go...
Respect All Persons, and Gender and Other Equalities Will Follow
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IT IS UNFORTUNATE that in most minds, the term “Feminism” more often than not, merely raises issues regarding the relatively-disadvantaged status of women as me...
Journalism's past and Penang's future
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At a time when journalism – as a social activity more than a salaried profession – is booming beyond measure in Malaysia, a fact proven by heighte...
Is Man’s Ultimate Success His Ultimate Failure?
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THROUGHOUT THE HISTORY of life, all life forms have had to adapt to environmental conditions beyond their control as best they can. Where environmental changes...
Beasts “R” Us: The Merging of Man, Nature and Animal in Zodiac Systems
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THE CRUCIAL POSITION that animals have in human civilisation is an intriguing one.Taming animals for labour and transport or for food and company is a criterion...
Revealing the Wonderful World of Biodiversity
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FOR ONCE IN my life, let me quote from The Bible to make a weighty point of contrast. In Genesis 7:9, it is stated: "There went in two and two unto Noah into th...
The B-Movie – A Welcomed Mental Asylum
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I DON'T LOVE them; I don’t hate them. But I think they are indispensable. They are very much a necessary by-product of the film industry, the way any form of ar...
The Intriguing Invention of “Zero” and “One”
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ZEROES AND ONES fill our world today. The binary code that powers our computers could of course have been signified by other, even arbitrary, symbols, but they...
Having had So Much Time to Think Recently, We Should Now Be Able to Act Smarter
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WISDOM COMES MOST easily to the recluse; that’s a process long been recognised and advocated throughout human history, and in most societies and civilisations....
Are We Witnessing the Bankruptcy Proceedings of the Malay Agenda?
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FOR THE FIRST elected government since independence that is not based around the United Malays National Organisation (UMNO) to fall within 20 months, one has to...
Deepening the Here and the Now
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IN THE FEEDBACK which has come to my attention to Penang Chief Minister Chow Kon Yeow's Penang2030, which he launched on August 29, 2018, just three months afte...
Working in Silos Becomes the Norm When Merit Systems Are Shunned
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FORMER INTERNATIONAL Trade and Industry minister Tan Sri Rafidah Aziz entertained Malaysia with her comment that the idea that Malaysians like working in silos was not really accurate since silos are places huge enough for significant things to happen.