I ate my chicken rice in silence. A friend, sitting before me, had just announced that it cost between RM 10,000 to RM 15,000 if a man wished to marry a Kadazandusun woman. I couldn’t believe my ears. Martin was almost livid, or in shock.
“What you mean pay money?” he asked, fork midway to mouth.
“Must pay l ...Continue
Almost fifty years on and the peace our country enjoys is the envy of many nations, or so I hear. A funny thing about being the object of admiration: being told we are the standard usually means we’re blind to the successes in other nations – or blind to the antecedents of our own envied harmony.
It is decades after independen ...Continue
Hold on for just one minute. Yes, I too think the appropriation of mat rempit as mat cemerlang is a little too obvious a ploy - there are just so many sides to this issue. Like, we could ask what possible mileage UMNO Youth seeks to gain from starting up clubs to get these motorcycle-riding nuisances organized. Or, we ...Continue
You can get more docs on the Article 11 forums over [here]. Do visit! ...Continue
I’m still a little under the weather, unfortunately, and its starting to worry me a little. It’s been almost a week, and I’ve still got a stuffed nose and a raw throat. I’m told it’s the haze causing me much of my problems, but I doubt it; I’ve survived worse.
As Merdeka Day nears, I find myself less a ...Continue