Jalan Tun H.S. Lee in downtown KL is swarmed with foreigners on Sundays If you haven’t been in downtown Kuala Lumpur in quite a while, you will be surprised to find the old KL that we used to know no longer exists. Sure, most of the buildings are still there, but the inner city has […]
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This picture taken from The Daily Mail shows the world’s largest family. Mr Ziona Chana has 39 wives, 94 children and 33 grandchildren. Large families with far fewer members than Mr Ziona’s are a rarity today. Once upon a time families were large and everyone lived together under the same roof. Today family size has
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From The New Straits Times 12 Nov 2012 The on-going controversy regarding Nurul Izzah’s statement (see photo) shows no sign of abating, at least for now. We all have our views on this issue, but few would want to express them publicly. In Malaysia, any controversial comment touching on the official religion Islam is considered
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I don’t drive anymore, so when the Automated Enforcement System (AES) was introduced, I couldn’t understand why there was such vehement protest from car owners and drivers. After all, it would discourage speeding and help reduce the high mortality rate on the roads. That was before a friend sent me a video last week that revealed the
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I was out the whole day yesterday at back to back meetings till 10pm. I missed out on all the US elections excitement on TV. With our own national elections coming up anytime, there’s much we can learn from the US elections, both the good and the bad – from media coverage and the way
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From The Straits Times If you were residing in the US, you would either be suffering from campaign ad nauseum or from election fever. The relentless blitz of media coverage of the elections is finally coming to an end. Today US citizens go to the polls. What strikes me most about the run-up to the
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From The Sunday Star 4 Nov 2012. Click here to read the full article . It’s been a long while since I wrote about grandparenting (“Grandparenting – Pleasure or Pressure?”). The above article in The Sunday Star today is a timely reminder to revisit the topic. Given the changing role of women in the last
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If you love all things Japanese, especially Japanese food, in particular, sushi, then you would enjoy this documentary. It’s an hour and a half long, so it’s strictly for sushi-lovers and those with time to spare. Here’s the official trailer: “Jiro Dreams of Sushi is the story of 85 year-old Jiro Ono, considered by many
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This transcript below comes from a talk Dr Richard Teo Keng Siang gave to a group of dental students in Singapore on 24 November 2011, eight months after he was diagnosed with stage 4 lung cancer. He had an important message to share with them, and with all of us too. Please read and pass
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Nudity has been in the news of late. Recently the buzz was about young couple Alvin Tan, 24, and Vivian Lee, 23. They posed nude photos of themselves on their blog Sumptuous Erotica. While Alvin said his parents were pretty ‘cool’ about the whole episode, Vivian’s parents went ballistic. In an interview posted on Youtube,
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