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Alwyn Lau
Bookworm. Contrarian. Proud Malaysian. Or thereabouts. Tweets at @alwyn_lau
More from Alwyn Lau
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20+ reasons why I don’t turn on my video in Zoom
MARCH 22 — Because I just don’t feel like it. Because most people don’t. Because turning on the video feels like an obligation or a requirement; and that’s just no fun....
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The answer to fake speech is more speech, not suppression
MARCH 15 — That’s according to Louis Brandeis, a former Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. He declared that the constitutional remedy to...
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Doing our part to help the country reopen
MARCH 9 — Since last March, I’ve written extensively on the need for caution — even hyper-caution — when it comes to avoiding being infected with Covid-19. I was...
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Hyper-scheduling in a time of lockdown
MARCH 1 — One of the most important “normals” the pandemic and lockdown have overhauled is our modes of meeting, learning and conferencing. Like it or not, since last...
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The Ravi Zacharias scandal and addiction
FEBRUARY 22 — Around last Christmas, it was confirmed that Ravi Zacharias, world-famous Christian evangelist and apologist who died in May 2020, was in all likelihood guilty of...
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Six ang pow ‘rules’ to remember
FEBRUARY 15 — Many years ago, my family was in Singapore celebrating Chinese New Year. On the second or third day, we went to visit an elderly aunty, had lunch, said goodbye and...
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Should our school children switch to e-textbooks?
JANUARY 25 — Have you seen the amount of school books that kids (from as young as Standard 1) are required to bring to school? We're talking pre-Covid-19 times, of course. Some...
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Present, open and awake: Learning to meditate in a lockdown
JANUARY 18 — “Meditation can make the difference between standing outside in the storm and being blasted with rain, hail and wind and standing inside your house...
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We should behave like it is 20,000 cases daily
JANUARY 11 — One of the reasons we managed to “flatten the curve” between April and June last year was because the country was made to behave as if the daily positive...
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Mandatory Covid-19 vaccination — Yes or no?
JANUARY 5 — I confess at this stage I lean more towards yes. But in recent days I’ve heard from quite a few of my friends who’ve argued for no (and my friends aren’t...
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What animals teach us about Christmas
DEC 25 — Today, Christians around the world celebrate the birth of Jesus. The story goes that Mary, Jesus’ mum, was heavily pregnant yet had to travel the 111 kilometres from...
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Yes, chess IS a sport #QueensGambit
DECEMBER 21 ― Recently I ran an informal poll asking Malaysians if they noticed that more people were getting interested in playing chess as a result of Queen’s Gambit, that...
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Will people ever matter more than profits?
DECEMBER 14 — The recent exposes on the oppressive living conditions of factory and construction workers remind me of a conversation my late grandmother had with my...
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What alternatives to lockdowns are there?
NOVEMBER 25 — I’m no virology expert but it’s clear to me (and about millions of others) that the on-going conditional movement control order (CMCO) hasn’t done much (if...
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Caring for teachers’ well-being during lockdowns
NOVMEBER 16 — We need to stop for a few moments now and think about the people who’ve been delivering online lessons for our kids since the lockdowns began. We...