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Opinion
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‘Psycho Goreman’ — a nostalgic, hilarious, warm and cheesy delight
FEBRUARY 6 — If I had to choose only one movie from the long list of new releases in the whole month of January 2021 to watch, I would choose Psycho...
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Tommy Thomas’ kiss and tell
FEBRUARY 4 — While the career of Mahathir Mohamad’s second term attorney-general stretches beyond 45 years, the two under the ex-PM which draws attention to him. It seems...
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The necessity of dissent
FEBRUARY 3 — I laugh sometimes when people go on a self-righteous preachy streak about social media. Without social media, many of us (myself included) would have been doomed to...
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Brandon Who? Wu poised to be next household name
FEBRUARY 2 — All the talk on golf’s Class of 2019 has so far centred around the talented trio of Collin Morikawa, Viktor Hovland and Matthew Wolff, whose prodigious talents...
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Why GameStop matters to us all
JANUARY 31 — A funny thing happened last week. An American company called GameStop — basically a chain of stores that sells video games — saw its stock market value surge...
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2021: Symbols and Thaipusam
JANUARY 28 — Until 2009, Thaipusam was not a public holiday in Kuala Lumpur. During my childhood, it meant a younger me did not attend school and government driver dad took the...
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Covid-19 has shown us just how wide the digital divide goes
JANUARY 27 — During the last year, I saw desperate pleas for food all over my social media. This year, I’m seeing parents at home struggling to help their children with...
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The way forward for tourism in Malaysia
JANUARY 27 — Tourism has been the sector of Malaysia’s economy worst hit by the Covid-19 pandemic. After all, the movement control order (MCO) and the lockdown orders to...
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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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In the case of Australia vs Google
JANUARY 24 — The Australian government has proposed legislation that will ensure major search engines/social media companies pay news organisations for the news content...
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Anthony Mackie double feature with ‘Synchronic’ and ‘Outside The Wire’
JANUARY 23 — If you’re a casual movie fan, I’m sure you’d at least be familiar with Anthony Mackie’s face, if not his name. He’s undoubtedly most popular as...
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SPM 2020: Time to get it done
JANUARY 21 — As rites of passage go, in Malaysia generally it is Form 5 in school. Most of us, and those before us, had their schooling experience defined by what’s usually...
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People will go hungry again this MCO
JANUARY 20 — You would think after going through a movement control order (MCO), a conditional MCO (CMCO) and a recovery MCO (RMCO) we would have gotten this sort-of,...
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How picking out a pair of Jordans from the bin led to my friendship with ‘His Airness’
JANUARY 19 — Back when I was in junior high, everyone wanted the Jumpman IV’s but there was no chance we could afford a new pair of Jordans back in the day. A guy I knew had...
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Could mindfulness be the answer?
JANUARY 19 — It’s been a surreal year — a global pandemic, Brexit and the carnage left behind by Donald Trump’s presidency — and even the most composed among us is...
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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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Is Chinese Privilege a myth?
JANUARY 17 — At a panel discussion hosted by the Institute of Policy Studies, a Singaporean think tank, it was suggested that the idea of “Chinese Privilege”...
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Checking out three Oscar hopefuls from Netflix
JANUARY 16 ― Even after the strange year that was 2020, it looks like 2021 is already cooking up its own version of strangeness, with what happened at the Capitol and how Donald...
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PM can initiate all-party unity government
JANUARY 14 — With trepidation, my first national Emergency column. Though firsts matter less these days as Malaysia’s choked by firsts. Above all the firsts for the year —...