Author: Datuk Mohammad Medan Abdullah

A symphony of support: Nurturing the country’s musical soul

The effects of the COVID-19 pandemic continue to reverberate through various sectors, and the world of arts is no exception. While the world slowly recovers, the local arts scene is still coping with the aftermath. The stages, once filled with lively performances, are now more muted and less vibrant, leaving

Our Native Land: Lam Bawang Tauh

On occasions when we need to reflect upon the subject of our native land, or our ‘Lam Bawang Tauh’ in the Kelabit dialect, we tend to recall where we were born, and where we were raised, and where our forebears lie in their momentary hiatus along their onward progression to

Last Night I Saw The Moon

By MAYA GREEN Last night I saw the moon — I thought I saw her smileThis morning I read a piece, it said the moon is drifting awayHey, something is going on here, so I told myself! The moon is doing her dance, her celestial twist around the EarthAnd the

Go With The Flow

By MAYA GREEN It’s your true nature to seek the TRUTH:Your whole life is a journey in its pursuit;Be as the moon, reflecting back the lightBack to the sun, to the original sourceAlways hearing the call — to come home Meditate on the BEAUTY of a wild flower,Or the tender

Walking This Earth

By MAYA GREEN There are the builders and creatorsAnd then there are the destroyersEveryone who has ever walked this EarthIs either one of the aforesaid, on this Earth O no, there are no in-betweensAs no fence sitters in this game are allowedYou are either in or out, no conjoined twinsOf

When Rome Is Nice

By MAYA GREEN For desperate times, desperate measuresWhether being reactive, or anticipatory, it’s just contextualWhether to be calm and measured — or more of an ad hoc,All in, it will be a rocky ride, destabilising Take the scenario, let’s just sayWhen the take is just one action, of point accuracyThe

In The Footsteps

By MAYA GREEN In the footsteps, of my father’s directionFor a higher ground’s destinationTo climb up the ‘floating’ high mountainSet up firmly in nature’s high echelon Where the civet cats nap at high noonTo rest tired limbs, and none too soonUp a tall tree in a sea of verdant greenFull

To be or not to be – that was the question

It was Shakespeare who famously posed the question: ‘To be or Not to Be’ through one of many alter egos, in the play called ‘Hamlet’. If I am not mistaken. The original poser was induced, I believe, by a situation of predicament. Recently, I was put in a predicament of

A Picture With An Interwoven Story

The Pioneers and Trail Blazers Our parents’ generation saw the transition from the “old ways” to the modern era. Before their time, there were no schools.  James Ritchie, my dad is the one right in the middle of the back row. Three of my uncles are on the left, three