Author: Datuk Mohammad Medan Abdullah

Food production, security and the emerging crisis

“The average person is still under the aberrant delusion that food should be somebody else’s responsibility until I’m ready to eat it.” ~ Joel Salatin, an American farmer, lecturer, and author. EVERYONE needs food, and if possible, they need to plant it. However, in the latter case, many people or

Etuu, as in the gravitas of leadership

Leaders remind people what is important, but first they have to remind themselves, through carefully managed intentions. – Warren Bennis, American author The word ‘etuu’ in Kelabit is pronounced like the English words ‘err’ + ‘two’ put and said together. As in the phrase “to err is human, to forgive

Energy fundamentals – quo vadis?

Recently, during an interview in connection with Davos 2022, Petronas’ Tengku Muhammad Taufik told CNBC’s Steve Sedgwick, “With so much gas being removed from the system, not being available to Europe, so [many] barrels now making its way through different routes – the challenge of ensuring energy security has now

Making sense in a world full of uncertainties

Uncertainty is the only certainty there is. ― John Allen Paulos, mathematician If there is one word that describes the times we are in, it has to be ‘uncertainty’. Lots of it. We’ll all agree that what has happened in the recent past, especially the last two and half years, has injected

Making sense in a world full of uncertainties

“Uncertainty is the only certainty there is” ―John Allen Paulos, mathematician IF there is one word that describes the times we are in, it has to be ‘uncertainty’ — lots of it. We’ll all agree that what has happened in the recent past, especially the last two and half years,

In the Steps of Lian Tadun Sinah Ngedtang

Dancing is his passion. Not just any dance but the traditional dance of the Orang Ulu. Saving and promoting it is his ‘cause celebre’, his sense of mission and his source of freedom; a prize claimed and a gift seen as being divinely conferred — all at the same time.

Ancient rainforest where two rivers meet – A True Tale

On the first day of Syawal when the Hari Raya 2022 celebrations kicked off, expectedly the morning was a busy one, but not as hectic as the night that preceded it. You see, the announcement of the start of Hari Raya the preceding night caught many by surprise that some

Chomsky’s take on total global dominance – a revisit

China never had good intentions. Since the late 1980s, its stated aim has been world domination, technologically and militarily. – Steve Hilton, British political commentator “Maintaining a hold on political power and enhancing US control of the world’s primary energy sources are major steps towards the twin goals that have

Raised on a father’s shoulders, to where I can be

A child who is carried on the back will not know how far the journey is. – Nigerian proverb The daily walks to and from school by my father may have been much less by distance if compared to what he normally did, trekking over the mountains and valleys of

Learning can be fun, some of the time

“Planting rice is never fun,Bent from morn till set of sun.Can not stand and can not sit,Can not rest a little bit.” For those of us who are old enough, we will remember singing and perhaps could still recall those moments we sang the song “Planting Rice is never fun”