WHEN an unplanned and coincidental meeting happens, it makes one wonder and reflect with a sharpened inquisitive edge at the chances of the stars being perfectly aligned in the sky to what purpose if not to create the right pull and resonance. The effect is to emanate a harmonious wavelength
“They are an intriguing people. From the moment they wake they devote themselves to the perfection of whatever they pursue. I have never seen such discipline.” Captain Nathan Algren (Tom Cruise) in The Last Samurai I think I have watched this movie, ‘The Last Samurai’ so many times, as I
WE are all familiar with the conventional saying that “prevention is better than cure”. In these times of uncertainty driven by the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic and now the Russia- Ukraine conflict which threatens the world with a wider conflagration and has the potential to drag the whole world
It was close to midnight on March 5, 2022, at Tanjung Batu in Bintulu, Sarawak when I finished composing a poem. One through which I tried to evoke the emotions that were gripping me at that late hour. I like the quiet hours in the mornings and those towards midnight
PRESIDENT Roosevelt of the US once called the forests “the lungs of the Earth”, whilst renowned poet Robert Frost got inspiration from trees as in his poems ‘The Road Not Taken’, ‘The Oak Tree’ and ‘Stopping By The Woods On a Snowy Evening’. Yes, there must be millions of artists
SOME eight years ago, on 8 March 2014, a Boeing 777 passenger plane en route to Beijing from Kuala Lumpur went missing, never to be seen again. Malaysia Airlines (MAS) flight MH370 was reported to have lost contact with air traffic control some two hours of flight after leaving Kuala
I was an eight-year-old Primary Two pupil in a village school in Bario, Sarawak when Lyndon B Johnson became the first US President to visit Malaysia in 1966. Not that I knew about it back then, but it was something I learnt about many years later. There is a relational
IN November last year at Batu Patong Eco Village near Bario, an auntie, Sinah Eli, volunteered to sing for us a Kelabit traditional lakuh song at a gathering of the villagers to which we were invited. I have had not heard such a recitation in a long while so the
WHEN it was first initiated some ten years ago, the Merdeka Award Roundtable was intended to be a high quality and riveting talk show, showcasing intelligent debates and conversations on topics that were not only current but of significant importance to nation building and Malaysians in general. Made for TV,
If music be the food of love, play on, give me excess of it that, surfeiting, the appetite may sicken and so die. That strain again, it had a dying fall. — Shakespeare, Twelfth Night ‘If music be the food of love, play on’ are the words of Duke Orsino
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