Author: Medecci Lineil

Cash and trash tips for better living

KUCHING: Communities need strong financial management skills and environmental awareness, particularly in waste management, to ensure sustainable growth, said Bukit Begunan assemblyman Datuk Mong Dagang. “Acquiring knowledge through education can lead to better decision-making for solving problems,” he said when officiating at a recent community project on Empowering Financial and

The night I woke up

‘The FAKE MSM (mainstream media) is working so hard trying to get me not to use social media. They hate that I can get the honest and unfiltered message out.’ – Donald Trump, the Republican Party candidate in the 2024 US presidential election. On the night of the first US

Memories in brewed time

SBN: 978-1-5290-2959-8Author: Toshikazu KawaguchiPublisher: Picador You can spend minutes, hours, days, weeks, or even months over-analysing a situation; trying to put the pieces together, justifying what could’ve, would’ve happened … or you can just leave the pieces on the floor and move on. – Tupac Shakur, (1971-1996) A few weeks

Ants in the rocket

THE only debris here, thankfully, is in the trees: dozens of children’s model rockets that flew too high or too low caught the wind in just the wrong way and wound up harmlessly festooning a few otherwise bare oaks on the campus of the U.S. Space Camp in Huntsville, Alabama.

Second chances

America was built on immigrants. It is still building on immigrants. So the immigrant story is our story – Mohsin Hamid, British-Pakistani novelist. ‘Easy’ was one of a dozen vocabulary words pasted on the whiteboard, and someone in the back of the Brooklyn classroom in the Butler Library offered it

A dinner to remember

BLACKROCK chief executive Larry Fink was searching for years for the right private markets partner to make his $10 trillion money manager a formidable player in alternative investments as it is in traditional asset management. His overtures to private equity, private credit and hedge funds rarely got beyond the first

A thousand doors

We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men. – Herman Melville (1819-1891) an American novelist. Among his best-known works is Moby-Dick (1851). A month ago, the district judge for our area of Lower Manhattan, New York was retiring and discreetly encouraged a Goldman

The last prescription

Book title: When Breath Becomes AirISBN: 978-1-9848-0182-1Author: Paul KalanithiPublisher: Random House LLC New York When Dr Paul Kalanithi sent his best friend an email in May 2013 revealing that he had terminal cancer, he wrote: “The good news is that I’ve already outlived two Brontës, Keats, and Stephen Crane. The

Battle scars

‘Turn your wounds into wisdom.’ – Oprah Winfrey, American talk show host It’s the Sijil Pelajaran Malaysia (SPM) results season; time to cheer the teenage achievers (especially the overachievers) and send them off to campus adventures and incipient adulthood. This time, though, I want to talk about the other group

The physics of fear

‘We generally don’t get more than a general warning.’ – Capt Chesley Sullenberger, American retired commercial pilot. Time was, I was a very anxious flier. Not a take-the-bus-across-the-continent-rather-than-fly type, but certainly one who pretty much dreaded getting on an airplane. It was an acquired anxiety, an apprehension that took up