I think the candidates have tried their best but as a president, I need to do better. This is a very humbling experience for us at Muda. – Syed Saddiq Abdul Rahman, Muda president In the end, the battle for the six states ended in a status quo, or a
Bureaucracies are designed to perform public business. But as soon as a bureaucracy is established, it develops an autonomous spiritual life and comes to regard the public as its enemy. – Bruce Atkinson, American theatre critic Bureaucracy is the death of any achievement, so said Albert Einstein. I couldn’t agree
Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies. – Ernest Benn, British publisher, writer and political publicist All went well with no untoward incident reported during the nomination process for elections in six states on Saturday (July 29). Nomination
Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac? – George Carlin, American stand-up comedian Most of you would have come across drivers on their mobile phones – answering calls, texting, checking their emails, looking at social
During a political campaign everyone is concerned with what a candidate will do on this or that question if he is elected except the candidate; he’s too busy wondering what he’ll do if he isn’t elected. – Everett Dirksen, American politician When Barisan Nasional (BN) chairman and United Malays National
Labour was the first price, the original purchase-money that was paid for all things. It was not by gold or by silver, but by labour, that all wealth of the world was originally purchased. – Adam Smith, Scottish economist and philosopher The Malaysian Trades Union Congress (MTUC) Sarawak has once
A good barber is like a unicorn, rare and magical. And a barbershop talk is like therapy, but cheaper and with better haircuts. – hairstylecamp.com I may not have much hair left on top of my head, which explains why occasionally I go bald. I experienced hair loss from the
Road rage is the expression of the amateur sociopath in all of us, cured by running into a professional. –Robert Breault, American operatic tenor Road rage (or road bully) cases are on the rise and have become a pandemic of its own in our country. What is road rage? I
It’s not blind people who are blind – it’s those racists who see a colour with their eyes wide open, then have a problem with it. – Jimmy Tudeski, comedian Why is it that I have this feeling some politicians in this country thrive on controversies? Looks like they have
Books have really changed my life’s journey and the way I see things, and they enhanced my integrity in terms of knowledge. – Datuk Dr Jeniri Amir, political analyst and author How do you cultivate a love for studying, especially among the rural populace in Sarawak, till tertiary education and
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