KJ

On Feb 13, my two boys came back from somewhere and I asked them if they heard that the general election has been called, and Parliament dissolved? They both said yes, but then they asked, \”But, why did the PM lie about it?\” Yes, why did the PM lie about it? In fact, my 17-year-old […]

Lord Acton said, \”Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely.\” Over the years, I have learnt that this is in fact an absolute statement and no ordinary human is really exempted from it. We saw it in 10 years with Republican rule in America and we saw the same thing in Australia. Those with absolute […]

I have three politicians, I consider my heroes. The first is the late Tan Sri Dr Tan Chee Khoon, father of the now retiring MP for Segambut. The father, like the son, always spoke the truth, always spoke in love and always spoke with grace and hope. For the father’s long and unflinching service to […]

‘The Japan that Can Say No’ was a book co-written by Sony chairman Akio Morita and politician Shintaro Ishihara during Japan\’s rise as an economic power-house in 1989. As a sequel many years later he and Dr Mahathir Mohamed co-wrote a book called, ‘The Asia that Can Say No!’ Of course, they were talking about […]

If what Raja Petra wrote in Malaysia Today before the elections is true, an Umno vice-president had said, “Even God could not sink Umno!” The article began with the true story about the infamous Titanic from which the quote about Umno must have been derived. ‘This ship is unsinkable, even God Himself can’t sink it!’ screamed a […]

The core issues of the general election have received a little more focused nuance with the formation of new state governments. In the process of the identification and definition of the requisite political leadership for the three or four state governments, core and unresolved issues among the new parties in government have become obvious. The […]

True leadership is the art of setting new directions and then creating the environment for that vision to become possible; not just plausible. Nurturing the right climate for ideas and ideals to flourish is just as important as the new directions set. Follower-ship consequently is the discipline of acknowledging visionary leadership and the requisite obedience […]

Someone recently asked me two questions about the Attorney General which I could not answer. The first question related to “why the Attorney General and IGP ‘interfered with’ the elections after it has been called, and insisted on changing the rules?” Do the AG and IGP have any such authority within a jurisdiction of interim […]

Is the title of this column an oxymoron? According to Wikipedia , an oxymoron is a figure of speech that combines two normally contradictory terms. I would like to argue that my title is not an oxymoron. In the field of the science or study of knowledge or epistemology, there is a concept in perennial knowledge philosophy […]

It is said marriages are made in heaven; but many do not believe in this theology! Many prefer to build and develop marriages entirely on earth and let them breakdown, and then find the easy way out, especially in Malaysia, by \”converting to Islam.\” Thereby taking on new wives, in the plural that is, as […]