KJ

My previous column questioned if we were ruled by religious diktats? If we are not driven and governed by the rule of law principle, i.e. rules agreed to by the federal constitution, and approved as laws by Parliament; we will soon slip down the slippery slope of morality and find ourselves killing each other; all in the […]

There is an excellent book by an Oxford Professor Peter Checkland called ‘Systems Thinking, Systems Practice’. It teaches us all about how to think in terms of systems and helps us see the world through the systems view of life; which is always one credible way to interpret life. Systems thinking is really an organic […]

I am rather amused at the idiocratic behaviour of our inspector-general of police (IGP). To me, an idiocrat is a bureaucrat who hides behind the concept of rule of law and interprets is at rule by law. In short he is a bureaucrat who is actually an idiot and does not use his God-given brains […]

Since 2004, premised upon a fraudulent action against me by a government company where I served, and the failure of many of my Public Service colleagues to stand up with me on truth matters, I started writing with Malaysiakini . My voice in all these writings was an argument for good governance, which I could not see […]

The Sun of Monday, April 13, 2015 carried the headline: ‘Don’t do it again!’ I read it and wondered who was giving this order. Since I had picked up the copy before daylight, I did not take the time to read it immediately but instead went for my daily walk. But of course in the course […]

In communication theory ‘noise’ is defined as anything that causes disturbance to a message being sent out from a messenger to a targeted listener. I want to reflect on this rhetorical question about when the Muslim call to prayer is no longer an ‘azan’ or call to prayer, but instead may be considered ‘noise!’ Some […]

Lord Acton argued his power thesis; power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. After almost 58 years of absolute rule, the BN government has become absolutely corrupt. Some evidence of moral, ethical, and spiritual corruption are: The Financial Procedures Act ignored and has not been complied with in so many areas.  Evidences of this are […]

I received a random NGO invite to an event but since the subject matter was of great interest to me, I decide to attend and found out that Abdullah Ahmad Badawi (Pak Lah) was the keynote speaker. After all it was held at Technology Park Malaysia (TPM) and approved by the Science, Technology and Environment […]

There is an incomplete argument that Islam is always only a culture and way of life. Islam is also a belief system, much like every other belief system, through which the beholders must have personal faith, and then extrapolate their belief system and its implications into the public spaces of life. That then becomes their […]

One of my greatest regrets is that I opted out of public service before my time was fully up. I was left with no choice; as that was a requirement for me to join Mimos Berhad based on a contractual offer they made and also, as made conditional by the Public Services Department (JPA) to […]