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This week, my good friend and spiritual older brother in my Christian life is visiting us from the US. He is an Iranian Assyrian Christian who went to high school in Darjeeling, India and only became a ‘born-again Christian’ when he was in college in California, US. Nate, welcome to Malaysia. I first met his […]

I was taught by legal teachers at Universiti Malaya (UM) that \’although there is a quota requisite at point of recruitment into the Public Services based on Article 153 provisions; once recruited by the PSC or Public Services Commission, all promotion and other considerations are based entirely upon merit\’. This principle holds true for gender […]

Blogger Raja Petra Kamarudin (RPK) is a maverick of Malaysian politics; he is such a slippery eel with his brilliant logic that there are few who can take him on simply based on his logic and arguments using reason. Moreover, he adduces new ‘information’ which often makes it appear like he is the only one […]

Isma, or those whom, in my state of total disapproval, I purposefully call ‘the Islamic State Malaysia,’ are demonstrating poor science and bad theology from their worldview and consequential non-rational arguments. Their actual name or formal nomenclature is Ikatan Muslimin Malaysia or IMM but are called Isma for short. But maybe, much like with Umno, […]

Introduction Of late, the Umno government and their spokespersons (whether it is Dr Mahathir Mohamad, or other fringe actors, especially if they are not publicly rebutted), have repeatedly tried to sneak into public space and dialogue that constitutional Malaysia is an Islamic state; and that their agenda of imposing a particular Islamic value is a […]

In ordinary life, it is argued that one generation is about 30 years. Therefore, me being already 60 plus, and my dad being 90 plus, and my grandchild being a week old; I need to now to look at life issues from a 4G perspective, especially to address lack of transparency in good governance at […]

Now, who is and is not a Malaysian? Does Umno decide this? Worse still, does Perkasa, or its cousin, Isma, decide this? This question needs to be now be truthfully taught in Malaysian history so that everyone knows who, what, and how the value of Malaysian citizenship is protected and preserved by UN Human Rights […]

I was rather amused to read the latest purchasing disaster apparently conducted by the Health Ministry. The matter was a front page headline story in The Sun with an eye-catching lead: ‘STOP IT!’ The Sun editors, in a loud and clear voice said, ‘stop it!’ Need more be said? What I do not understand is why it is so […]

Framing organisational life Any group of people, once they become a community, get organised to fulfil larger purposes socially and politically agreed to, whether by democratic or other means; including historical realities. When that group or community is called a nation-state; they are recognised by the United Nations (UN) and included as an equal member […]

The Auditor-General’s Report part III was recently released, and it provided fodder to ask some very basic questions – is the government and the head of public services, who holds the rank of a cabinet minister, serious about the financial indiscretions reported, once again, in the Audit Report? My answer – an unequivocal NO! Why? […]