Once in my teens, I went to see my usual doctor, a general practitioner, in what is now called Damansara Uptown. I was suffering from pretty bad diarrhoea. Time always seems to slow down when we are sick or in pain or need to urgently go to the bathroom. One minute is a century. After what felt like three centuries, I was finally called in by the nurse to see the doctor. I was impressed …
May it please Your Ladyship, Fahri Azzat for the Petitioner, Iqbal Harith Liang bin Danial Liang. My Lady, the Petitioner’s parents Madam Umi Kalthum and Mr Danial Liang are present this morning. The Petitioner applied to me for a pupilage position in June last year. He submitted an impressive resume. The cover letter spoke of intellect, character and temperament that resonated with our firm’s values and qualities. I wanted very much to take him on …
For a long time now, I have not been discerning about whom I teach. The gifted, talented and brilliant naturally find equally competent teachers who wish to mentor, tutor and grow with them. Not so for those who lack such qualities. I used to think there was a sense of unfairness about the whole thing – the brilliant became more brilliant, whilst the rest i.e., the mediocre, the less talented, the stupid, the ‘unawakened’, were …
May it please your Lordship, The Petitioner, Amanda Alexandria Funk, hails from Kota Kinabalu in Sabah and is the eldest child of three of Mr Andre Alexander Funk and Madam Patricia Matanjun. They are regrettably not here today because they could not travel down from Sabah given the present conditions. The Petitioner’s cousin, Jessica, is here in their stead. The Petitioner is aware she had to skip an important presentation this morning to be here …
it is usually a sign that I have not got enough sleep or lost my sense of gratitude, often both. The former often leads to the latter. It happens when I forget to take meaningful breaks, stay up very late often and am prevented from expressing my agency and autonomy. If it is caused by these, then the remedy is simple: sleep earlier, get a full night’s rest, take my time with work and people …