Upfront and personal
‘How is it you dare to be so upfront and personal on your blog?’ A friend of mine asked me the other day. ‘Really? I’m just relating what I learned and endured from my personal experience. I suppose it is necessarily personal so I can be sure of the truth I speak or write about. And I am the upfront sort. It keeps things clear.’ ‘Yah. It’s like you let people into your mind. What …
The Importance of Not Using Metaphors to Describe Symptoms
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 …
Book Shelving in Malaysian Bookstores
Of this I am certain: most staff in Malaysian bookshops are not readers. By readers I mean, regular readers of books, magazines, websites, and other written material. Reading is a pastime for them. Not to Malaysian book store staff who are devoted to only their clerical duties. We can tell whether the staff of a bookstore reads by observing the quality of stock, the orderliness of the books and the type of books they choose …
Bila di Bawa Bincang | Episod 9 dan 7
So there was this time a couple of years ago, I was invited to be on one out of 13 episodes for a talk show series called Bawa Bincang. It was made for RTM TV1. The show featured lawyers discussing legal aspects of ‘topical issues’. Nothing heavy of course, but riveting stuff… You know, issues that get the heart pumping and the blood boiling. My interview was about car park issues. The show was in …