I followed Zee Tan‘s work on Facebook before I got around to approaching him for a piece. He has a vibrant personality and his is versatile in terms of his medium. That can be seen from his website, Z.Wang. When I got in touch, he was doing a number of murals at the time. I enjoyed his work and was happy when he agreed to do a piece for me. Zee Tan was easy to …
My father’s firm once had a litigious client. She was in her late thirties or early forties when I was first acquainted with her. I was a few years into my practice. She was beautiful. She was also fiercely intelligent, aggressive and articulate. She was corporate-savvy and ran several businesses she owned. Since it was litigation, it meant my immediate boss dealt with her. And since my immediate boss dealt with her, I was on …
Note: This speech is a rare speech I wrote but did not deliver. The reason was that I was Siti Aisyah’s colleague and de facto Master. Her de jure Master was my colleague Puan Rose Zilawati. Despite not being able to deliver her call speech, it was important to me a good speech was delivered for her. So I undertook to write the speech and had my friend and Shan’s cousin, Jeya Kumar, deliver it. …
My Lady, The Petitioner, Moganaraj Mithra s/o Nandi Mithra, is the only son of Mr Nandi Mithra s/o James and Madam Pongamal d/o Veeriah’s four children, both of whom are present today. It is rare for the ambitions of youth to survive adulthood. Many of us never achieve the glorious employment we dreamed of when we were younger and the pitch of our voices higher. I, for example, never became that fireman, computer game tester …
My own behaviour baffles me. For I find myself not doing what I really want to do but doing what I really loathe. Yet sure if I do things that I really don’t want to do, it cannot be said that ‘I’ am doing them at all – it must be sin that has made its home in my nature. St Paul’s letter to the Romans [Rom. VII.14ff, Phillips translation] Whenever I am gripped by …