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On A Two-Week Leave
I am taking a two-week leave starting tomorrow to go back to my kampung in Sabah. Will be offline most of the time during the period.
In the meantime, enjoy the good old blues by John Lennon, Eric Clapton, Keith Richards and Mitch Mitchel. These guys are awesome, don’t you think so?
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Oh, What The Heck… Imagine No More For It Will Be Pointless
Close your eyes and imagine, for a while, that dinosaurs are still roaming our jungles and plains, with T-Rex thundering past, hunting smaller dinosaurs and occasionally human, and Brontosaurus chomping tree leaves by the riverbanks and giant birds swooping down from mountains afar.
What the heck, open your eyes. Imagine no more for it would be [...]
New York Times’ 100 Notable Books Of 2008
If you like books or just fancy reading one once in a while, then maybe you can take a look at one of these books which made it to the list of the New York Times’ 100 Notable Books of 2008.
One of the books in the list, titled “Atmospheric Disturbances” by Rivka Galchen, tells the [...]
The Tide Is Turning Back
I was listening to Roger Waters’ “Tide Is Turning”, one of my all-time favourite songs, on the morning of March 9, the day I woke up to a changed Malaysia.
I used to think the world was flat, the song says. “Rarely threw my hat into the crowd.” It goes on, “I felt I had used [...]
Football: Malaysia is Still Burrowing Out of the Crypt
I’ve forgotten that we have a national football team. When I think of Malaysian football, all that I can recall were names like James Wong, Hassan Sani, R. Arumugam, Soh Chin Aun, Mokhtar Dahari, Santokh Singh, Zainal Abidin Hassan, Dollah Salleh…
Last year, I wrote a story about Malaysian football from the point of view [...]
Singapore Moves A Step Closer To Legalising Euthanasia?
No, not at all, the government says. What the government — its Health Ministry, at least — is contemplating is to “broach the idea” of making changes to the Advance Medical Directive, or living will, which instructs doctors “not to artificially prolong the life of a terminally-ill patient with machines,” the Straits Times reported.
The island [...]
To Teach or Not to Teach Mathematics and Science in English?
This is the English version of my previous entry “Ajar atau Tidak Ajar Matematik dan Sains dalam Bahasa Inggeris?” This is a crude translation anyway; don’t blame me, I’m a product of the system.
The Berita Harian newspaper reported today that the government would decide next year whether to continue with the policy to teach [...]
Ajar atau Tidak Ajar Matematik dan Sains dalam Bahasa Inggeris?
[Note: The English version of this entry is available in a separate entry, here!]
Akhbar Berita Harian hari ini melaporkan bahawa kerajaan akan membuat keputusan pada tahun depan sama ada meneruskan pengajaran subjek Matematik dan Sains dalam Bahasa Inggeris.
Menurut Timbalan Menteri Pendidikan Datuk Razali Ismail, kementerian akan membuat keputusan itu selepas penelitian oleh kabinet, dengan mengambil [...]
A New Look For “Sans Serif…” Blog
Hi there, if you are here for the first time, you wouldn’t notice the change in this blog’s appearance.
Those of you who have been here before, however, would know that this is a considerable “upgrade” from the look and feel of the previous “Sans Serif…” blog. I’ve always wanted a blog with a magazine and [...]
Joe The Plumber
… and Ali the Taxi Driver, Ah Chong the Chicken Rice Seller, Gopal the Barber, Yomogun the Farmer.
If you have been following the US presidential election, you would know who Joe the Plumber is. He is, well… a plumber, who confronted Barack Obama over the Democrat candidate’s tax proposals.
Obama’s Republican rival John McCain, seized [...]
Peralihan Kuasa… Lu Cakap Apa Ni?
Sebelum orang menuduh saya sebagai seorang kakitangan awam yang menulis blog dengan tajuk yang seolah-olah mempersenda pelan peralihan kuasa dalam kepimpinan negara, biarlah saya jelaskan awal-awal lagi bahawa ini bukan satu tulisan yang berbau — atau berwangi mahupun bersalutkan gula-gula — politik.
Tulisan ini sekadar mahu melahirkan rasa musykil mengenai cara penulisan sesetengah artikel, analisis atau [...]
To Quote Or Not To Quote… That Is No Longer The Question
The question now is, how to quote nicely. Frankly, I’m not a huge fan of a news writing style that starts a story with a quote, especially if the quote holds no special meaning other than to put a sentence in between two quotation marks. Take for instance the story, below:
KUALA LUMPUR: “I’m grateful that [...]
The Problem With John “Mr-Know-It-All” McCain, Is, There’s Nothing That He Doesn’t Know
The problem with Senator John McCain, the US Republican presidential candidate, is he knows. And he tells the American people that he is a person who knows everything, and therefore, needs no on-the-job training.
Would you rather have for a president a candidate who says he knows, or one who shows that he knows?
In the second [...]
Macro Photography Blog
My photography blog has been attracting quite a decent traffic of late. This is close-up photo of a winged carpenter ant is one of the latest entries on that blog.
One of these days I may let you know the URL of the photoblog. Nothing fancy there, just casual photo-taking using a simple point-and-shoot camera.
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So, Anwar Will Sent Letter To Agong…
One of the things I dread most is making glaring grammatical error, like the one in the title above, and not realising it until after the article is “live” for already several hours online, and would have been read — and laughed at — by people around the world.
What makes the error painful is the [...]
