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Christmas Lamentations
For the coming Yuletide, nonagenarian Lay Kim Lian was given the task of decorating the home she was staying in. The caretaker, Patrick Yap showed her a picture of a Christmas tree and the adept ex-seamstress and eight other inmates in Rumah Damai ...
All About Attachment
While traveling to Makasar, Sulawesi, I read an article by Kate Hilpern in a newspaper: Who's my dad? Jo Rose, 36 was reported to have fought for her rights to find her identity. Jo Rose was conceived by donor insemination. As a child, she did not k...
Spicing up Your Sex Life
Terengganu, a state in Malaysia, hard hit by a high divorce rate had the state government coming up with innovative ways to improve sexual relations. Couples had attributed their separation to boring routine sex and body odour and that had the state...
Spicing up Your Sex Life
Terengganu, a state in Malaysia, hard hit by a high divorce rate had the state government coming up with innovative ways to improve sexual relations. Couples had attributed their separation to boring routine sex and body odour and that had the stat...
Prophets
Abdul Kahar Ahmad (inset), a father of six had been sentenced to 10 years jail, six strokes of the cane and fined RM 16,5000. He had pleaded guilty for proclaiming himself a prophet, conducting deviationist teachings, blasphemy and spreading false be...
Prophets
Abdul Kahar Ahmad (inset), a father of six had been sentenced to 10 years jail, six strokes of the cane and fined RM 16,5000. He had pleaded guilty for proclaiming himself a prophet, conducting deviationist teachings, blasphemy and spreading false b...
Ressurection Stories
Upon death, Ivan Tsang Chee Vui's body was wrapped in blankets and plastic sheets and placed in the living room of a house in Taman Kobusak Villa,Penampang in Sabah, Malaysia. The deceased had earlier told his followers not to bury him as he would be...
Ressurection Stories
Upon death, Ivan Tsang Chee Vui's body was wrapped in blankets and plastic sheets and placed in the living room of a house in Taman Kobusak Villa,Penampang in Sabah, Malaysia. The deceased had earlier told his followers not to bury him as he would b...
It's all about Sex
In Sungai Petani, Kedah, a 31-year-old man who was about to surprise his wife on her birthday with her favourite cake and flowers was himself rudely surprised when the latter was arrested for khalwat with another man in a hotel room. That means the w...
It\'s all about Sex
In Sungai Petani, Kedah, a 31-year-old man who was about to surprise his wife on her birthday with her favourite cake and flowers was himself rudely surprised when the latter was arrested for khalwat with another man in a hotel room. That means the ...
To kill a Mocking Bird
Once, it was reported that officers from the Malaysian Islamic Development Department (Jakim) raided a chicken slaughtering centre at a wet market in Kuala Lumpur and found that it did not not adhere to Islamic practices. Chickens were not slaughter...
To kill a Mocking Bird
Once, it was reported that officers from the Malaysian Islamic Development Department (Jakim) raided a chicken slaughtering centre at a wet market in Kuala Lumpur and found that it did not not adhere to Islamic practices. Chickens were not slaughte...
A Jataka Tale?
The other day there was a report on a dog in Sitiwan, Perak which ended up in a critical condition after being bitten by a king cobra. The dog reportedly tried to protect its owner by biting the snake into two when it tried to enter the house. That r...
A Jataka Tale?
The other day there was a report on a dog in Sitiwan, Perak which ended up in a critical condition after being bitten by a king cobra. The dog reportedly tried to protect its owner by biting the snake into two when it tried to enter the house. That ...
Mind You!
A 27 year-old man who has been caught red handed, stealing from a car in a parking lot in Bellisa Row in Pulau Tikus, Penang reminds me of Ironside, an old NBC television series which stars Raymond Burr as a former San Francisco Police Department Chi...
Mind You!
A 27 year-old man who has been caught red handed, stealing from a car in a parking lot in Bellisa Row in Pulau Tikus, Penang reminds me of Ironside, an old NBC television series which stars Raymond Burr as a former San Francisco Police Department Ch...
Road Bullies
Sin Chew Daily's report on the plight of a 36-year-old woman who was slapped and kicked repeatedly by a man who accused her of road obstruction reminded me of another road bully whom I was unfortunate enough to come across. In my case, I was very sur...
Road Bullies
Sin Chew Daily's report on the plight of a 36-year-old woman who was slapped and kicked repeatedly by a man who accused her of road obstruction reminded me of another road bully whom I was unfortunate enough to come across. In my case, I was very su...
Beer Stories
Somedays, I think I have one beer story too many. The story of Singapore model and mother of two, Kartika Sari Dewi Shukarno being sentened to six strokes of the cane for drinking beer is still fresh on the mind and now, there is a raid at 7-Eleven o...
Beer Stories
Somedays, I think I have one beer story too many. The story of Singapore model and mother of two, Kartika Sari Dewi Shukarno being sentened to six strokes of the cane for drinking beer is still fresh on the mind and now, there is a raid at 7-Eleven ...
Buddhism and Filial Piety
The distraught look on the faces of the late Teoh Beng Hock's parents reminded me of of the discourse on the deep kindness of parents and the difficulty of repaying it. It is said that even if a person carries his or her parents on the back for the ...
Buddhism and Filial Piety
The distraught look on the faces of the late Teoh Beng Hock's parents reminded me of of the discourse on the deep kindness of parents and the difficulty of repaying it. It is said that even if a person carries his or her parents on the back for the...
Oh, My God!
A baby was born without the male organ at the Tuanku Fauziah Hospital in Malaysia and a DNA test confirmed he was a male.The boy was also born without a right thumb, right ear and proper eyelids but it was the absence of the penis that made the pare...
Wealth Talks
K. Kasturi Devi reported in the local paper that Penang Hospice Home is in dire straits. The current hard times have purportedly forced the home to stop accepting cancer patients. The home run by the Penang branch of the National Cancer Society of Ma...
Love or Hate a Tree
Pakatan Rakyat , a political coalition of a group of political parties in Malaysia, named a raintree under which an emergency sitting of the Perak state assembly was held The Tree of Democracy, placed a plaque under it to commomerate the event; and d...
A Prime Minister's Rite
There is an article in the Star by Philip Golingail which I found interesting: Cleansing bad karma from a past life. It seemed that a Lanna-style rite has been carried out in Thailand to enable self-exiled former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra's ...
Miracle Water
They say it's miracle water, this water from a hill in Jalan Baru Selayang-Ulu Yam, about 10km from the Batu Dam in Selangor, Malaysia. They say the water can cure sickness and restore health and many people are making a beeline to the place and it i...
Modesty Blaze
According to the Star, a tabloid in Malaysia, Metro Ahad reported that a group of Muslim tudung-clad girls were not ashamed to say they were no longer virgins. Some of these girls even said they lost their virginity when they were merely ten years ol...
Edict to Alert
It is official! The National Fatwa council in Malaysoa has declared that the yoga practice which involves physical movements, worshipping and chanting as haram (prohibited) in Islam.Its chairman Datuk Dr Abdul Shukor Husin said though the physical mo...
An Excuse for Being Mean
Something written on Singapore in Seah Chiang Nee's Down South in The Star paper serves food for thought. A Sunday incident in a train where a commuter refused to give up his seat to a pregnant woman even when he was asked purportedly caused a furore...
