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Tis' The Silly Season Upon Us Again
19 August 2011, 1:50 am

All the turmoil in the current stock markets recently comes as little surprise to me. Nor should it surprise anybody else. Well, unless you're one of those avid followers of the mainstream media. It's really impossible that the US could recover so quickly […]

Malaysian Mottos Makes Me Loco
6 June 2010, 10:32 pm

Seperti ilmu padi hampa, makin lama makin mencongakLoosely translated, this Malay proverb means ‘Like an ear of corn which grows tall in proportion to its emptiness’. The more one is puffed up with pride, the more likely that one’s achievements is […]

Lies, Damned Lies and Statistics
3 June 2010, 9:24 am

On 27 May 2010, Idris Jala, CEO of Pemandu presented the Government’s justification for the proposed removal of subsidies. The presentation can be downloaded here. Today, we all the mainstream newspapers interviewing Idris Jala and allowing him to expla […]

Propaganda: Malaysian Style
29 May 2010, 11:35 am

The maxim that ‘If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it’ appears to be the driving principle behind the public relations effort by our Malaysian Government over the proposed removal of the subsidi […]

When the Going gets Tough, The Tough gets Going
27 May 2010, 10:19 pm

Today, as I skimmed through the headlines of our newspaper, three very interesting headlines caught my eye… ‘Malaysia government plans fuel and other subsidy cuts to avoid becoming bankrupt by 2019’ ‘Sime defends business model after Q3 loss’ â […]

Philosophical Musings - Part XXVIII
16 January 2010, 6:52 pm

The Roots of Wisdom As I laid in bed, struck with a serious illness over the past month - I realize just how fragile my life really is. There is nothing like the threat of my life being forcibly taken away for me to really comprehend how attached […]