Mentri Besar Tan Sri Khalid Ibrahim viewing the damage at the Metro Tabernacle Church in Desa Melawati with Hulu Kelang Assembly Azmin Ali right behind him in blue
JAN 9 — The country is in a mess.
The homemade bombs trying to bring down churches, and people outside mosque trying to bring down ideas, these are just Malaysia’s ‘chickens coming home to roost’.
We have some serious problems, and we need some serious people to solve it.
We have for far too long been crafty in putting everything off and imagining eventually our problems will go away. Continue Reading »
DEC 28 — Things are often funny in Malaysia. You have to see the funny side, guffaw and let the moment pass. Stay in the moment and you will laugh yourself to madness.
Laughter is probably our only coping mechanism. Therefore, political texts/emails /YouTube videos are never in short supply. We laugh at the actors and then ourselves. TIM — This is Malaysia.
In nations with a free media-majority, political bloopers are analysed and parodied on national TV. Not in Malaysia, thus our short collective memory. Continue Reading »
I believe the children are the future or just another brick on the wall?
DEC 17 — My column in The Malaysian Insider talked about ideas and I’ll like to provide an appendix to that discussion.
In my second year in uni I took up a course in critical and creative thinking under former dean Prof Dr Ahmad Bajunid. There were just the three of us and classes were after Friday prayers, which are the slots everyone on campus works hard to not have.
But I liked the class. Continue Reading »
DIS 13 — Kepada pembaca blog “prabaganesan.wordpress.com”,
Waktu saya masih di sekolah menengah ayah adakala membeli surat khabar Bahasa Malaysia pada hujung minggu. Memang saya akur oleh kerana pilihan sekolah saya, penduduk di kawasan tempat tinggal saya dan bahasa pergaulan keluarga pada masa itu saya lebih gemarkan surat khabar Bahasa Inggeris. Itu dan kandungan dalam “English papers” yang lebih dan mendalam.
Itu bukan sebab penulis dan pengarang di dua surat khabar utama di Malaysia kurang berkebolehan berbanding dengan pasukan di “English papers” — yang medapat majority daripada isi kandungan hujung minggu dari sumber antarabangsa seperti Reuters, AFP, AP dan juga hasil tulisan dari akhbar-akhbar luar negeri.
Oleh itu, perbandingan antara suratkhabar dalam dua bahasa ini agak sukar, tidak berada dalam “level-playing field”. Continue Reading »
