By Sam Trailerman It was just another Tuesday in Mumbai, which is to say, the city…
Opinion
The 13th Floor Hideaway: Love & Compressors, an Amorous Relationship Leaves Man Hiding Underneath Air-Con Unit
By Dr Rahim Said There are moments in a nation’s moral life when one must pause…
Blocked at Hormuz: When Foreign Policy Needs a Laxative
By Dr Rahim Said There are cartoons that make you chuckle, cartoons that make you think,…
Oh, Home Sweet Home! My Escape from Med-Bay, My Glorious Return from Land of Spinal Anaesthesia!
Sam Trailerman recounts his recent sojourn at the Alor Setar General Hospital Let’s be real, folks.…
Syawal: The Month Malaysia Turns into a Buffet Conveyor Belt
By Dr Rahim Said Everyone talks about Hari Raya Aidilfitri open houses with the kind of…
From Forty-Five in 1965 to a Small Nation in 2025: The Mathematics of Memory and Mischief
By Dr Rahim Said There are moments in life when numbers stop behaving like numbers. Forty-five,…
Alphabet Soup, Anyone?
When Malaysia’s biggest stories read like a badly redacted exam paper By Dr Rahim Said We grew up…
You’re Fired, Mr President (Says the Man with the Missiles)
A humorous illustration of being fired (Copilot) By Dr Rahim Said If you had been watching…
A Daughter Will Bring Out Love You Never Knew You Had
By Dr Rahim Said Her birth was easy. No 12 hours of labour like her older brother.…
No Father Could Love More
Image Credit: Copilot By Dr Rahim Said You hear stories about fathers driving their children to…
Health as a Unifier of People and Nations
By Professor Dasan Swaminathan In a world often divided…
Puzzling State of Corporate Affairs That Demands Clear Answers
By Rakuram Gandhi Malaysia’s corporate landscape has always been a labyrinth—listed companies, regulators, and whispers of…
When the Bombs Drop, Don’t Call Putrajaya — Call HR
Image Credit: Copilot By Dr Rahim Said In the 1980s, when I was a consultant working…
Parking Lot Gymnastics & Mall Madness
The extremely busy parking exit By Yong Soo Heong When licence plate recognition parking systems first…
Confessions of a Former Serial Romantic at 80
By Dr Rahim Said Henry Miller once wrote that if you could keep falling in love…
The Seasonal Shelf Life of Faith: Christmas, CNY and Aidilfitri at a Damansara Heights Cafe
By Dr Rahim Said There it hung — a solitary ketupat on the wall — looking…
A Serious Look at Marriage and the Lost Art of Staying Put
By Dr Rahim Said Socrates, who was married and therefore qualified to comment, is often paraphrased as…
He Sculpted Faces, She Lifted Hearts — Sanur Applauded Both
By Dr Rahim Said “A Brazilian surgeon and an Australian soprano remind us that true success is rarely…
Gong Xi, Tanpa Was-Was
By Dr Rahim Said Every festive season in Malaysia comes with three certainties: traffic jams, social media photos…
Reunion Dinner for One — and the Quiet Epidemic of Festive Loneliness
By Dr Rahim Said It was the eve of Lunar New Year — that sacred annual moment when…
When the Graft Buster Goes to War — Azam vs Bloomberg and the Theatre of Integrity
By Dr Rahim Said In Malaysia, we have grown accustomed to political dramas that come with…
Blink…and Boom! It’s February Already!
By Sam Trailerman January is often like a relative who shows up, overstays their welcome, and…
Can We Have the Same in Malaysia — Safer Roads & Stricter Enforcement?
Image Credit: Copilot By Ravindran Raman Kutty When I first started driving in Sydney, it felt…
Saluting My Singing Heroines with Timeless Voices — Petula Clark and Julie Andrews
By Yong Soo Heong Certain voices never leave us. They become part of the soundtrack of…