“Here’s to Mr. Lee* — a great teacher, mentor and friend that we’re telling goodbye. There’s no doubt we’ll miss him… we cannot deny. We have valued his dedication, his wisdom, his smile, his wits… And we hope he’ll enjoy a relaxing and happy retirement.”   That was the retirement toast that was recently given...

  Undoubtedly geniuses and great thinkers of our time have left ordinary people like you and I in awe of their groundbreaking and world-changing ideas. Each of us respond differently to these ideas. Some are controversial while others are hailed as breakthroughs in the history of mankind. When one speaks of these geniuses, images of...

By Manglish_lysia: Not too long ago, my 4 year-old cousin celebrated his birthday. Days before his smashing birthday party, he ran up to his mother as she was busy purchasing groceries and said, “Mama, can I have that Ben10 figurine as my birthday present?” The adorable look on his face, together with his cheeky smile...

By Manglish_lysia: Gone are the days when family members huddled together around an idiot box. It is now the era where people cluster around a portable notebook. A question thus arises; Will our television last through the battle against time and advancement? Decades ago, it was normal for children to eagerly wait for their favorite...

by manglish_lysia: Can you recall the incident that happened on 11 September 2001?  It was an event where a series of coordinated suicide attacks by the al-Qaeda struck the United States.  Nineteen terrorists hijacked four commercial passenger jet airliners, crashing two of them into the World Trade Center in New York killing nearly 3,000 innocent...