Recently I had the opportunity to meet a high school friend of my boyfriend’s, now a practicing doctor in a local government hospital’s O&G department. She looks and acts so differently from a doctor stereotype that I would not have guessed had I not been told. Not only does she have the unique talent of...

remember you are alive. I’ve been so busy living life lately that I haven’t had much time to sit down and write about it. To document every nook, every cranny of where I’ve been; or to carve out the details hidden within each cobblestone, to chart the journey of what falls beneath the cracks. The...

She takes a left turn into the small housing estate to bypass the traffic on the main road. Slowing down along the narrow lane, she glances casually around her. It means little to her: the same old tiny houses, the row of shophouses with its peeling coat of what seems to be curdled milk. She...

We take it that ballerinas are the embodiment of beauty—ethereal figures on stage which are capable of enrapturing us with dreamy arabesque lines and unerring fouetté turns, even more so when they do sixteen of the latter en pointe. They create illusions of weightlessness, for they seem to be perpetually suspended in the air. In...

Definition of a dude-chick: Girl who spends lots of time with a group of guys and becomes one of the bros. Does not include tomboys alone. Can include girly-girls who, uncharacteristically, have many inner male traits. Pros: You get the inside scoop on what goes on in the mind of boys. This is particularly helpful...

“Merdeka! Merdeka! Merdeka!” Laung kata bara “Penjara! Penjara!” ujaran Maharajarela How much is too much? And how much is too little? I just spent an evening coaching four young writers about poetry and rap, and I told them that one important thing to always remember is, “Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.” Never say something in...