I vacillate between two stances when it comes to my attitude towards clothes – on one hand I think them exciting and beautiful, one of the most natural, most accessible methods of self-expression you can find, and want to have my hand in them somehow; but on the other hand, there is guilt associated with...

  He gazed forlornly at the rows upon rows of pills on the cabinet; pills collected over the months from various doctors and charlatans around the country. All of them promised to heal the pain that had tortured her for more than a year now, but none succeeded. Some of them even made her worse,...

I spent some time in Hong Kong over the Christmas break, which also involved crossing the harbour into Kowloon. This meant taking the Star Ferry from Central Pier to Harbour Terminal in Tsim Sha Tsui. Star Ferry has a fleet of twelve boats, with ten boats acquired between 1956 and 1965, while the youngest pair...

The Perception of Interracial Marriage Today Are mixed marriages more acceptable in society today? Anecdotal evidence seems to suggest a generally increasing openness towards mixed marriages, despite the lingering reservations of many parents. From the article ‘Interracial Marriage Blossoms in Malaysia’ (2005) – The Christian Science Monitor: http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/0209/p13s02-lifp.html Intermarriage between Sarawak’s 25 ethnic groups has...

When mummy refused to buy you a toy, you would complain to daddy about it. When Streamyx started screwing up by loading your YouTube videos too slowly, you would grumble and complain about it. When your teacher gave you so much homework, you would complain about not having time for your favourite games and TV...

My roommate’s reaction was:*raised eyebrows* “You really like to pick rubbish up THAT much?”Not that it’s her fault that she reacted in this way. Granted, it was only my second rubbish-picking excursion for the whole year, the first one being at a waterfall and the second being this one, at the Klang river. But then,...