I remember during my school years (early sixties), we were asked to write a composition the opposite, i.e The day when everything went wrong !! We wrote something like our alarm clock failed to ring, we went to school late, scolded by the t…
Did you go in and find any treasure.I used to have quite a collection of these magazines, including the one with Yum Kim Fai and Pak Shit Sin shown on this page. Maybe I should have kept them. I browsed through only some of the things. Didn…
What Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim didn’t say is: “Forgive yes, forget no.” And, of course, it’s all very true that what is done is done. It cannot be undone. Frannxis’ blog has this to say about the proverb: " Bought a box of persimmons at Fair…
You read about these people from China becoming beggars in our shore. Some have one limb missing, some on wheelchairs and all trying to look pitiful. I doubt all of them beg in their homeland. Remember, not long ago there were fake monks… S…
This headline in the papers made me recall my GP (General Paper) lessons at Pre-U. Occasionally, we discussed about things like communism and democracy. I think most of us students had only superficial knowledge of these. America was capita…
Thanks for the armchair tour of Hong Kong, Frannxis. I was in Hong Kong only twice, both in the early 80s.One thing I've always wanted to find out - does Hong Kong still have the trams I saw in the 1980s? (I think they come in Christmas col…
History has shown that leaders will not step down on their own accord even though they may have done wrong. Examples are Ferdinand Marcos, Suharto, Saddam Hussein, Thaksin, and so on. So they must be brought down by people's power or forcef…
I think we can learn a lot from looking at the mottos.My son is studying in ACS(I). Besides the traditional, "The Best Is Yet To Be"; I believe they have another one, "A Scholar and Gentleman". However, next year they are admitting girls. T…