The World Economic Forum (WEF) has determined that in many parts of the world, solar energy is now the same price or even cheaper than fossil fuels for the first time. That was in 2016. BUT although Malaysia… Read More
Thoughts on solar energy
Category: Roses & Belacan
What’s with a kiss?
Censoring a kiss on screen is a sure-fire way of getting people to want to see the movie… like J.J. Abrams’s Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker. Late in the movie, there was a 2-second, maybe,… Read More
The blossoming of a performing arts star
*This article appeared in Malaysian Reserve in April 2015. But I love it, so here is it again! AFTER six years of intense theatre work, since her staging of Hikayat Merong Mahawangsa — A Swashbuckling… Read More
‘Kulai-fornia’: A world of small-town memories
JOHOR Baru teenagers used to refer to my hometown as Kulai-fornia, and briskly add on Masai-chusetts. Back in the Sixties, such taunts at school events like choral competitions, debates or sports competitions were just good… Read More
Courtroom, office shenanigans
“I KNOW something you don’t”, said one colleague to me, as se passed the desk, one fine morning at work. OUCH! Like what ah? Anyway, that morning saw me on court-house duty and I sped… Read More
Predictions for 2019? Maybe
Everyone loves a good list of predictions. Here’s mine for 2019: 1 Butoh will go big in the Chinese year of the pig, 2019! Why? Who knows about butoh in Malaysia, really, seriously? And, it… Read More
Mad hot ballroom for me
TAKE the Lead or Scent of a Woman, whichever movie thrills with its leading men of Antonio Banderas and Al Pacino respectively, the tango is a sizzler. Take the Lead is a fictionalised account of… Read More
I started a singing group…
“To live is to be musical, starting with the blood dancing in your veins. Everything living has a rhythm. Do you feel your music?” – Michael Jackson Michael Jackson, the king of pop, went way too… Read More
Local council elections for Malaysia?
POT-HOLED roads, clogged drains, illegal rubbish dumps, haphazard development, lack of green spaces, parking like noobs, uncontrolled house extensions, rats, mosquitoes, monkeys — and on and on the problems go, in your neighbourhood. What your… Read More
Sorry little Saraswati learns about work pals
SHE found herself manning her new department, alone, when her work transfer was approved… albeit overnight. It was a new department, but Saraswati was just a workhorse, really. But, the department was to put out… Read More