I attended a scriptwriting workshop a few years ago where someone asked me what I had written? It then occurred to me that despite calling myself a "writer", I had not really written anything - except for a sprinkling of poetry and some amateurish scribbles during my teenage years. The bulk of what I had written was work - news articles and such. When one is a writer, one should write, at least a little, news reporting is hardly writing, plus it never gave me the writer satisfaction I craved. Hence this blog.....it serves as my outlet to gripe about the things I dislike, wax lyrical about my passions, express my opinions, and to twitter away about whatever catches my fancy.
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At about 5pm on Wednesday October 17, as I was running through a list of stories submitted by reporters that day, one particular headline caught my eye - Abused 4-year-old-girl flees from home.There are many cases where very young children are abused, but rarely does a child that young actually leave! I...
Pakistani girl-wonder Malala Yousafzai and Congolese rape trauma surgeon Denis Mukwege have emerged as strong contenders for the prestigious Nobel Peace Prize to be announced today.Both are championing the cause of women. Malala wants girls to be able to get an education and better their lot, while...
Friday the 13th marked a milestone for India, not because they won a cricket championship, not because a new leader came into power or a new law was passed in Parliament. It was because four men were sentenced to hang for a brutal gang rape in December 2012 that repulsed not just India, but the...
I am not highlighting this story in my blog because of my empathy towards my canine friends. Naturally this story stood out when I first read it in August, because of the kindness shown to helpless animals.I wanted to write about it then, but I got busy. It's been a month now, but stories like this...
In the first study of its kind, more than 10,000 men in Bangladesh, China, Cambodia, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea and Sri Lanka were interviewed on the prevalence of rape.The study by South Africa's Medical Research Coucil revealed the following:Almost one in four men surveyed in Asia said they...
It was a Sunday May 19, I was actually going to light the prayer lamp at 7pm, but since I had only eaten a light lunch, I decided to get some dinner at the Chinese restaurant near my apartment.The square in which the restaurant is located, is familiar territory to me as I usually go there for my...
The buzz in the global media industry this week is that Newsweek has been sold again. This time to International Business Times (IBT Media), a company that describes itself as a 100% digital media group.Print to digitalWhile its closest competitor Time Magazine has successfully managed both its print and...
On Sunday, the news spread like fire throughout the social media world and naturally made the front page of all major dailies on Monday morning - A 19-year-old official with the Federal Territory handball players team had been allegedly raped by three players at the Sukma Games Village in Universiti...
The suspect who allegedly hacked a soldier to death on a London street last week, apologised to women who had witnessed the attack and then added " but in our lands our women have to see the same."That statement struck me as rather ironic. I mean what era is this? Several minutes later I came across an AFP...
Tunku Abdul Rahman: "Bapa Kemerdekaan"Tun Abdul Razak: "Bapa Pembangunan"Tun Hussein Onn: "Bapa Perpaduan" or as some say "Bapa Maintain/ Bapa Neutral".Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad: "Bapa Pemodenan".Tun Abdullah Ahmad Badawi: "Bapa Batik"I don't know if anyone of you have given any thought to what "Bapa" Datuk...
D-day is upon us. The day we have been waiting years for. At one point, we even began to wonder when exactly it would be! As Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Abdul Razak dallied and delayed calling for the dissolution of Parliament.In fact many of us thought it would have been in 2012. Ah......but...
Most of us law abiding citizens go through life never imagining that we might get entangled with the long arm of the law. And very likely we won't. But there are some who are not so fortunate.Whether one is a man, woman or child, the threat of being a victim of some crime hangs over our heads like the Sword...
Gandhi once said that the greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way in which its animals are treated. If that is so, we are a terrible nation indeed!More so because we are prosperous, educated, peaceful and not prone to natural disasters. So what is our excuse for such a...