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Leaving Home

Leaving Home

What is it about Goodbyes that make it such a painful affair? We do it all our lives and yet it never gets any easier. So many songs, so many tears, so many moments that consume so much of our emotions – all for the sake of closing a chapter in Time’s book so that the next may begin. These are sorrowful weeks for me, as I grapple with...

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Somewhere Only We Know

Somewhere Only We Know

This piece was first published on The Malaysian Insider, 16 September 2011 – the 48th Malaysia Day. Somewhere along our journey as a nation, we forgot why we set out to travel together in the first place.  Where once our society was the embodiment of tolerance and mutual respect, we are today broken, polarised and racially tense. Simple...

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The Summer of Our Discontent

The Summer of Our Discontent

This appeared in my column on The Malaysian Insider, 9 July 2011 – the day of the Bersih 2.0 Rally for Clean and Fair Elections, in Kuala Lumpur. These days in July have been the hardest. What so many innocent Malaysians have been forced to endure is painful and heartbreaking to watch. Police trucks now amass on the city streets. Brigades...

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Freedom, imagined.

Freedom, imagined.

In so many ways, it was us having a say in where we were headed. We all had different motivations for participating but shared a common destination.

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  • Leaving Home

    What is it about Goodbyes that make it such...

  • Somewhere Only We Kn...

    This piece was first published on The...

  • The Summer of Our Di...

    This appeared in my column on The Malaysian...

  • Freedom, imagined.

    In so many ways, it was us having a say in where we were headed. We all had different motivations for participating but shared a common destination.