Monthly Archives: November 2023

Expecting Again: My Emotional Journey through Trauma, And Then Hope

Expecting Again: My Emotional Journey through Trauma, And Then Hope

From the moment I learned that I’m expecting again, my heart was thrown into a world of complex emotions. There’s a deep, resonant hope within me for a smooth, healthy, and complete pregnancy journey this time around. Yet, this hope is delicately intertwined with threads of apprehension and memories of my first pregnancy—a journey that […]

Integration or Assimilation: To Detract From Integration Model is to Belittle Everyday Malaysians

Integration or Assimilation: To Detract From Integration Model is to Belittle Everyday Malaysians

“There was assimilation, for example people from Arab countries and India, they have been assimilated. (The Chinese and Indian immigrants) refused, not that we did not insist, but they looked down on us, we wanted them to become Malays. They didn’t want to be known as Malays.” — Dr Mahathir. In a recent Keluar Sekejap […]

End Party-hopping with Recall Act

End party-hopping with Recall Act

Who could have foreseen that Malaysia’s anti-party hopping law enacted in 2022 would be inadequate in undoing a deep-rooted curse of political frogs? Oh, right, just about anyone with a basic understanding of politics beyond wishful thinking. When the idea of having an anti-hopping law provision was first floated around, it was recognised as a […]