Backbenchers Club chairperson Shahrir Abdul Samad and I studied 'Government' as a subject during our Sixth Form days. It was an optional course for all Arts students for the Higher School Certificate of the Cambridge University in 1968. That was the favourite and best course of my entire schooling and education.

'Governance' was the core of focus in Parliament last week, in a debate that my course-mate helped push for a decision by insisting on the immediate reinstatement of the Parliamentary Service Act (PSA) 1963. It had been repealed unilaterally in 1992 by the government, which had a majority in Parliament.