Sim Kwang Yang

Ripe durians will fall of their own accord. The same phenomenon applies to politics as well. What kind of durian will we get after the next election is anybody's guess.

Despite their political frustration and unhappiness, many Chinese citizens will still declare that ours is a great country to call home.

Of all the homo sapiens that walk this good earth, the Chinese surely must be the most enigmatic people that have ever existed.

For the occasional domestic tourist from remote parts of Malaysia though, KL is still a city of glittering lights and seductive promises.

The quintessential KL persona is complemented by a set of suitable body language and public demeanour not dissimilar to a dominant beast in a primordial jungle.

Now that 2007 is touted as a Visit Malaysia Year, I want to do my bit for my home state and sell you readers the idea of a visit to Sarawak.

Given the splintered nature of our Malaysian linguistic universe, perhaps English is the only suitable medium for the birth of a great Malaysian literature.

Man's destructiveness manifests itself by initiating irreversible processes that intervene into this ability of nature to heal itself.

What is relevant in a negative manner is the prospect of another year of shrinking pocket and rising inflation.

There have been an abundance of voices that seem intent on building walls rather than bridges between people of different faiths.

If depression is not dealt with or treated properly, the long term cumulative effects may reach a manic or chronic level, and make life a living hell!

In this age when clash of civilisations brings nothing but strife and acrimony, knowing another language and another universe cannot be so bad.

Of all our human emotions, rage is probably the basest, the most destructive, and the least understood element of our psyche.

Thanks to my computer crashing out this week, I began to reflect upon this relationship between man and his tools.

A new Malaysian nation would indeed be born when some time in the future a non-Malay citizen could be elected as the prime minister of the nation.

If the election is held today, the BN will probably suffer big losses. Exactly how big will the losses be is hard to tell, since we are really sailing in uncharted waters. But big losses there will be!

Death is the most certain of certainties in life. The only way out of this life is death. It is not a question of 'if', but one of 'when'.

The young boy peddles pirated DVDs, the old woman runs her coffee shop for half a century and the only ASLI they know is Orang Asli.

In the end, the marginalisation of the Chinese people in Malaysia has also caused the marginalisation of Malaysia in the murderous global market place.

Dialogues and discourse is the only peaceful avenue for people of different faiths to live together in peace and harmony.

It seems we humankind have not learned anything noble from our eons of historical errors. Have our prophets and teachers lived and died in vain?

In my larger world, the worst crimes against humanity have not been affected or changed much by the 911 event either.

Ghosts will not harm human beings, especially in the name of race and religion. Only human beings can do great harm to their fellow human beings.

Like a powerful drug, entertainment fare is addictive and like all consumer goods, entertainment is never value-neutral.