HRDF is now a Corporation
KL, 2 Dec: M. Saravanan HRDF 28 years. Jamil Salleh, Chairman of HRD coordinating body for a new single-window portalIndustrial Revolution 4M
View Article5G: How the Govt can avoid making stupid decisions and stupid mistakes
Ask us (the long-suffering consumers) what we wantBangsar, Dec 9: It’s always good to review a decision, especially one involving something as colossal as the country’s 5G rollout, to make absolutely...
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EPF can also avoid making stupid decisions and mistakes
Do political big guns still clinch govt contracts for companies? Subahan may have just done that for hisKL, Dec 11: While we’re on the subject of dealing with stupidity, (Refer 5G: How the Govt can...
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Tun’s OK
13 Jan: Really good to know that Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad is ok and resting at home. The shock many Malaysians felt over the sudden death of Serbegeth Singh, at the age of 61, is such that we really are...
View ArticleWhy a Premier for Sarawak won't save the forests, empower the natives or stop...
Feb 17: The Opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim played it well, welcoming the move to change Sarawak's chief minister as "an overdue recognition of equal standing with peninsula". You don't hear it from...
View ArticleThe real reason(s) why Hasni Mohammad lost his Johor MB post to Onn Hafiz
Bangsar, Thu 17 March: Re Onn Hafiz Ghazi, the new Menteri Besar of Johor, I wish people would stop talking about how young he is. Because 43 is NOT young. Najib Razak was 23 in 1976 when he was made...
View ArticleThe longest Ramadan
RAMADAN is coming to an end, the month of May is here (Happy Workers' Day!) and I've done exactly three postings this year, probably the lowest output by this blog since 2006! Many of you, Dear...
View ArticleForget Tesla, give us our 5G now!
KL, 12 May: By now, it's fair to assume that nobody knows exactly when - or if ever - our proposed 5G network will be completed. It could take two or 22 years. If the government is not careful, it will...
View ArticleProbe the security company, not just the guard
Bangsar, 17 May: Good to hear that the Kuala Lumpur CID will now investigate a skirmish involving a security guard and journalists from The Vibes. Whether or not there was a criminal element in the...
View ArticleWhoever helms Axiata next may hasten Malaysia’s long-delayed 5G takeoff
OR STALL THE PROCESS FURTHER ….KL, 7 June: A few names are being bandied about to replace Izzaddin Idris, who stepped down end last month - suddenly or otherwise, depending on who you talk to - as...
View ArticleLiving with Covid-19
When I tested positive for the coronavirus last Thursday, I even got a pat on the back. “Welcome to the club!” Such is life, we have come to embrace the once-feared Covid-19 and accepted it as part of...
View ArticleDon’t let the crooked hijack our courts
If some Dick implicates me in the court of law for receiving (or paying) bribes, I hope you won’t be a dick, too, and believe every word said under oath as gospel truth. Desperate people will do...
View ArticleThick prick in the wall
After all these years, some bloggers are still considered by the authorities as a nuisance. The blogger behind the popular site called Another Brick in the Wall must have been one big pain in the ass...
View ArticleMalaysian journalists told once more they’re just NOT good enough!
The Hadiah Kajai is deemed as one of the highest awards that the long-suffering Malaysian journalist can expect to win locally. Last weekend at the Malam Wartawan Malaysia, however, there was no...
View ArticleAltimet-ly, hard work pays off for Hans Isaac the Ampang boy
Hans-ups Altimet by two votes in PKR Ampang re-election - The VibesThe Kita Budak Ampang story (watch the You Tube) has a happy ending for Hans Isaac, after all, at least for now. After two years of...
View ArticleOne election, three winners - the joke about Ampang’s PKR election
Bangsar, 11 July: It was probably one of the most bizzarre party elections ever. In a keen fight to pick a divisional chief for Pandan at PKR elections on June 24, Daing Muhammad Reduan emerged the...
View ArticleA good country to go missing
Puchong, 21 July: If you want to get lost, Malaysia is probably the best place in the world to go missing. Why? Because nobody will really notice, not even the police, and people will forget that you’d...
View ArticleValet
Friday: You expect to pay more for valet services at shopping malls and hotels, of course, because it’s convenient, it’s cool (maybe), and you’re lazy. But the sudden increase in valet rates at some...
View ArticleWhat’s the meaning of keMerdekaan if …
Damansara, 31 Aug: I was listening to Prime Minister Ismail Sabri’s Merdeka message on radio as I was driving yesterday. A typical “Keluarga Malaysia” message of good news and great optimism for the...
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Voting for a stronger Ringgit/The old house in Holland Park
Pic file: Holland Park18 Oct 2022: Whose house this? is a posting I did in 2010, quoting a now-defunct blog Another Brick in the Wall (the blogger, like me, is suffering from a writer’s block at Thick...
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