I went to watch Chow Kit Road! Chow Kit Road! last night at Istana Budaya. You can see some of the tweets I sent below after the show: [View the story "Chow Kit Road! introduces me to Sudirman's Kulit" on Storify] But for me, other than the issues that were raised in the story and the great...

I had originally planned for this post to go up this morning but I was a bit apprehensive. What if, I thought, I spoke too soon? After all, following the events of the past week – particularly in the couple of days after the end of the 13th General Elections – there was a lot of...

  I really enjoyed this talk by Wang Lee Hom, in an address to the Oxford Union. He said, in talking about the “East” and the “West” that music breaks down the walls and “shows us quickly that we are more alike than different”. There’s so...

We the undersigned are concerned Malaysians from various communities that have always respected one another since well before independence. Our Malaysia was founded on this diversity and our hopes for the future, as envisioned in Wawasan 2020, are built on this mosaic of races, cultures and...

The photobombing uncle behind me aside, I have finally cast my vote for the 13th Malaysian General Election. I hope you’ll all head out to vote to. I have, over the past year, been accused by various quarters of being either pro-Government or pro-opposition especially when I tweet about...

This post is about three weeks late. It was originally written while I was on my holidays in London last month, and in response to the “social media fail”, as some has referred to it, of Les Deux Garcons in Bangsar. I won’t go too much into what happened, because it’s...

Ever since I’ve returned from completing my MA in London, I’ve been inundated by questions about my future plans – or whether I am “back for good”. My reply has always been simple: “We’ll see” to the barrage of questions, and “Good...

This morning, I bade farewell to an old friend at her KL memorial at The Canvas in Damansara Perdana. I was lucky to have been in London last week as well to attend her funeral at the West London Crematorium. She was 33. Like many things in life, you tend to take things and people for...

This is a month and a half too late but my friend Jo, who kindly offered to take all the pictures on that day, only found the time amid her busy schedule to send me some photos from my graduation ceremony at the Barbican Centre in London which happened in January. Wow, long sentence. Anyway,...

I wish that I grew up a year every year of my life, and I didn’t. – John Mayer I found a letter this morning as I was clearing my room, something I’ve been doing for the past three weeks since I returned to KL from London. I received that letter in 2008 after having...