This is the longer version of a guest post I had written for Social Media NZ. You can read that here. – I had been following the Singapore General Elections a little bit while I was based in Singapore over the past few months, and was able to keep up with it after I returned to KL due to...

Earlier this month (or late last month), one of the biggest topics around town was the issue of our Deputy Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin declaring himself as Malay first. This topic has been making its rounds in Parliament for a couple of weeks by then, I believe on March 18, DAP...

Cow heads on parade. Molotov cocktails in churches and a school. A Sikh temple pelted with stones. Arson in two surau. Pig heads in mosques. Malaysiakini just broke the news about two pig heads thrown into mosques in Petaling Jaya. Washington Post has picked up on it. Why is all this...

The Malaysia I remember growing up in was filled with people who are nice and polite. In school, we learn how to talk to people nicely. We learn how to not point with our fingers and instead use our thumbs. We learn to respect our elders. We learn to put our hand out and stoop if we’re...

Yup, Deputy Prime Minister and Education Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin has just announced that PPSMI – the teaching of Maths and Science in English – has been reversed. We have heard rumours since yesterday that this was going to happen but now it’s official – I...