I’m sitting here quite excited, waiting for the folks at The Star in Malaysia to update stories on the website, like a 5-year-old child. The reason for this is that today, my new column called ReWired will appear in Star2. ReWired is my first personal column in The Star since The Bangsar...
Happy 6th Birthday t...
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Just over six years ago, I was walking out of Menara Star after using (paying, mind you) the library to research for an article I was working on as a freelancer. I bumped into two people – Michael Aeria and Tan Ju-Eng – both of whom I had met 10 years before that, when I was a...
Visiting Ground Zero, 10 years after Sept 11
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Every year, on this day, I would write a blog post referring to an article I wrote in 2002 to mark the first anniversary of Sept 11 (this was my blog post from last year with some photos). It’s not that I’ve not had the time, or been too lazy to write something new, it’s just that until now, I still feel that what I wrote rings true. Yes, even 10 years after 9/11. View of the Ground Zero construction from my hotel room taken in June 2011. However, due to work, I found myself writing another piece about Sept 11. In June, I visited the Ground Zero site which was under construction as part of a press event organised by...
Today, I am official...
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As of yesterday, the desk that I have been sitting at in Menara Star looks emptier than this. And as of today, I am officially jobless. Some of you may have heard (it’s not really a secret anyway) that I have resigned from The Star after spending over six years with the company....
THe Valentine Horror...
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It was Valentine’s Day yesterday and I hadn’t made any plans in Singapore so I decided to stay in and catch the repeat of the Grammy Awards. Still, I couldn’t not celebrate the symbolic international day of love (gags), so i decided that I would spend some time with one of my...
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Wang Lee Hom’s address to the Oxford Union
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Speaking out for a united Malaysia
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Over to you, Malaysia
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My name is Kim and I'm in a global Shell commercial
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My 2010 – The Year That Was: Part 2
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Bomb threat at Eiffel Tower almost got me interviewed on CNN!
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I won a car in the Blog For FT competition
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Facebook, Twitter is bad, according to Rais Yatim
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My Singapore taxi and skyline ride adventure
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R.AGE jumps on the Earth Hour bandwagon
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Godfather of vinyl Michael Lau in the house!
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