Friday Jottings 2024

Friday Jottings: To the detriment of justice…

THE Pulau Batu Puteh, Middle Rocks and South Ledge Royal Commission of Inquiry (RCI) is out, and among others, it…

4 days ago

Friday Jottings: Daim, the silent patriot

WHEN Tun Daim Zainuddin died on Wednesday, apart from outpouring condolences, tributes were also in abundance. Of course, there were…

4 weeks ago

Friday Jottings: What has become a broken record

IT would be quite preposterous if, by now, Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim still hasn’t a clue that not many actually…

2 months ago

Friday Jottings: A nauseating, abhorred sequel

IT FEELS like a terrible blast from the past, a sequel of a horror movie but scarier and more petrifying.…

3 months ago

Friday Jottings: When jokes are serious matters

HOPEFULLY, the demand for action to be taken against Hot FM alongside a call for its boycott, for apparently mocking…

3 months ago

Friday Jottings: Forever the patriot

OVERHEARD at the National Mosque, during Friday sermon, the imam reminded the congregation that as it was the eve of…

3 months ago

For the intellectual dunces: It is unity of purpose, not construct

IT SEEMS the most elusive factor to Malay leaders in the country is Malay unity, a panacea to all that…

4 months ago

Friday Jottings: The currency of expediency and convenience

THE rumour mills and political grapevines are tingling yet again, of a potential re-alignment of the nation’s political alliances. Though…

4 months ago

Friday Jottings: Death of a liberator, nothing more and nothing less

MOSQUES around the nation held funeral prayers in absentia for Hamas political leader Ismail Haniyeh following his assassination in Tehran,…

4 months ago

Friday Jottings: Excluded out of existence

MALAY anger over a George Town Festival promotional video clip which excluded them is simmering and some felt that no…

5 months ago

Friday Jottings: An unwitting tribute to a legacy

TUN Dr Mahathir Mohamad turned 99 a couple of days ago. His being just one year short of becoming a…

5 months ago

Friday Jottings: An endangering condition

IT’S just a couple of weeks short to a year since Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim promised, at the International Malaysia Law…

5 months ago

Friday Jottings: The egg of reason

IT IS a chicken and egg story with a twist. This one is not about which came first, but which…

6 months ago