KL boy Jahabar Sadiq gave up life as a globetrotting TV producer for a news agency to come home and cover a subject close to his heart – Malaysia. It’s been a crazy ride trying to do objective journalism … read more
Tim Chew, a Sri Hartamas boy, is now wowing dance audiences around Europe. Watch out for him in the upcoming Keanu Reeves movie 47 Ronin. He’s also my little cousin and the family couldn’t be more proud! You read about … read more
Last year, Samantha Tan became the first Malaysian to be accepted into the Actors Studio Drama School in New York, a very big deal. Loathe to saddle her parents with the fees, Samantha launched a fund-raising campaign online and … read more
I’m pretty sure that when TalentCorp talks about wooing home the diaspora, See Meng Wong is the kind of person they have in mind (as opposed to journalists and other objectionables like me…) See Meng was in Malaysia for his … read more
Some years back, I volunteered at my newspaper’s booth at a big convention organised by the Asian American Journalists Association. Journalists flew in from all around the US for the meeting in Minneapolis. My task was to talk to job-seekers and pass on the … read more
Paul Yap and his family moved into the neighbourhood and we met at a Christmas cookie-making party thrown by our Danish neighbours. It took Paul three months to finally sit down and answer my questions. But then he did and it was worth … read more
My friend Wan Kean, who lives in Johannesburg, suggested I talk to “the other Wan” in South Africa. Glad I looked him up – what a fascinating life! Wan Batu and wife, Siti Aishah Wan Abdullah Wan Salleh is better … read more