Fa Abdul

“I’m home.”

I nearly spat out my teh tarik reading this.

There is something deeply unsettling about the recent case out of Kuala Lumpur - and it’s not just the image of a lorry crashing through the gates of a KTV outlet in Taman Shamelin.

“Pain is coming.”

There’s something deeply comforting about how our policymakers approach a crisis. Not in a “they’ve got this under control” way, but more in a “ah yes, we are absolutely committed to doing the bare minimum, but with...

Public outrage tends to arrive in waves. Recently, it surged when a drunk driver who caused a fatality was charged with murder. Many welcomed the decision. It felt, to some, like a long-overdue recognition that getting...

There is something comforting about a government that appears to notice.

Somewhere in Malaysia, a makcik just cooked for 50 customers, packed leftovers for three households, and still had time to complain about the price of cili padi.