Late last year, I was invited by Melissa Kong, the 2011/2012 editor of CEKU (the online publication of the United Kingdom and Eire Council of Malaysian Students) to guest write a keynote article for its December issue on student activism. It would be the first edition after a makeover of the site as well. Below [...]

I was invited to write a commentary for the December issue of Esquire Malaysia on Asyraf Haziq, the young Malaysian student who was caught on YouTube falling victim to rioters and looters during the summer London riots in 2011.

First published in The Bangsar Boy column, StarMetro on August 20, 2011 WHEN I was younger, I had this terrible habit of borrowing things from my family members. The problem was I had another bad habit – I was always losing things, theirs included.

WHEN the riots in London broke out recently, some of you might have been stuck on social network sites to find out what was happening, rather than being glued to the television, waiting for updates.

Every year, Going Places magazine – the inflight magazine for Malaysian Airlines – run a Merdeka-themed edition in August to commemorate Malaysia’s independence day.