A meditation on "Luang Pu Mee Chai", the latest entry in the "faith folder" in the filing cabinet of my mind - a totally environmental-friendly system managed by little mice of a not so organised breed.
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A meditation on "Luang Pu Mee Chai", the latest entry in the "faith folder" in the filing cabinet of my mind - a totally environmental-friendly system managed by little mice of a not so organised breed.
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A retrospect of a seven year career in law, from long call, practice and activism, to in-house work.
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Musings on the impending Chinese festival, Qing Ming, also commonly known by its Hokkien dialect pronunciation, Cheng Beng. Of ghosts, superstitions, honouring ancestors passed and being 5 foot tall.
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An afterthought from being in a road accident on how each and every one of us needs get on the road to responsibility and instead of leaning on the myopic excuse, "nothing to do with me wat."
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This final segment discusses the possible steps we as a nation can take to get out of the political rut we are in as a result of turning the word 'Allah' into an issue.
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This second segment deals with deconstructing the mind of those that demand ownership of the word 'Allah', a consideration of a crucial part of our nation's history and a critical assessment of the government's attempts to defuse the situation.
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This first segment deals with the distinguishing the concept of different from diversity and how it relates to extremist thinking.
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Introductory remarks by Edmund Bon, Chairperson of the Bar Council's Constitutional Law Committee, on 29 October 2009 at the inaugural dialogue in MyConsti's "Conversations" series with Anand Grover, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Right to Health.
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I must begin by saying that I’ve always been a hopeless romantic. Whenever I get on a plane, I always look forward to meeting the person sitting next to me because there is a chance that he/she might end up being the love of my life (I use the phrase loosely, but I hope...
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Written on May 3, 2009. Originally published in Eye Asia (July 2009 edition).
I have to know
If there is God, or karma
Is Life a string of random mishaps
Or a laborious web of scripted dramas
I cannot tell
If anyone will be waiting
At that last stop of our turbulent Odyssey
But I sense the magic in the forests buried...
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