Hello, everyone! Happy Malaysia Day to all of you who are from Malaysia! On another and related note, those of you who know me probably know that I am a big fan of Lee Kuan Yew.  Well, that’s a bit of a small understatement. I mean, it would have to […]

I’ve been reading Hannah Arendt’s The Human Condition recently and it is truly a fascinating book. It distinguishes work, labour and action from one another – Something that you might think is trivial or unimportant, but that as it turns out is really quite important for understanding how human beings […]

One of the most fascinating sports I’ve ever seen in my life is the sport of professional slapping. My first exposure to this wonderful art, travesty, or disaster (whatever you like) came when I first saw Charles White Jr’s slapping playlist on YouTube. Ever since, I’ve watched the odd slap […]

It is likely that you have heard from an early age that “seeing is believing.”  As life goes on, it becomes clear that that advice is only partly effective. There are many things in this world that can be true even if we cannot see that they are true. That […]

I’ll be honest: I did not expect this post to unsettle me. I sat down to do something simple, ask an AI to write a blog post about the experience of writing a blog post with AI, and somewhere between the first paragraph and the last, I stopped feeling like […]

I am writing this after contemplating Fanon’s “Black Skin, White Masks” and undertaking a full sequence of reading on the way to reading Homi K. Bhabha’s “The Location of Culture” upon Shahril Hamdan’s recommendation – incidentally, after failing to understand it and after complaining to Shahril, I realized that perhaps […]