Category: Happenings

Remembering the roots.

In about an hour, Malaysia would turn 51. It’s time we cher­ish the moment, put aside all our dif­fer­ences, our insuf­fi­cien­cies, our beliefs, and cel­e­brate what we all have in com­mon — being proud cit­i­zens of Malaysia. This year, tehCpeng.net would be pay­ing trib­ute to Mohamad Hamzah, an archi­tect, who 61 years ago, designed Malaysia’s national […]

The Grand Opening

11am, 23rd August 2008. Rain­drops smear the win­dows of the shut­tle bus as I looked out into the chilly morn­ing weather. As the bus bat­tles the traf­fic try­ing to get on the Sim­pang Tiga inter­sec­tion, I felt some­what alien­ated from the city around me. A city I’ve spent 9 years liv­ing in. Yet some­thing felt different. […]

Politics is amusing.

I can’t help but be enter­tained by the stun­ning devel­op­ments in Malaysia’s polit­i­cal land­scape over the past week alone. The recent events are becom­ing more and more like the fights I used to have (and still do) with my sis­ter. Only this time, its between two big-time VIPs and hence their every move scru­ti­nised, analysed, criticised […]