Tommy Peters' Bicycles

“Don’t laugh at my moustache” – an old Arabic proverb that means – I know more than you think I know. He sat in the corner of an empty church and said it was a battle of mind over emotions and sought another angle, maybe intervention. I hazarded a guess and he opened up, but not before skirting the issue. The 411 - A foreign-born lass, her lover and her Malaysian husband. By her own admission, her sexuality was awakened in her adolescence by her father who continued lessons throughout her teenage years. On his front, only a sibling and a friend are aware of her early stages. I asked him when did realization set in. He replied that he has a passion for analyzing body language and movie mistakes and that understanding her dialect (unknown to her) was certainly helpful, hence, he knew of her infidelity for a while, during which time he hoped for honesty while analyzing the deceit. Besides he added, the local community was small enough for information to filter through at an earl...

Why does Lim Guan Eng, the current Chief Minister of Penang, appear like a breath of fresh air? It is because he does not allow emotion to trump logic, save for his emotional outburst in waiving fines when he first took office. The emotion of the previous government was to allow the bumiputera to overcome economic relegation and reading into his speeches, it happens to be the sentiment of the Chief Minister too. The difference is the previous government did not ask itself whether affirmation action actually helps the bumiputera but instead if it feels good to overcome his relegation. The Chief Minister asked a logical question. Does affirmative action help the bumiputera? Does it help him when he wears an invisible sign that reads 'affirmative action got me where I am'? I am reminded of a father of two, who agreed that families do practice 'affirmative action' when raising children, in that parents do give a quiet leg-up to the weaker sibling, but he qu...