Honesty

  Diogenes si filusuf gelandangan pernah dikatakan berjalan-jalan di sekitar bandar Athens (tak silap aku lah) dengan membawa pelita pada waktu tengah hari buta dan menyuluh ke muka setiap orang yang dia jumpa. Bila ditanyakan kerja gila apa lagi yang sedang dibuat, beliau cuma membalas: Aku tengah mencari orang yang jujur.   Aku boleh bayangkan berapa banyak boo si Diogenes ni kena dengan...

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My Ideal Office

I have my own room  at the office where I am currently practicing at but it is more of a storage area. I’d have my books and files in the room, my desktop computer if I need to do my work. Most of the administrative related work would be done there but not actual legal work. Most of the time I did my thinking and drafting and non-admin work elsewhere out of the office. But if I am particularly...

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Who are you?

  and what do you do is often the lead up question to the primary question that could be what is your name or anak/cucu sapa ni? Usually the latter is only asked during kenduris and family functions by a very senior member of the extended family. As it is, both are just the normal questions we ask to define and categorize people we meet into neat little boxes and we all just play along. One...

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Stars

 It rained hard this evening. A thunder rain. A scale lower than a thunderstorm on my scale. Heavy rain with its attendant lightning but no howling wind. In any case there was raid but it was the lightning that stole the thunder. The building next door was struck by lightning twice. The glass façade of the neighbouring buildings went blinding white everytime it struck. On the radio PSAs about...

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On Death.

  I am typing this while nursing a headache. Maybe not massive enough to stop me from typing but still enough for me to grit my teeth every now and then when the throbbing ache comes around. Nothing like a spot of sickness to remind you of your mortality. That your flesh is slowly breaking down until finally it is food for worms and bones for the ground. That ours is a brief existence, our...

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Bully

Baru-baru ini aku ada diminta untuk mewakili seorang pentadbir estet si mati berkenaan dengan keengganan satu firma guaman untuk melepaskan suratan hakmilik asal satu hartanah milik si mati. Cerita pendeknya, sekitar tahun 2002 Si Penyewa yang merupakan kenalan si Mati telah dihalau keluar dari rumahnya. Kebetulan pada waktu itu Si Mati baru sahaja berjaya membeli rumah mampu milik (hartanah dalam cerita...

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