Off The Cuff

I HAD to visit a relative at Batu Pahat's Sultanah Nora Ismail Hospital on the first day of Hari Raya and the first thing I want to say is, let us take our hats off to hospital staff nationwide for their "business as usual" sacrifices.

I say sacrifices because staff like nurses, hospital assistants and attendants at most government hospitals are predominantly Malays and Hari Raya

TWO back-to-back man-made tragedies last week shocked the nation and once again grimly reminded us how prone we are to self-inflicted loss of lives.

The physical torture that led to the death of 21-year-old Zulfarhan Osman Zulkarnain, a final year student at the Malaysian National Defence University in Sungai Besi was so brutal that we cannot imagine it could happen in this day a

TWO videos of two men paying homage to their mothers that went viral on Mother's Day were so moving and emotional that the images will be etched in our minds for a long time.

They show the sons washing their mothers' feet and then bowing down to reverently kiss the feet they have just cleansed.

IT's been at least 40 years now that our nation has sidelined English in the education system and the outcomes of this neglect are all so clear for everyone to see and feel.

Broken English used in translations to Bahasa Malaysia texts, even on invitation cards at official functions, has become the butt of jokes on social media these days while the majority of university graduates