Friends from two Asean neighbours and the world’s largest economy muse about common ground.

Watching the American presidential elections, you sometimes wonder if it is real or a movie.

Class reunions are a reminder of an education where we learnt about the world, about how to treat one another and how to write properly.

With the exception of the spoilsports, the rest of us came together to cheer as one.

Preachers can have a tremendous influence on desperate souls looking for answers to their troubles, and the latter may take everything literally.

It’s time to draw the line and stop all this nonsense before it’s too late.

In addition to what we learn in school, other people we meet can give us valuable lessons, too.

If we close our eyes and ears and wish problems will just disappear, they won’t.

A married couple, whose hotel room was raided by religious officials, thinks the staff get a commission for each ‘successful’ raid.

If we turn the page and move on after hearing about corruption, we are complicit in these crimes.

While we are not anywhere near the sorts of brutalities committed elsewhere, it is easy to slip into a subtler version of that mindset.

Some of us have become rather obsessive about the religious pristineness of our food and are perpetually on the lookout for whoever may next cause offence.