When Korean isn’t all Greek
By winning the highest accolade in filmdom, ‘Parasite’ proved language is no barrier to audiences and success.
Could this be the chink in Trump’s armour?
An inspiring underdog story just in time for Chinese New Year.
The garden of great expectations
THIS is the column I have waited six years to write. It is the third and most crucial part of a story that began even earlier, on Oct 10,2012.
It’s 2020. Welcome to the future!
AN unexpected benefit of growing old is that I can see better! I kid you not. I was mildly myopic as a teenager but still needed glasses to drive or watch a movie in the cinema.
My life as I am getting to know it
It has been a period of adjustment, new interests and rediscoveries.
Who’s afraid of the big, bad commie?
FROM young, I’ve been aware that my late father’s job as a policeman was to protect the nation from CTs, short for communist terrorists.
What sugary fate for PH?
I AM surprised that anyone is surprised that Pakatan Harapan lost so badly in the Tanjung Piai by-election.
To all the cars I’ve loved before
They have always been made with the driver in mind but that may no longer be the case in the coming age of autonomous vehicles.
This Wong does make a right
WONG Yan Ke is now famous for his one-man protest at his university convocation on Oct 14. There is that photo of him in his graduation gown and mortar board holding up his placard listing his reasons calling for the resignation of his vice-chancellor.
The Tugu way to doing good
I JUST had one of my best Sundays in a long time. This was my revisit to the Taman Tugu Forest Park in Kuala Lumpur.
Face mask, a new essential accessory
It’s selling like hot cakes but not all masks are created equal, as the writer has learned.
It’s green and it’s great
I EMERGED from the forest sweat-drenched, with shaky legs and a little tired. But I was also completely elated.

