For me, 6-month-old babies are the best. They’re universally cute; they can recognize you and smile at you; they laugh at the funny faces that you make; they can’t yet crawl around the house and pick up every object they find and put it in their mouth; they can’t throw a tantrum in the busiest […]

If you haven’t noticed, Malaysia is The Land of Toll Booths. Okay, Peninsular Malaysia; Klang Valley, especially. It’s now ingrained in every KL and PJ car driver’s mind: do I pay toll today, or do I take the free, congested, traffic-light-encumbered way? (Not that paying toll doesn’t involve queuing up for miles. Go through the […]

There is at least one job in this world for which I suppose it’s quite alright to practise gender discrimination: lactation educator.

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I was talking to a friend and he kept referring to HUKM as PPUKM. Why the name change? Is it to standardize with PPUM? Is HUKM somehow distinct from other hospitals, such that it has to be called a medical centre? No, it’s because UKM’s Faculty of Medicine and Hospital UKM have merged.