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Op-Ed: April 2014
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Writings about writing. Contributions welcome. We have introduced a new comments. System which should make it easier to post and read them. If you subscribe to the replies you can also post you comments by email.). Thursday, April 17, 2014. Karpal Singh: Champion of the invisibles (1940-2014). I was on my usual. When where did you hear this . did you read this? I stammered avoiding the most important question, "Which Karpal? I asked. We debated for a while and finally agree. These two were indeed...Yang ...
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Op-Ed: September 2013
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Writings about writing. Contributions welcome. We have introduced a new comments. System which should make it easier to post and read them. If you subscribe to the replies you can also post you comments by email.). Sunday, September 22, 2013. Who are these Xlibris people? How did they get my number? How do they even know me? The question is easy to answer in these days of Google. The first one stumped me. "Not from us, I said unnecessarily.". We do e-books, too.". Or are they merely playing the volume ga...
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Op-Ed: November 2013
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Writings about writing. Contributions welcome. We have introduced a new comments. System which should make it easier to post and read them. If you subscribe to the replies you can also post you comments by email.). Saturday, November 30, 2013. Did Gulliver visit Malaysia? Three hundred years ago in a time warp. Well, read on. Off-beat cha cha king. I almost fell of my chair laughing out loud at that. I couldn't get a vision of Ibrahim Ali balancing in high heels out of my head! And, there were deep relig...
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Stories: 2011-10-30
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Featuring short stories from exciting new Malaysian writers. Tuesday, November 01, 2011. This is a story from The Female Cell. By Rumaizah Abu Bakar.). Kak Teh and I take off our rubber slippers and put them in two lime green shoe bags with our name tags and tighten the strings to secure it. Our travel agent has provided them to us when we checked into the hotel and advised us to take them to the mosque. It is common for pilgrims to lose footwear left outside. We see the Hijir Ismail, separated by four f...
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Stories: 2014-02-23
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Featuring short stories from exciting new Malaysian writers. Friday, February 28, 2014. The Postmaster - story from The Ruined Nest. Translated and edited by MA Quayum, Professor, Department of English Language and Literature, Human Sciences Division, International Islamic University Malaysia, from the collection The Ruined Nest and other stories. Recently published by Silverfish Books, which is now available in all major bookshops in the country.). The postmaster worked on a meagre salary, so he had to ...
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Stories: 2013-09-29
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Featuring short stories from exciting new Malaysian writers. Wednesday, October 02, 2013. My Mother's milk . part 2. Also, calling oneself and one's language 'Portuguese' during the Dutch era must have been slightly tricky as the Portuguese remained enemies of the Dutch - the Catholic church was officially suppressed in Dutch settlements - for quite a long time (the Dutch conquered Melaka in 1641; the Portuguese community's Church of São Pedro was only built in 1710). Subscribe to: Posts (Atom).
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Op-Ed: Malaysia's fact-free zone
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Writings about writing. Contributions welcome. We have introduced a new comments. System which should make it easier to post and read them. If you subscribe to the replies you can also post you comments by email.). Saturday, May 24, 2014. Or, so much noise, so little signal. Like listening to a short-wave radio. I will start with two stories. The first one is quite benign; the second, not. Lord of the Flies. There was an interesting story in. On-line by Maria Konnikova recently,. In the first story, I gu...
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Op-Ed: March 2013
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Writings about writing. Contributions welcome. We have introduced a new comments. System which should make it easier to post and read them. If you subscribe to the replies you can also post you comments by email.). Monday, March 04, 2013. White people imitating black people imitating white people. (Is this what's called post-colonial in academese? Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Join Silverfish on Facebook. New Blog - Silverfish Writing Tips. Available for Kindle, Nook and iBook stores).
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Stories: 2012-07-29
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Featuring short stories from exciting new Malaysian writers. Thursday, August 02, 2012. This a story from the next book [no. 4] in the Silverfish Malaysian Classics series called Malaysian Fables, Folk-tales and Legends. Said Solomon, “All three of you are perfectly right, albeit it were perhaps better that Jagong should sustain mankind because of his comrade-ship with Kachang, the bean.”. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Join Silverfish on Facebook. New Blog - Silverfish Writing Tips. View my complete profile.
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Op-Ed: May 2013
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Writings about writing. Contributions welcome. We have introduced a new comments. System which should make it easier to post and read them. If you subscribe to the replies you can also post you comments by email.). Thursday, May 02, 2013. Why I don't own a mobile phone. What do you think? No, I don't play golf, either. What if each call takes 15 minutes? 20, 25, 30 minutes? I know of people who can talk for up to an hour each time! You have a calculator? Figure it out. I think my time and my life is ...
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