Promoting our culinary arts as a prime tourism product
MAYOR of Kuching South Datuk Wee Hong Seng had launched the Centre of Gastronomy on Dec 10, 2021, without much…
Browsing: Just another point of view
Of banned books, music and movies — where are they now?
IT was in November 1960 that an English court had delivered an acquittal verdict in the obscenity trial that had…
A collective responsibility – Carrying on the work of oral history
ACCORDING to Wikipedia, the tradition of oral history’s modern concept was developed in the 1940s by Allan Nevins and his…
Of avocados, smoked mackerel and a ‘Son of Sarawak’
IT’S been a very busy week; I started by meeting up with one of my oldest friends, Joshua Voon Boon…
How our personal friendships evolve over time
THERE are a number of popular sayings about long lasting friendships that I’d very much like to share with you…
Keeping alive the family reunion tradition during Chinese New Year
THERE is a popular quotation that I like very much and it goes like this: “A family reunion is a…
Celebrating CNY during my childhood days
I HAVE very little recollection of my very early boyhood years before I had gone to school at age 6…
Were our good old days really all that great?
IN every age, ‘the good old days’ was mostly a myth. No one ever thought they were good at the…