Editorial - Penang Monthly (Page 9)

To Excel is to Stay Curious

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How often have we not woken up at 3am in the morning with a novel solution to pressing questions that we could not solve while awake? Interlinking, integrating, interlacing… that seems to be how the brain works, or at least when we let it work.

by Dato' Dr. Ooi Kee Beng

Education is not only for building a common identity

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Education is a key issue in nation building; in no other country has it been more evident than in Malaysia where so much contestation since the 1950s has been...

by Dato' Dr. Ooi Kee Beng

Proficient Multilingualism is the future

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Let’s get serious about global communication.In the Age of Nationalism, which is what we continue to live in, we tend to forget that communication bet...

by Dato' Dr. Ooi Kee Beng

Let’s globalise wisely

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There is much to worry about in the world today, 25 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, which should give us reason to pause and consider what the long-t...

by Dato' Dr. Ooi Kee Beng

Growing Old and Staying Young in a Brave New World

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The ICT revolution has been taking place all my adult life: I bought my first home computer in 1990 when I was 35, my first mobile phone a decade later, and then my first smartphone about a decade after that.

by Dato' Dr. Ooi Kee Beng

The interplay between Form and Flair

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Watching the recent World Cup matches brought to my mind the snug relationship between Form and Flair. Football seen on the TV screen shows clearly how differ...

by Dato' Dr. Ooi Kee Beng

A Final Quarrel Between a Repentant Grandfather and Old-fashioned Self-absorbed Parents

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As the 14th general election draws near, the sense that Malaysia – and the whole Asia-Pacific region, for that matter – must now leap into a new era...

by Dato' Dr. Ooi Kee Beng

Xenophobia Signals Crisis

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A clear connection seems to exist between an economy’s health, on the one hand, and that society’s handling of religious and ethnic minorities, on the other.

by Dato' Dr. Ooi Kee Beng

Trapped Multiple Times

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This month’s cover is about Malaysia’s brain drain; and what is fascinating is how old – and yet how current – the story reads.

by Dato' Dr. Ooi Kee Beng

Funeral for a true son of Penang

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The morning was soft and cloudy – but only for a while. By 10am, the sun was blazing and having its usual relentless way with Penangites. Perhaps as man...

by Dato' Dr. Ooi Kee Beng

Retaining the Ability to Enjoy Simple Abilities

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Our machines make us seek more power and more capacity, and in the process we forget to appreciate our most basic skills. So we end up seeking thrills and searching for novel experiences.

by Dato' Dr. Ooi Kee Beng

Of Yin & Yang, Qi and Immune Systems

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Do you know that we start rotting as soon as we have breathed our last breath? This is a fascinating reminder that decay is the default situation for the human...

by Dato' Dr. Ooi Kee Beng