Machinist tipped me off about this in the comments to another post:Pak Samad's reaction to the KOMSAS (Malay Lit Component) issue, ye...

Continue Reading Dumbing Down the Syllabus?

Readings@Seksan's drew its biggest ever crowd this Saturday and it was standing room only! And the audience seemed a lot more ......

Continue Reading Readings Gets Respectable … Well Almost

A second dose of stories from the Singapore Writer's Festival.Yesterday, I talked about out blogging panel. I realised just how sk...

Continue Reading Singapore Stories Part 2

Went along to the opening of Raja Ahmad Aminullah's gallery, RA Fine Arts, yesterday. It's in a bungalow house tucked away in Jalan...

Continue Reading Raja Ahmad’s Home for Art

I am much fascinated to learn that author laureate A. Saman Said is also a talented artist and more fascinated still to learn how he uses his sketches as part of his preparation f...

Continue Reading Pak Samad’s Land

Nurjehan's story in last week's Sunday Times about the introduction of literature into the English syllabus for Malaysian schools was interesting (well certainly for me, with my teacher-training cap ...

Continue Reading Dead Crows or Inspiration?

If sometimes I paint a pessimistic picture of the lack of intellectual discussion (particularly literary) in a country where the regular pr...

Continue Reading Off the Edge Celebrates

National Laureate A. Samad Said talks to Bissme S. in the Sun about the serious neglect of Malay literature in this country, and how he doesn't see the situation improving.The dumbing down of...

Continue Reading Pak Samad and the Copyright

Thought you might like this scoop ...said Cean sending me her photos of last night's award ceremony for the Utusan Group Literary Prize. ...

Continue Reading Cean’s Big Night Out