Teater & Filem Melayu: Antara tabu dan kreativiti
(Published in Sinar Harian on 25 November 2009) SERINGKALI apabila usul guaman mula meletihkan minda, penulis akan mengemas apa sahaja yang berselerak di depan mata. Minggu lepas, penulis membuka kembali kotak tua berwarna biru, bercap ‘Waterstone’ yang sarat dengan sawang. Kotak itu menyimpan memorabilia yang dikumpul penulis bermula dari saat pertama penulis jatuh cinta dengan dunia [...]

Jalan Lain ke Syurga
Nenek pesan: Walau macamana sibuk sekalipun, jangan tinggal sembahyang. Dushhh! Noted Nek…  Still feeling under the weather; still reading Jalan Lain Ke Syurga written by Hasan Muhammad Ali in my own Terabithia. Will be right back with a book review or two.  Nota kaki: Rasanya tiada jalan lain lagi ke syurga melainkan melalui solat. Ini hanya pendapat [...]

Bridge of (my own) Terabithia
Whenever the tides of the world go asunder; whenever my going gets tougher; whenever I am at the lowest ebb of the lows; whenever being a lawyer is totally shit; whenever the writing world roars it monstrous head to my direction… it is perhaps time for me to return to my Secret Tree House. Just like [...]

PerlembagaanKu: Wacana Undang-Undang Sejagat
(Published in Sinar Harian on 12 November 2009). Semasa belajar di sekolah undang-undang dahulu, ada satu subjek yang kurang telus di otak penulis: Undang-Undang Perlembagaan. Tambahan pula, ianya diajar oleh pensyarah berketerunan Bengali yang tidak pernah kenal erti jenaka. Pendek kata, payah benar untuk memahami susur-galur dan semangat di sebalik subjek tersebut. Pernah terjadi, semasa penulis berada [...]

Big Bad Book Sale is BACK!
I heard  from two reliable sources that a local bookstore chain plans to boycott this event. The reason would be (this is my wild guess) because this event sells dirt-cheap books. So cheap they were that during the 1st BBBS last May, I spent all the money in my wallet buying books. I didn’t stop there, [...]