Author: danyogafit

My recent opinion piece for the Micah Mandate on domestic workers in Malaysia.

My contribution to the Sun on retrenchment and recession for March 2009.

Six Malaysian Netizens will be charged on 13th March 2009 for allegedly insulting of Sultan Azlan Shah on the Internet.

Being interested in the new management field of corporate social responsibility (CSR), I asked a friend recently why there appears to be more CSR consultancies opening in Singapore than Malaysia. He answered, without even thinking, “Because businesses here aren’t really interested.”

This might explain why only five participants were present at the “Integrity at Work” forum, organised by the MCA Integrity Watch Group in January.

THE year 2009 began on an encouraging note for me. I met a young man working with a large publishing house. He reminds me a little of me several years ago, but for a few things. He is visually impaired in one eye and is hearing impaired. However, his employer is blind to this, as the young worker is afforded the same privileges, salary, benefits, etc as his co-workers with the same qualifications and experience.

As I lay on my bed a few nights ago, I thought I should write something for Christmas. But I’m not really sure exactly on what. Burrowing under my quilt, I thought maybe I should write about how it’s always so rainy, so much so that my garden always got waterlogged, and how, as a […]

Would you buy a house by / on the hills? Within the period of two days, two landslides caused much damage and death in Kuala Lumpur. This perhaps might not have made such major headlines had it not occurred just a few days to the 15th anniversary of the Highland Towers tragedy, which caused the […]

He sighed, “Of course, I expected them to ask the questions, and I understood the concepts. But I suddenly realised that I couldn’t express myself properly,” “Why not?” “Because I learnt all the mathematical and physics concepts in Bahasa!” This story always comes to my mind when I read news relating to the medium of […]