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Toss a coin in front of your friends and ask them what are the chances you get a head rather than a tail? Fifty fifty would most likely be the answer. But is it? Toss the same coin a hundred times, would you get 50 heads and 50 tails? You’d have to be very lucky [...]

Malays as defined by the Malaysian Constitution is a curious thing: it is not strictly a race, or an ethnic, but rather an ethno-religious group of people. That simply adds the religious component into the classification of a race that would otherwise be strictly defined and passed down through direct inheritance. According to the Malaysian Constitution, a citizen who is not a muslim is not a malay, even if his lineage traces back to as far and as old as the Malay ethnicity can be traced back to.

But it is not this definition in the Malaysian Constitution that this post will center upon, but rather, this association of religion to a certain ethnic, namely the association of Islam to the Malay ethnic.

It’s amazing how the universe repeats itself. Our cells, which is made up of complex internal structure and interactions, make up tissues, which make up organs, which make up our body’s internal systems, which make up us. And then there’s us, made up of a complex internal structure and interactions, which make up families, which [...]

Many people do a little good and make a big fuss about it. Many people talk and preach to other people to do good, but he himself never does anything beneficial or contribute to the society. But there are some people who do a lot of good and bring a lot of benefits to the [...]

I was doing some spring cleaning the other day, throwing away unnecessary stuffs and compiling used papers for recycling when I came across one of my Theory of Knowledge (TOK) subject assignment some time last year. It was entitled “Is Euthanasia Justified?”, where we are given four cases in which euthanasia (mercy killing) is involved, and asked to comment for each case whether the action is justified or not.

Now that I thought it is kind of interesting to share, so here I post the fours situations and my comments on them. Do offer your own comments, but please please do realise that these are my personal opinions. You are completely free to have your own

Here this time, I want to share with you one such an inspirational speech that I am sure will melt every single humane heart who hear this. The world is silenced by this speech 16 years ago, and they still can be, still need to be. Spend just 7 minutes of your time watching this [...]

valedictorian n valedictorian [ËŒvalÉ™dikˈtoːriÉ™n] (American) the student with the highest grades in a graduating class who gives a speech at the graduation ceremony The IB Centre of Sri KDU certainly does not use that definition to choose it’s valedictorian. The IB Valedictorian is chosen by a panel of teachers based on an interview and the [...]

The recent (but still ongoing) strife between the HL and SL students of Dr Reed’s class has prompted me to write this post. I find it surprising that the strife sparked by Dr Reed’s sudden change of individual oral commentary dates for the HL and SL has progressed so far and is still going on. [...]

A friend of mine said to me concerning a very famous figure, “I wouldn’t say he’s noble, but he earned the trust of the people“. Now let’s not make guessings as to who that famous figure  my friend is referring to, since that would only sway our thoughts from the purpose of this post. Having [...]