Dian Nais

Penang Island used to be one of the places that I lived. I did my first degree  and got my first job there too. Penang Island also where i started to realize about my passion towards arts and culture, although I was streamlined through science  and technology field. Georgetown, which is the Penang capital town...

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The traditional Malay performing arts fascinates me a lot because it exhibits the diverse cultural heritage of my origins. It does not only  reflects the grandeur of the old court life and the rustic nature of proletariat but also served as a vehicle for transmission of norms and values. It is also an intermediary between real and the nether worlds....

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Here is the Situation: At noon yesterday, I went to the bank to pay my car installment for the month of 68th out of 84 months period. I was so glad that I still can pay it. On my way back to the office. I bumped into an old friend. I immediately greeted him. Shove him with a big warm...

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It is normal in Malaysia to speak Malaysian-English. (only those who are in the serious-journalism-line-kinda-people  [SJLKP]) who later goes twiddle-dee twiddle-dum whenever they encounterd wrong english usages, do not find it normal). Si senor. Actually, I used  to go nuts for english too. I was growing into becoming a Hezbollah of ‘Correct-English-All-The-Time’ fighter.  It started after for...

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