Just read Malai Hassan Othman’s (MHO) latest piece, “When Mum Can No Longer Be Left Alone,” and it hits close to home. I see the real struggles families here are going through with this, and it has made me think hard about how unprepared most of us are for this…
Category: Personal & Family
Personal life, family, and milestone reflections
Personal & Family
Looking Back on a Chevening Year
It has been a while since I got on that flight, ushering in Aidil Fitri somewhere over the Middle East, bound for a city I had only read about in a prospectus. Looking back at it now, from this distance, the Chevening year sits differently than it did when I…
Personal & Family
The Tired Ones Weren’t the Ones Working Hardest
I spent this past week just walking around. Not with a clipboard, not really with an agenda, just showing up where the work happens and paying attention. Sitting in on conversations. Watching people do the same thing they do every day, except this time I was actually there to see…
Personal & Family
A Building of Two Chapters
This building brings back a lot of memories for me. Some really good ones, and some I’d rather forget. For months now I’ve driven past it nearly every day, on my way to and from Print Plus, watching the refurbishment come along quietly in the background of my daily routine….
Brunei Darussalam
AB Rewind: Catching Up With Ihsan, 16 Years Later
Back in 2010, I interviewed a young Bruneian PhD student studying Genetics in the UK. At the time, Ihsan spoke about her passion for science, cancer research, scientific literacy and her hopes of contributing to Brunei’s development one day. She was curious, driven and excited about the future. A lot…
Brunei Darussalam
The Ones Who Built the Buttons
The older we get, the more we realise a difficult truth: The people who annoy us the most are often the people who love us the hardest. Our parents know exactly which buttons to press because, in many ways, they helped build those buttons. They were there when we were…
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