My friend Awang Goneng has got it absolutely right:
“.....we should teach our children again the value of literature, its disciplines and its propensity to give a deeper look into life, and love and everything that no scientist could dissect on a cold slab nor accountants calculate in a balance sheet.”
How many CEOs have I met in corporate Malaysia who are 2 dimensional accountants or scientists, with nothing to offer beyond their vocational skills? Too many.
This is the price we pay today, two dimensional technocrats who have no soul.
More here: http://www.nst.com.my/nst/articles/Theimportanceoflanguageandspeech/Article/
Friday, June 11, 2010
Browsing
I was researching a entirely different story for a work related project when I chanced this. I don't know Najib Rahman and when his father the IGP was gunned down, I wasn't even born but he writes with such candour that I felt the pain reading this son's account of his father's death.
My father, the IGP, was gunned down
My father, the IGP, was gunned down
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