Express Yourself

What is the critic really doing when he criticizes something or someone? He is expressing his love. This is a follow-up to the previously published 'How to Appreciate Criticism'.
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This article was to be published in Sin Chew Jit Poh on the 9th March 2010. Instead it fell victim to the oft-wielded Printing Presses and Publications Act 1984, which incidentally is the subject of this spiked article.
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Some suggestions about how to create the appropriate mental structure or thought process when dealing with criticism. Many of us take criticism the wrong way. We get angry. We hate them. Try to suppress if not annihilate them. It does not have to be this way.
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A prose poem: STARSHIP M'SIA 2010: an Excruciating Prose, Thankfully Brief, for our Painful Time
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Gong Xi Fa Cai from Loyarburok!
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In answering two seemingly simple questions (i) where do I find the time to write and (ii) how do I dare write what I do, I meditate on how difficult and hard it is to be a human being in Malaysia.
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A consideration of Chantal Sebire's imminent death and the kindness of a seeming cruelty.
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Over the course of my life, most of which were spent in Malaysia, I’ve gotten a number of different responses by people whenever I speak of a taboo subject, use coarse language or simply question their beliefs. Let me outline some of the more moronic ones:- I’m Offended by what you just said! Really? Who...
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Pluralism, Tolerance and Broadmindedness I have always revered freedom of expression as a principle. I believe, reverence to it is mandatory for all civilized men and women; anything short of that amounts to ignorance, backwardness and is a sign of an unrefined man. The world needs a multitude of views. I need a multitude of...
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A brief considerations of the right to death in light of section 309 of the Penal Code that criminalizes a person for attempting suicide.
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