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“I’M 55… I don’t care if it’s a milestone age. As long as I’m healthy, I really don’t give a s***!” Laughter erupts in my room, and for a moment, it feels as if Kiren Kumari Alt-Amrik Singh is right beside me, sharing jokes over cocktails in a smoky bar late into the night.

THE profound friendship between Tan Sri Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah, affectionately known as Ku Li and Tun Abdul Razak Datuk Hussein has been immortalised within the pages of Ku Li’s latest literary offering, Ku Li: Memoir 205.

IT’S all in the math for Soh Wai Ching. Bent over his laptop, the 30-year-old athlete declares: “I can never be a Lee Chong Wei or a Nicol David!” It’s not a self-deprecating remark, but as Soh points out seriously, it’s all in the math.

I’VE no idea what to expect when I meet M. Indira Gandhi for the first time. As her smiling face fills my Zoom screen, her easy laughter breaks any tension I might have had. “Please, no more crying pictures of me!” she teases, before breaking into infectious laughter.

DO we actually grow up to become our mothers? You’d be surprised to learn that it can be true.

BIODIVERSITY — a term laden with implications — raises questions that resonate deeply with Malaysians, including myself. What exactly does it entail? Why is Malaysia celebrated as a biodiverse country? And why does it matter to us?

THE young boy’s heart swelled with compassion as he gazed at the little stray puppy, its eyes wide with hunger and fear. He couldn’t resist the urge to help. With gentle hands, he reached out to the trembling creature, offering it a piece of bread that he had tucked away in his backpack.

IN a world that often feels divided by lines of race, faith and cultural differences, the universal language of kindness has the power to heal and unite. Imagine the bridges we could build and the wounds we could heal if every one of us chose to sprinkle a little more kindness into our interactions.

MALAYSIAN motorsport athlete Ng Aik Sha, also known as Akisha, recently secured first place in the Taipei International Gymkhana Prize (TGIP), firmly establishing herself as a rising star in the global motorsport scene.