The Bauhaus design school that Walter Gropius founded was influential on the development of modern architecture and design. As a fun trivia, in Malay, “Bau Haus” means “burnt smell”. Gropius as Example The German architect Walter Gropius is popularly known as the founder of the Bauhaus design academy. Born in 1883, he was the son […]

The Rukunegara For the uninitiated, the clueless, and the non-Malaysians, the Rukunegara is often described as the “ideology” of Malaysia. These days, the Rukunegara does not seem to be valued by Malaysian society. But it’s part of the Malaysian ideology. On  10th May, 1969, there were general elections in Malaysia, following which on 13th May […]

Great Idea, But Bad News You might have been sitting around with a bunch of friends over dinner. One of your friends points at the chicken and says, “Why don’t we just register a brand of chicken called The Good Chicken?” And the bunch of friends laughs and applauds the idea.  Your friend goes home, […]

I listened to a podcast… Recently, I tuned in to the 99% Invisible podcast on Tunein. That’s when I heard their very fascinating episode, Vox Ex Machina (Episode 208), which was about an invention from 1939 called the “voder”, called the “voice operating demonstrator”. It was like a piano for voices, because it was a keyboard which […]

First of all, I wish to apologise to my readers for having forgotten to update this blog for nearly a month. I wasn’t really sure how to present the idea of “the chasm”. So I was stuck in “analysis paralysis” for a while, thinking of how to start this article. And just by typing those […]