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May 10 -- One of the most vivid memories of my father was him asking my mother for a blue plastic bowl to piss into because he was too weak to walk from the living room to the bathroom, his body ravaged by cancer.
May 3 – In 2016, I wrote a story on what public housing in Kota Damansara, not very far from my Taman Tun neighbourhood, looked like. Even though the 700-sq ft PPR flats were tiny and dilapidated, the residents were full of warmth and generosity as they served me and my colleague a hearty meal.…
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April 19 – On the one hand, the government says that it urgently wants to help the poor through the mySalam health assistance programme; on the other, Putrajaya discriminates against the bottom 40 percent (B40) who are already ill.…
April 12 – I cycled 40 minutes in 33-degree weather just to save RM6 on parking when I went to a government clinic to collect birth control pills.…
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