What do you have for your breakfast and evening ‘snack’? Have you heard about one of the famous Malaysian delights; “Kuih Kochi”? “[Kuih]: pronounced as ‘Kue’ or the closest word in English […]
Malaysian Delight … “Kuih Kochi”
Selamat Hari Raya Aidil Fitri
Setelah berpuasa dalam bulan Ramadhan al-Mubarak, maka tiba lah masanya kita menyambutnya dengan penuh rasa syukur atas nikmat Allah SWT. Kami dari CESS mengucapkan Selamat Hari Raya, Maaf Zahir dan Batin.
Our obsession with “Stuff”
Students of linguistics and communication are familiar with the saying, “We cannot not communicate” but that is not the whole picture. The saying is one of the axioms or principles of the […]
A tale of that state in the north
Note: the featured image is the flag of the old Sultanate of Kelantan When I was in school, I often heard how my peers and even their parents hated history. The reason […]
Kenapa perfect tense susah sangat
Note: experimenting with explaining English grammar in Malay. Apabila saya mengajar bab Tense dalam Bahasa Inggeris, saya sering mendengar keluhan pelajar pelajar saya yang mengatakan itu susah, ini susah. Paling kuat kedengaran […]
Silat, Anyone?
Two notes before we start: 1. This article can perhaps be classified under cross-cultural communication because it is about explaining one culture to the world. 2. The featured picture is keli (catfish) […]
Keris and the mind of the Pendekar
A little cross-cultural communication for a change.A few things were mentioned in recent incidents. Among them silat and keris. Following that, I noticed a few mentions of these in social media. One […]
Cluster of Education & Social Sciences, OUM 