Permadu Malaysia

October 1990. Los Angeles. David Bowie was 43 years old, and secretly exhausted. Not from the music. Not from the fame. From the loneliness hiding behind it. After every sold-out show, after every standing ovation, he'd go back to an empty hotel room. His hairstylist and close friend Teddy Antolin watched it happen night after night and quietly decided to do something about it. Teddy had recently met a woman at a Los Angeles party — Cik Iman Mohamed Abdulmajid. Somali supermodel. Fashion icon. Fiercely intelligent, deeply private, and completely unimpressed by celebrity. She'd been through her own storms, her own heartbreaks, and she had zero interest in getting tangled up with a rock star. "No way," she'd later say. "It is not a sane thing to do." Teddy invited them both to his birthday dinner. He didn't tell either one about the other. When David arrived that evening, he had no idea his life was about to permanently change direction. When Iman walk...

FOR ILLUSTRATION PURPOSE ONLY I am 52 years old, and for the past three years I have been fighting for something I destroyed myself. Seven years ago, I left my three children to be with another woman. They were 14, 12, and 9 when I told them their father was going to live somewhere else. I didn’t explain that I had fallen in love with someone else. I just left. I met Laura at work. She was divorced and had two children, ages 11 and 8. She made me feel alive again, made me laugh, understood me. My marriage had been dead for years; we were only together for the kids. Or at least that’s what I told myself to justify it. One day I told my wife I was leaving. She cried, begged me, asked me to think about our children. But I had already made my decision. I moved in with Laura and her children. At first I visited my kids on Sundays, but little by little I started spacing out the visits. Laura needed me, her children needed me—they were having trouble at school and needed a father figure. I co...

Referring to news report by an influential Malay daily, FMT said yesterday, PKR will only take action against former deputy president Datuk Seri Rafizi Ramli over calls for the suspension of the country’s top graft-buster if a formal complaint is lodged against him. According to Sinar Harian , PKR Secretary-General Datuk Dr Fuziah Salleh also said any complaint must be submitted to the party’s disciplinary board. “If there is a complaint, the disciplinary board will review it and take action,” she was quoted as saying. Rafizi has criticised Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim and his government on several occasions, most recently over the controversy involving Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission chief Tan Sri Azam Baki. On 15 February, he warned of more protests if the government refused to suspend Azam over the shareholding allegations. Anwar has said the government would wait for the results of a special task force investigation before deciding whether to act against Azam. He a...