Dealing With the Droppings of Daily Life
By Dato’ Dr. Ooi Kee Beng
July 2025 EDITORIAL
MY WARDROBE IS overflowing. With no Spring Cleaning habit for tropical people like me, my short-sleeved and long-sleeved shirts hang next to each other, expanding year by year. My trousers are much too few in number, and have been relegated to the lower section. My short pants are now in the drawers, folded next to my dozens of T-shirts.My socks and underpants share a shelf, some always favoured; some not. They share the same fate as the bottles of spices...
Dato’ Dr. Ooi Kee Beng
is the Executive Director of Penang Institute. His recent books include The Eurasian Core and its Edges: Dialogues with Wang Gungwu on the History of the World (ISEAS 2016). Homepage: wikibeng.com
