COMMENT | It’s hard to be patient for economy to recover

COMMENT | Last Friday night was my regular basketball night with my buddies and what we look forward to at the end of every work-filled week. The basketball game really isn’t the point of the evening. It’s just hanging out with old friends, sweating it out a little bit, talking a bit of crap with each other and then hanging out at the mamak till late.

Okay, the truth is, hanging out at the mamak is the priority. We play for about two hours but end up having glass after glass of teh tarik for more than three hours after that laughing the night away. We talk about everything that will make us laugh, from reminiscing about old times to just joking around and making fun of each other.

But last night was a little bit different. Someone had to take the conversation toward the...