ISKANDAR PUTERI: The decision to change Johor's weekend rest days from the present Friday and Saturday will not be made anytime soon, says Datuk Mohd Jafni Md Shukor.
JOHOR BARU: Johor is looking at the possibility of reviewing its rest days, which currently fall on Friday and Saturday, says Mentri Besar Datuk Onn Hafiz Ghazi.
Rest Days, a reading series which occurred on 18th July at 2pm, was designed to unite disabled and chronically ill poets in virtual space, and offer a portal to their thoughts. Just before it started, poet Kyla Jamieson, the event organizer, encouraged all attendees to take a deep breath and get comfortable, fully embracing the rest theme. All poets took turns to introduce themselves, discuss their works and add in any interesting anecdotes, and for those who weren’t able to make it live, pre-recorded videos of each reading is provided on the Rest Days Youtube. The following is a brief introduction to some of the poets who were in attendance: First there was Sho Yamagushiku, who acknowledged, as an immigrant, how they are seen as 24/7 work machines. He indicated that the work he read during the event, “Harmless Medicine” by Justin Chin, allowed him to understand himself more as an immigrant individual in a eurocentric society. His work is committed to telling