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One of the many mysteries Kalimullah Masheerul Hassan left behind when he left the NST Group EIC post last December -- and there are many more to tell -- was his newspaper's voluntary expose of NSTP employees taking favours from corporate entities, including using free vehicles for extended time.

Now that he's "tired and retired" from the daily mill-and-grill of news production, we don't know if the case has been resolved - at least we didn't read about the punitive episode in Jalan Riong papers.

Yesterday, Kalimullah chose to romanticise Valentine. Read his column in its entirety so as to avoid any distortion of perspective but this is, inter alia, what he said that amused me a lot:

It's a good thing that powerful people do grow up one way or another.

On another unrelated matter, Malay Mail/Sunday Mail executive editor Ahirudin 'Rocky' Attan is moving house. In Rocky's Bru he says: "It really is time to move someplace else, someplace where we won’t have to lose so much sleep."

Rocky will also quit The NSTP Group when Valentine's Day comes. He's taking the VSS and the privilege of not having to serve till April 30, when the new Malay male shows up. Little Birds say he will clock out from Jalan Riong for the last time - today, Feb 13.

Happy Valentine's.