Too good to pass up
The other day I was telling my friends and anyone else who would listen that I did not speak English till I was five, much less write. But look me now! I are blog in English! So, don’t knock the little ones who are struggling a bit, because one fine day, they might very well […]
Nowhere near good enough
I always say, if there’s a need to backpedal, then do it all the way. No point trying to save face, or ngeh ngeh try to convince yourself that your decision was somewhat right: Dear Reader We have received emails and phone calls from many of you on our subscription plan for The Straits Times […]
Days of yore
Class of ’85 Mr Brown and myself have never attended our school’s Founder’s Day dinner, but decided to do so this year, because it’s been twenty, yes, twenty years since we left the stinking halls (my classroom next to toilet) of the school on a hill with the clocktower that showed a different time on […]
Droughtbreaker
Didja see the rain today? Didja? Didja? Not like yesterday’s patchy stuff. This was full-on open your mouth and you’d drown type of rain. It was apt that after a month long high yaytus (Hee. Love that word. Bloggers always use it), Sam decided to give me a call to see how I was doing. […]
An epiphany from doing nothing
The weather was supposed to be predictable. So I was very much peeved when I called off touch footy on account of a Category One storm brewing (because one does not recover from a lightning strike quickly enough for work on Monday), only for the clouds to clear and the rain to stop. But it […]