A group of students from a French International school in Singapore were recently called out on by the general public for “fighting” at a open spaced public void deck area and causing a so-called nuisance. Noises that ensued, notwithstanding, the prevailing frets against fighting/sparring, and associating fights with being unthinking…

It’s Veganuary! And before you start hurling stones in my direction and write me off as yet another Nazi vegan hypocritical activist who is narrow-minded and self-righteous, I hope I get a chance to at least share some of the intersections of learning gleaned from my recently completed course of…

It was pretty exhilarating going for a football match at the National Stadium again, albeit a very different National Stadium from the one I went to the last time (18 years ago) for a Malaysia Cup football match (also donning the very same Lions T-shirt as I did tonight). …

A lovely morning spent at Ground-Up Initiative (GUI)was the refreshing manna I needed to cleanse the soul, and to finally see, feel and understand what community-building really entails. The moment you step upon GUI grounds, the open space and the lovely smiles greet you indiscriminately. Everyone here is evidently part…

*Disclaimer — This is a work of mostly fiction. Names, characters, business, events and incidents are the products of the author’s imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events is purely coincidental. (or is it? ) Community-building increasingly feels like such a dirty, tainted and abused…

In my previous life as secondary school history teacher, I used to love planning for field trips for my students to Bukit Chandu…Point 226 where on an eventful Valentine’s Day of 1942, our beloved Malay Regiment fought oh so bravely right down to unarmed hand to hand combat, refusing to…

It is one of those moments of getting into the writing zone for me tonight and that relentless spark I am feeling and just won’t go away, is egging me on to pen this. The inspirations and experiences of the past few weeks have really been building on one another…

I know that expressing gratitude for everything in life can sometimes feel like it’s sounding a bit cliché. …

Getting a little stressed out over grading of scripts, I find myself turning to (inane) writing as the perfect distraction. I have been dancing crazily to songs I adored in the 90s, all in the safety of my apartment, with only my dear dog as my adoring (but also mostly…