Still hot from the press is our latest book, Leaving The Pain Behind. In case you haven’t been following us, this is a book about tattoos and the painful stories behind them. It features some unlikely characters on whom you’ll find tattoos. Printed in full colour, the book also features local veteran DJ (calls himself […]
Our Writer’s Festival featured a couple of “top” writers. The rest of us have been sidelined. Not surprisingly, not many readers and potential book buyers are even aware that there was even an event like that. But make no mistake, Singapore did see a golden age in publication. It was meaningful to hold book-signing sessions […]
Even the blind can see this one. The main purpose of the Amnesty Bill is to see former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra return home with corruption charges wiped and his fortune restored. In its initial draft, the Amnesty Bill would have freed members of the public charged over political violence since the 2006 coup. A […]
So many narrow-minded people in Singapore think that tattoos and tattooed people are evil. I don’t have a single tattoo myself. I decided to find out more while writing this book and I discovered that I was right. Tattooed people may want to look nice. They may want to look bad, but at the end […]
余天 was a megastar from the 1970s right up to the late 1980s. Even though he wasn’t very popular with the young people in the 1980s, (刘文正was the unbeatable king of Chinese pop of that era), 余天 was still a force to be reckoned with. I didn’t like many Yu Tian songs, but this song […]
The occasional car or bus Rushes by But mine is the only heart beating On this lonely stretch Towards Punggol Beach. Out of the forest The sky spreads out Like a blank sheet To rewrite a blemished life story. The sun is just rising And the sea pulls out A distorted imitation. Longer and more […]
Sky burial is an ancient Tibetan ritual in which the deceased’s body is chopped up and the flesh is fed to the vultures at the burial site. Many foreign cultures will see such a practice as barbaric, but the Tibetans view it as a means to nobly share one’s body even after death and in […]
It starts at 3:25. Not surprisingly, Sherman received many negative comments on YouTube. Too eager to impress the judges with his vital capacity, he appeared as “angry”. Ken actually thought he was not good enough. At that point in time, Sherman probably thought that Singapore Idol was his only way to start a singing career […]
After my most unflattering comments on Mata Mata, some folks out there may think I’m a snob who looks down on local talent. That can’t be further from the truth. Just listen to the MV above. Slow, soothing, sentimental. A very listenable, unpretentious effort from unknown local singers. Talented locals like these deserve our attention […]
Is it not reasonable to think that the only gas in the syringe is oxygen? That’s what the question seems to indicate, isn’t it? Is there anything else that is compressible in the syringe? Yet, the answer at the back of this assessment book says: How on earth do we read the mind of the […]