About honouring someone’s life
Much has been said in the wake of Mr Lee Kuan Yew’s passing. One of the more cynical responses from those of my demographic seems to be: “Why should I cry? He wasn’t my Ah Gong.” This got to me because it…
Japan 2013: Not So Lost in Translation
Seventeen days sounds like a nice long vacation for many. I think it gave me hardly enough time to scratch the surface of the Japanese cities I visited with James. (Our route was Tokyo – Hakone – Osaka – Kyoto…
My Irrational Zika Panic
Zika first appeared on my radar as a South American virus that was scaring athletes away from Rio 2016. I was entirely unprepared for the speed at which it arrived on Singapore shores, but I didn’t think too hard about…