Turning 64 – 3 changes, 2 wishes and 1 question
Tunring 65, contemplating dementia and wishing for a better more seeing Singapore
Books I Read: A Different Kind of Unease
Two chilling books about the exercise of power in an administrative state
‘Do it or I’ll slap your black face!’
Did someone actually say – ‘Do it or I’ll slap your black face!’
MIMING CLIMAXES? PLAYING AT RAPE? WE’RE ALL IMPLICATED
FROM CASTIGATING THEM TO LOOKING AT OURSELVES I confess. I too decried those activities of those university students. How could they even think it was okay, asking freshment to re-enact a rape, using a simulated climax as a forfeit? What was wrong with them? That was last week. Over the week end, an uncomfortable realization has … Continue reading
Immensely grateful to be a daughter of Singapore
It may be unfashionable but I’m shouting it out anyway – It’s good being a daughter of Singapore. It’s something to be immensely grateful for. I had flown from the Little Red Dot to the North Eastern USA for a wedding and then a book reading in Virginia. Unexpectedly, my country offered me a launch in their … Continue reading
Stepping out of the box
I’m stepping out of the box. The last three nights I’ve had nightmares. They were all related to one of my two WIPS’s – the one about a detective solving a series of ritual cannibal murders. I needed saving from my own imagination! Youngest was the rescuing hero. Digging around the store-room under the staircase … Continue reading
A Singaporean Identity – Constance Singam, the epitome of true grit
For me, Constance Singam the Singapore feminist and civil society activist, is the epitome of true grit Brought up in a patriarchal South Indian Catholic household, almost promised off to a Kerala Indian boy in the next village when she was twelve, married for love soon after her first job to an older man and … Continue reading
A week both sweet and bitter
I’m exhausted from the week that was but thought I should check in with everyone just to let you know how everything’s been. It was seven days of both sweet and bitter. Sunday November 2nd – I attended my first literary festival event as a panelist. I was euphoric seated between two world famous award winning writers. … Continue reading
Mid Autumn Spotlight on Marina Bay Sands
Sarah Pannir’s spotlighting Marina Bay Sands today, the Mid-Autumn Festival I campaigned against this casino development. Since its completion, we’ve had more problems with addicted gamblers, under-age commercial sex and tourists who drop in specially to commit crimes in our suburban housing estates. But, Sarah is right. Like any seductress, Marina Bay Sands is beautiful and beguiling. … Continue reading
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