Restoration

I watched the seniors of Whitney’s class put on a program last night as part of their school’s traditional graduation...

Certain metaphors are inherently contradictions, at least when one thinks about them.  Taking the “high ground” is one that I...

There is a reason stereotypes exist; people act like them.  They are not fair, but they do make for interesting...

There are a myriad of labels applied to people in Singapore.  It is one of the most cosmopolitan cities in...

As I walk the streets of Singapore, especially late at night when the tropical quietness begins to overtake the normal...

Time has a funny way of changing one’s perspective, if you let it.  The process is almost natural.  One anticipates...

Singaporeans are an interesting people.  Society of my first years is very different than it is now.  The old colonial...

Each culture has their form of sarcasm.  Each generation mistakenly believes they have raised the art form to a new...

My mother had a wise saying she often shared with me when I was in my late teens and early...

Singapore was, in my youth, a place of conservative values.  In many ways it still is.  Yet there is an...