Caesar is the animagus that lives at Pet’s Villa, the animal shelter I volunteer at. I met him last year when I was mopping the floor at Pet’s Villa. One humid day I was furiously mopping the floor when I felt a light scratch at the back of my arms. I turned around and in […]
Imagine
Imagine This. Christian and I were walking down the main street carrying a big red sign with Spanish words, in the middle of a protest against the Mexican Government. We were in a small town near the famous ruins of Palenque, in the Southern state of Chiapas, in Mexico. We had inadvertently ended up in […]
My Friend Alice
My friend Alice was a lot of fun. She was outrageous, obnoxious and offensive. She had an awkward gait and strutted around in a shabby second-hand leather jacket. She had dark tousled brown curls, large soulful cornflower blue eyes and an impish smile. Her father was a lord. When she was 9 she met JFK. […]
Vote Strong
As long as I have been old enough to vote, I have never had the opportunity to vote, as nobody contested the ruling political party- The People’s Action Party- in the constituencies I lived in. There has been a general apathy and sense of powerlessness where politics is concerned in Singapore, and little political debate. […]