July 2018 - You Write

Nothing Short of A Miracle!

July 19, 2018 FLAI40 Leave a comment

Whether one is a Christian, a Buddhist, a Muslim, a Hindu or a Sect, there is no denying that the recent event in the Tham Luang Caves was nothing short of a miracle. Imagine this: (1) There were twelve teenage boys in the caves and none of them could swim well. (2) There was their football coach, a twenty-five-year-old teacher, who, again could not swim very well. (3) They were stuck in one confined space no less than half the size of a tennis court for seventeen days. (4) The waters of the monsoon were flooding the space and the water […]

England versus Croatia

July 14, 2018 FLAI40 Leave a comment

I had not watched the life video of the semi-final England versus Croatia match. I am regretting this now. You see, I was amongst a group of Commonwealth students at the lounge of Jerome House, Harrington Gardens, London watching the World Cup Final match on the tiny TV screen there. When the final whistle came and England beat Germany, the uproar amongst the group was frightening to a Singaporean student like me who was totally unfamiliar such “foreign” behaviour. “What does it matter,” I said to myself. “It’s only a game,” my inner brain kept telling me. I had […]

In Memory of Rev Canon David Sing-Hiong Dang

July 6, 2018 FLAI40 Leave a comment

Memories of dates are the most difficult ones for me. But I know it must be sometime in 1982, just one Sunday, probably in March, (or was it JUne?) when my three daughters were baptised by Rev. Canon David Dang at the Auckland Chinese Presbyterian Church at 105 Vincent Street, City. I was baptised by Rev. Dang too two years earlier when my family of seven - Mum, wife, four children and me - were barely a year in New Zealand, having migrated from Singapore during the Muldoon days of 1979. The last time I saw Rev. […]